Most Singaporeans observe this “mind your own business” a.k.a. MYOB mentality, because, well, we’re “Kia si”. If you see trouble that is not happening to you, just look away. If you poke your nose into trouble that has nothing to do with you and you get into trouble yourself, well, you deserve it. (I’m sure there are readers looking at this analogy puzzled and wondering what is wrong -_-!)

Even in the office, in order to cover your own backside, you sending thousands of email a day to inform people every single thing that takes place. Why? So when trouble happens, we can check the “black and white” in our emails. We don’t want any trouble.

Singaporeans already have that “Kia si” mentality etched into our culture and society. Is there a problem with this mentality? Perhaps so. PM Lee asking us not to call for people’s head in times of trouble just contradict the very foundations of our culture. Telling us that he doesn’t want to cultivate this culture is too late, since we are already like this. Infact, I would imagine the reasons why Mas Selamat was able to escape, is perhaps of this culture we have.

They had to inform 4 people before breaking into the toilet door. The guard nearest to the toilet door could not break open the door to check because, if he did, he might be liable to his superiors for breaking protocol (one assumes)? The 2nd guard that was informed probably had the same mentality. The 3rd guard, being a female, couldn’t break open the door… you know sexual harassment lawsuits (not that Mas Selamat would be able to go trial)? The 4th guard was finally the “right” person to break the door down, and by then it was too late.

Everyone was in due process, everyone covered their backside very well, everyone “Kia si”, now end up all kenna “si“.

If, indeed, the guards thought that Mas Selamat had collapsed in the toilet cubicle… THEY SHOULD KICK THE DOOR DOWN IMMEDIATELY!@ What if Mas Selamat had died of a heart attack because they took 10minutes to “cover backside”??
Nocturne needed me to point this out “Mas Selamat never actually did commit any crime, except, escaping from prison.”

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Mas Selemat went to toilet to fetch a pail of water,
Mas Selemat had a limp, but he managed to escape!
Nasi Lemak was so delicious the guard didn’t bother,
And that is how Mas Selemat broke through the barricade!

*** THIS IS NOT FACTUAL, IT’S ONLY A NONSENSICAL POEM***

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Have to put that disclosure up so I won’t be liable for defaming anyone. It’s written more like a limerick. It’s just funny how I keep hearing “Nasi Lemak” in people’s conversations everyday

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I do these kind of silly things all the time, and people around me are so used to it they probably don’t even find it funny anymore….

I was riding on a bus after work and it was playing Channel News Asia and of course, the biggest news this week in Singapore – terrorist escapes Singapore’s detention centre.

Quoted from my friend xizor who probably quoted from some where reliable

A MASSIVE manhunt involving thousands of policemen and Gurkhas was launched yesterday after Mas Selamat Kastari, the terrorist who planned to crash a hijacked plane into Changi Airport, escaped from detention.

Mas Selamat, 47, who took over as head of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network here in 1999, fled the Internal Security Department’s Whitley Road Detention Centre at 4.05pm yesterday.

Now…. What I (PRISS THE DEAF GOON DU) heard on the bus was… “terrorist”, “escaped”, “Nasi Lemak”… WHAT??

For at least FIVE MINUTES, I was wondering what did a “Nasi Lemak” man do to get the attention of so many military personnel dispatched to hunt for his head. I saw the footage of the armed military men near SCGS and something about someone escaping the country……… I still didn’t get what the “Nasi Lemak” man did or what high profile crime he had committed.

Alas, I took a few steps closer to the TV mobile screen and the marque below the footage wrote his name… MAS SELEMAT

I thought I was quite deaf, but the news caster pronounced his name yet again – Nasi Lemak. I give up, maybe I’m really deaf.

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