Entertainment Singapore Style

Damn, I turn my back on you fucks for a week, and guess what, so much shit happens. Today's edition is going to be my take on a few things that have been happening in Singapore.

First up, gay relief teacher who got his ass handed to him by the Ministry of Education demands an explanation on why he was unfairly canned. Ministry's response was simple: Hey, he's gay so he should be used to being fucked in the ass, or words to that effect. Alfian was a teacher in a nondescript secondary school and was apparently a very good teacher at that. He was also a top student with outstanding results for his A levels. He applied to be a relief teacher and got the fucking job. No problems there, right? Right... A few months later, the Ministry sends him a nicely worded letter saying "get the fuck out, douchebag. We don't want your kind here". Naturally Alfian got pissed and asked for an explanation, and he got one.

Now folks, whoever drafted that letter ought to be in charge of the space programme. That man has a gift.

the Ministry of Education sets stringent criteria in the recruitment of relief teachers. This is understandably so when we strive to achieve a high standard in Education. With keen competition, this Ministry has an arduous task of considering each applicant based on several factors. MOE needs to determine which applicants most appropriately meet its organisational needs. In the registering of relief teachers, we look at each applicant in view of the specific requirements of the Ministry at the time, considering each application as a whole, on its own merit. While many capable candidates apply every year, only those that best meet the organisation's requirements will be considered for appointment.

Yeeeeaaaaaahhhh right. Folks, even IF all that meant something, let's look at some of the people that make it through these 'stringent criteria' for recruitment of teachers:


Outings, sleepovers after basketball practice (ST Nov 29, 2006)
Teacher is suspended by the primary school in June this year and appeared in court yesterday on three molestation charges.'Adam said they would be out till quite late at night and sometimes they would stay over at the teacher's place.' - Principal of Adam's secondary school, on outings after basketball practices in Adam's primary school
Boy tells court how accused taught him... DIRTY LESSONS
+ Teacher allegedly makes him watch porn video in bedroom
+ Then he shocks boy by performing sexual act

Teacher at boys' school charged with molesting students (ST Dec 5, 2005)
He faces 19 charges; alleged offences took place over 4 years
A 33-YEAR-OLD secondary school teacher was yesterday charged in court with molesting and committing lewd acts with seven students.

ST 25 May 2001
A teacher with St Andrew's Junior College has gone missing with S$63,500 from the school's co-operative society, and may already have left the country. The mathematics teacher, an expatriate from Hongkong in his early 40s, joined the school about a year ago.

ST 20 May 2001
In a three-day trial last week, a district court heard that Lam Peng Kwan, 59, a private tutor and former teacher at Tanjong Katong Girls' School, asked a 16-year-old girl to lift up the skirt of her school uniform so that he could point out her private parts. She said he also used his hands to rub her stomach. Lam, whose book, Comprehensive Biology - For O-Level Science, is still being used in schools, is also accused of touching the girl's private parts. The court will give its verdict on 22 Jun 2001. (Note from Hades: Yes folks, its the same Lam Peng Kwan whose text books are considered like a Bible for O Level Biology, good job you fucking senile perv).

ST 8 Apr 2001
A teacher who allegedly molested two primary school pupils was charged in a district court on 7 Apr 2001. Gilbert Chee Boon San, 32, is also accused of forcing another pupil from the same school to sit on his lap. The three pupils, all girls, were 12 years old at the time of the alleged offences at a school in the north-west of Singapore. No plea was recorded from Chee.


Rigourous my ass.

I leave the criticism of the letter itself to people who have that kind of time, but having known MOE for so long I am not surprised. What surprises me is the response this letter got. There was huge speculation on whether the guy got canned because he took it up the ass or because his skin was the wrong shade of yellow. Folks, that's missing the point. The bigger issue you SHOULD be asking is why the secrecy? The ministry of education is NOT a private organisation. It is accountable to everyone of you. That doesn't mean of course that the ministry should provide detailed reports on every hiring and firing it does, but WHEN QUESTIONED it has to reveal why it did what it did and not hide behind bullshit phrases like they are 'acceptable HR policies'. Acceptable to whom? Certainly they weren't acceptable to Alfian and from what we read a LOT of other people.

Singaporeans, these people are NOT YOUR MASTERS, they are your SERVANTS. Demand accountability dammit.

Anyway, in other news, the Father does it AGAIN. Yep.

You know, when they sent him to Russia, they should have just lost him somewhere in the fucking Siberian desert.

He had this gem to say to the Russian journalist: For instance, India and China have underdeveloped people; they have no trained scientists and engineers in the numbers required, but the Russians have always had that. They pioneered their way into space".

Like fucking Singapore has that many scientists. The fuck has pionnering space have to do with sustainable economic development?! This fucker is so damn anecdotal it would be funny if he wasn't so respected here. He loves to generalise single events with no regard to context. Fuck, I never got my dick caught in a zipper so I deserve to be awarded a fucking Nobel.. The Fuck?! Of course the fucking Russians could pioneer space. They let the fucking rest of the country starve just so they could send a fucking basketball in orbit first, you drooling douche! The only reason Russia is not a fucking backwater waste of land is oil, pure and simple. O fucking I fucking L. Let's see shall we, if this shitbag's argument that India and China don't have enough scientists stand:

1> THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF INDIA is a fucking scientist. This man pioneered the fucking nuclear programme in the country. Singapore's own Tony Tan probably pioneered a buttscratcher (TM Family Guy).

2> HALF OF FUCKING NUS is filled with professors from China and India.

3> Fucking NUS set up colleges in Bangalore and Shanghai. The fuck would they do that if India and China had "underdeveloped people".

4> What the FUCK is an underdeveloped people? People with a major appendages missing? I suppose he's been looking at his own parliament too long. Those men and women lost their genitals to him a long time ago.

Since when did scientific innovation depend on numbers of scientists? The Father thinks that innovation can be mass produced, typical thinking from the man, and that more scientists = more innovation, which of course is bullshit. Just ask all those professors sitting with their thumbs up their asses in the Biopolis.

Why the fuck does anyone take this man seriously is a wonder. He has all the mannerisms of a schoolyard bully and the argument-sophistication of a 10 year old. What right does he think he have to advise a country of Russia's size about economics just because he managed to turn an already prosperous city into a reasonably well-off, compliant, non-creative boring little city? Stick to what you know, old man and stop making Singaporeans look like complete arrogant fuckwads.