Satire: Saga of the Little Red Dot Continues...

It all started in Aug 1998, at the onslaught of the Asian Economic Crisis ...

“Look at that map. All the green (area) is Indonesia. And that red dot is Singapore. Look at that....jialak so small, even smaller than my fingertip. Sorry I can only point, if my finger touch the dot on the map, it'll be hidden leh.”
(Habibie, then President of Indonesia)

3 weeks later...

"Come on lah...I'll be very frank with you. Comparing Singapore with the United States, Japan and Australia, we are not in the same class, even though we claim to be world class. After all we are only three million people. Just a little red dot on the map. Where is the capacity to help 211 million starving people in your green area? We are not a charity you know, everything must pay one leh...”
(Goh Chok Tong, then Prime Minister, Singapore)

After that Habibie stepped down, and the next Indonesia president, Gus Dur, had problem locating Singapore. So it seemed all would be forgotten....

"Siao liao lah, seems my eyesight really not that good anymore. Singapore also cannot find on the map....Never mind lah, forget about it, not worth my trouble. Easier for me to scratch my itchy back. My eyes can rest also. Wa...sibei shiok!"


Somehow the Little Red Dot thing was almost hidden in oblivion till 2004 when the then DPM Lee act smart and reminded everyone again...
"Proper reporting of bird flu cases why so difficult in big countries leh..... Alamak there are things which happened in a country like this where they investigate for months and are still not quite sure what took place. That’s the reality.... You know my face can't lie.... So that’s the way Southeast Asia is and we are in Southeast Asia and it’s our job to be the little red dot which everybody knows that we are sibei special."

(By the way, it's worth mentioning that in Aug 2006 current PM Lee HL cut his first song album entitled "Mee Siam Mai Hum" to set an example for all his PAP followers, to show them how to be more hip-hop and in tuned with the Post65 generation. Good move from our creative leader! For details about this rap song including the correct way of singing, please refer to the Mr.Brown Show, which volunteered the publicity work for this national project. For MTV version, please click here.)

This month, Sep 2006, his father, MM Lee KY made remarks at a forum on the sidelines of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund meeting which the Republic hosted last week....
"We, the Chinese-dominated Singapore people, better stand up against our bigger, Muslim-majority neighbours, Malaysia and Indonesia.... No need to be scared of them, ok? These Malays have never outwitted me before, don't worry man, never will they in future also... Our neighbours both have problems with their Chinese. They are sibei successful and hardworking and therefore they kena systematically marginalised,” he said.

The next few days witnessed a barrage of rebuke from Malaysia's political figures.

"The problem is he's too honest with us. Our Asian culture should be indirect and sensitive. Of course everyone knows that Malaysia Boleh is actually Bumiputra Boleh what! Tapi Singapore also got problem with race. Lagi not everything there is 100 per cent perfect lah. Why, tell me why, Singapore Malays cannot carry arms? You mean they not clever enough to know which hole the bullet is coming out from the gun?”
(Abdullah Badawi, Malaysia PM)

"Don't be like that, Harry, you made me want to cry again. You just look after your rice bowl, you eat your chicken rice and I eat my nasi lemak. You don't act clever and ask our Chinese to eat my nasi lemak. Your country is tiny, don't be too proud ok? I quarrel with Abdullah but I can also quarrel with you at the same time and make life difficult for everyone."
(Former Malaysian Premier Mahathir Mohamad)