I’ve been wanting to attend Parliamentary debates but I don’t exactly know where to start with! How do you know the schedules and topic of discussions, and are they always open to public?? Thanks a lot!

If I am being asked to testify on what I saw that day, I am going to say the same thing – Mrs Lim Hwee Hua did not say the sentence the same way as what is written in the Hansard.

And last, my intent, as always been repeated, is to ask people to see for themselves. Only by seeing for yourself will you believe that something like that has happened. No amount of writing from me can convince people that this happened. I am not sure if this intent is not honourable enough for you.

Also, mediators to blog should take out netizens who use ‘bad’ language, its just too uncivilised. People who uses vulgar language are usually those who runs out of words in their limited vocabulary!

Much ado abou nothing – she seems to be repeationg what she had said before. I suppose that’s why she said ‘it’s in the Hansard”. Let’s wait for Mar 09 numbers for GIC.

Investing in local and then to oversea market more than 20 years ago. Thanks to Temasek for doing a great job as they are able to ‘spread’ their risks globally and mainly to the US.

Unfortunately, lately, the entire world got hit very badly and even Iceland went bankrupted due to the ‘con’ jobs by those Fund and Trust Managers in the US. Obviously, everyone here just jump on the bandwaqgon and ‘attacked’ Temasek for their failures and so on. Yes, we lost 31% or 41% i.e. S$200 of 500 Billion.

Question: Did anyone jump on them in the past when Temasek was making a lot of money for the nation? Of course, not.

Singapore’s top trading partner is the US and and Europe. Investing in these 2 continents is necessary as they are our Top Trading partners especially, the US. We had to show them that we are truly ‘Trading Partners’ and not just a ‘one night stand’ partner. In time of crisis just early 2008, many US banks were running into trouble and obviously, they were ‘good buy’ for Temasek and definately, to show our investment skills, we took up and supported them.

Unfortunanately, most of them turned out to be ‘bad’ and needed to be bailout by their government.

A lot of suggestions were made in this forum and Temasek and government authorities should study them and learned from your mistakes.

There is no ‘quck fix’ to any investment and global recession is for all to suffer too.

Keep your heads up, Singaporeans.

Don’t forget that without the US market, we are not able to ‘sell’ our services and products and who will buy from us and we making a lot of money for the nation. We had to be grateful to the US for opening up their doors to us and
‘ditching’ them now will be bad for us in the long run. Are we an ‘ally’ of th

SMS not knowing their jobs, Finance Mininster allowing big losses, more than 3 million pay President holding key, 19k MPs littering, etc.

Dont cry for me, Singapore. Someone should consider setting up PAPS Party this election which is coming soon. PAPS .. Party Against Profiteering from Singaporeans.

The probability that our success is due to the general hardworking post war generation is much higher than to the government over the last 10 years. Look at Hongkong, Taiwan and Korea. I think they have made as much progress if not more….and that is without the benefit of a PAP. Judging from your comments, I wonder if we have become a nation that needs leadership rather than one that creates leadership? There was a time I believe when we set the benchmark that others follow, today we follow the benchmark of others.

Anyway, I believe the general consensus is not so much about the non-effectiveness of our government but one where there seems to be a perception that our government should be more accountable for their actions. They have claimed when credit was due but when mistakes or damages occurs I sincerely hope they will be equally stringent on themselves.

Let’s be more objective in our discussions.

Also by reporting them, it will inadvertently force them to do the most correct thing.

Also it is fun psychoanalysis.