choongyong.koh March 23rd, 2008
昨天在家里观看台湾2008总统大选的直播。马英九在宣告成功获选为台湾第四届民选总统后向支持者致词，有一段话，令我印象深刻。他说：“选举是一时的，人民是永久的。”虽然马英九得票率是58%，但也有42%的选民没有投他。他说，并不会因为那五百多万人不投票给他，就不会照顾他们，他会照顾全部的台湾人民。
这样的胸襟，是领导者该有的风范。反观岛国却时不时出现领导者以“你们不投票给我，就是不支持我的政策”为理由来说明为什么在某些事上有分先后的做法，的确令人心酸。
choongyong.koh March 11th, 2008
The Workers’ Party of Singapore » Escape Of Mas Selamat
The link above points to the latest press release by The Workers’ Party on the escape of Mas Selemat. Interestingly, although everyone knows that a committee of inquiry is convened to find out the details of the escape, it is not widely known that there are different ways to do it.
Let’s hope that at the end of the day, the people of Singapore will be informed of the details of the inquiries, since this is something that affects each and every one of us, and we should have the right to know the truth.
choongyong.koh March 4th, 2008
Hyper-inflation : early warning signs
http://www.post1.net/lowem/entry/hyper_inflation_early_warning_signs
lowen, who wrote this article, has been spending a lot of time on tracking financial signals. This post shows that although the official CPI is high, it is not as high as the actual increases incurred by the man-on-the-street.
Personally for one of my ‘necessity food’ also saw a marked increase over just the last few months. My favourite biscuit is the Kong Guan Lemon Puff, which I will munch during the wee hours when I work. For a long time it was priced at $1.40 – $1.50 (depending on which NTUC FairPrice you go). However, in my grocery shopping visit yesterday to the Hougang Point FairPrice, I saw that it is now selling at $2.20. Taking $1.50 as the original price, I still get a 46.66% price increase!
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