I have acutely controlled myself to refrain from blogging about this earlier. I know that if I had, it would be effluent with vitriolic sarcasm and disgust.

Ms Wee Shu Min had impressed me inversely with her impecunious possession of street smarts and emotional intelligence. It seems to me that she veers portentously towards elitism and arrogance, always a steep flume of which the current politicians don’t seem to be able to find their way out of. That is also a spectacularly poor piece of writing, especially from a student of Raffles Junior College.

And girl, for all your arrogance about your superiority in spelling ability, you seem to have a calamitous deficiency in punctuation and syntax. Then again, it’s strange as seeing you would probably need to have a minimum of an A1 in any subject to get into RJC… I also take it that you probably did not major in English Literature as seeing that strong analytical presentation and a sensible dissertation of themes and narratives would be essential, both of which you seem sorely bereft of.

Hmm wonder if Daddy has been pulling anything remotely like strings…

And just in case, you think I agree with Derek Wee’s views and lamentations… for the record, I don’t.

I do accede that it’s a hard world where the fittest and most intelligent (emotionally and mentally) will win the race. I do agree that there are winners and there are losers. I do agree that it’s sad when people who could be winners are marginalized and oppressed. Most of all, I agree that there are indeed many undermotivated and overassuming leeches in middle management.

However, I believe in outlining your arguments in an objective and analytical manner, and not embarking on a personal attack.

An excerpt of her blog post below, you judge for yourself.

PS: IN CASE YOU THINK THIS PARTICULAR POSTING SOUNDS SO DISGUSTINGLY AND ELITISTLY STUFFY, IT IS DELIBERATE.

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

mom’s friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old
singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!)
whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl (ie, 40 and
above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign “talent” (dismissively
chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all
(no actually he didn’t say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how
the reason why no one wants kids is that they’re a liability in this world of
fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable
doom but they aren’t because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no
idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.i am inclined - too much, perhaps -
to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too
often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites -
kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is
compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and
the clever, and the only other class is the complement.sad derek attracted more
than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of
complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his
all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to
gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main
reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in
pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no
grammar.

derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or
a solid future if you cannot spell?if you’re not good enough, life will kick you
in the balls. that’s just how things go. there’s no point in lambasting the
government for making our society one that is, i quote, “far too survival of
fittest”. it’s the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad,
but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it’s
because they’re better. it’s so sad when people like old derek lament the kind
of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin
communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be
poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given
your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.then again, it’s easy
for me to say. my future isn’t certain but i guess right now it’s a lot brighter
than most people’s. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite,
one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter.
go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it’s only sad when people who
could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has
dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child
prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?i should
think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming
leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be
unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for
the foreigner’s, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales
assistant. it’s not even about being a road sweeper. these shitbags don’t want
anything without “manager” and a name card.please, get out of my elite uncaring
face.