New Citizen to-be MP: 'I'm staying, I'm fully invested'
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
investor think loong term.
You ah, joker.
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who got the investor into PAP????and why didnt he do national service???so easy to become a minister???in that case every sporean would have his job long ago.he must really be an investor then!!!
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Originally posted by Acids boyfriend:
who got the investor into PAP????and why didnt he do national service???so easy to become a minister???in that case every sporean would have his job long ago.he must really be an investor then!!!
wait till he becomes our defence minister, and he requires all our NSFs to stay in for 2 years in army camps...
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Originally posted by charlize:
You ah, joker.
seriously. investor seeks loong term.
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loong term political lucre
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
Mar 22, 2011
'I'm staying, I'm fully invested'
Newly-minted citizen wants to make a difference
By Cassandra Chew
Dr Puthucheary, who was born in Malaysia, has lived here since 2001 and became a citizen in 2008. His father is a founding member of the PAP who defected to form the opposition Barisan Sosialis. -- ST PHOTO: CAROLINE CHIA
DR JANIL Puthucheary become a Singapore citizen just three years ago but believes his newly-minted status is not an obstacle to how he can continue to contribute here.
Turning around a question put to him on whether he was Singaporean enough to represent voters, he said: 'The question is not where we come from. The question is who is going to be prepared to stay and fight and make this country what it will be, what it can be. I'm that person. I'm staying, fighting, I'm fully invested.'
The senior consultant at the Children's Intensive Care Unit at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, made clear in comments on Monday that the decision to take up citizenship was not by accident.
Multiculturalism and meritocracy were major factors, said Dr Puthucheary, 38.
Born in Malaysia, he attended secondary school in Britain. After graduating from the medical faculty of the Queen's University in Ireland, he pursued post-graduate training in Belfast, London and Sydney, before settling here in 2001.
'Ours is not a perfect society. We have not and may never reach the ideals that we're aiming for. But I passionately believe that we are far further along that road than any other place that I can think of,' he said, noting the drive here to integrate communities further.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
JANIL PUTHUCHEARY
- Age: 38
- Job: Senior consultant at KK Women's and Children's Hospital. He is also medical director for faculty development at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.
- Marital status: Married, with three sons aged two, five and seven
- Languages spoken: English, Malay
- Likely to be fielded in: Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC
- Your father was detained by the PAP under the Internal Security Act in 1963. Were you angry on his behalf?
'No, not at all. Certainly my father never expressed any anger or rancour so I could not express any anger for that. It was something that... happened in the long history that we were told about. It wasn't something that we lived with or we knew of ourselves.'
- Can Singapore have a two-party system of government?
'It's the job of the PAP to be elected as often as possible and get as many of its candidates in Parliament. Whether there's a viable two-party system depends on what else is put up for Singaporeans to choose from.'
Source:
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_647803.html
my pt.
1. can we ever trust a person who turn his back on his adopted country malaysia?
2. if your father is detail by PAP under ISA for politically reason, can you still serve that master? it seem to me, he is willing to please the new master at al cost. -
Originally posted by reyes:
my pt.
1. can we ever trust a person who turn his back on his adopted country malaysia?
2. if your father is detail by PAP under ISA for politically reason, can you still serve that master? it seem to me, he is willing to please the new master at al cost.They always tell the public to trust them.
They know what they are doing.
Really.
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http://www.temasekreview.net/2011/04/06/the-parable-of-the-village/
Trust TR to come up with these kinds of parables.
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He is fully invested, must think loong term.
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Your father was detained by the PAP under the Internal Security Act in 1963. Were you angry on his behalf?
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What serious crime his father did? Wanting to topple pap?
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After the saga over the stomper, seems like all the new candidates have gone low profile.