Yeo Ning Hong
Singapore
“The SAF always reviews and enhances its training system to maximise the contributions of NSFs to national defence during their NSF stint. We will continue to ensure that the training syllabus is relevant to the defence needs of Singapore, and NSFs' time in the SAF used meaningfully and efficiently.”
“New recruits will find military training less onerous if they take on the personal responsibility of preparing themselves well physically before enlistment. AUCTION OF #03-06 PEK CHUAN BUILDING 6.”
“Sir, on a point of clarification. I believe Dr Ahmad Mattar had earlier on attributed some comments to me. I just want to clarify that I am not waiting for July to have my views on SBC made known to the Minister for Information and the Arts.”
“Sir, to encourage the new NSmen to maintain the same physical fitness that they have achieved while they were in full-time National Service, Mindef will increase the IPPT pass standards for new NSmen who ROD on or after 1st April to the same level that they attained when they were NSF.”
“Sir, I do not think Mr Chiam has any clue whatsoever about what is involved in basic military training. It is not fitness. It is the acquiring of basic military skills, to know how to fight, to know how to ensure that you do not get killed.”
“Sir, Mr Chiam would make a most popular Member of Parliament in Kuwait - if only they had a Parliament in Kuwait. That is exactly the sort of situation that had brought the Kuwaitis the disaster they had a year and a half ago, when people are only interested in having a better life and are not prepared to make the effort to ensure that th…”
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“Their courage, perseverance and faithfulness to their high calling will be impressed upon us as we digest over the coming months and years the Hansards of days past. The high standard of their performance, both within and without the House, will be a constant source of inspiration and a shining light to us all. In the coming days, we intend to learn, to learn from all our seniors, to learn from all those who have entered the hallowed portals of this House before us. We shall strive to ensure that it shall be said some five years hence, that the generation of 1980 truly has been weighed and has not been found wanting. Mr Speaker, Sir, the next five years are going to be turbulent years, uncertain years, not just for Singapore but for the rest of the world. Few are those who dare venture a prediction regarding the course of events to come; even fewer are those who will see their predictions stand the test of time. Yet amidst this turbulence and uncertainty, there stands out one certainty: We, Singaporeans, will triumph. Our history as an independent nation, brief though it may be, has taught us that we can and have and shall overcome all odds. We have proven to the world, more importantly, we have proven to ourselves that we have the wherewithal to survive, nay to progress, under the most inauspicious, the most hostile of circumstances. That knowledge will stand us in good stead in the coming years. Yet, as we forge ahead confidently into the future, let us remind ourselves of the lessons that history seeks to teach us lest we slip down the wayward path. The Law of the Universe has decreed that the natural order of things should be one of perpetual decay. Scientists have formulated this basic law and have called it the Second Law of Thermodynamics.”
“We saw the mass unemployment, under-employment and economic dead-ends, and we experienced the hungers of our age. Such vivid realities, imprinted on our then young adolescent, impressionable minds, made us all the more conscious of our debt to the present leaders in the People's Action Party. They have banished those days, those days that are better not experienced. This generation of new Members of this House is also the first generation that has benefited directly from the full impact of the PAP's policies and priorities beginning in 1959. At the critical period of our lives, many of us were fortunate enough to benefit from the increased emphasis on education - the training of the mind and the awakening of creativity and resourcefulness. Many of us were encouraged to pursue higher education, made possible by the increased availability of scholarships and bursaries, to take up science, engineering and the professions - a significant departure from the previous emphasis on the arts and the humanities. As a result, we and our nation are now benefiting from the far-sightedness of our leaders some two decades ago. Our hope is that our generation and the many generations to come will be the catalysts through which the long range vision of our leaders will be fulfilled. Mr Speaker, Sir, like others before us, we enter this House in awe and trepidation, conscious of our own ignorance and limitations, conscious of the heavy responsibilities placed upon us, and conscious of the high expectations of our constituents who have placed their trust in us and have sent us to this House to represent them. As a new Member of this House, I would like to pay tribute to the Members who have served in the House before us.”
“Mr Speaker, Sir, I rise in support of the Motion by the hon. Member for Mountbatten to thank the President for his speech on behalf of the Government. In Singapore, we have come a long way since the People's Action Party took office in 1959. Circumstances have changed, and rapidly, in many fields. Our Gross Domestic Product (at 1968 Factor Cost) has grown from a paltry $2 billion in 1959 to a robust $12 billion in 1980. Compared with the 23,000 flats built by the pre-PAP administrations, there are now 350,000 HDB flats in clean healthy environments. The slums of bygone years had given way to a throbbing modern metropolis, set amidst a beautiful garden, laced by an extensive network of roads and expressways. Despite these dramatic changes, the central objective of the People's Action Party has remained, namely, to serve the people of Singapore to the best of our ability, to build a better tomorrow for our people today. To this end is the process of self-renewal and self-regeneration directed and we, new Members of this House, are a part of this vital on-going process. This generation of new Members, with an average age of 39 years, may just be the last generation that had any experience of the pre-PAP Singapore of the Fifties. Our generation of members may just be the last generation that had personally seen and meaningfully experienced what it was like before the PAP came into office. We saw the crippling effects of incompetent government, of strikes, arson, vandalism and sabotage. We went to school in army trucks and assorted vehicles because public transportation had broken down. We experienced the unrest and uncertainty and the hoarding of food. We endured the agonies of long curfews and silent nights punctuated by staccato shots in the distant darkness.”