I was talking to my friend,
when suddenly we talked about
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan.
I wanted to talk about this guy
for a long time,
but he is such a forgetable
and laughable character,
I never got down to it.
I remembered early this year,
Dr Vivian talked about
wooing overseas Singaporeans
to come back.
Yeah right,
after years of
dictatorial oppression
by your PAP government,
driving out hundreds of thousands
of the smartest
and most talented Singaporeans
of my generation,
and now you want them back?
Just what do you have here?
Other than your
multi million dollar
minister salaries.
Can you afford to pay them
your kind of salaries?
Otherwise, what?
Do you think
they are hard up
for a smaller house here
than what they have there?
A smaller car here
than what they have there?
Why did they leave,
in the very first place?
Because its better
to have a say,
to have a voice
than forever live in fear
whenever you have
a dissenting voice.
Back home in Singapore,
we are all nothing but statistics
to our dictatorial government.
We have no say,
no voice.
We do everything we were told,
and the Lees do anything,
they feel like.
My friend Martyn See
made a movie "Singapore Rebel"
and kena hauled off
to the police station
being questioned
for hours.
And his film
got banned
and further warned
never to make another
similiar movie.
Does the talented overseas Singaporeans
want to live in your kind
of police state?
Maybe if you offer everyone
your kind of salary.
Having said that,
Dr Vivian,
please lah...
your youth days in NJC,
you were so anti-government.
Until you joined the government.
Yes, you sold your soul
for government money.
So throwing money
at talented overseas Singaporeans,
might just work.
Again, at the tax payer expense,
of Singaporeans
working their lives out
like a dog.
I remember
when you first joined the government.
You said,
you wanted to make a difference.
Please la,
you knew,
if you really wanted
to make a difference,
you would NOT
have joined the government
and just being another
barking dog
for your Lee family bosses.
In the meantime,
Dr Vivian,
stop talking cock lah.
