Transgenerational epigenetic observations
Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal (but not maternal) grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.[43] The opposite effect was observed for females—the paternal (but not maternal) granddaughters of women who experienced famine while in the womb (and their eggs were being formed) lived shorter lives on average.[44]
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above observation points to the possible epigenetic origination of teen violence in Singapore where the parents are subjected to ramdom acts of violence during 2 years NS slavery and according to epigenetics theory pass the unhealthy enviromental factors to the offsprings.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
sg is a piece of shit full of itself spending obsene money on vanity projects
By any measure, Singapore's defense capacity is huge for a country of only 660 square kilometers (264 square miles) of territory. The prosperous island-state, with a 76 percent ethnic Chinese majority, sits between Indonesia and Malaysia and has been skittish about its largely Muslim neighbors since the 1960s. Singapore practices what it calls a “poisoned shrimp” strategy – it might be swallowed by one of its neighbors, but doing so would kill the neighbor.
Accordingly, Singapore’s defense budget, at US$6.9 billion annually, is nearly 3.5 times as big as Indonesia’s. Singapore’s defense budget comprises 30 percent of its national budget and slightly over 5 percent of GDP. The Indonesia Air Force and Navy get a mere US$494 million each.
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The crisis has shone a light on the revolving door that operated between Fianna Fáil and the construction industry. Under successive governments, Ireland became the plaything of a crony capitalism that neglected the public interest in favour of a golden circle of banks, property developers and state bureaucrats.
In its bid to attract inward investment, the country became a virtual tax haven, leaving it ever more dependent on revenues from the building industry. At the height of the boom, construction accounted for a fifth of the economy and house prices rose 520 per cent between 1994 and 2006. When the property bubble burst, the state was left with no way to finance its debts.
Accordingly, Singapore’s defense budget, at US$6.9 billion annually, is nearly 3.5 times as big as Indonesia’s. Singapore’s defense budget comprises 30 percent of its national budget and slightly over 5 percent of GDP. The Indonesia Air Force and Navy get a mere US$494 million each.
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The crisis has shone a light on the revolving door that operated between Fianna Fáil and the construction industry. Under successive governments, Ireland became the plaything of a crony capitalism that neglected the public interest in favour of a golden circle of banks, property developers and state bureaucrats.
In its bid to attract inward investment, the country became a virtual tax haven, leaving it ever more dependent on revenues from the building industry. At the height of the boom, construction accounted for a fifth of the economy and house prices rose 520 per cent between 1994 and 2006. When the property bubble burst, the state was left with no way to finance its debts.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
another local male regret serving NS for nothing
Well I am not sure if there is a point in writing this because I am not sure if there is anyone from the government who will be reading this. But I guess for the record, I ‘ll just do it.
I am in my thirties and a PMET. I worked for a local company for 6 years as a Software Engineer. Recently, the boss started to hire Foreign ‘Talent’ from the Philippines and India. Rumour has it that they are employed because they are ‘cheap’.
My point is they are just ordinary workers, who need guidance from local staff, doing ordinary jobs that Singaporean PMETs can do. There were locals came in for interviews but in the end those foreigners are selected by the boss. And mind you the IT Manager who decides who to hire is also a foreigner himself.
Everyone in the office agreed that these so-called ‘talented’ foreigners are sloppy in their job but they are excellent ‘balls lickers’. They work hard only when the boss is around.
Unfortunately, the company financial situation got worsen and the big boss decided to let go some staff in order to save money. Guess what? The first batch consist of Singaporeans only while those foreigners are retained. They are cheap I guess.
And that was last April. Till now I have yet to find a job. It has been 8 months and I am living on loans to survive. Both my parents were warded in the hospital for few months recently and I am now paying the huge debts incurred due to the hospitalisation. Mum got a stroke which rendered her immobile and Dad got a heart attack. All this happened when I am unemployed.
HDB arrears are getting bigger and CPF was unable to deduct from my OA for the compulsory HPS insurance. There are no more money left in my OA. On top of that, we have to eat and there is a little girl aged 4 years old staying with me.
Things are getting out of control and I was under depression state because of this. I have lost count numbers of resumes sent to companies but there are no response from any of them. IT industry as we all know gets competition from foreigners all over the world. Besides I am in my late 30s.
Out of desperation, I sent an email to my MP asking for assistance in job employment and two months later, I have yet to receive his reply besides the one and only auto-reply.
I got frustrated to the point of feeling ‘hatred’ towards foreigners when I see them laughing and talking loudly among their colleagues in public places while me, a true-blooded local born Singaporeans who has served NS are struggling to make ends meet. Where do I get the money for my mum’s next therapy session? For my dad’s next appt at the hospital. For the meals? Where?
Do I have the right to vote my MP out in the next GE? If not, what right do I have as a Singaporeans?
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Allan
I am in my thirties and a PMET. I worked for a local company for 6 years as a Software Engineer. Recently, the boss started to hire Foreign ‘Talent’ from the Philippines and India. Rumour has it that they are employed because they are ‘cheap’.
My point is they are just ordinary workers, who need guidance from local staff, doing ordinary jobs that Singaporean PMETs can do. There were locals came in for interviews but in the end those foreigners are selected by the boss. And mind you the IT Manager who decides who to hire is also a foreigner himself.
Everyone in the office agreed that these so-called ‘talented’ foreigners are sloppy in their job but they are excellent ‘balls lickers’. They work hard only when the boss is around.
Unfortunately, the company financial situation got worsen and the big boss decided to let go some staff in order to save money. Guess what? The first batch consist of Singaporeans only while those foreigners are retained. They are cheap I guess.
And that was last April. Till now I have yet to find a job. It has been 8 months and I am living on loans to survive. Both my parents were warded in the hospital for few months recently and I am now paying the huge debts incurred due to the hospitalisation. Mum got a stroke which rendered her immobile and Dad got a heart attack. All this happened when I am unemployed.
HDB arrears are getting bigger and CPF was unable to deduct from my OA for the compulsory HPS insurance. There are no more money left in my OA. On top of that, we have to eat and there is a little girl aged 4 years old staying with me.
Things are getting out of control and I was under depression state because of this. I have lost count numbers of resumes sent to companies but there are no response from any of them. IT industry as we all know gets competition from foreigners all over the world. Besides I am in my late 30s.
Out of desperation, I sent an email to my MP asking for assistance in job employment and two months later, I have yet to receive his reply besides the one and only auto-reply.
I got frustrated to the point of feeling ‘hatred’ towards foreigners when I see them laughing and talking loudly among their colleagues in public places while me, a true-blooded local born Singaporeans who has served NS are struggling to make ends meet. Where do I get the money for my mum’s next therapy session? For my dad’s next appt at the hospital. For the meals? Where?
Do I have the right to vote my MP out in the next GE? If not, what right do I have as a Singaporeans?
.
Allan
Saturday, November 20, 2010
mollly meed make sense
The problems highlighted above are real and valid worries, but they hardly touch the heart of the matter. The average Singaporean—and obviously our policymakers are not average Singaporeans given that that our ministers earn enough in one year to afford a decent retirement whereas I can only pray that I would be able to slog away in resigned bitter despair till the day I die—only has his labor to protect him from total helplessness. And it is also what makes him helpless. The same Singaporean who is disadvantaged in terms of employment prospects because of National Service liabilities, who is no match for those who can survive on the lowest wages imaginable, who is not protected by a minimum wage in a country that has third world wage structures is also the Singaporean who faces ever-rising costs of living (which the government sometimes market as ever-improving standards of living) and is ordered to be cheaper, better, faster while clocking the most number of working hours in the world. This is same Singaporean who is also supposed to be kind and nationalistic, speak good English, and vote the PAP into power election after election (which they, disappointingly, will). The average Singaporean is supposed to make merry in misery and be grateful for being able to stay alive by suffering.
Singapore wants me to always be an abject beggar-slave chimera. I have to be a pathetic monster that begs for exploitation because being exploited is my only means of survival. Given that we want to compare with the Finns, perhaps this characterizes the Finns too. Or perhaps we are really much better off.
Finland is not a model that the PAP government of Singapore looks up to as it seems rather fond of the idea of welfare, which is an abomination to the rational PAP. Perhaps we ought to take a look at Finland’s social security system and see how much better off Singaporeans are compared to the Finns.
If Singaporeans want to retire, they should first retire a particular group of expired politicians who are exceptionally talented in marketing asphyxiation to the masses. But we know Singaporeans are good, diligent people like Orwell’s Boxer and we should not expect a Boxer’s Rebellion.
Retirement is not part of the lexicon of Standard English and we should stop using the word.
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Molly Meek
Singapore wants me to always be an abject beggar-slave chimera. I have to be a pathetic monster that begs for exploitation because being exploited is my only means of survival. Given that we want to compare with the Finns, perhaps this characterizes the Finns too. Or perhaps we are really much better off.
Finland is not a model that the PAP government of Singapore looks up to as it seems rather fond of the idea of welfare, which is an abomination to the rational PAP. Perhaps we ought to take a look at Finland’s social security system and see how much better off Singaporeans are compared to the Finns.
If Singaporeans want to retire, they should first retire a particular group of expired politicians who are exceptionally talented in marketing asphyxiation to the masses. But we know Singaporeans are good, diligent people like Orwell’s Boxer and we should not expect a Boxer’s Rebellion.
Retirement is not part of the lexicon of Standard English and we should stop using the word.
.
Molly Meek
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
SIA SAY SAF REGULAR NO GOOD FOR CEO
SIA's No. 2 man resigns
By Karamjit Kaur, Aviation Correspondent
Mr Bey (right) with Mr Chew (left) and Mr Goh at a press conference earlier this month. Mr Bey, whose last day with SIA is Feb 28, did not say what his plans for the future are. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
http://www.straitstimes.com/PrimeNews/Story/STIStory_604014.html
THE No. 2 man at Singapore Airlines (SIA), Mr Bey Soo Khiang, has quit - two months after the carrier named his subordinate as the next chief executive.
He was the highest-ranking executive among four SIA officials widely believed to be in the running to succeed outgoing CEO Chew Choon Seng.
In the end, Mr Goh Choon Phong, 47, one of the four, was selected for the top post, which he will assume on Jan 1.
At the time of the announcement, he was reporting to Mr Bey, who is senior executive vice-president for marketing and corporate services.
Announcing Mr Bey's impending departure, SIA said in a statement yesterday that no decisions had been made on who would take over his duties.
He joined the airline a decade ago, after 26 years in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). He was Chief of Defence Force when he left the SAF in 2000.
Mr Bey said in the statement: 'The time is right for me to move on. I will be leaving knowing that the airline remains in good hands.'
Mr Bey, 55, whose last day with SIA is Feb 28, did not elaborate on his plans for the future but said he decided to move on to explore new opportunities and challenges. Mr Shukor Yusof of Standard & Poor's Equity Research said that the day SIA announced that Mr Goh would be the next chief executive, 'the writing was on the wall'.
He added: 'It does not come as a big surprise that someone of his calibre would want to move on, given that he did not get the nod (from the board) for the CEO job.'
There should be no shortage of jobs for Mr Bey when he leaves, Mr Shukor said, adding that he could easily move to a government-linked or private company, given his management experience.
SIA chairman Stephen Lee said it was with 'great regret' that the airline was announcing Mr Bey's resignation.
'He has served with great dedication and loyalty. He has made significant contributions towards the development of the company,' he said.
Mr Bey could not be contacted for further comments.
He joined SIA as executive vice-president (technical) in July 2000 and was promoted to senior executive vice-president two years later.
By Karamjit Kaur, Aviation Correspondent
Mr Bey (right) with Mr Chew (left) and Mr Goh at a press conference earlier this month. Mr Bey, whose last day with SIA is Feb 28, did not say what his plans for the future are. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
http://www.straitstimes.com/PrimeNews/Story/STIStory_604014.html
THE No. 2 man at Singapore Airlines (SIA), Mr Bey Soo Khiang, has quit - two months after the carrier named his subordinate as the next chief executive.
He was the highest-ranking executive among four SIA officials widely believed to be in the running to succeed outgoing CEO Chew Choon Seng.
In the end, Mr Goh Choon Phong, 47, one of the four, was selected for the top post, which he will assume on Jan 1.
At the time of the announcement, he was reporting to Mr Bey, who is senior executive vice-president for marketing and corporate services.
Announcing Mr Bey's impending departure, SIA said in a statement yesterday that no decisions had been made on who would take over his duties.
He joined the airline a decade ago, after 26 years in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). He was Chief of Defence Force when he left the SAF in 2000.
Mr Bey said in the statement: 'The time is right for me to move on. I will be leaving knowing that the airline remains in good hands.'
Mr Bey, 55, whose last day with SIA is Feb 28, did not elaborate on his plans for the future but said he decided to move on to explore new opportunities and challenges. Mr Shukor Yusof of Standard & Poor's Equity Research said that the day SIA announced that Mr Goh would be the next chief executive, 'the writing was on the wall'.
He added: 'It does not come as a big surprise that someone of his calibre would want to move on, given that he did not get the nod (from the board) for the CEO job.'
There should be no shortage of jobs for Mr Bey when he leaves, Mr Shukor said, adding that he could easily move to a government-linked or private company, given his management experience.
SIA chairman Stephen Lee said it was with 'great regret' that the airline was announcing Mr Bey's resignation.
'He has served with great dedication and loyalty. He has made significant contributions towards the development of the company,' he said.
Mr Bey could not be contacted for further comments.
He joined SIA as executive vice-president (technical) in July 2000 and was promoted to senior executive vice-president two years later.
SAF regulars are bastards !!!
This story, reminds me of another incident - some fucking minions in the army.
This young man, he was supposed to attend a hearing for evading NS, he was badly injured in an accident, and missed his enlistment. When he received the letter, he attended the session with a limp as the limb supporting structures were still bound to his legs to help him walk. He had all the documents from the hospital and was ready to present his case.
FUCK that fucking colonel, a typical jiak liao bee and useless bastard. When this guy stood up and limp slowly towards the colonel, the colonel straightaway charged him for insubordination as that young man did not salute to the colonel. He was carried away by the jiak liao bees MP. On the pretext of going to the toilet, he gave them a slip - a Pioneer of Mas Selamat Kastari ?? He climbed over the fence and wall with limp.
For the next 2 months he went into hiding and MP went to his house looking for him. In that 2 months, he wrote to several places to complain.
In the end, owing to his serious injuries, he was exempted from NS. On the day that he went back to the enlistment centre to get his exemption letter, he said these to the same colonel with a middle finger after getting the exemption :
KAN NIN LAO BU AYE CHOW CHEE BYE !!
The colonel dash to fight with him, and he was ready for it. Luckily, that young man relative was there to intervene and stand in between the young man and colonel. I was hoping that the young man smashed the fucking colonel head with his bare hand - a karate opponent.
This fucking bastard colonel is the by product of fucking PAP system - arrogance and self righeous !!
There was another arrogance and self righeous RSM, and every recruits and privates hated him to the core. One day, my friend decided to take the law into his own hand. He paid off some gangsters to mob him at his flat. After one of the gangsters recognized that RSM face, he gathered the gang near the flat to whack the daylight out of him. Unfortunately, these moronic gangsters whacked the wrong person !!! The SON of that RSM !! Father and son look alike and about the same size !!
This young man, he was supposed to attend a hearing for evading NS, he was badly injured in an accident, and missed his enlistment. When he received the letter, he attended the session with a limp as the limb supporting structures were still bound to his legs to help him walk. He had all the documents from the hospital and was ready to present his case.
FUCK that fucking colonel, a typical jiak liao bee and useless bastard. When this guy stood up and limp slowly towards the colonel, the colonel straightaway charged him for insubordination as that young man did not salute to the colonel. He was carried away by the jiak liao bees MP. On the pretext of going to the toilet, he gave them a slip - a Pioneer of Mas Selamat Kastari ?? He climbed over the fence and wall with limp.
For the next 2 months he went into hiding and MP went to his house looking for him. In that 2 months, he wrote to several places to complain.
In the end, owing to his serious injuries, he was exempted from NS. On the day that he went back to the enlistment centre to get his exemption letter, he said these to the same colonel with a middle finger after getting the exemption :
KAN NIN LAO BU AYE CHOW CHEE BYE !!
The colonel dash to fight with him, and he was ready for it. Luckily, that young man relative was there to intervene and stand in between the young man and colonel. I was hoping that the young man smashed the fucking colonel head with his bare hand - a karate opponent.
This fucking bastard colonel is the by product of fucking PAP system - arrogance and self righeous !!
There was another arrogance and self righeous RSM, and every recruits and privates hated him to the core. One day, my friend decided to take the law into his own hand. He paid off some gangsters to mob him at his flat. After one of the gangsters recognized that RSM face, he gathered the gang near the flat to whack the daylight out of him. Unfortunately, these moronic gangsters whacked the wrong person !!! The SON of that RSM !! Father and son look alike and about the same size !!
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