[Big A]

http://www.straitstimes.com/vgn-ext-...000a35010aRCRD

ST has a hidden agenda to interview him but I like this part:

Asked how he feels about the Yaw Shin Leong episode, where the former Hougang MP was expelled by the WP after he refused to clarify personal indiscretions, he said that he deals with it 'by looking forward'.

'This thing happened, so what next? I couldn't go to medical school, so what next?

'So life just handed me a lemon, what to do with that? We continue on the path that we've been trying to go,' he says.
Chen was REJECTED by NUS Medicine. Look where he went after that

[Peptobismol]

This is the para I liked most:

"Midway, he transferred to Anglo-Chinese School and remembers the kindness of the late Mr Ernest Lau, then vice-principal, who gave him extra coaching in English every afternoon for a few months to help him 'fit in'. When he did well enough to choose a book prize, he picked Lady Chatterley's Lover, to the disapproval of Mr Lau, who made him select another book."


This is the para that irritated me the most. Did the ST ask the ministars this when they joined politics? Ridiculous.

"He flatly denies charges that he was a burnt-out corporate escapee seeking new meaning, as some have speculated, as he says he left 'on a series of career highs', or that he was returning opportunistically to seek fame and power after decades of being away from the country he claimed to want to serve. Rather, it was more a matter of him running out of time to 'discharge my obligations', he insists."

[Paul Bunyan]

This is the para I liked most:

"Midway, he transferred to Anglo-Chinese School and remembers the kindness of the late Mr Ernest Lau, then vice-principal, who gave him extra coaching in English every afternoon for a few months to help him 'fit in'. When he did well enough to choose a book prize, he picked Lady Chatterley's Lover, to the disapproval of Mr Lau, who made him select another book."


This is the para that irritated me the most. Did the ST ask the ministars this when they joined politics? Ridiculous.

"He flatly denies charges that he was a burnt-out corporate escapee seeking new meaning, as some have speculated, as he says he left 'on a series of career highs', or that he was returning opportunistically to seek fame and power after decades of being away from the country he claimed to want to serve. Rather, it was more a matter of him running out of time to 'discharge my obligations', he insists."

Out of the several ACSians in politics, he is the true blue ACSian.

[doctorzlo]

Out of the several ACSians in politics, he is the true blue ACSian.

Please don't forget Tan Chuan Jin, the ACS boy who went to RJC.

Perhaps he hadn't met Ong Ye Kung then, the Maris Stella boy who went to RJC and claimed in an ST interview with the same reporter that some former RI boys once told him that there was no test when there actually was.

[Drugmachine]

Please don't forget Tan Chuan Jin, the ACS boy who went to RJC.

Perhaps he hadn't met Ong Ye Kung then, the Maris Stella boy who went to RJC and claimed in an ST interview with the same reporter that some former RI boys once told him that there was no test when there actually was.

TCJ unfortunately is under the PAP drummer beat.

[S.T.D.]

Well, it is hard not to do the cost-benefit analysis of him throwing in the almost-certain success of his pedigreed, multimillion-dollar law career for the uncertain prospects of joining Singapore's opposition.

But he challenges that calculus, saying it wrongly assumes the cost was all borne by him. It was not, he maintains.

'I didn't spring forth from my mother's womb, fully formed by my own talent and ambition. It took my parents who made sacrifices and a whole community of teachers, scholarship boards, donors, taxpayers and others to give me an education and since I can't pay them all back, I hope to pay it forward.

'Even if you just look at it in dollars and cents, I couldn't have attended university without help,' says the 51-year-old who attended Harvard, Oxford and Stanford on university scholarships and the Rhodes scholarship. And that is a true calling which is most lacking in PAP. Many of them are simply mercenaries, waiting to reap as much as they can.

The calibre of people that PAP attracted is purely after the $$ and Cents.

[brraverishhh]

TCJ unfortunately is under the PAP drummer beat.

And OYK is the pap drummer?

[Big A]

When his homemaker wife, a Taiwan-born American citizen, arrives here with their two children, aged eight and 12, next month, home will be a terrace house in his ward, Paya Lebar. Six years ago, they lost their second child, a three-year-old girl, to an illness, which he will say no more about, except that it turned his hair ash-white. He lives in his constituency. Which PAP MP does that.

Sad to hear he lost one of his children. Yet he plods on. When some other loses his family member, the whole world must know...

[Big A]

Wonder which part of Paya Lebar will that be... Will he be my neighbor? Hope so but don't think so

[Paul Bunyan]

ST has a hidden agenda to interview him but I like this part:...........................

i wonder what is ST 's hidden agenda

[NeroASERCH]

i wonder what is ST 's hidden agenda

one of their few attempts to save face after BE fiasco

[Lt_Apple]

If I have a lemon, I will... SSSUUUCCCCKKKK ITTTTTTT!!!!!!!

[tgs]

Out of the several ACSians in politics, he is the true blue ACSian.

You forgot Chiam See Tong and Chee Soon Juan.

[radikal]

You forgot Chiam See Tong and Chee Soon Juan.

Chee can drop dead. Chiam ok lah.

[tgs]

CSM wants to serve his residents better and be closer to them.. Thats why he made the move to buy a house in Paya Lebar..

[doctorzlo]

CSM wants to serve his residents better and be closer to them.. Thats why he made the move to buy a house in Paya Lebar..

all too true but technically all MPs should live in their constituencies. That's the case in all Westminster models

[Paul Bunyan]

ST has a hidden agenda to interview him but I like this part:

Notice they been giving more coverage to WP after the BE. My personal take, it just PR exercise to correct public perception that MSM are pro-PAP. Especially at this time when media objectivity is under the spotlight. In the long run, nothing will change.

[tgs]

How can a true blue ACsian siam reservist and plagiarise?

[TorryJens]

How can a true blue ACsian siam reservist and plagiarise?

CSM served his NS.. It's already good enough for me.. What about your Janil Puthucheary?

Where he served his BMT?

In KK hospital when he helped your pregnant cow to give birth??? LOL..LOL..LOL..

[Paul Bunyan]

All these quoted parts are actually written in by SPH editors themselves! Claiming to quote from 'ghost' interviews.

"He flatly denies charges that he was a burnt-out corporate escapee seeking new meaning, as some have speculated, as he says he left 'on a series of career highs', or that he was returning opportunistically to seek fame and power after decades of being away from the country he claimed to want to serve. Rather, it was more a matter of him running out of time to 'discharge my obligations', he insists."