Must all retirements be at 55? Cannot retire earlier?

OK. But the feeling I get is that he's pretty well invested and has enough passive income. Not sure where the reference to EPF is coming from.

I'm not offended, as this is perhaps not directed at my one sentence posting. All I pointed out was that your painfully done analysis of Dreamer's age and therefore the possibility that he's lying - is based on the the central assumption that he retires at 55, which need not be true.

This post has been edited by seantang: Aug 21 2011, 10:25 PM

Fine... I agree if I bring pork to eat in front of them.

What if they bring themselves in front of my pork? Do I put away my pork because they've arrived, or should they go somewhere else away from my pork?

The correct solution would be to get another microwave. Why do you have to dispose of the old one?

My company's pantry has 2 microwaves. One for halal food, the other for non-halal food.

I agree that amenities and utensils for halal and non-halal food should not be mixed. But it does not mean that non-halal must always give way.

Like Dreamer said, respect is a 2 way street.

I respect you by offering to compromising. You respect me by refusing my offer. Then each of us do our own thing, on our own time, with our own money. We both go out of our way to avoid each other. Alternatively, we can take turns compromising.

Respect is when we allow each other space to do our own thing.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 2 2011, 08:56 PM

Lee Kuan Yew's not too busy these days. He's better.

Short answer... HELL YES!

Without Mahathir (and in truth, it's not the old horse alone but thousands of other corrupt, lazy, power crazy politicians in his supporting cast), Malaysia would have been more successful. Much, much more successful. Mr Bean would have been less of a hindrance to the country's development (economically, legally and socially) over the same 22 years.

With 6 times the human potential of Singapore, more natural resources than we'd possibly need (oil, lumber, tin, rubber, land, water, agriculture etc), and a legacy of the best Western administrative, educational and legal systems at our disposal... Mahathir, his predecessors and successors have still managed to turn the country into a social /racial /religious /political basket case that's slowly coming apart at its seams.

I already mentioned Mr Bean (metaphorically... meaning anyone else would have done better). Mahathir was a 1st generation Indian immigrant masquerading as a Malay, and to gain the support of the Malays, he had to be more ultra than all the Malays put together. It's a formula that all the Indian / Pakistani / Middle East / North African bumi-wannabe UMNO politicians emulate today.

Who else? Anwar Ibrahim in the later years? Remember him? Tengku Razaleigh in the earlier years? Lee Kuan Yew too if things had been successful in the even earlier years... although the whole separation of Malaysia and Singapore was mainly the work of Mahathir's predecessors.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 4 2011, 11:02 AM