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同時也有197部Youtube影片，追蹤數超過14萬的網紅張韶涵Angela Zhang，也在其Youtube影片中提到，『每個女人都值得擁有一雙讓妳閃耀的鞋。 閃耀的不是流行，是妳的自信』 一如愛情，不是一昧的追隨和配合，而是各自活出精采的自我。 張韶涵在好友吳克群跨刀譜寫的『討好』這首歌中，巧妙地用自己經營的時尚品牌Temptation Styles的高跟鞋，來貫穿整支MV的故事架構。她亮麗無比的藉由MV、...
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Was sworn-in together with my new Cabinet at the Istana and Parliament House yesterday. This is the first time the ceremony was held in split locations, because of COVID-19.
My team and I are humbled that Singaporeans have entrusted us with this heavy responsibility. We will continue to do our best for Singapore. With your mandate, I have formed the strongest Cabinet I could, to take Singapore through this crisis and beyond. We will use our mandate to act on your behalf, to deal with the challenges ahead, and lead Singapore out of the crisis.
I have spent my entire adult life in public service and I will continue to devote myself to Singapore. My aim is to see through this crisis, and hand over Singapore, into good hands who can take the country further forward.
Let us now all come together as one Singapore, unite and focus our energies on the major challenges ahead. Keep improving our lives, securing our future and building a nation we can all be proud to call home.
You can watch my speech here: https://go.gov.sg/qlzttf
– LHL
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By now, you have probably heard about my father’s red box. Minister Heng Swee Keat posted about it last week. The red box was a fixture of my father’s work routine. It is now on display at the National Museum of Singapore in his memorial exhibition.
Some of my father’s other personal items are there too. His barrister’s wig (of horsehair) from when he was admitted to the Bar. And a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch given to him by the Singapore Union of Postal and Telecommunications Workers after he represented them in the famous postmen’s strike in 1952.
I enjoyed my visit to the exhibition a few days ago. Was happy to hear that many of you went yesterday. The exhibition will be on until 26 April. – LHL
MR LEE'S RED BOX
Mr Lee Kuan Yew had a red box. When I worked as Mr Lee’s Principal Private Secretary, or PPS, a good part of my daily life revolved around the red box. Before Mr Lee came in to work each day, the locked red box would arrive first, at about 9 am.
As far as the various officers who have worked with Mr Lee can remember, he had it for many, many years. It is a large, boxy briefcase, about fourteen centimetres wide. Red boxes came from the British government, whose Ministers used them for transporting documents between government offices. Our early Ministers had red boxes, but Mr Lee is the only one I know who used his consistently through the years. When I started working for Mr Lee in 1997, it was the first time I saw a red box in use. It is called the red box but is more a deep wine colour, like the seats in the chamber in Parliament House.
This red box held what Mr Lee was working on at any one time. Through the years, it held his papers, speech drafts, letters, readings, and a whole range of questions, reflections, and observations. For example, in the years that Mr Lee was working on his memoirs, the red box carried the multiple early drafts back and forth between his home and the office, scribbled over with his and Mrs Lee’s notes.
For a long time, other regular items in Mr Lee’s red box were the cassette tapes that held his dictated instructions and thoughts for later transcription. Some years back, he changed to using a digital recorder.
The red box carried a wide range of items. It could be communications with foreign leaders, observations about the financial crisis, instructions for the Istana grounds staff, or even questions about some trees he had seen on the expressway. Mr Lee was well-known for keeping extremely alert to everything he saw and heard around him – when he noticed something wrong, like an ailing raintree, a note in the red box would follow.
We could never anticipate what Mr Lee would raise – it could be anything that was happening in Singapore or the world. But we could be sure of this: it would always be about how events could affect Singapore and Singaporeans, and how we had to stay a step ahead. Inside the red box was always something about how we could create a better life for all.
We would get to work right away. Mr Lee’s secretaries would transcribe his dictated notes, while I followed up on instructions that required coordination across multiple government agencies. Our aim was to do as much as we could by the time Mr Lee came into the office later.
While we did this, Mr Lee would be working from home. For example, during the time that I worked with him (1997-2000), the Asian Financial Crisis ravaged many economies in our region and unleashed political changes. It was a tense period as no one could tell how events would unfold. Often, I would get a call from him to check certain facts or arrange meetings with financial experts.
In the years that I worked for him, Mr Lee’s daily breakfast was a bowl of dou hua (soft bean curd), with no syrup. It was picked up and brought home in a tiffin carrier every morning, from a food centre near Mr Lee’s home. He washed it down with room-temperature water. Mr Lee did not take coffee or tea at breakfast.
When Mr Lee came into the office, the work that had come earlier in the red box would be ready for his review, and he would have a further set of instructions for our action.
From that point on, the work day would run its normal course. Mr Lee read the documents and papers, cleared his emails, and received official calls by visitors. I was privileged to sit in for every meeting he conducted. He would later ask me what I thought of the meetings – it made me very attentive to every word that was said, and I learnt much from Mr Lee.
Evening was Mr Lee’s exercise time. Mr Lee has described his extensive and disciplined exercise regime elsewhere. It included the treadmill, rowing, swimming and walking – with his ears peeled to the evening news or his Mandarin practice tapes. He would sometimes take phone calls while exercising.
He was in his 70s then. In more recent years, being less stable on his feet, Mr Lee had a simpler exercise regime. But he continued to exercise. Since retiring from the Minister Mentor position in 2011, Mr Lee was more relaxed during his exercises. Instead of listening intently to the news or taking phone calls, he shared his personal stories and joked with his staff.
While Mr Lee exercised, those of us in the office would use that time to focus once again on the red box, to get ready all the day’s work for Mr Lee to take home with him in the evening. Based on the day’s events and instructions, I tried to get ready the materials that Mr Lee might need. It sometimes took longer than I expected, and occasionally, I had to ask the security officer to come back for the red box later.
While Mrs Lee was still alive, she used to drop by the Istana at the end of the day, in order to catch a few minutes together with Mr Lee, just to sit and look at the Istana trees that they both loved. They chatted about what many other old couples would talk about. They discussed what they should have for dinner, or how their grandchildren were doing.
Then back home went Mr Lee, Mrs Lee and the red box. After dinner, Mr and Mrs Lee liked to take a long stroll. In his days as Prime Minister, while Mrs Lee strolled, Mr Lee liked to ride a bicycle. It was, in the words of those who saw it, “one of those old man bicycles”. None of us who have worked at the Istana can remember him ever changing his bicycle. He did not use it in his later years, as he became frail, but I believe the “old man bicycle” is still around somewhere.
After his dinner and evening stroll, Mr Lee would get back to his work. That was when he opened the red box and worked his way through what we had put into it in the office.
Mr Lee’s study is converted out of his son’s old bedroom. His work table is a simple, old wooden table with a piece of clear glass placed over it. Slipped under the glass are family memorabilia, including a picture of our current PM from his National Service days. When Mrs Lee was around, she stayed up reading while Mr Lee worked. They liked to put on classical music while they stayed up.
In his days as PM, Mr Lee’s average bedtime was three-thirty in the morning. As Senior Minister and Minister Mentor, he went to sleep after two in the morning. If he had to travel for an official visit the next day, he might go to bed at one or two in the morning.
Deep into the night, while the rest of Singapore slept, it was common for Mr Lee to be in full work mode.
Before he went to bed, Mr Lee would put everything he had completed back in the red box, with clear pointers on what he wished for us to do in the office. The last thing he did each day was to place the red box outside his study room. The next morning, the duty security team picked up the red box, brought it to us waiting in the office, and a new day would begin.
Let me share two other stories involving the red box.
In 1996, Mr Lee underwent balloon angioplasty to insert a stent. It was his second heart operation in two months, after an earlier operation to widen a coronary artery did not work. After the operation, he was put in the Intensive Care Unit for observation. When he regained consciousness and could sit up in bed, he asked for his security team. The security officer hurried into the room to find out what was needed. Mr Lee asked, “Can you pass me the red box?”
Even at that point, Mr Lee’s first thought was to continue working. The security officer rushed the red box in, and Mr Lee asked to be left to his work. The nurses told the security team that other patients of his age, in Mr Lee’s condition, would just rest. Mr Lee was 72 at the time.
In 2010, Mr Lee was hospitalised again, this time for a chest infection. While he was in the hospital, Mrs Lee passed away. Mr Lee has spoken about his grief at Mrs Lee’s passing. As soon as he could, he left the hospital to attend the wake at Sri Temasek.
At the end of the night, he was under doctor’s orders to return to the hospital. But he asked his security team if they could take him to the Singapore River instead. It was late in the night, and Mr Lee was in mourning. His security team hastened to give a bereaved husband a quiet moment to himself.
As Mr Lee walked slowly along the bank of the Singapore River, the way he and Mrs Lee sometimes did when she was still alive, he paused. He beckoned a security officer over. Then he pointed out some trash floating on the river, and asked, “Can you take a photo of that? I’ll tell my PPS what to do about it tomorrow.” Photo taken, he returned to the hospital.
I was no longer Mr Lee’s PPS at the time. I had moved on to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, to continue with the work to strengthen our financial regulatory system that Mr Lee had started in the late 1990s. But I can guess that Mr Lee probably had some feedback on keeping the Singapore River clean. I can also guess that the picture and the instructions were ferried in Mr Lee’s red box the next morning to the office. Even as Mr Lee lay in the hospital. Even as Mrs Lee lay in state.
The security officers with Mr Lee were deeply touched. When I heard about these moments, I was also moved.
I have taken some time to describe Mr Lee’s red box. The reason is that, for me, it symbolises Mr Lee’s unwavering dedication to Singapore so well. The diverse contents it held tell us much about the breadth of Mr Lee’s concerns – from the very big to the very small; the daily routine of the red box tells us how Mr Lee’s life revolved around making Singapore better, in ways big and small.
By the time I served Mr Lee, he was the Senior Minister. Yet he continued to devote all his time to thinking about the future of Singapore. I could only imagine what he was like as Prime Minister. In policy and strategy terms, he was always driving himself, me, and all our colleagues to think about what each trend and development meant for Singapore, and how we should respond to it in order to secure Singapore’s wellbeing and success.
As his PPS, I saw the punishing pace of work that Mr Lee set himself. I had a boss whose every thought and every action was for Singapore.
But it takes private moments like these to bring home just how entirely Mr Lee devoted his life to Singapore.
In fact, I think the best description comes from the security officer who was with Mr Lee both of those times. He was on Mr Lee’s team for almost 30 years. He said of Mr Lee: “Mr Lee is always country, country, country. And country.”
This year, Singapore turns 50. Mr Lee would have turned 92 this September. Mr Lee entered the hospital on 5 February 2015. He continued to use his red box every day until 4 February 2015.
(Photo: MCI)
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『每個女人都值得擁有一雙讓妳閃耀的鞋。
閃耀的不是流行，是妳的自信』
一如愛情，不是一昧的追隨和配合，而是各自活出精采的自我。
張韶涵在好友吳克群跨刀譜寫的『討好』這首歌中，巧妙地用自己經營的時尚品牌Temptation Styles的高跟鞋，來貫穿整支MV的故事架構。她亮麗無比的藉由MV、音樂影像向世人介紹值得她驕傲，耗費心血的時尚品牌，也對愛情，做了發人深省的提醒。
不要誤會彼此討好的愛情，會成就兩個人；其實也許只會消滅對愛情的信仰，一起下陷。
這首歌的詞曲作者吳克群，和張韶涵結緣於共同參加一個節目錄影，相處了很長一段時間。
從一開始張韶涵就向吳克群邀歌，他一直都說有有有，有在想....
直到錄影的朝夕相處，看到直來直往的張韶涵有時不免受到傷害，吳克群有一天終於忍不住開口提醒張韶涵：
『其實有時候你不必那麼直接面對鏡頭，偽裝一下保護自己沒甚麼不好。』
個性耿直的張韶涵說：
『為什麼？我不想刻意討好任何人....』
吳克群當場大叫，對！！就是這句話。
於是，他寫出了這首歌『討好』。
討好 Pleasing
詞曲：吳克羣
我不會討好 像個寵物般撒嬌
I don't know how to please, how to act adorably
但你付出一分我用十分來抵
But for every bit you devote, I repay with ten times more
也許我不算太聰明
I may not be the brightest
但愛也不需要處處耍盡心機 那又何必
but there's no need to play mind games, why bother
我不要求你 為我改變姓或名
I do not ask for you to change your name for me
只希望彼此能夠誠實而已
I just hope we can be true to each other
如果你累了就說一句
If you're tired of it then just tell me
請不要給我所謂你仁慈的客氣 那又何必
Don't give me that merciful tone, why bother
（我們倆）
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愛都愛了 又何必討好 錯都錯了又何必求饒
We're already in love, why bother pleasing
what's done is done, why beg for mercy
你希望我像一隻貓 但你知道我做不到
You want me to be a kitten, but you know I can't
痛都痛了 又何必討好 錯都錯了又何必喧鬧
The heart is wounded , why bother pleasing
what's done is done, why bother fighting
如果愛情是場風暴 我們讓風停停好不好
If love is a windstorm, why don't we stop the wind
一直吵 一直鬧 一直放縱這煎熬
More fighting, more brawling, dragging this suffering
一點點 吞蝕曾有的美好
bit by bit, they devoured the joy we once had
我不哭 我不鬧 我們放過彼此好不好
I won't fight, I won't brawl, why don't we just let go
留一點力氣 說再見和擁抱
Save some efforts to hug and say goodbye
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台灣人種族歧視?! WHO點名譴責! | Is Taiwan Racist?! WHO attacks Taiwan! | Jonas & Helene #14
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我們竟然要被趕出去?! 在台北找新房子! | We are getting kicked out?! Looking for new house in Taipei!
#BRITA #濾菌龍頭式濾水器 #除菌好水即飲超有感
大家好！希望你們都過得很好～
最近我們碰到了一些困難，因為不確定房東能不能繼續租房子給我們，所以今天決定要跟查理出去看看新房子。台北的房價真的很貴，而且也很難確保每個地區的水質好不好，所以我要給查理一個驚喜，這個驚喜可以提升我們家水的品質！那就快點來看影片吧！
Hello Everyone! I hope you all are doing well!
Recently we had some issues because our landlord is not sure if she will let us stay in our apartment, so we are going to go out and check some new houses today. Housing in Taipei is really expensive, and it is hard to know if the water quality is good enough, so I also surprise Charlie with something special to improve the water quality in our house! Please check out today’s video!
很開心與BRITA濾菌龍頭式濾水器合作
有了它只要打開水龍頭就可以直接生飲，就像回到瑞典的感覺!
不用搬水也不用煮水，連查理都可以輕鬆DIY安裝
推薦給你們！
租屋不容易，事事好焦濾
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