When you call on the Internet to do something, reactions from its users are always priceless.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong took to his Facebook page this morning to ask Singapore residents: “What would you do if you could be PM for 12 hours?”.
Residents can stand a chance to attend the upcoming National Day rally on Sunday, Aug 21, if they answer the question in 50 words or less with their responses posted on their own social media accounts with the hashtag #InviteMeToNDR.
They have to screenshot the post and email it to the address provided on PM Lee’s post.
In just two hours of the posting, there were immediate responses to PM Lee’s post. Here are our favourites:
The truth-tellers
YK Cheah: If I could be PM for 12 hours, I would ensure all the philanthropists in the world would donate 99 per cent of their worth into my personal bank account for the wellbeing of Singaporeans.
Seng Beo: Declare martial law and install myself as dictator so that I have more than 12 hours to do what I want to do.
David Tan Kok Kheng: I will make my son DPM to make him realise the challenge running Singapore..I will make my father the President so that he can live in Istana for a day..For the last 2 hours, I will chill in the pool Mr LKY swam in…Invite me please..
Jc Kor Lim: Declare another public holiday!
The thinkers
Choon Kin Goh: I will speak on TV & social media live broadcast with a panel including Tommy Koh etc for few hours on why we must speak softly at home and in public places as a developed and gracious nation. After which, tour around Istana before returning home as common citizen.
Claire Sauvanaud Piquard: I would have a law to impose reduction by 1 or 2 degrees of the temperature of a/c in Singapore. Also I would pass a law on waste recycling.
The ones who mean business
All medication must be sold by pharmacies
Vanessa Szeto: I would put in a law that all medication MUST be sold by pharmacies! No Doctors are allowed to sell “drugs” and earn a profit! This will make medicine much cheaper and affordable for all! I will make a law such that every private practice specialist (Dr) will have to accept FREE consultation of 1 patient referred by Government hospital every quarter as service to the Nation. (Regardless of rich or poor, everyone should be entitled to the best treatment without Queuing for months!) Everyone will get sick one way or another. I believe this law will benefit everyone.
Welcome more tourist spending
Daniel Tay: “What would you do if you could be PM for 12 hours?”, open up “visa-on-arrival”, welcome more tourist increase spending in our country, all 5 star rated hotel has to be “Halal certified” so as to prepare middle east tourist, every year their summer holiday, their average spending at Malaysia, KL, Penang & Langkawi is RM3,000 per day, and every year 3 months with 5 million tourist visit, JB and Melaka is not able to attract these group, we has to try very hard for them to shop here. learn from Thailand do not jail them for over stay, let them pay fine and deport them out , let them come again.every year during CNY holiday, average few million visit thailand from china. open up street hawker, open air BBQ, promote spending, change all public buses battery operated, battery cell changeable, Guinness world record for 17 tonne coach can travel 1,018 km, lower all ezlink transport fare.
Who said Singaporeans aren’t creative?
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