Firstly, this is not a post about politics. Politics made me fall asleep. This is a post about humor in politics.
So would you vote for someone wearing a pair of slippers at the election?
In our local political area, there is this "politician" who wore slippers to the elections. The media dubbed him the "Slipper man" after he turned up on Nomination Day at the 1997 General Election wearing slippers. He lost in Kampong Glam. Four years later, he contested in Ayer Rajah and lost again.
Of all the new politicians contesting the elections, he was one of the more memorable ones. Why? Cos he wore slippers when he turned up on Nomination Day. I mean can you believe it, Slippers? Frankly, this guy is simply a joke then. Did he even realise how stupid he looked coming in on an important day wearing slippers? Was he like what, 13 years old? Was he even aware of the importance of that day itself?
He was not only an embarrassment to himself but also to his political party. I mean, how could the party field such a fella to contest the elections? Are they aware that he was going to wear slippers?
Apparently, when they issue the dress code, his political party forgot to inform him...NO slippers. I think I remembered reading that he said he wore slippers cos they were comfortable and also he thought the common people would identify with slippers.
How can people respect someone wearing slippers on Nomination day? By wearing improper footwear, he was not giving himself respect, he was also not giving respect to supporters and voters? How can some one vote for a politician wearing slippers? Sorry, I am NOT snobbish at all but I dun think someone wearing a pair of slippers can represent my constituent well at all. Nor could someone wearing singlets or bermudas or tanktop or shorts. Theses are NO NOs on Nomination day! Show us and your self a little respect, please!
Imagine if you are invited for an interview for an executive position? Would you wear a pair of slippers to the interview? Not unless you want to have potential employers snubbed you! Not unless you want career suicide! Not unless you are interviewing for a post in a fish market. Even in a fish market, they would require you to wear close end shoes!
Nomination day is not some fashion show day. One don't have to be togged out in the lastest fashion but slippers are really the extreme! Just wear some sports shoes. Even a pair of cheap fake leather shoes that costs $10 would not attract that much attention or negative publicity!
Where on earth did this totally clueless guy came from? How can a guy like this contest for political elections? How naive can he be? What a joke he was. What a joker he was.
There was no news of him after that. He was a joke only comes election times. And after that, he just disappeared from the spotlight.
Now there is news that his brother was murdered and his wife is a prime suspect. Neighbours have started to gossip that the family likes to quarrel and there was always screaming and shouting from their house. Even before the brothers were married till they were married.
Now that the Slipper man's dirty laundry has been aired in public, he can say bye bye to thoughts of any political career.
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The New Paper
30 June 2008
TRAGEDY AT SLIPPER MAN'S HOUSE
So would you vote for someone wearing a pair of slippers at the election?
In our local political area, there is this "politician" who wore slippers to the elections. The media dubbed him the "Slipper man" after he turned up on Nomination Day at the 1997 General Election wearing slippers. He lost in Kampong Glam. Four years later, he contested in Ayer Rajah and lost again.
Of all the new politicians contesting the elections, he was one of the more memorable ones. Why? Cos he wore slippers when he turned up on Nomination Day. I mean can you believe it, Slippers? Frankly, this guy is simply a joke then. Did he even realise how stupid he looked coming in on an important day wearing slippers? Was he like what, 13 years old? Was he even aware of the importance of that day itself?
He was not only an embarrassment to himself but also to his political party. I mean, how could the party field such a fella to contest the elections? Are they aware that he was going to wear slippers?
Apparently, when they issue the dress code, his political party forgot to inform him...NO slippers. I think I remembered reading that he said he wore slippers cos they were comfortable and also he thought the common people would identify with slippers.
How can people respect someone wearing slippers on Nomination day? By wearing improper footwear, he was not giving himself respect, he was also not giving respect to supporters and voters? How can some one vote for a politician wearing slippers? Sorry, I am NOT snobbish at all but I dun think someone wearing a pair of slippers can represent my constituent well at all. Nor could someone wearing singlets or bermudas or tanktop or shorts. Theses are NO NOs on Nomination day! Show us and your self a little respect, please!
Imagine if you are invited for an interview for an executive position? Would you wear a pair of slippers to the interview? Not unless you want to have potential employers snubbed you! Not unless you want career suicide! Not unless you are interviewing for a post in a fish market. Even in a fish market, they would require you to wear close end shoes!
Nomination day is not some fashion show day. One don't have to be togged out in the lastest fashion but slippers are really the extreme! Just wear some sports shoes. Even a pair of cheap fake leather shoes that costs $10 would not attract that much attention or negative publicity!
Where on earth did this totally clueless guy came from? How can a guy like this contest for political elections? How naive can he be? What a joke he was. What a joker he was.
There was no news of him after that. He was a joke only comes election times. And after that, he just disappeared from the spotlight.
Now there is news that his brother was murdered and his wife is a prime suspect. Neighbours have started to gossip that the family likes to quarrel and there was always screaming and shouting from their house. Even before the brothers were married till they were married.
Now that the Slipper man's dirty laundry has been aired in public, he can say bye bye to thoughts of any political career.
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The New Paper
30 June 2008
TRAGEDY AT SLIPPER MAN'S HOUSE
- Brother killed
- China wife arrested
- Sis-in-law badly hurt
FIGHTS, SHOUTS OFTEN HEARD
Dad moved out of this house after sons married China women
By Crystal Chan
RESIDENTS living near opposition politician Tan Lead Shake - better known as the 'Slipper Man' for his trademark footwear during elections - were used to hearing loud quarrels from his house in Tai Keng Gardens, Paya Lebar.
But yesterday, the fights took a tragic turn when Mr Tan's younger brother, Lead Sane, 34, died from multiple stab wounds. Lead Shake's China-born wife Wu Yun Yun, 26, was arrested in Victoria Street at about 1pm, after a blood-stained knife was found in the family's two-storey house. She will be charged with murder tomorrow. If found guilty, she faces the death penalty.
Lead Sane's wife, who is also from China, is still in critical condition in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) after suffering neck injuries, believed to be slash wounds. Family members had found the injured couple in a bedroom and called the police.
One of the Tans' neighbours, Mr Andre Frois, 23, a freelance writer, saw Lead Sane on a stretcher as he was taken to an ambulance around 6amyesterday. Mr Frois said: 'I woke up at 5.30am as I wasn't feeling well. Just as I was about to go back to sleep, I heard shouts from the Tans' house.
'I didn't think anything was amiss as the family sometimes argued. 'I then heard someone shouting 'leng jing, leng jing' (Mandarin for stay calm) and the children in the house were crying. ' After that, I saw the family members walking up and down to get cloth to stop the bleeding. There were blood stains on the porch.'
Lead Sane, who was found bare-bodied, was sent to TTSH but died at 7am. When reporters arrived at their house in Paya Lebar Crescent, several police cars had lined the road and the area outside the house was cordoned off. A white Mercedes car and a red Renault Kangoo van were parked out front. While more than 10 neighbours went over to gawk at the commotion, the Tans remained reticent.
When one of Mr Tan's brothers left the house with two young children in his arms, he warned reporters not to follow him. Before driving away in a black Toyota, he said: 'Don't follow me or I'll turn nasty.' At about 1.20pm, Lead Shake, a member of the National Solidarity Party, followed police officers out of the house to give his statement.
Wearing the same footwear that earned him his nickname, he remained tight-lipped and grim-faced as cameras clicked away. His mother emerged from the house at 1.40pm, carrying an infant in cloth diapers. Her voice breaking, she said in Hainanese: 'My son was a good man.' She declined to comment further and left under police escort.
The only family member who was missing was Mr Tan's father, Mr Tan Soo Phuan, 72, who did not contest the last elections in 2006. Father and son were election candidates in 1997 and 2001 but the senior Mr Tan, the former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, did not contest in 2006. Lead Shake, who was then a senior network administrator in a multi-national corporation, had told reporters then that his father was disillusioned with the way elections were run.
Lead Shake, who contested under the Singapore Democratic Alliance at Tampines GRC, lost in the polls. It seemed that the Tan family was not too popular around its neighbourhood. One 50-year-old neighbour, who asked to be known only as Madam Tan, said: 'The family wasn't close to neighbours. We would only nod when we saw them. Nobody would want to associate with quarrelsome people.'
Mr Frois and another resident, teacher Lin Yan Ping, who is in her 30s, said Mr Tan and his brothers often quarrelled with their parents. Ms Lin said: 'They have been living here for more than 20 years and even before they were married, the brothers had frequent shouting matches with their parents. '
A few years ago, their father moved out of the house after they married the mainland Chinese women. I heard from other residents that he didn't get along with his daughters-in-law.' The loud arguments continued anyway, even after the brothers had children, Ms Lin said. Lead Shake has a son, 5, and a daughter, 2.
Ms Lin added: 'It seemed that quarrelling was a way of life in the family. There were even times when they fought in the middle of the night and it was not uncommon for neighbours to find it hard to sleep. 'Last week, I saw the wife of one of the brothers taking the children for a walk and she seemed unhappy. 'The next thing we knew, a tragedy had happened.'
Dad moved out of this house after sons married China women
By Crystal Chan
RESIDENTS living near opposition politician Tan Lead Shake - better known as the 'Slipper Man' for his trademark footwear during elections - were used to hearing loud quarrels from his house in Tai Keng Gardens, Paya Lebar.
But yesterday, the fights took a tragic turn when Mr Tan's younger brother, Lead Sane, 34, died from multiple stab wounds. Lead Shake's China-born wife Wu Yun Yun, 26, was arrested in Victoria Street at about 1pm, after a blood-stained knife was found in the family's two-storey house. She will be charged with murder tomorrow. If found guilty, she faces the death penalty.
Lead Sane's wife, who is also from China, is still in critical condition in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) after suffering neck injuries, believed to be slash wounds. Family members had found the injured couple in a bedroom and called the police.
One of the Tans' neighbours, Mr Andre Frois, 23, a freelance writer, saw Lead Sane on a stretcher as he was taken to an ambulance around 6amyesterday. Mr Frois said: 'I woke up at 5.30am as I wasn't feeling well. Just as I was about to go back to sleep, I heard shouts from the Tans' house.
'I didn't think anything was amiss as the family sometimes argued. 'I then heard someone shouting 'leng jing, leng jing' (Mandarin for stay calm) and the children in the house were crying. ' After that, I saw the family members walking up and down to get cloth to stop the bleeding. There were blood stains on the porch.'
Lead Sane, who was found bare-bodied, was sent to TTSH but died at 7am. When reporters arrived at their house in Paya Lebar Crescent, several police cars had lined the road and the area outside the house was cordoned off. A white Mercedes car and a red Renault Kangoo van were parked out front. While more than 10 neighbours went over to gawk at the commotion, the Tans remained reticent.
When one of Mr Tan's brothers left the house with two young children in his arms, he warned reporters not to follow him. Before driving away in a black Toyota, he said: 'Don't follow me or I'll turn nasty.' At about 1.20pm, Lead Shake, a member of the National Solidarity Party, followed police officers out of the house to give his statement.
Wearing the same footwear that earned him his nickname, he remained tight-lipped and grim-faced as cameras clicked away. His mother emerged from the house at 1.40pm, carrying an infant in cloth diapers. Her voice breaking, she said in Hainanese: 'My son was a good man.' She declined to comment further and left under police escort.
The only family member who was missing was Mr Tan's father, Mr Tan Soo Phuan, 72, who did not contest the last elections in 2006. Father and son were election candidates in 1997 and 2001 but the senior Mr Tan, the former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, did not contest in 2006. Lead Shake, who was then a senior network administrator in a multi-national corporation, had told reporters then that his father was disillusioned with the way elections were run.
Lead Shake, who contested under the Singapore Democratic Alliance at Tampines GRC, lost in the polls. It seemed that the Tan family was not too popular around its neighbourhood. One 50-year-old neighbour, who asked to be known only as Madam Tan, said: 'The family wasn't close to neighbours. We would only nod when we saw them. Nobody would want to associate with quarrelsome people.'
Mr Frois and another resident, teacher Lin Yan Ping, who is in her 30s, said Mr Tan and his brothers often quarrelled with their parents. Ms Lin said: 'They have been living here for more than 20 years and even before they were married, the brothers had frequent shouting matches with their parents. '
A few years ago, their father moved out of the house after they married the mainland Chinese women. I heard from other residents that he didn't get along with his daughters-in-law.' The loud arguments continued anyway, even after the brothers had children, Ms Lin said. Lead Shake has a son, 5, and a daughter, 2.
Ms Lin added: 'It seemed that quarrelling was a way of life in the family. There were even times when they fought in the middle of the night and it was not uncommon for neighbours to find it hard to sleep. 'Last week, I saw the wife of one of the brothers taking the children for a walk and she seemed unhappy. 'The next thing we knew, a tragedy had happened.'
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