Seriously, these ministers must learn to take criticism and roll with it rather than be on the defensive all the time and appearing so small minded.

you will be interested to know that the ministry is getting so paranoid that they had censored Mr Brown’s satirical article on the flooding… I guess its hard to admit one’s mistake, even harder to tolerate people who criticise your mistake.

Which is what I say that to this gov that they will not do anything to help lesser mortal until they and their expensive elites get hit themselves. Now, this ‘freak event’ occurs, and suddenly this Yaacob, as Gerald highlights, has the wisdom to enlarge the canal when the echelon’s home get affected by the flood ?

First, this minister tell you that “If we design for the largest rainfall or highest tide, then we are going to have huge canals in Singapore.”. But now, this very minister tell you that it is possible to fix the canal when his own master and colleagues’s home get hit by flood. So in other words, the elite must get hit before they can measure accurately the magnitude of the flood ? So perhaps it is God’s punishment that the place be flooded so that the expensive clowns start doing something on global climate change.

That the PUB has been “watching with concern” but unable to effect any changes is rather strange – searching the internet, any reader can find various studies by local and foreign unis, engineers and engineering companies in the past 5 years on a further development project.

For the “freak event” to morph into “we knew about it” and then to “we’re taking action NOW” – might suggest an attempt to play up the construction project in the minds of the area residents. I’m not saying it’s a pre-election manoeuvre, but I can’t think of any logical explanations at the moment.

Something doesn’t quite gel with the Minister’s statement. First he said it was a ‘freak event’ and that PUB can’t be planning for the biggest downpour otherwise we’ll have ‘huge canals’. Why then is it that post-flood, they are all swinging into action to widen canals? If he really thought it was a freak event, then he would just sit tight and do nothing right?

@Jezebella: How do you know about something just a few hours before it happens and then do something about it, especially when it is something as big as a flash flood? You expect some kind of Superman to come and lift Bukit Timah Road up from the ground, is it?

And they call themselves talents?