I noticed that the local Chinese media has started to call Mas Selamat Kastari – ‘The Lame Horse’ (跛脚马). I can’t help but remember Sea Biscuit.

It is almost comical for them to call Mas Selamat that. After all, if Mas Selamat is still on the island, he has managed to elude our security forces for 5 days! I just hope this isn’t prophetic in itself in which Mas Selamat, like Sea Biscuit, recovers and come back to become a legend in which we used to scare our kids just like the ancient Romans do with the Carthaginian general, Hannibal.

And to modify the famous Deng Xiaoping famous ‘cat saying’ a little to suit the situation, I say: 不管跛脚黑马、汗血宝马… 能逃走就是好马。[Translation: It doesn’t matter if it’s lame horse or flying horse… the horse that can escape is a good horse.]

再说，到了今天你都抓不到，还不丢官，人民真的得 ‘丢’ 你 ‘黄’ 阿玛！(And this I really don’t know how to translate and yet keep the humor of it. But the gist of it is, ‘If you still don’t resign after failing to catch him for so many days, the people should fxxk Wong’s ‘Ah Ma’. 阿玛 in Manchurian means Father, and 玛 and 马 sounds almost the same, so pun intended.)

And as I was writing this post, my dad came into my room and showed me an article on Shin Ming (the evening Chinese tabloid), which reported that a structural flaw in the Whitley Road ISD facility has since been fixed after Mas Selamat’s escape.

Well, while the Chinese might say that it’s not too late to mend the fence after the loss / demise of one’s sheep (亡羊补牢，为时未晚), I must ask why when even a member of the YPAP like Nicholas Lazarus – a laughing stock and the butt of many jokes after this piece – would know that Mas Selamat is the leader of JI and thus extra-ordinary, our 3 million dollar mini$ter with helicopter vision – and allegedly one of the best talent that this country can offer, according to the Tali-PAP – has failed to even see this. Is this not more reason why Wong Kan Seng Can’t Sing should resign? It is obvious he has lost his edge and perhaps the Tali-PAP should put Lazarus on the job instead. In fact, just why the heck was Mas Selamat kept in a facility that isn’t even rated as maximum security in the first place? Frankly, even the Singapore Boys Home with its 2-storey tall walls – for rehabilitation and reform of incorrigible youth – looked far more challenging to anyone trying to escape.

In other words, whoever made the decision to keep this guy at the Whitley Road facility has fxxked up. If it’s not Mr Can’t Sing himself, then whoever this useless bum is, should resign! But yet, we haven’t seen anyone who has exercised the moral courage to resign, and this is completely shameful when we are now a international joke as far as security matters are concerned.

The failure of this person to take responsibility and the lack of guts to offer to resign is almost as shameful as the Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian who continually refused to step down in spite of the numerous scandals that is plaguing him!

For the sake of this ball-less wonder, he better pray to whatever gods he believed in that Mas Selamat be caught soon. I am wondering how this psychological eunuch would be able to sleep soundly when Mas Selamat pulls off a big one in any other part of South East Asia, if not Singapore itself. But again, maybe he can always drown his conscience by giving himself a higher paycheck in the next mini$terial or civil service pay hike.

And before I forget, all these posters, MMS, and advertisement will cost the country a lot of money. Can we charge that all to Mr Can’t Sing’s cost centre and deduct it from his pay?

Wong Can’t Sing 倒す!!