Friday, May 8, 2015

Political Dentistry




One has become used to this radiance now. Smiles and smiles for miles and miles; higher than the mountain, wider than the sea. The current PM might be making up for a dour, famously sour father-predecessor from an earlier generation prior to the smartphone, selfie, stick &etc.
         In forty-seven months of reprising the record of the recently departed founding father a couple of small corner-of-the-mouth squeaks only in those voluminous files.
         The heir can surely claim world champion ranking. Clinton did a fair look of glee, and Blair; not a patch on the man here. In a shaky identity polis such as we have on this island—this needle-point category of the Singaporean—perhaps understandable fixation.
         Friday morning's front page example raised by the wonders at the opening of the new Indian Heritage Centre. 
         Inside (p. 12) a full page Congratulations self-advertisement on the centre from Yong Xing Constructions Pte Ltd; the Min. Culture, Communic. & Youth; Nat. Heritage Board; SIPM Consults. P/L; Greg Shand Architects; &etc. &etc.


                                                                 Straits Times 8 May 2015

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