I seriously think that our DEAR Prime Minister will need to try harder to get close to the people. In his greatest effort to sound "like the ground" and seen to be "grounded" person, he has made hilarious and sometimes, embarrassing remarks in his important speeches.... It just shows how disconnect he is from the ground people... first it was "Mee Siam Mai Hum" and it makes us wonder whether he eats from our local hawker centres at all... or just that he didn't have the chance to eat Mee Siam... or just that he actually got his personal chef to put "Hum" in his daily Mee Siam!
Mee Siam Mai Hum is just a hilarious joke for the street people... and that is perfectly ok, you know. Just learn to laugh at ourselves sometimes for our little mistakes we make.
However, my jaw dropped dramatically when I heard he said "Kow Peh Kow BU" (kpkb) in his keynote speech to his party comrades..... Excuse me! That is really "vulgar" words in Hokkien... literally means that "don't make noise like you are crying for your parents' funeral"! It can basically be interpreted into cursing the death of the parents of those who are making noise! A Prime Minister cursing the death of those who disagree with him and his party, and making "noise" in the internet? Oh My Buddha!
Luckily he was speaking to his own cadre and this is only reported in MSM for local consumption. Just hope that he doesn't repeat all these silly remarks when he meet up with some world leaders.... imagine him cursing the death of their parents... Ouch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86T5LA-V9PI
Goh Meng Seng
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