e pur si muove

Remember this Channel NewsAsia article?

“So for the average family earning S$1,500-S$3,000, we are talking of astronomical figures but for people like me in government, to deal with the money which we have accumulated by the sweat of our brow over the last 40 years, you have to pay the market rate or the man will up stakes and join Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs and you would have an incompetent man and you would have lost money by the billions,” said Mr Lee.

The best retort I’ve heard so far comes from IM buddy 小[p]:

dun understand y MM lee and SM goh get pay rise too
they will run away meh
ahaha
will president nathan run away too?
ahaha
if they do then what does it say abt their moral character?

Seems poetic to me, in the very finest tea-and-crumpets tradition of the Victorian era.

Watch this bad-ass of a grandmama trounce baddies as she plays Resistance: Fall of Man.

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