Comments on: Adventures of Elite Girl ep0019

By: The Sense of Superiority « Winter Is Coming

The Sense of Superiority « Winter Is Coming — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:32:58 +0000

[...] Â The ST has also in a way, played a part in encouraging such a sentiment. Perhaps it does so in order to be inline with the government, who has also engaged in scorn heaping exercises. notwithstanding the example above. There was once an article by Peh Shing Huei on Democracy, and in that article the virtues of the Singapore system were extolled and the Taiwanese system was derided. Then going back further into the past, several expats were interviewed and all sang praises of the transport system in Singapore, implying therefore that anyone who criticised the public transport system was a whiner with no gratitude, so on so forth. Insane PolyÂ in his Elite Girl comicÂ made mention of the rather one sided article. Given the fact that most Singaporeans rely entirely on the ST for their daily dose of news, it is hardly surprising that after many years of such “indoctrination” one may start to get the idea that hey, Mesa superior to yousa! Yousa all mediocre! Furthemore ST has been known to paint a rosy picture of Singapore at times when the picture was not entirely rosy; this is with reference to the IMF meeting during September 2006 last year, whereby ST reported that the delegates had praises for Singapore while the foreign publications talked about how Singapore was clamping down onÂ CSOs (Molly made a post about this). [...]

By: kroaker

kroaker — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:49:30 +0000

a bit late to commenting on this issue but it reminds me of this incident years ago when i was still in the uni. in response to repeated complaints about the trains being too crowded etc., they closed off an entire portion of an mrt station to us peasants ( i was there when i happened) to make way for some vip’s to board the train with a bunch of the media types.

then that night i recall watching one of the vip’s being interviewed on-site saying something like, “oh, i’m perfectly happy with the state of the train system. i just took one today during rush hour and it was fine…no problem getting a seat…”

go figure.

By: lv

lv — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:22:25 +0000

It is now claimed the Northeast Line (NEL) is feeling the heat of not enough passengers in The Straits Times’ review today. I thought it was reported not long ago how the NEL broke even earlier than expected! They should really paste that earlier article in front of the reporter’s face. What sin, assuming no one remembers earlier reports! The ability of human mind to recall indeed (both reporter and reader) ….

By: RLSL

RLSL — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:52:50 +0000

Shit time’ spin is so bloody standard SOP type, always like to use selective type of data to compare.
Same for Forum, One Pro and one against letter, next day, 2-3 more pro letter, give you the impression that more peopel in the street support the policy.
They have no credibility at all, hence the 146th.

By: niq

niq — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:06:07 +0000

hahah cool! i agree with you totally. stupid shit times. really propaganda and all that shit.

By: Agagooga

Agagooga — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:37:36 +0000

In some countries they fine-tune the train schedule so it comes at designated times. eg Netherlands, Germany. Hurr hurr.

By: seiji

seiji — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:21:37 +0000

In japan , during peak hour.. the station master will push everyone into the train..and it is packed to the max..u can hardly breathe at times…..but here’s the catch…the train frequency is so incredibily high and the train schedule is kept which means if they said the train will come at 8.03 am…that means it will come at that time..no bulls….(unless someone jumps )…..unlike our self proclaimed world class transport system…

By: Statistician

Statistician — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:35:13 +0000

Always remember, there are

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS.

Guess who is THE expert in statistics?

By: Hogzilla

Hogzilla — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:46:46 +0000

146th is being Ah Q here.

They just compare with the strong points of MRT system and then say Singapore is better.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:26:30 +0000

Haha. I agree, they would never dare to compare to HK’s MTR.
And hey, they didn’t even mention how you could walk from one train station to another for the London’s tube. Try walking from AMK to Bishan MRT station.