NEW SCAM - Express Couriers

NEW SCAM 

Just when you think you've heard it all. Here comes another scam. This scam is very clever. Be very careful out there! One could easily fall for this - beware of people bearing gifts! 

There is a new and clever credit card scam. Please circulate this. Someone it happened to says it works like this:

Wednesday a week ago, I had a phone call from someone who said that he was from some outfit called: "Express Couriers" asking if I was going to be home because there was a package for me, and the caller said that the delivery would arrive at my home in roughly an hour. And sure enough, about an hour later, a uniformed delivery man turned up with a beautiful basket of flowers and wine. I was very surprised since it did not involve any special occasion or holiday and I certainly didn't expect anything like it. Intrigued about who would send me such a gift, I inquired as to who the sender is. The delivery man's reply was, he was only delivering the gift package but allegedly a card was being sent separately; (the card has never arrived!). There was also a consignment note with the gift. 

He then went on to explain that because the gift contained alcohol, there was a $3.50 "delivery charge" as proof that he had actually delivered the package to an adult and not just left it on the doorstep where it could be stolen or taken by anyone. 

This sounded logical and I offered to pay him cash. He then said that the company required the payment to be by credit or debit card only so that everything is properly accounted for. 

My husband, who by this time was standing beside me, pulled his wallet out of his pocket with the credit/debit card and 'John', the "delivery man", asked my husband to swipe the card on the small mobile card machine which had a small screen and keypad where Frank was also asked to enter the card's PIN and security number. A receipt was printed out and given to us. 

To our horrible surprise, between Thursday and the following Monday, $4,000 had been charged/withdrawn from our credit/debit account at various ATM machines. 

It appeared that somehow the "mobile credit card machine" which the delivery man carried now had all the info necessary to create a "dummy" card with all our card details after my husband swiped our card and entered the requested PIN and security number. 

Upon finding out about the illegal transactions on our card, we immediately notified the bank which issued us the card and our credit/debit account was closed. 

We also personally went to the Police, where it was confirmed that it is definitely a scam because several households had been similarly hit. 

WARNING: Be wary of accepting any "surprise gift or package", which you neither expected nor personally ordered, especially if it involves any kind of payment as a condition of receiving the gift or package. Also, never accept anything if you do not personally know or there is no proper identification of who the sender is. 

Above all, the only time you should give out any personal credit/debit card information is when you yourself initiated the purchase or transaction! 

If you pass this on, it may just prevent someone else from being swindled!

KLIA Taxi - Scam or not?

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

KLIA Taxi - Scam or not?

I would like to alert travellers to an issue with taxi’s at KLIA.

The taxi system at KLIA is pretty confusing for most people unless you are a regular traveller to Malaysia and the very poorly design website www.klia.com.my doesn't offer any information regarding taxi services at the airport.

The main taxi company at KLIA who until recently held a monopoly is Airport Limo. This company provides a multi tired limo service by way of stating your destination, class of taxi and then purchasing a coupon for the journey.

The other system is what’s known as a city cab which is basically a standard meter taxi service which operates from level 1.

One of the frustrating problems with Airport Limo is the regular shortage of taxi’s especially at peak periods or owing to traffic congestion in KL. It is quite common for the coupon counter staff to tell you that there are no taxi’s or that there is a big queue.

I usually take a premier taxi which is between the budget and limo for a more comfortable ride and the fact that most of the drivers know the location of my condo.



The taxi coupons sold are valid for a month and owing to my weekly trips to and from Singapore I always have an option to use it another week if I change my mind and take the train or city cab.



Over the past few months I’ve noticed a trend whereby I’ve been told time and time again that there were no taxi’s and that I must get a limo or mini bus which costs significantly more than a premier taxi.

When I’m told that there are no taxi’s and I must get a limo/mini bus I simply request that they sell me a ticket. The counter staff look confused and usually don’t want to sell me one. When I firmly request a coupon the behaviour of the staff usually follows a similar pattern whereby a lot of time is spent on the radio chit chatting (about me) and generally ignoring me.

When I force the issue the staff act very sheepishly and begrudgingly sell me a coupon. Now the strange thing is that 9.9 times out of 10 when this happens I find little or no queue and at least several taxi’s available at the premier car area outside door 5.

The behavior of the staff and the fact that there isn’t usually more than one or two people queuing for the premiere taxi’s makes it appear that there is a scam taking place to rip off unfamiliar travellers. I have witnessed several other people encounter similar experiences at both the budget and premier services.

So is it a scam or are the unwelcoming counter staff simply out of touch with what is happening in the queue even though they have a radio?

The taxi service at the LCCT operated by a different company also tries this from time to time, however I haven’t found it quite so prevalent.

Perhaps it’s time raise a report to the authorities, not that SPAD will take any real action. 

http://www.maninseat12a.com/

“The most childish politician in Malaysia”

“The most childish politician in Malaysia”

November 16, 2012 at 4:32 am 

A report by The Malaysian Insider regarding Chua Soi Lek’s statement on Hee Yit Foong is screenshot below. The actual press release as worded by Dr Chua is reproduced at the bottom of the page. This posting compares the two versions and highlights the TMI embellishments.

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(1) Dr Chua stated that it is unlikely Hee will win. TheTMI article bylined to Clara Chooi flips it to say that Hee “will likely lose”.

While the TMI assistant news editor has not deviated the meaning, she nonetheless imposed her own negativity on Dr Chua’s original phrasing (a parallel analogy: a half glass of water can be viewed as either half empty or half full).

(2) TMI concludes Dr Chua as “distancing his party from the former DAP leader”. This is the portal’s interpretation. Dr Chua did not himself indicate so.

(3) TMI adds that Hee “was instrumental in Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) fall in Perak”.

However, it conveniently forgets to mention Anwar Ibrahim’s prior act of  embracing the Bota state assemblyman who had jumped from Umno to PKR. Furthermore, the de facto Ketua Umum openly welcomed more BN reps to cross over.

Bear in mind it was Anwar and Pakatan who initiated the Adun poaching in Perak, not BN.

The Bota Adun was equally culpable but the pro-Pakatan media would prefer not to recall Anwar’s own edifying turn in the whole rigmarole.

(4) TMI then has this paragraph:

Dr Chua never made any reference to “most hated woman in Perak”. This bit was interpolated by TMI‘s Clara Chooi.

Below is how he phrased it:

If such – i.e. inserting a label calling Hee Yit Foong someone “who was once described as the ‘most hated woman in Perak’,” – is the journalistic path preferred by TMI, then may we by the same token request that any future TMI articles on Nurul Izzah should carry the following tag:

“Nurul, who was once described as the ‘most childish politician in Malaysia’.”

(See quote attributed to the head of Dewan Ulama PAS – below).

After all, since TMI feels that “the most hated woman” is a valid expression for its news item, there can be no reason why “most childish politician” in a similar vein will fail to pass muster.

(5) The next paragraph in TMI reads:

“‘While Hee can announce that she is the candidate for Jelapang in the coming general election, without the support from the MCA division and especially the grassroots members, it is unlikely that she will win in the election,’ he warned her.”

Read Dr Chua’s press statement for yourself (below). Did he really “warn” Hee Yit Foong as TMI would have it? Or did he merely issue a press release to clarify MCA’s position?

You can compare TMI‘s 432-word report ‘MCA distances itself from Hee, says she will lose without BN blessing‘ with The Star‘s 234-word article titled ‘MCA: Barisan has not agreed to field Hee in Jelapang‘.

Anwar welcomes the Umno Perak assemblyman who jumped to PKR

(6) The following paragraph in TMI:

“Hee is known for her role in the 2009 Perak constitutional crisis which saw the state in turmoil for nearly a year after her defection, and that of two other former PKR representatives, caused the former Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government’s fall from power.”

It is undoubtedly correct to pinpoint Hee’s role as well as that of the “two other former PKR representatives” – the Behrang and Changkat Jering assemblymen – in sparking the collapse of the Pakatan state government.

Nonetheless and once again, TMI omits to mention the Bota state assemblyman who started the domino chain by jumping from Umno to PKR and back to Umno again, all within a fortnight. The Bota Adun Nasarudin Hashim’s switching camp preceded Hee Yit Fong.

Ref. ‘Umno Perak assemblyman defects to PKR‘ — TMI, 25 Jan 2009

I’m afraid that TMI’s memory is selective.

(7) And more opinionated and partisan reporting from TMI:

“At the time, the former Perak assembly deputy was said to have left the DAP in a huff, after repeatedly complaining to have been sidelined in the state administration and left out of positions of power.”

TMI opines that Hee “left in a huff”.

A different viewpoint could venture that she “departed in sorrow” after having been bullied by her DAP colleagues the evangelical warlord cousins. Or one might even lament that she left after being betrayed by the party jettisoning its socialist principles by turning itself into a (Christian) clone of PAS.

The TMI closing paragraphs are just as subjective:

• “She turned into a BN-friendly independent following her defection, a decision that earned her harsh criticism from Jelapang voters [...] She boasted that anger against her had dissipated…”

Uh-huh, being “BN-friendly” is not kosher. But anyone who’s Pakatan-friendly – such as recent Sabah trophies Lajim Ukin and Wilfred Bumburing – are considered rightly exercising “a vote of no confidence” in their former bosses, the BN.

Reps who jump from Pakatan to BN are confronted by “angry voters” (Clara Chooi’s words) and made “an outcast” (ditto, her words) but reps who jump in the opposite direction from BN to Pakatan have instead done everyone proud (Anwar Ibrahim’s words, see below).

http://anwaribrahimblog.com/2009/01/27/syabas-dato-nasa/

FOOTNOTE:

The press statement by Dr Chua, verbatim:.

In response to the statement by incumbent Jelapang state assemblywoman Hee Yit Fong yesterday, MCA would like to clarify that the Party had not had any discussion with the Prime Minister about giving up the Jelapang state seat in Perak.

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The Jelapang MCA division and I had neither deliberated about allowing an outsider to stand in the seat under the MCA ticket.

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Winning the General Election requires the support from all Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties, it is crucial that the candidate receives support not just from the people, but also the component parties.

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I must stress that BN is a collective decision-making coalition, it is never a norm for the coalition to talk about its seat allocation and candidacy openly.

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While Hee can announce that she is the candidate for Jelapang in the coming General Election, without the support from the MCA division and especially the grassroots members, it is unlikely that she will win in the election.  (318 words)
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Updated: 9.06am

 http://helenang.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/the-most-childish-politician-in-malaysia/

US Congress - to finally recognise Malaysia

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KL hotel fuses privacy and communalism

Posted on April 9, 2013 

By Joy Lee
Photos by Brian Moh

A new hotel buzz: (from left) Teoh, lee and
Choong believe Grid 9 is unique enough to do
well in the market.

While hotels and hostels may be familiar accommodation options for the frequent traveller, a hybrid of the two is a new concept that has been introduced to the local hospitality scene by Kenny Choong and his partners Teoh Jun Jie and Jonathan Lee.

Choong said he was inspired to open Grid 9 during his travels in the US.

According to him, the concept of their hotel on Jalan Maharajalela, Kuala Lumpur, is fairly common in the US as American guests appreciate the privacy and luxury of a hotel room, but also like having a common area where they could hang out and socialise with other guests.

“We found that places like this are lacking here. We saw a gap in the market, went for it, and the rest is history,” said Choong.

Grid 9 opened its doors to the public roughly four weeks ago and Choong said things have been going well so far.

The hotel can accommodate a total of 120 guests at any one time. Grid 9’s occupancy rate over the weekends runs at 100% on average and about 50% to 60% on weekdays.

Choong also pointed out that they received positive reviews in their first three weeks.

Grid 9 is perhaps one of the few hotels in Malaysia with a focused target group as the concept and layout of the hotel appeals mainly to young adults aged 18 to 35 years old.

“This age group is our target market and generally everything is done to reach this group. It is a concept that caters to young travellers’ culture and lifestyle,” Choong said.

The common area is equipped with iPads, an LED TV, and WiFi for travellers to stay connected and is littered with Doof beanbags, a pool table and a collection of board games for guests to dive into and make friends along the way.

Cool hangout area: Grid 9 has a common area littered with doof bags where guests can socialise at ease.

Choong did marketing and consultancy work for Philip Morris and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) before embarking on his dream to start something on his own about one and a half years ago.

Armed with no experience in construction or hospitality, Choong decided to take on every part of the project on his own to learn things on the job.

Just opened:The new Grid 9 hotel.

This included overseeing renovation works, applying for licences and marketing the Grid 9 concept.

Having spent most of his working years in an office, switching over to the role of site manager was no easy task for Choong.

However, he insisted on being the main contractor for the project so that he could look into all the nitty gritty details of the renovation works and ensure that quality materials were used.

“I am new at this so I had to learn every process as much as I could so that we could replicate this elsewhere when we want to expand.

“Finding out simple things like knowing the diameter of pipes to use made a lot of difference,” he said.

But learning on the job was not always an enjoyable experience for Choong.

“It is hard to enjoy breathing in all the dust. Being at the site was certainly not easy at all.

“But I had a lot of help and support from relatives who were involved in the renovation and they were always there to advise me,” he said.

It took about six months to obtain all the necessary licences and renovation works took up to about a year.

Choong also decided to take on a new team to manage Grid 9 to give the business a fresh spin.

He thinks it is important that the management team is not made up of hospitality-industry stalwarts so that Grid 9 does not become stuck with the same hotel marketing conventions.

Lee, who also worked as a consultant in PWC, joined Choong about half a year ago.

Lee currently looks into Grid 9’s business development.

“It is a very different experience. Previously, we were well-dressed corporate people and we had to carry ourselves in a certain way.

“Now, we are addressing issues with contractors and suppliers and we have to be more stern,” Lee laughs.

Teoh, who previously worked in the food and beverage industry, came in to help with the operations of Grid 9.

All in, the cost of setting up Grid 9 was about RM2.3mil and Choong estimates that the hotel should take about two to four years to break even.

Although Grid 9 is new to the market, 28-year-old Choong is already thinking of bringing the concept to other tourist locations like Penang and Malacca. For now, he is hoping to open another hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

Choong believes that Grid 9 is unique enough to do well here.

“Grid 9 may be a passion for us, but at the end of the day, it is a business and we need to be profitable as a business.

“We have to adapt to the changes in the market and this is something we believe in.

“And we believe it will change the market as well,” he said.

From left to right: Grid 9’s gastropub will be opened in May to cater to guests’ hunger pangs; Individual pods are cleverly designed for privacy. Mattresses at Grid 9 are sponsored by Dunlopillo; Rooms at Grid 9 are brightly lit.

While people generally tend to view budget hotels as dodgy, Choong explained that Grid 9’s concept is no such thing.

In fact, Grid 9 has partnered with reputable businesses such as Dulux, Dunlopillo and Doof to enhance the Grid 9 experience.

“Our partners have been very patient with us and they have never thought of backing out.

“Our most recent partnership was with KL nightspot Zouk. We do hope to partner with more companies that have the same target audience,” he said.

Establishing a new concept and brand in the market can be quite a challenge, but fortunately Choong has found other players in the industry to be helpful and willing to share experiences and tips for survival.

One of key factor in building a brand, said Choong, is to deliver on promises.

“It is the only way to sustain the business.

“After all, we do not want to be a one-hit wonder,” he said.

But the hospitality industry is a competitive one and should Grid 9 prove to be a popular concept, Choong and his team could see new competition streaming in fast.

While Choong welcomes healthy competition, he noted that Grid 9 has a first-mover advantage and the brand should have a sizeable market share by the time the concept matures here.

http://www.starproperty.my/index.php/articles/living/kl-hotel-fuses-privacy-and-communalism/?utm_source=web&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=Living&utm_campaign=The%2BStar%2BOnline%2BProperty%2BWidget

Stadium Collapse: Architect Doubts Capability Of Workers

Thursday, 21 February 2013 08:58

PUTRAJAYA: Architect Raja Datuk Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad, who designed the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium in Kuala Terengganu, once again questioned the state government after another section of the roof fell through yesterday morning. 

Alluding to the contractors involved in the current project, he asked whether they are qualified enough since the incident happened while the stadium is currently undergoing re-construction work.

According to Bernama report, five workers were injured, three seriously, when steel structures supporting the roof of the stadium collapsed at 11.30am yesterday.

Raja Kamarul Bahrin wanted to know why it took so long to dismantle the remaining roof, as it would only be a matter time before history repeated itself.

"Were they qualified to dismantle the roof?" he asked when contacted by fz.com.

He stressed that dismantling of the remaining frame should have been carried out by the original Korean contractors who were responsible for the design, supply and the installation of the roof.

He added that the state government cannot blame anyone for today's incident as he had been warning them of such possibilities since the first incident four years ago.

On June 2, 2009, part of the roof collapsed at the stadium's grandstand a year after it opened for the Malaysia Games (Sukma) in 2008, but no one was hurt then while repair works started at the end of last year.

On today's incident, Terengganu deputy police chief Datuk Hamzah Mohd Jamil said workers were dismantling the old roof structure when the incident happened.

"About 137m or two thirds of the old structure collapsed when eight workers were carrying out work at the site," he said.

Meanwhile, Bernama also reported that one of the victims, Safian Abdul Manaf, 21, said the incident happened so fast that he could not do anything.

Safian said he was trying to shift a steel frame that was 137 meters long and 25 meters high when he saw the frame fall and pin him down.

He broke his right leg, injured his mouth and lost his teeth.

"It happened about an hour after I started work. I managed to see the frame falling but I couldn't do anything. It happened so fast. 

"When I fell, my face knocked against a wall (terrace) and I passed out. When I regained conscious I was in an ambulance," he said when met at the Sultanah Nur Zahirah
Hospital.

Apart from Safian, Mohd Nazirul Nizam Marzuki, 25, (right knee injury) and Mohd Saidi Ismail, 21, (back injury) were also admitted while Mohd Syukri Jusuh, 31, and Wan Mohd Fajrulazmi Wan Ahmad, 26, suffered minor injuries.



- Sean Augustin / fz.com
http://fz.com/content/stadium-architect-doubts-capability-workers

UMNO TAK BOLEH PAKAI

UMNO TAK BOLEH PAKAI - Chee Koon's son

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

(TAN) CHEE KOON'S SON - UMNO TAK BOLEH PAKAI!

CHEE KOON'S SON
UMNO TAK BOLEH PAKAI
Our Country needs much prayer. Youdecide and make a difference. BN is entrenched and would not change.A new government must be given a chance to take over Putrajaya. BN is proven rotten beyond salvage. PR is not perfect but must be given a chance to prove themselves.A (small) chip off the old Opposition bloc

KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 — For 13 years, he stiffly toed the Barisan Nasional (BN) line, but Dr Tan Kee Kong is now bending his knees to bat the ruling coalition — more specifically, its senior party — out of Putrajaya.
“My dream is to kick Umno out of Putra Jaya,” the 63-year-old who quit Gerakan for PKR two years ago told The Malaysian Insider with much vigour in a recent interview.
“Umno tak boleh pakai,” Dr Tan(picture) crowed, counting down the days to the next general election,which he believes will end with the grand old party being voted  out by  an electorate that had grown more informed of an alternative choice in government since Election 2008. The medical doctor, who retired from practice a decade ago, noted an increasing intolerance at the grassroots level for leaders who failed to practise what they preached and at party leaders too timid to press for reforms.
“We tried, believe me sister, we tried. The time for talking is over. Now is the time for action – kick them out,” Dr Tan said, rather savagely. “BN on one hand is promoting 1Malaysia, it is a good concept but on the other hand, they are promoting Perkasa – their group was registered in six months. Where got such thing? How can?” he quizzed.
A tall, spare man, Dr Tan’s diatribe against the government continued, like a burst dam. He slammed Umno for its double-speak and setting a trend for Malay rights groups like Perkasa.
“I can guarantee you PETRONAS contributes 30 per cent to the government, but the Petronas account has never been tabled in Parliament.
“We run it like a kongsi gelap. What justification is there that the highest lawmakers in the country cannot examine the accounts of Petronas?” he raised, rhetorically.
“The only conclusion is your government have plenty to hide and I blame Dr Mahathir for starting this practice. We in PAC have asked for it but it was never shared,” he added, referring to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
Pointing to the last by-election in Sibu, Dr Tan said the groundswell was growing against Umno’s high-handedness in dealing with divergent views.
“Allah has never been an issue…until stupid Syed Hamid made it into an issue,” Dr Tan ranted.
A devout Christian, Dr Tan was referring to the lawsuits brought by several churches and Christians against the Federal government and its former Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, for barring non-Muslims from using the word to describe God.
“My Umno friend asked me: ‘Why Christians only now want to use the word?’ But he doesn’t know the facts. He didn’t know we have been using it for so long and it was only Syed Hamid who banned us from using it,” Dr Tan related.

But the PKR man, who is now co-chief on Selangor state’s land management task force admitted the “real fight” to capture Putrajaya lies not with the urban voters in their steel-glass-concrete towers but the masses who live outside the cities.
"We’re going to Felda," he said but refused to elaborate further. The former deputy minister of land and co-operative development recently provoked a national uproar when he accused Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak of single handedly destroying the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) by siphoning off millions from the nation’s cash cow for the latter’s personal use.
Najib has denied the claim but has not signaled he will take any legal action over the potentially defamatory statement.
Similarly, Dr Tan maintains his allegations are true, adding that he had been entrusted to answer all questions on Felda in the Dewan Rakyat by his then boss, minister Tan Sri Kasitah Gaddam.
A latecomer to politics at 50, Dr Tan said he had been “head-hunted” to join Gerakan in 1995 by its then vice-president, Tan Sri Alex Lee. The irony was not lost to those around them — the medical doctor was the son of Gerakan co-founder Tan Sri Dr David Tan Chee Khoon while Lee, a lawyer, was the grandson of MCA’s founding member, Tun H.S. Lee.
”If I were 30, I would think seriously[of leaving], but now in the twilight of my life, no,” said Dr Tan.
Dr Tan explained he hesitated joining politics at a younger age because of his father.  “I saw how he suffered. His health suffered. He literally gave up his life to serve,” the younger Tan said.
Surprisingly, despite Dr Tan’s disillusionment with the BN,  he still took pains to defend Gerakan, even though the party his father founded in 1968 was not the same party the son joined.
“Of all the component parties in Barisan,  Gerakan is the most conscientious,” he said.  The party had by then entered the BN fold.  Even so, the Dr Tan was optimistic he could follow in his father’s footsteps and make a difference.
“My father always told us: help the poor,” he said.
But he soon learnt that joining Gerakan did not mean he would be able to move reforms unless approved by the coalition’s “tai kor” – Umno.  He became disheartened and even had thoughts of quitting the country altogether. ”If I were 30, I would think seriously, but now in the twilight of my life, no,” said Dr Tan.
He claimed the ruling front does not practice consensual agreement, despite the current MCA’s growing boldness (ha ha ha) in speaking out against its sister-party.
“I want to tell Chua Soi Lek: ‘Eh, brother, do you know we’ve been in BN so long, we will never have an equal voice. They are the tai kor.’ “We all had to toe the line, or else…”  Dr Tan said, recounting the silent threat.
He was planning on retiring from politics altogether but an encounter with a taxi driver on a trip to Singapore changed all that.  “In 2000, I flew into Singapore and jumped into this taxi and this man, 63 years old, thisMalay man born in Batu Pahat, Johor who went to Singapore 40 years ago, he told me: ‘Doctor, we Singaporeans will challenge your country and win’.
“That shut me up. That really opened my eyes to how Umno has used the 
NEP as a crutch to appeal to the ordinary Malay.  Just go ask any ordinary Malay out there, they’re fuming,” Dr Tan said, adding that Singapore’s People’s Action Party (PAP) had drummed into its citizen’s heads that the only way forward for the nation was for everyone to: “Get off your backside and work”.

“We are a government-in-waiting.  Give us a chance.  If you don’t like us, you can vote us out in the next election,” Dr Tan pleaded.
“I have a burning zeal to try and build a better country, with the public’s help and with God’s help,” he said.
Have a God-blessed day.