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  • PRP's Avatar
    1,727 posts since Feb '04
    • I think Mr Philip Yeo is the best govt officer to be the head of the civil service.What do you think?

  • 淋雨's Avatar
    191 posts since Jan '08
  • PRP's Avatar
    1,727 posts since Feb '04
  • 淋雨's Avatar
    191 posts since Jan '08
    • Originally posted by PRP:

      Are u sure?

      He is not dull like many civil servants!


      not dull =/= humbility

       

  • 00011000's Avatar
    293 posts since Feb '07
    • Remember the cases where he traded blow-by-blow with govt scholar? Many saw him shooting more from his mouth than from his brain, acting more like a sheriff after wayward cowboys than a govt head. He also likes to talk big and is a show-off.

  • 淋雨's Avatar
    191 posts since Jan '08
  • I-like-flings(m)'s Avatar
    13,717 posts since Feb '04
  • robertteh's Avatar
    4,307 posts since Jul '04
    • For years he had the chance to turn around the economy from the basic old-fashion merchandizing and retailing type to value-adding knowledge-based economy. He lacked the higher strategic mastering ability to create new technology start-ups other than pet high sounding projects which turn the heads until Lee Wai Ling called it bluff. Lee Wai Ling was right in this expose because as we can now see our biomedical and biotech are not producing the breakthrough apart from paying big monies for R&D,

      His ability to speak like a no. i is second to MM Lee but the goodness of the pudding is in the eating. Result-oriented leaders of the calibre of Goh Keng Swee and Hon Sui Sen and Sim Kee Boon are few and far in between.

      Without this type of go-getters all will be talk and no action. Have we reached world class or swiss standard of living but our many talk only type of leaders seem to think so. I think Goh or Hon will feel shy to talk if they cannot do anything to reach the final goal which really benefit all.

  • redDUST's Avatar
    1,903 posts since Mar '08
    • i really dislike this guy. he is very arrogant. i think he hid his `failures' very well.

  • Jingojingjing's Avatar
    34 posts since Jul '08
    • I think he should be PM or lead a GRC. (just kidding lah)

      quote from TOC :

       

      Quote:

      Make sure that our young people are hungry. If our young people are not hungry enough, bring in hungrier ones from overseas. Make them feel hungry, increase the hungriness index.

      Philip Yeo (Straits Times)

       

      Edited by Jingojingjing 25 Jul `08, 9:52AM
  • maurizio13's Avatar
    12,128 posts since Sep '06
  • dave101's Avatar
    95 posts since Jul '02
    • My impression of him:

       

      If you work under him, you must really produce results (maybe outstanding results) If not, he will ask you pack up. It's stressful working with him.

  • 4sg's Avatar
    512 posts since Jan '04
    • He speaks with a funny accent. Not Hokkien, not Cantonese, not Teochew, not Malay, not Mandarin.

      The krak, krak, krak sound, very irritating, machiam got unfit denture or it is due to his generation of kampong trained English or he is trying to impress the AngMos but can't really get it right. 
       

      Edited by 4sg 26 Jul `08, 6:57PM
  • redDUST's Avatar
    1,903 posts since Mar '08
    • Originally posted by 4sg:

      He speaks with a funny accent. Not Hokkien, not Cantonese, not Teochew, not Malay, not Mandarin.

      The krak, krak, krak sound, very irrrtating, machiam got unfit denture or it is due to his generation of kampong trained English or he is trying to impress the AngMos but can't really get it right. 
       

      maybe he sucked chibet's d*ick as what chibet implies in his other posts.

  • charlize's Avatar
    8,241 posts since Mar '05
  • PRP's Avatar
    1,727 posts since Feb '04
    • I think Philip Yeo is the best govt officer to be civil service head due to what he criticised on the civil service.I don't know him personally.

  • 00011000's Avatar
    293 posts since Feb '07
    • Originally posted by PRP:

      I think Philip Yeo is the best govt officer to be civil service head due to what he criticised on the civil service.I don't know him personally.

       

      I never heard him criticised the civil service but praised the govt and the civil service. 

      Have you confuse him with Ngiam T D? It was Ngiam who criticised the civil service all the time and Ngiam was previously the head of the civil service.

      Edited by 00011000 26 Jul `08, 9:27PM
  • Gutentaginator's Avatar
    138 posts since Jun '08
    • Originally posted by 00011000:

       

      I never heard him criticised the civil service but praised the govt and the civil service. 

      Have you confuse him with Ngiam T D? It was Ngiam who criticised the civil service all the time and Ngiam was previously the head of the civil service.


      Oh ngiam. Is that the bloke that does the hdb? Is he involved in giving singaporeans so much subsidy in flats for them to enjoy ?   Some questioned if heavily subsidised, why many still have to make 30 year loans ?

      all these people very interesting...appearing on newspapers every now and then :

      Ngiam, Philip , Tan KL, Siew Kum Hong....

  • dukedracula's Avatar
    207 posts since Feb '08
    • Originally posted by 00011000:

       

      I never heard him criticised the civil service but praised the govt and the civil service. 

      Have you confuse him with Ngiam T D? It was Ngiam who criticised the civil service all the time and Ngiam was previously the head of the civil service.


      he did knock ho ching about her work before she moved to temasek and he also told off an mp but had to apologise when lhl made him do so...........

  • Dr Who's Avatar
    1,388 posts since Aug '04
  • 00011000's Avatar
    293 posts since Feb '07
    • Originally posted by dukedracula:


      he did knock ho ching about her work before she moved to temasek and he also told off an mp but had to apologise when lhl made him do so...........

      He was referring to "P Y criticising the Civil Service"

      Anyway, thanks about the part on Ho Ching and I remember now, the stuff about he and the MP.....Like I said, this guy shoots from his mouth like a machinegun.

  • PRP's Avatar
    1,727 posts since Feb '04
    • 00011000,

      I did not confuse him with Ngaim. Only just recently,he commented  the civil service.

  • PRP's Avatar
    1,727 posts since Feb '04
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