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In a sign that the increasingly unpopular PAP regime is getting cold feet at the lack of public support for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) hosted in Singapore from 14 – 26 August this year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong repeated an earlier plead by his colleague Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to fellow Singaporeans to lend their support to YOG.
Speaking at Nanyang Polytechnic yesterday where he received the YOG flame, PM Lee called on Singaporeans to show their “spirit” to the world during the YOG:
“The flame could not have received a warmer welcome from the cheerleaders, from the crowd, from the public and from all of us. This is the spirit which we should show the world when we host the YOG starting this weekend. We are all part of it. Let’s show the world what we can do,” he was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.
Despite the extensive publicity given to the YOG by the state media, the response from ordinary Singaporeans other than the participants and students forced to “volunteer” for the event has been most disappointing so far.
In an online poll conducted by Channel News Asia last week, 88 percent of the respondents or 5,639 Singaporeans said that they are “not interested” in the YOG at all.
Besides putting up billboards and banners in all parts of the country, the PAP regime has also launched a massive PR exercise to get grouchy Singaporeans to smile more often by installing mirrors at bus-stops, attracting much ridicule and derision from an already disgruntled citizenry.
In the meantime, a Facebook group “I hate YOG” set up to protest against the YOG has attracted more than 800 members so far as the PAP regime continues its “wayang” that its vanity fair is enjoying widespread support from Singaporeans by resorting to its usual astroturfing tactics to generate fake grassroots support.
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Want Singaporeans to support YOG or support PAP gov.Stupid things we do,the good things all you get.The praise go to your face,the money go inside your pocket.For us? Get nothing!!
This is a ridiculous event, the more important issue to address is the high income gap, ballooning housing costs, smelly and squeezy MRTs…..and more taxpayers’ money is spent on this useless event instead?
YOG is belonged to the new citizens since you have imported at about 2.5 millions new faces recently? Your PAP party is an hypocrities by importing foreign athletes to compete in the sport. It is more like a cheating case to show proudly to the world. I think other countries are laughing quietly at your stupidity by buying in new sporting foreigners. In fact, I feel ashame new sport citizens in our little red dot.
Our gahmen has never put in real effort to groom local talents. Don’t provide support nevermind but don’t mass import foreigners to represent us and don’t go around telling us that we should be proud of their achievements. How much $$$ reward are we providing to these foreigners? The gahmen is insulting all local sports people who have to work part time to make ends meet. And now gahmen wants us to support YOG given the damage it has done to sports?
The still-birth of the YOG clearly shows that these self proclaimed ‘talents’, who insist that they are worth more then many private sector top management, do not have the entrepreneurial skills when they started paying themselves silly. They are not worth their slat in seeking out opportunities and making it work. This unfortunately is a cost borne by the country!
To legislate a new rule to fine motorists for obstructing a YOG bus is the most ridiculous rule I’ve ever heard and adds to the irritation to the populace in staging this event. Getting the radio DJ’s to keep reminding people is an utter put-off.
the propaganda is never ending. YOG is basically a sports meet among students from all over the place. Nobody knows the athletes apart from their family & friends. Nobody know the athletes especially when its unheard/unknown of their achievement/ excellence in the sport yet.
Its not as if Singaporeans r so free to absent themselves from work, to grace the events. Who’s going to compensate the time & opportunity costs for sacrificing work, to be spectators at the games?
Beijing gov compensated the industries to halt their operations, in order to keep the air clean, lesser road users, lesser traffic conditions. What has our gov done to better facilitate the event?
“…Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.”
The YOG is a PAP initiative and must not be supported at all because the PAP’s policy is to look at native S’poreans, spit in their faces and laugh at them, why?
After being dragged to see the preview, even if I would be in Singapore, I wouldn’t care a damn. The preview seemed like an extended NDP. Wondering what has the founding of Singapore from a fishing village got to do with Olympics games. With kid playing “oh bey shum”, and hero fighting monster and story book story telling theme, sooooooooo kiddish! From the claps from the audience, it’s a let down! I have to leave when the countries’ flags enter. Very boring, nothing to wow about!
When will the govt act to set up the $358m Trust Fund for the sick and the elderly with help from TH and GIC to fund it on a dollar-to-dollar backing basis on the contributions make by the public?
Similarly, money in one’s pocket is not one’s money too, unless it is spent by the person, if not ultimately it will belong to someone else, isn’t it?
We expect that 90 percent of the annual income of the Trust Fund (initial capital sum target of $500m to be set up over 5 years?] be used and targeted at helping the really poor and the sickly, elderly.
All is right when one knows how to respect the Unseen to work with altruistic love. Why? It depends on the word, acts and deeds of humans, including politicians and those in high political offices knowing what is great love and what is selfish/self-centred love, or misplaced love, isn’t it?
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