Tag Archives: LEE HSIEN LOONG

I’m quite reluctant to comment on our Prime Minister’s pay. But since everybody keeps talking about the issue, I thought I would just relate a conversation we had at Elias Mall coffeeshop on the controversial topic. This happened some time ago. As usual, there were few of us gathered at Elias Mall coffeeshop in the evening having coffee or beer relaxing and chatting away. Out of the blue, Lao Si suddenly commented that actually our Prime Minister’s pay is not that high.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that the real median wages of Singaporean workers have gone up by about 6 times since 1965. But do you know that the actual salary of the prime minister has actually gone up by 75 times, until 2010 when the prime minister was earning $3.1 million at the highest?Today, the richest in Singapore earn the highest salaries among the developed countries while the poorest earn one of the lowest among the developed countries.

Only a guy with balls of steel will dare say he will be back to work after a radical prostatectomy. Then again, some people's workload is different from what the rest of us mere mortals have to put up with in the office, factory or construction site. The surgical procedure in question involves wholesale removal of the prostate gland, the surrounding tissue and seminal vesicles.

The timing is just too zhun to be true. All of a sudden just one week before Budget 2015, Lee Hsien Loong announce his prostate cancer to Singaporeans. When since January he already knew that he had prostate cancer. I wonder if all the news coverage about our dear LEEder's cancer and tidbits about the nicely timed operation just a week before budget 2015 is another PAP ploy to trick kind-hearted Singaporeans into giving Pinky a second chance.

As much as I don't like some of the things Lee Hsien Loong has done as PM, I'm glad to hear that his prostate cancer surgery went well. (Ideology must never blind us to another person's humanity.) And I think that it's a very statesman-like thing to get treatment at the Singapore General Hospital, rather than at any of the private hospitals, which is a ringing endorsement of the standards of our public health system.

The shocking news of PM Lee having prostate cancer has left many Pinoys devastated and anxious. Several are fervently praying for him. Will PM Lee remember these faithful pinoys when he recovers? With such a huge fervent following, should Lee Hsien Loong quit Singapore and run for Philippines President? Maybe then Singapore will be in safer hands and his pinoy supporters will follow him back to their homeland and Singaporeans will all rejoice!

Lee Hsien Loong, not wanting to be outdone, says, 'I would throw two $50 bills and make two people down below happy.' As usual, Lee Kuan Yew doesn't want these two ministers to outdo him, so he join in the conversation 'I would instead throw fifty $2 bills out to make 50 people below just a little happier.'

Yesterday, news of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's prostate cancer broke and one cannot help but wonder if it finally shed some light on the Prime Minister's sex life. This episode has given us unprecedented insights into Lee's sex life. Which do you think is more plausible? Ah Loong the pious monk who says no to sex or is he the insatiable demon in bed?

Shocked to read that Lee Hsien Loong has been diagnosed with prostrate cancer. It is the 2nd time he got cancer already and I think it is a sign for him to step down. Lee has been prime minister for a long time now. The only person who has been prime minister this long is his father and the leaders of North Korea. A functional democracy should not be allowing one man or one party to be in power for this long. This creates a "conflict of interest" as the parliament recently said.

Lee Hsien Loong was diagnosed with prostate cancer in January after a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan showed suspicious lesions on his prostate. He will undergo surgery on Monday to remove his prostate gland and will be on medical leave for a week. He is expected to recover fully. Mr Lee was previously diagnosed with intermediate grade malignant lymphoma, a form of cancer, in 1992. He received treatment and was cleared of cancer cells in April 1993. This current diagnosis is unrelated to this earlier cancer.