Environment Minister Yaacob Ibrahim learnt that “floods are caused by intense storms”
July 20th, 2010 | 
Author: In a period of 2 months, Singapore have been hit by multiple “freak floods”, which in the words of the Minister for Environment Mr Yaacob Ibrahim, “happens only once in 50 years” and “too costly to prevent”, according to PM Lee.
The inability of the ruling PAP Party to prevent these frequent “freak floods” have caused Singaporeans and Businesses alike losses running into millions of dollars.
Environment Minister Yaacob Ibrahim, is almost ALWAYS nowhere to be found, seen or heard during these episodes. It is believed that he is ‘busy‘ learning about these floods, a promise he made during the Orchard Road floodings:
“Every event is a new learning experience for us ….. so the approach we should be taking is to learn from this, improve upon it, and assure Singaporeans that we’ll do our best to prevent this as much as possible”
Appearing in Parliment after his “learning experience”, he made good on his promise and proudly announced that PUB, one of the agency under his charge:
“… has completed the investigation of the flood incident at Orchard Road. The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm”
For a Minister that’s paid the ‘peanutest‘ of peanuts (a petty $2 million a year, approx), Singaporeans should be grateful that Mr Yaacob Ibrahim is willing to sacrifice his ‘own sweet time‘ to learn and experience floods.
When Temasek Review published an article on his latest ‘findings’ yesterday, ‘Grateful‘ Netizens were full of ‘praises‘ for this ‘betteretest‘ of Minister:
Immortal Charles Chong:
what? after intense investigations,thats all that this over-fed monkeys managed to find out? recently they have make many startling discoveries
like trees have roots…….
Opposition:
Even a retarded person knows a flood is caused by intense storms….
There was an INVESTIGATION to realize this? WOW….
pissed off:
Certainly his job is the easiest job in the world with such excuses.
My young son can do a better job than him. At least he will apologize.
Mr. E:
“flood was caused by an intense storm,”
Yeah, did you know that water is wet and that fire burns?
God Of No Mercy:
I ask my 90 years old grandmother what causes flood. Her answer: Tua hor (heavy rain) tio yim chwee (causes flood). Even my grandma can replace yakult without the million dollars salary. Sorry Yakult we dun need you.
UtterLEE_Disgusted:
With that no brainer statement, Yaccoob is now officially in the same legendary clown league as WKS – “Mas selamat is either in Singapore or not, but the plausibility of the latter is greater”.
The Servant Leader:
Hey – tell me something that I don’t already know. Of course floods are caused by intense storms!! What else?? Snow?? High tides??
CCB:
Kepala butoh siapa tak tahu.
LehmanBrothers:
GENIUS!! Did he figure that all out on his own?
PCK pte ltd:
the flood caused by intense storm ? wow lau eh , i almost fainted … aiyo , use your blain , use you blain . is there any flood cause by animal , sound or wind ? hopeless lah .
Flood_due_to_Intense_Storm ?:
Stupid, Stupidier and Stupidiest. Is there a Stupidierest ?
Oxford Dict must invent this word especially for Yaaccob.
Anyhow, thanks to the $$millions poured (no pun intended) into the investigation work on the recent spate of floods, the entire WORLD is now in revelation that FLOODS ARE INDEED CAUSED BY INTENSE STORM.
PAP smear:
Someone give this guy a cookie. He just figured out that if it rains too much, then floods will occur. Next lesson: If you hit your head on the desk really hard, it may hurt.
SureOrNot?:
To think he has a title of Assc. Prof. This revelation should be shared with the world especially China with their recent flooding. And yes, being in a generous mood, indulge them with another Eureka Moment … Water was indeed found falling from the sky!
worldcrass:
the best quote of the year. quite difficult to beat, really.
Invincible:
At least he investigate to confirm that it is due to the intense storm. Otherwise he could be thinking that the flood incident at Orchard Road could be caused by everyone flushing the toilet at the same time.
With raining (oops, touch wood) ‘praises’ like these, it is not surprising that Mr Yaacob Ibrahim is fast rising up the chart of Singapore’s 10 Most ‘Belovedetest‘ Ministers.
by Forecaster Extraordinarie II
Recent Floods:
1) 19 Nov 2009 – Bukit Timah
2) 16 June 2010 – Orchard Rd & other areas
3) 25 June 2010 – various parts, island-wide
4) 1 July 2010 – MacPherson & Tai Seng
5) 17 July 2010 – various parts, island-wide
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Yacob have master the power of tai chi.
“… has completed the investigation of the flood incident at Orchard Road. The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm”
Kepala butoh siapa tak tahu.
LOL full of praise…. I thought only I know how to praise PAP. LOL… Now I have been overtaken. Haiz….
was the stome really out of the ordinary?
Or was it a standard storm?
whenever it rains…Mr Yakult is sweating…
hope for more rain… yes it is raining heavily now..
After intense investigation, I found that my father is a male and my mother is female.
Whatever happened to the self-acclaimed Forecaster Extraordinaire – who is also the mascot of the Pro Alien Party ?
Could he have not helped the Minister of Environment to forecast even the weather conditions that destroyed millions of flooded damaged properties and businesses ?
God is exposing the true abilities of these conceited and arrogant self-acclaimed talents in the Pro Alien Party for their immodest claims of being the bestest talent available in Singapore.
It is time for him to go and drink yakult while Eat Bra-ing
In case we don’t know:
Ministers’ world highest pay is due to Singaporeans being “daft”, “ignorant”(like “Forecaster XO” said)!
Had a good laugh.
His name should be changed to “Yaya-Cock I-blame-him” since he so good to blame others still so yaya!
With stupid remarks by him will make Singaporeans look really “stupiderer” leh.
More findings and discoveries:-
1)The stench was caused by uncleared dog shit
2)Betterest is better than betterer
3)The sun rises from the east and sets in the west
4)Singaporeans are pissed becaused they are labelled as daft, lazy and not hard driving enough by a prominent politician
5)The YOG is a waste of money and time
6)Singapore is not flood free
7)Exclusive areas like Orchard Road and Bukit Timah Road are prone to flooding!!
8)Someone in charge of national public housing was caught off guard by spike in HDB resale prices
9)Mee Siam without hum is a new national dish of Singapore
10)In Singapore, when u fell very sick, you die your business!!
11) ?More to add?
Please release your investigation paper. Better still, promise us there will be no further flood in Singapore.
If cannot do, then let us know the areas where flood will take place this year so that residents can do what you cannot do.
Can we also have a penalty system imposed on the the incomes of those responsible, like salesperson, no sale no income. Got flood, no income, why can’t do the job, right????
At least he investigate to confirm that it is due to the intense storm. Otherwise he could be thinking that the flood incident at Orchard Road could be caused by everyone flushing the toilet at the same time.
During the course of writing this article, I found out that LEARNED and LEARNT are acutally the SAME past tense of the verb LEARN.
After some INTENSIVE INVESTIGATION, I LEARNED that LEARNT (past participle) is more appropriately used in a sentense in conjunction with another verb.
And NO, TR didn’t even pay me peanuts
I think the flood is caused actually by Water!
if in the future,the flood naturally disappear,Yakult and his SUNSHINE BAND will claim glory for actually doing nothing,nothing at all!
i love to be a minstrel here;what with sky-high salary and fast to take glory but even can faster anyhow shirk responsibility.
when it’s flooding,blame the storms and when it’s too hot,blame global warming.
shiok job,blameless job….only take all glory,even those that doesn’t acrrue to them.
…actually,anyone can be a minister here.
Dear peasants,
Here are my investigation findings
small rain = no flood
big rain = minimal flood at low lying areas
intense storm = flood at orchard road
if this is too difficult for your peasants to understand, here is a simpler explanation
normal shit = can endure
big shit = need to find toilet in 10 mins
lao sai = underwear flooded
whitepaper for this investigation will be released for sales later.
Yours sincerely,
Yakult Ibrahim
my grandmother who is uneducated told me that if it rains heavily and the longkang is block or too small sure flood wan lah. My grandmother knows what that yakult didn’t know until investigation.
@CHN PR Veteran who said: I think the flood is caused actually by Water!
* CLAP * CLAP * CLAP *
What a finding!
Wow….amazing analytical powers from our higher beings….floods caused by intense rain….heat caused by strong sun….windy caused by, eh..huh? strong winds?
With such great powers of analysis, I think the man is underpaid at 2 mio….we need to give him $10 mio a year.
its stupid to keep emphasizing that the rainfall is so much more than the month’s average….when we know clearly the drainage system has to cope with all kinds of weather all year round and not just in jun/july…june/july is usually not monsoon season so by comparing the rainfall with these months is incorrect….how do they determine the capacity of the drainage in the first place?? I believe its due to their miss calculation due to the various new mall developments being carried out over the orchard road canals…a bunch of useless monkeys…
This Yacock Ibrahim…from normal or express stream huh? Someone pls confirm..Tanks
And you need to pay the idiot millions and millions of dollars to make the obvious statement that “Storm causes Flooding?”
Give me a million and I will tell you the same freaking thing.
“… has completed the investigation of the flood incident at Orchard Road. The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm”
GENIUS!! Did he figure that all out on his own?
money have been use to build IR.. ,ROADS FOR the F1 BUT..not for the basic drainage system ??
PUB has completed the investigation of the flood incident at Orchard Road. The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm” ….
very insulting investiation report . no wonder MM said singaporean are ignorant , i think he is right … even our minister also want to bullshit us ! so sad .
According to my investigation, Zues the God of Thunder is responsible for the flood. Let us all worship Zues.
It Time for CHANGE ! VOTE THE PAP OUT
PUB has completed the investigation of the flood incident at Orchard Road. The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm”
the flood caused by intense storm ? wow lau eh , i almost fainted … aiyo , use your blain , use you blain . is there any flood cause by animal , sound or wind ? hopeless lah .
at first after investigation say its canal choke then now flood again say its actually intense heavy downpour… so whoever comes out with the reason is juz to anyhow give 1 reason to “Eng Siew ” us ,thinking not so “suay’ to flood again??
I think I can comes out with more and better POLITICALLY CORRECT reasons & excuses then that.
Its precisely we know cannot be flood FREE tats y we chose to Pay And Pay to want make it possible.
I think I need to reconsider to continue paying to some1 who cannot do their job…ESP when THESE PAYS are of MMILLION OVER DOLLARS and CAN EASE SO MUCH MORE SINGAPOREAN in distress.
If spending money to improve the infracture to prevent flood is not worth it , then spending millons of dollars for Youth olympic is better?
Isn’t it cheaper now to solve the flooding problems while its still containable …OR R U Juz waiting to be voted out so can throw the prob for whoevever next Opp party that comes in power?
KNN
Time for “one million posts” day.. let’s all make a post on their FB, and other web sites to express our views.. then they know how important it will be to shut this down!
no no no, you people got it all wrong, the flood is caused by too many wicked things being done upon those helpless citizens of singapore by one senile ole fart who think he is god himself, see what happen to the the ferries wheel kena strucked by lightning now?why? because the wheel turns too fast? or wrong direction? expect more to come people, much more. . .
Stupid, Stupidier and Stupidiest. Is there a Stupidierest ?
Oxford Dict must invent this word especially for Yaaccob.
Anyhow, thanks to the $$millions poured (no pun intended) into the investigation work on the recent spate of floods, the entire WORLD is now in revelation that FLOODS ARE INDEED CAUSED BY INTENSE STORM.
Such news must reach China and India. This will make them think thrice about migrating here.
Yakult Ibrahim: – “if this is too difficult for your peasants to understand, here is a simpler explanation
normal shit = can endure
big shit = need to find toilet in 10 mins
lao sai = underwear flooded”
This is HILARIOUS !!
Couldn’t stop laughing, haha…. Thanks Yakult, you made my day !!! hahaha…
Hopefully rain heavy during NDP and flood LKY’s ride to padang. also flood YOG’s transport so we can be a laughing stock.
“The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm”. This got to be the joke of the year. Even my 6 year old son, without doing any research and investigation, knows this.
Reminds of our neighbour’s news when one guy fell to his death in the anti corruption office. The cause of death as per coroner – he fell from a high place.
Come on lah, this is Singapore not Malaysia. Can give better answer or not?
Singaporeans just have to accept that from now on floodings will be commonplace no matter what remedial steps are taken. Why this is so? Singapore has one development too many, period. More developments are taking place right now and no matter how many more or how much bigger the drainage system has, nature will not be denied. Most affected are the buildings in low lying areas especially those with basements as the water table has risen and the ground cannot absorb the large amount of water, nor can the drainage system drain the fast rising waters in such a short period of time. The fact that most of Singapore’s land is slightly higher than the sea level, the gradient for water to flow to the sea is very slow. Owners of such units prone to floods should try and sell off their units before the value of their properties dive south as more buyers will be prudent enough to check the history of the numer of floods that occurred in the vicinity. My 2 cents.
Dear MPs, why is it so hard to say sorry when you make mistake?
I have no words to describe the present government of Singapore and every minister and MP. It is just very SHAMEFUL!!!
In the first place, Yaacob should not have been so cock-sure and announce to the whole world that it is a once in 50 years freak event.. You do that only if you are 100% sure you can control the weather.. I guess he didn’t want to spend too much time investigating the cause of the flooding, so easier to just attribute it to a once in 50 years event, case close.. BUT the GODs clearly wants to prove him wrong, so after orchard road flooding, he has to launch an investigation, and this time his finding is the flood caused by drain blockage due to rubbish and garbage, so remedial action.. shorten inspection time from 3 mths to 1 mth.. Now orchard road hit second time, so cannot blame on garbage blocking the drain.. What to do, eat humble pie..
Moral of this story, don’t be too cock-sure, especially when dealing with situations beyong human control..
LehmanBrothers:
July 20, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Sorry mate, I couldn’t help on this one. IT IS TOO DAMNED HARD OF INTELLECTUAL CRACK FOR ME TO FIGURE THAT ONE OUT!!! ROTFLMAO
According to seriously investigation by the PUB, PAP is “NOT” at fault. So you “CANNOT” vote us out. “Hail PAP”.
It’s not going to be funny anymore if it keeps happening. Somebody better do something.
ALL THE STUPID MINISTERS GIVING STUPIDEST ANSWERS AND THEY ARE NOT SHAMEFUL AT ALL. SOME MORE FROM THE MOUTH OF “DOCTOR”. SO DO YOU THINK HIGH PAY ATTRACTED TALENTED PEOPLE? THE ANSWER IS VERY OBVIOUS.
“… has completed the investigation of the flood incident at Orchard Road. The investigation found that the flood was caused by an intense storm”
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That makes me laugh.. Oh no, flood cause by over flooding the corn field with chocolate milk…
THE OLD FART USED TO SAY NOTHING IS FREE. SO SINGAPORE IS NOT FLOOD FREE IS SOUND LOGICAL. SO IF YOU REALLY WANT FREE AND FREEDOM THEM MUST VOTE THEM OUT AND LET THE OLD FART SEE IT WITH HIS EYES BEFORE HE KICKS THE BUCKET.
haha his brain enter water
Minister for environment supposes to clear the rubbishes. But yet he talk rubbishes.
Someone give this guy a cookie. He just figured out that if it rains too much, then floods will occur. Next lesson: If you hit your head on the desk really hard, it may hurt.
Some driver just got KILLED when a tree trunk fell on his car!!!which gahmen agency is in charge of the trees and greenery!!!???Better dun give us citizens some dumb ass excuse!!
Had a hell of a laugh reading these comments about this article! Hahaha!
Maybe our dear Minister will next say “I’m deaf like my bestest frog loving colleague so I couldn’t hear the rain coming!”
In other news, the quality of the answers is proportional to the amount paid to the answerer.
Oh wait, that was a news flash from fantasyland. Break’s over. Back to your regular programming… it has been proven that water flows best through crooked channels. Thank you for your continuing support.
More news: after foreign minister george yeo returned from visits to the Vatican and the US, he said that he “was astonished to discover that the Pope is Catholic and that US President Barack Obama is black”.
In another development, prime minister lee hsien loong said that he was astounded to discover that mee siam is never served with hum, while his father, minister mentor lee kuan yew was horrified to discover that unlike Jesus Christ, he was unable to walk on water like a god could.
To think he has a title of Assc. Prof. This revelation should be shared with the world especially China with their recent flooding. And yes, being in a generous mood, indulge them with another Eureka Moment … Water was indeed found falling from the sky!
“PUB looking into early flood warning to public ..”
is flooding in spore like tsunami in Aceh???
strange….. we’re back to the 60s and early 70s…soon we’ll be back to the 50s in no time….
“This ship in unsinkable, even God Himself can’t sink it!” screamed the newspaper headlines just before the Titanic sailed off on its maiden voyage.
God shall not be mocked…
For a flood to hit anywhere in Singapore, it takes a combination of high tides and about 100mm of rainfall within an hour.
And Orchard Road is protected by its mighty rain drain – the Stamford Canal.” By Fong Foong Mei the new paper 22nd jan 1999″
God shall not be mocked…for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
I have a gut feeling somehow he will still win elections, if he is fielded.
Intense storm causes Orchard Road flood.
Orchard Road flood only occurred in the last 2 months. That means there was no intense storm at Orchard Road since the beginning of time until 2 months ago. As such, intense storm is a new discovery at Orchard Road. Can anybody tell me is there any problem with my logic.
ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! Of course the floods are caused by the storms, don’t tell me they are caused by heat wave???!!!!
Let us take stock of the situation.
First the minsitry said it was a once in 50 years freak event.
Then it was a block culvert.
Next they say it was Typhoon Cosoon.
TODAY 20July, at last in the straits times we see the only techncial answer from discussions at the Parliament proceedings. They now say STAMFORD CANAL was not able to handle to volume of water.
{Naysayer question : I thought there used to be another HUGE long kang on the opposite side of Orchard Road (same side as Dhoby Ghaut) running parallel with the Stamford canal ? Did they remove it to make way for ION ORCHARD and ORCHARD CENTRAL ? }What they didnt say: STamford canal discharges into Marina Bay: and, Marina bay exit to the sea is narrowed by design, to the width of Marina Barrage (mere 0.3 km).
With all the gates open there is still a massive superstructure supporting the barrage. Therefore the barrage presents an obstruction to the discharge of Stamford Canal even with all its gates blown away.
I accept the reason by the Minister, Stamford Canal can be widened and we will solve all the problems forthwith. Good, honest Logic.
But then, this wouldn’t have been necessary if not for the blockage at the dam. Stamford canal was sufficiently dimensioned for the last umpteen years.
Incidentally, do we have enough land or stucutres to support the widening of Stamford canal?
If no, then, my friends, you have to either live with 50 floods a year (not 1 flood 50 years) or else do something to the dam (on 17 July, China exploded one of its dams according to the news, to relieve floods).
rex
July 20, 2010 8:48 AM
Steve Wu said…
The PUB and the MEWR (being the overseer) have found themselves wanting in the areas of flood planning, flood prevention and management. They also appear to lack the skills to reassure the public who has yet to see transparency and accountability.
1. Orchard Road flooded 3 times on 16 June 2010, 25 June 2010 and 17 July 2010. Neither PUB nor MEWR bothered to acknowledge the second flood. It required a third flood to force the admission that there was a design limitation in the Stamford Canal, along with more excuses. It should have been obvious from the first flood that things did not add up, e.g. clogged culvert was upstream, not downstream. Was PUB less than candid?
2. PUB/MEWR have released very little details about the efficacy of the Marina Barrage. The minister still thinks that tides play a part in the flooded areas in the catchment areas of the Marina Reservoir. I remind the minister that the Barrage separates the sea and hence the tides from the catchment areas. Being a doctorate in engineering, was the minister been less than candid?
3. The Barrage pumps can collectively pump 280 cubic meters per second of water out of the Reservoir during high tides. Assuming a catchment area of 25 sq.km, the rainfall of 100mm will accumulate a volume of 2.5 million cubic meters of water per hour or 41.6 thousand cubic meters per second. It should be recognized that it far exceeds pumping capability at the Marina Barrage. This means any expulsion MUST be done well ahead (hours ahead) of the flood development to make room for the accumulation.
{Naysayer question : Someone do not know how to do his job ? }
4. There are presently insufficient water level sensors. PUB should also install speed of flow sensors. Without such sensors in the upstream canals/rivers, how can the operators at the Marina Barrage know how much water need to be released into the sea? The more often it is repeated that the “Marina Barrage is operating at the normal levels”, the more People are convinced that the PUB does not know what it is doing.
{ Naysayer question : Some critical control system is not in place ? }
5. If PUB wants to warn the public about floods, that’s well and good in preparation of even larger calamity. However, if it is intended to replace the requirement highlighted in 4, then it is unacceptable. The People expects PUB to prevent floods, not just warn about them.
6. In highly built-up areas, e.g. Orchard Road, the canals must be sealed, not just covered. This means that water may only flow into the canal but not out of it. This should be PUB’s responsibility. The costs may be shared by building owners by an update in the building codes. The approach of setting up flood barrier piecemeal proposed by PUB is inefficient.
7. In a PUB statement on 16 June 2010 PUB Chief Executive confirmed that Singapore has spent $2 billion on drainage works alone. This amount was also declared in parliament by the MEWR minister as reported by AFP on 19 July 2010 and other media. The question is whether this large amount of money has been effectively spent. The recent floods and the aftermath confirm the contrary.
stating the obvious.. and get his million dollar salary.. really gong jiao way…
We don’t pay him to learn something!
What is happening in Holland is directly opposite to what we are doing here.
The dutch build dykes to keep sea water out, while we build dam to keep rain water in.
They create a dry basin while we create a wet reservoir.
As simple as that!
2 days ago they are so proud that trees uprooted have dropped and no one dies…SUDDENLY today tree uprooted and kill one driver.
Poor life and what can Singaporean do for this life? NOTHING becuase he is a number!!! REVOLT AND ONE DAY IF U ARE THE DRIVER, U DIE YOUR BUSINEESS, YR FAMILY WITHOUT U, THEIR BUSINESS, SINGAPORE PPLE, UNITE AND FCK OUT THIS REGIME!
IS HIGH TIME, KICK THEM IN THE BOSS AND LET THEM KNOW WE ARE THE REAL BOSS! WE HAVE BEEN BULLIED TOO MUCH!!!!
the best quote of the year. quite difficult to beat, really.
He can’t escape now after Orchard Rd has 2nd flood hahahaha.
The man LKY said it himself:
“At every election, I used to tell people to think carefully: ‘In the next five years, do you want your homes to be worth more or less?’ The smallest taxi driver or hawker has a home worth S$150,000. They are stakeholders. If they vote the wrong government in, property prices drop and they are in trouble. If you produce the right government, there will be more infrastructure and connectivity, a better environment and clean water, thereby allowing you to improve your assets. Why should we change that?”
LOL… we know what to do….
Flood caused by an intense storm.
Hahah.
How much time and money went into the incompetent researchers to make that finding?
Death is caused by stupidity!
Uniquely Singapore!
Latest news: according to the PUB, the Marina Barrage prevented flooding in Chinatown and other nearby areas but not areas upstream. Wow!!!!!! We’re paying all these elite scholars millions to tell us that areas closest to the dam will drain out first. So why didn’t Orchard Road flood before the Marina Barrage was built then?
By the way, word has it that MEWR assoc prof yah!flood ibringrain was apparently shocked to discover that rain is actually water falling from the sky. Apparently all this time he thought that rain was a popular Korean singer-actor.
Anyway, for all those who said that Singapore is sinking because the miws think they’re gods, has it ever occured to anyone that maybe by destroying a coral reef to construct Resorts World Sentosa, they may have offended Greek sea god Poseidon, who now wants to pay them back by turning of Singapore into a giant lagoon? In any case, Singapore is already sunken; it sank the vey day baldie lee sian lauya was swon in as Prime Minister.
We must pray everyday to Lord Buddha, Allah SAW, Jesus Christ, Tua Peh Kong, Tai Seng Aia, Datuk Kong, De Hu Kong and since Hungry Ghost Month is coming, also need to pray to Phor Thor Kong and all the Ho Hia Ti
Prayers will help since its an act of God (as mention by Mr Ibrahim)
last time? last time i talked cock lah. this time? this time i talk new cock lor.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100720-227944.html
Increase in beggar population in Singapore
= due to public education efforts + stepped up its surveillance patrols, which might have contributed to the increase
“60 beggars have been picked up, close to half of them are foreign beggars”
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Wow, so VB learnt that increase in beggar population is attributed to increased ‘garangness’ of the public and his officers… And close to half of them are foreign beggars (wow FT from all works of life…)
some malays when they reach some position always screw up and blame everyone but themselves, a known fact.
they need to review the marina barrage whenever it rains, draw down the level of water to halve when thunderstorms struck and then review the flood level. The need to draw down water in barrage to lower than 3/4 if flood persist or draw a half level if flood is contained.
reviewing is the word here, the level of water in barrage, irregardless of how heavy the rains is.
it can be solved, with time and “brains”, not talk.
@ Josephine Lee Kam Chia,
“I have a gut feeling somehow he will still win election, if he is fielded”
That will underline the true meaning of ‘daft’ citizens, so who to blame??
CHN PR Veteran:
July 20, 2010 at 2:52 pm
The FLOODS were caused by tears ( not water due to high tides ) from Heaven angry that holy “ghost” and “supernatural” hard-of-precise-description talent is inhabiting and destroying this land. The lightnings have been striking at all the “right places” deliberately for tourists to see. These “perfectly-accurate” lightning strikes and “inaccurately-targetted” floods are all recent events, not 50 years of freak repetitious history unique to Singapore. Why are we so unlucky of nation cursed even by divine.
Yes I saw many foreigner beggars and fake monks in my area. They are usually making lots of noise with their instruments to capture our attention. It must be good business for these syndicates, or else they won’t migrate here.
Sorry now, I only donate my hard-earned money to singaporean elderly beggars.
The foreigner beggars should scram back to their mother lands that have lower cost of living.
eaglefly:
July 21, 2010 at 10:48 am
some malays when they reach some position always screw up and blame everyone but themselves, a known fact.
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@eaglefly
dude….don’t go racist. a known fact EVERYBODY in the whole universe SCREW UP once, NOT only some MALAYS. Be angry with the PERSON not the RACE.
Flood caused by debris, flood caused freakily once in 50 years, flood caused by intense storm. What else will he say next?
Singaporeans should tell them all that flood was caused by the ministers being overpaid and did nothing because of just one word from LHL “UNAVOIDABLE” and every damned peanuts-pay minister just sit and relax while waiting for their next increment once another flood of 100,000 foreigners were transported to our shore to up superficial GDP. Who suffer? not those bunch of idiots who tell us thing we already knew.
The Heavenly Gods felt compassionate for the local citizens of Singapore and they cried and cried causing the floods in Singapore.
They saw the PAP led by the FamiLees plunder the state coffers and helping themselves with tax payers’ millions of Singapore dollars by paying themselves astronomical salaries and increments.
They also saw how the Proforeign Action Party approved so many foreigners to live and work in Singapore and making almost all the local citizens poor, jobless, depressed and suicidal.
The Heavenly Gods can only wait for Judgement Day to serve retribution for these people after their expiry date.
dear adi,i’m not racist, but the truth is such which i have experience, many times as with others on these, indians too.
please read my views, many on such race issue, FT, PR’s, and it is directed at chinese and indians and white’s too.
sorry mate, your arrow is in wrong direction, i certainly ain’t no racist and i avoid, singaporeans, when i travel……
Let’s not launched personal attack on Mr Ibrahim but
request a more thorough investigation, which will take
time. Personally I believe
something seriously wrong with the marina barrage design.
Someone with A level physics is good enough -should realize,
eg where the pumps are locate, nothing to monitoring the rate of pumping! With higher water level at the sea during high tide, compare to the Marina reservoir will generate a “reflux” – pressure from the huge column of sea water, the pump will not be efficient to pump 1 oylimpic size swimmiming within a minute. Flood always starts at the big canals which are closely connected to the marina reservoir.
Dear Mr. Yaacob Ibrahim, are you paid MILLIONS (+1 YR FAT Bonus) to DO YOUR Minister’s JOB PROPERLY? OR is it by your master lky with OUR money to “learn” AT The BOTTOM Of The Learning Curve” as YOU CONFIRMED IN Parliament? Did not think of shame before you did so? How about God you pray to at home and at your Mosque? Read again what you ACTUALLY SAID leh!:
“Every event is a new learning experience for us ….. so the approach we should be taking is to learn from this, improve upon it, and assure Singaporeans that we’ll do our best to prevent this as much as possible”
I think as “The Water Resource Minister”, you suddenly realized that such flooding is yet “another source of water for New Water” and so you are thus learning? Give me your job as I am sure I CAN DO it AND BetterER to BetererEST! Thank you!
To I Love Singapore: July 21, 2010 at 5:49 pm
I absolutely agree with you that there should not be any personal attacks on Mr. Ibrahim. We can only blame the folks around him who is suppose to provide factual information and feasible working alternative plans in advance…there seems to be a gap here somewhere…and the usual inter-departmental politics & crap which screw things up further…everyone in the know knows this happens everywhere…if allow too or out of ignorance/stupid does as stupid do happens as usual like everywhere…
The problem here is also the way Public Relations is being handle in light of what has happen and will continue to happen…and thanks to the hand-fisted manner information is given out…it can’t help but make people wunder is there some kind of BS/Wayang or another cover up going on? And how about the future to actually prevent these incidents from happening asap….not 2 years away…by then how many businesses will be out of business repeated same flooden areas…and repeat damage to public property [how much more to squeeze out of the taxes to pay for all these]…
Moving forward for now and the immediate future…it is advisable that Mr. Ibrahim [think he should be already been advice of this] should take concrete and real transparent actions to find a resolution for the people of singapore…he must be seen and seen actuating feasible solutions current and the long term. And kicking ass and taking names of the people who should in the 1st place provided actual facts and plans way before all these floods has repeatedly happen.
After all, he is very well paid [by the people of singapore thru direct/indirect taxes] and is in the hot seat so to say…so taking reactive actions after something happens again and again is just awry and really un-cool to folks who can see as well as overseas observers….it is important to note that continued reactive actions not only put people lives in real danger but the lives lost will be correspondingly higher as one continues to react.
Why react when one can prevent.
Nuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w07-iYjPTdE
I think yakult is a retard…
http://www.parliament.gov.sg/parlweb/get_highlighted_content.jsp?docID=579901&hlLevel=Terms&links=YAACOB,IBRAHIM&hlWords= &hlTitle=&queryOption=1&ref=http://www.parliament.gov.sg:80/reports/public/hansard/title/20100222/20100222_S0006_T0004.html#1
I was in JB over the weekend, and there was no flood of any kind at all even though it was similarly affected by wet weather. Today’s Straits Times shows KL having a tunnel with a dual function of acting as a outlet to drain rainwater. Hence, KL suffers from little or no flooding. Come on Singapore, now even Malaysia is ahead of us in flood control. How can the drainage system in Johor be better than downtown CBD area in Singapore. After spending millions on fanciful projects like the Marina Barrage, it still shows that the PAP once again fails to deliever when its truely put to the test. Just like the SAF, everything is one big wayang.
WHY BLame PUB NOw? REally, the ya-kok( coconut shell) lor!
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, MALAYSIA’S CITY PLANNING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING IS NOW BETTER THAN SINGAPORE!!!
So much for the highly paid minister who put on wayang day in and out…
Hey guys, the yahoo blogpost must be logged in now. The virtual kopitiam is being monitored ! hahaha. Boh Sheng Ni(no business) now; very quiet. heehee. The crowd has dispersed in the Yahoo Kopitiams. The virtual kopitiams are being besieged already ! heehee. Now all the Yahoo Kopitiam patrons should come to the Temasek Virtual Park here instead. heehee.
No, Red, Yaacob wont be sweating whenever he sees rain coming. Cos he got PM and MM backing him and he can still get to keep his job.
It is the people who must sweat whenever they see black sky and rain coming.
This bodoh (stupid), has his brain CHOKED with our blood money.
A PHD ? Did he buy the certificate?
Not inteligent, always talk crap!!!
Disgusting, arrogant and ignorant!!
Sorry, it should read, intelligent and not as spelt.
send yakult to KL and learn how to control flood , meanwhile cut his salary from $2,000,000 to $200 a year ! tell him to sell mee siam or yakult in geylang seri if he cannot solve the problems in 3 months time .
No need to blame any one or the storms. Yaya is only learning from experience. Are you sure you want someone only learning to be take millions and looking after the country. I will vote him out for sure. OMG. my daughter can do a better job , but pay only 200k
Please do not use the word “freak” any more.
There’s no such thing as freak flood. What is freak is those
upstairs with million dollars salaries.
Now the big boss is blaming citizens who vote them in….
“Singaporeans are expecting everything to be perfect. ”
Then why are we paying you so much!!! And also blaming GOD…..
Quote from TODAY paper ” act of God”.
All these are simply rubbiish. For once admit your mistakes.
The 2 floods on Orchard Road, being about 5m above sea level, occurred during low tide. Meaning floodgates could open to release water out into the sea. So if Orchard Road gets “intense storm” again but during a high tide, we will be looking at a flooding of unprecedented scale. When that happens, there will bound to be life lost, so stay alert and be aware of heavy rain that coincides with high tide timing. The most dangerous places are basement carparks, underground MRT stations, Tunnels, etc. Take care my fellow Singaporeans.
oh no…
MM LKY explained what’s up and happen!…Yacoob behind/beside him in quiet department store dummy mode.
Looks like somebody still don’t want to grow up and want to continue on still in his diapers and also need lots of sayang sayang to continue to keep his highly paid job and still continue to be so un-productive at it.
Xianz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRSA7ZvQdRw
i have a question.
where was SCDF’s Public Warning System?
allow me to quote the purpose of the system;
“The Public Warning System (PWS) is a network of sirens that the SCDF has placed at strategic points throughout the island. The purpose of this system is to warn the public of imminent threats that could endanger lives and property.
The Public Warning System will be used to warn of attacks from the air, land or sea, as well as natural and other man-made disasters. The table below shows what the various signals mean. It would be a good idea to memorise them.”
- from the SCDF website > http://www.scdf.gov.sg/scdf_internet/en/community-and-volunteers/learn-civil-defence/wartime-emergencies/public-warning-system.html
yea. generally curious.
“now, where did i put the bloody alarm key?”
answers please. i do believe it was a responsibility on their end to warn us all about the “intense storms” that apparently caused the flood. interesting.
What an idiot!
Any opposition member can take over his role as minister.
Why do we need a highly-educated but stupid fellow to tell us what is so obvious?!
oi guys, scold the person but got nothing to do with the race/religion lah. dun get TR into trouble.
We should nominate Yaacob to be MAD Magazine’s clown of the century!!!
Act of God
I hope more humans and their leaders respect the Unseen when they say, Act of God.
@eaglefly:
July 21, 2010 at 10:48 am
some malays when they reach some position always screw up and blame everyone but themselves, a known fact.
some people when they post comments on the internet always cock up and blame the race but the person, a known fact.
ah boy, if you want to say yakult did a bad job, fine. however, if you are implying that he did a bad job because he is of certain race, then it only shows your maturity (in the case, the lack of it).
took a bottle a milk this morning? must drink more so you can grow up faster ok?
The next time Orchard Road flood again, I will release pigs into the water with the slogan that make famous ‘Act of God’ and ’storm cause flood’.
Maybe when the next election come, it will helps Singaporean to know how to case the vote, for the pigs and flogs?
Mr Yakult should learn from the basic – how to sapu longkang (sweep drain)lah. Can’t imagine him (he) holding such a portfolio and not truly understanding the environment. They are just plain outright complacent lah.
To be fair, you guys can’t blame everything on Minister Yaacob Ibrahim, he has been working hard for the past few months. Not only on the Flood issue but also Muslims affairs. Even small things like approving Haj packages, settling the Muslim leaders about the recent NS boy arrest, donation to the Malay family where the man was killed in a freak accident and attend overseas meeting with leaders.
Minister Yaacob Ibrahim was a structural engineer, so it reflects on what MM Lee had said,”No amount of engineering can prevent floods”.
I think the floods are the result of too many FTs urinating into our lokangs at the same time.
It is a relief that this Associate Professor didn’t blame the cats and dogs for the intense rain that cause the flooding or our taxpayers monies of millions of dollars paying his salary will go down the drain.
I think with the redesign of Orchard to make it more attractive, many of the drains are covered up to make more walking space. This reduces the speed of the volume of water that can be flowed into the drain. The downpour is considered a freak until recently where we start feeling the climate change affecting us directly. I’m sure it would be rectify after all these.
For those who made racist remarks, your remarks only show how shallow your mindset is. There are people of such character in every race. Being Chinese, I know many chinese who will never blame themselves when they screw up. I’m sure many of our fathers were like that.
We have the deep sewage tunnel built at great expense, and was hailed as an engineering feat like the Marina Barrage when it was named and opened to the public.
Please build pipes to allow water from the canals along Orchard Rd and Bukit Timah Rd to flow into this tunnel when it reaches a certain level monitored by sensors.
Is it an oversight by the govt not to let flood waters to flow into this tunnel except sewage water?
Millions of Chinese, Indians, Vietnamese, Philippinos in this country – not one terrorist attack from these groups. I suppose you consider a gift that the few Muslims in this country perpetrated the largest attack on US soil in the history of the US. A gift of sharing their culture with us
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