Singapore Great Pretenders

Gazelle SG

Have you ever wonder why our ministers never speak their own dialect on TV? I think they are trying to tell us that because they are ACS boys and million dollar man, and the only language they speak is English.

To me that is bull crap. If you dont speak the language of the commoners, how are you suppose to understand what is like to be one.

PAP = Pretenders Action Party?

omit SG

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8057768553173785296

saw this off google.

LazerLordz SG

eh you got a problem with ACSians huh?

Boh si ker? Laughing

Gazelle SG

It seems that most ministers in Singapore are all from ACS (Private leh!!)

countdracula SG

not just acs, ri too.

some time ago the saying was 'acs owns singapore, ri runs it.'

LazerLordz SG

quite true in some aspects.More of these ministers come from RI, we ACSians are more interested in other things than local politics.

For e.g. making money. Embarassed

charlize SG

Finally, the truth comes out. Laughing

abao SG

Laughing cant you see they are trying to convert the population to purely english speaking ones? Wink

you go around in streets these days and see whether kids can speak more than a few sentence of swear words(in dialect)

anonymouscoward SG

Wrong.. most ministers are from Raffles; while they rule Singapore, ACS owns Singapore

Gazelle SG

Yah i know alot of CEOs in Singapore are ACS boys. Our PM is from ACS right?

ben1406 SG

LHL ? Nope, i think he is from RI. Not all ACS boys are what you think they are.

LazerLordz SG

He's Cat High.

yes, not all ACSians are like the stereotypes.

BillyBong SG

With respect, it's CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, not 'Cat' High...we haven't degraded into a bunch of deranged felines yet... Cool

As for ministers coming from english-orientated schools, that is true. Lee Senior, in an effort to applease the pre-dominantly Chinese Ethnic population back in the 1960-70s, elected to put both his sons into 'Chinese' Schools while Lee Wei Ling attended Nanyang Girls.

Today, with the population speaking mainstream English, this concern no longer exists. However, the reason why the Ruling Party is finding heartlanders more and more difficult to wrest is due to a lack of basic dialect. So much so that PAP threw in a Dialect-speaking challenger into Hougang SMC to try and win back the support taken by Low Thia Khiang.

robertteh SG

May be he should create sub-GRC with candidates filled by composite dialect group to win back Hougang.

leddy SG

then sji do what? dont forget tony tan from sji okie!

gd4u SG

i think the saying still holds.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

They have never been commoners, so there is no need to understand. Very few of them are anyway, most ministers' fathers held top positions in virtually every company we know.

vito_corleone SG

sji clean backside for acs. Laughing

vito_corleone SG

back in those days there were only a few schools most of the bookworms moved on to these few available schools eg ri, acs, sji etc... eh how come people forgot chinese high? a lot of chao towkays from there leh those cheena cheena rich men. Laughing

LazerLordz SG

Tony Tan is an ACSian.Not sure if he ever attended SJI.