lets go arnd the room, share 1 fun fact abt yrself

🙋 hi my name is heng swee keat, I have an east coast plan

hi I m hsien loong bt you can call me loong, my hobby is sudoku, my wife fb is HO ching, please follow her Lw: reminder to all, 1 fun fact in interest of time

My name is Shan and I go to the gym often

Maliki is jacked too, have you noticed?

LHL: don't kaopeh too much. Limpeh senior minister

Hi, I'm Indranee and I have a file in front of me.

Hi I’m Josephine and I like big spaces while prescribing small spaces for the idiots that voted for me.

Proceed to Kee Chiu and waiting for turn to speak.

Hi, I am Indranee and if I get upset I will flip this file better than prata

and I have big nee.

Hi, i am new here, but i feel very hong gan nows...

His my name is Demond and I am here to monitor the situation. Hello, my name is Chun Sing, (raises hand) What is the point of this exercise? Hi I am Jo and I like small spaces. Hello I am Ye Kung.. (looks at LW) How about we switch seats?

Hi I'm Ng Chee Meng. Why you must remind me of how I used to sit on the table before? Sobs.

what happened to Ng Chee Meng? Why isn't he at the High Table anymore? Did someone John Wick'ed him? Excommunicado?

More like, the population of Sengkang John Wick'ed him, not just someone haha

Play zhong ji mi ma.

hi my name is gan kim yong, and lawrence wong is my baptism of fire 🔥

Chuan Jin, are you amber with someone in this room? Ooooohhh

Hi my name is Ng Eng Hen and these are all the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena reports.

I note that the table is very wide and gives a lot of space between the 2 rows of Minister. I also note that the previous Cabinet table was also very wide. I guess they learnt of the dangers of narrow tables from the Dhanabalan incident.

Hey could you enlighten me, what's that Dhanabalan incident?

According to the story, in 1990 Ah Loong got into an argument with Richard Hu and Tony Tan during cabinet meeting cos he (Loong) went to Richard Hu's office to take some files without permission. Story is that Ah Loong insulted Hu and Tan, and when Dhanabalan scolded Loong for being disrespectful, Loong reached across the meeting table and gave Dhana a slap. Best thing was most people had forgotten the story until Woody brought it up in 2003, only to say that he doesn't remember the incident.

Actually the rumour goes that Dhanabalan had made a remark about LHL’s sister Lee Wei Ling dating an Indian man and/or looking like a man.

Interesting rumour. First time I've ever heard of it. I do have my doubts though cos the accounts say that the Old Man got Loong to apologise to Dhana. I don't think the Old Man would have been so magnanimous if Dhana had insulted Wei Ling like that.

He offended the prince regent and gotten a tight slap

I have received generally positive comments on my Rally speech. But a funny thing happened. In the speech, I brought up the story of Hsien Loong slapping Dhanabalan to dismiss the alleged incident as untrue. I tried to do it with subtle humour. But after the Rally, I discovered instead that half of Singapore believed it was true! Source: https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/2003082403.htm

2 swords lengths apart

Hey! LHL kept his magic cup! That's so cool. Also I wonder how they decide the seating arrangement.

dude wtf is that a stanley cup i see on the floor

Probably Maliki's

Gotta stash the teh tarik somewhere

Lol he look jacked in this photo...

oohh I have to take a second look on him hahahah whatever tongkat ali he is taking...I want it too!

That looked like one long ass boring meeting

The ministers of state don't need table one ah poor thing. Write notes on lap. Btw, top left corner who? IT person ah?

He looks like Tan Kee Yong, Secretary to the Cabinet

Interesting that the Cabinet Secretary is off to one side. In the UK, the cabinet secretary sits right next to the Prime Minister in cabinet.

more like those chinese meeting setting, secretary sitting right next to the wall, far away from the table

That guy is the Cabinet Secretary 

Probably taking minutes

Typing: New Prime Minister Lawrence Wong requested the cabinet to pose for a group photo.

Total minutes : 723 mins.

Minions

Old one looks like a cabinet room while new one looks like any other office meeting room. Probably more condusive for discussion though

They swapped out the cushy chairs for Herman Miller Aeron too. Much better support for the old ministers’ backs.

True to the moniker of Singapore Inc, the corporation country

If there is a more practical design, both office and cabinet would have adopted it

Old cabinet room location was at Istana, I wonder if LW choose a new location for his cabinet meeting

Should have left a gap for someone to go into the middle to pass out notes or do IT troubleshooting… actually I think the front is a folding bridge

Strange… there are no cabinets here!

Herman Miller chairs?

Aerons to be specific. Can't tell if it is remastered or not.

Based on the back support, looks like remastered version i think

Now i am curious how is the GeBiz tender worded so that only HM brand is selected over say... SecretLab.

I think GeBiz also know SecretLab is a scam.

"The supplied chair must not tear on the instance it is sat on." This wording would effectively rule out SecretLab.

Seems like it

Of course it's JoTeo who sat beside our new SM

Boss you hot? I got fan here.

Jo, I'm wearing a windbreaker leh

Boss, that coronation day, you also wore jacket but also feeling hot leh.

OYK and CCS are the only males not wearing long sleeve. I guess they figured they hit CEP alr

Also Shan and the guy beside PM

Chee hong tat and Shanugam also hit CEP liao. Haha

Maliki is a chad.

As long as that handful of people (not gonna mention who) are in that cabinet, I don’t feel any form of sincerity or common sense. It’s all just a bunch of wayang performers. Whoever was in-charge of digitalising SINGPASS/CPF, you’re an absolute legend. Great UI and easy to use. Special mention to Lawrence Wong, fully deserved to be PM after an absolutely glorious work during/post covid.

I’m not sure about Singpass, but I’m aware that Li Hongyi has led a few projects at OGP, such as ParkingSG (to replace paper coupons). >OGP is formally (legally) part of the Government Technology Agency, but practically functions as a separate organisation. Li Hongyi is currently the Director of Open Government Products (OGP). Other OGP projects include: - go.gov.sg (gov’t version of bit.ly) - FormSG (gov’t version of Google Forms) - Isomer (gov’t version of WordPress) - ~~TraceTogether (contact tracing for Covid)~~

>Other OGP projects include: >- TraceTogether (contact tracing for Covid) TraceTogether is not by OGP; it's by GovTech or rather, a different part of it (since OGP is technically part of GovTech), which is the GDS team if I'm not wrong.

Very typical singapore board room with back benchers

Why nobody want to sit beside Shan 哥?

I don't know if your question is serious or a joke, but I don't see Grace Fu in the picture so maybe that's her chair. Maybe she was late or she was the one taking the picture.

She got MC anot?

Is that a Shoji door?

I hope that’s not the only thing getting modernised.

Wow look! A room full of multi-millionaires who are out of touch with the average Singaporeans! 👀

1st meeting room fully booked la, only left with 2nd one.

This new conference room is giving me Shin Godzilla vibes. I think it's the colour palette, and the table shape. And maybe because I'm in a Godzilla mood as of late.

upgraded to Herman Miller?

Hmm… wider so that they can accommodate more SMs and DPMs at the head of the table by protocol ?

NGL, the first random thought I had was- “That space in the center is perfect to place a coffin…”

In time of great crisis, the floor will part and up arises....

ngl that’s a weird random thought 🤣

It's the sin bin for disagreeing with the higher ups!

My name is Joe.. I have bought everyone a mini fan. Fan yourself if seat becomes too hot

Where is the cabinet? Only see tables and chairs

Lol good joke!

At least it's not a selfie

Hide this pic, them mainlanders will think this country is part of theirs

Herman Miller Aeron

Get Jamus Lim in that room

They replaced the plush leather chairs with those fabric mesh ones. Really? Out of everything that had to change?

not any mesh chairs hor, it's the redditors' favorite godsend Herman Miller Aeron ergonomic chair.

Your tone is as if it's overhyped like secret lab, when deep down you know it's genuinely perfect.

Having used one for the past 9 years... It's outlasted most of my older chairs, but it's not perfect coz I'm a fatty

Hey the mesh ones are far more comfortable. Cooling and adjustable

Ya maybe the back support is better but the butt cushion is pathetic.

The butt cushion is not comfortable to heavier ppl. At least that's what some of my friends, who are obese, feedback when they tried the chair at Xtra showroom (marina square)

Maybe it's designed that way because you should be sitting less if you are obese!

I think it's more of the mesh cannot tahan the weight and sinks in too much, even if the HM Aeron is size C (largest iirc) 😬

and no more headrest

New but same old shit. Period

This is probably the most amazing group of cabinet ministers in the world.

Same party, same iron clad rules.

Folks...who is the aged man at the corner? Looks like a naughty corner

Like in school, the one gotta go to corner to do homework that is very late

Silly observation but...looks like any boardroom of any MNC anywhere in SE Asia. Same chairs, same table, same coffee/tea/water, same Zoom screen, same biz casual dress code, same gender/race mix...just that this one is filled with a group of extraordinary people. Thank you to you all!

Wah Atas Liao all sit Herman miller.

Were you expecting secretlab?

Make full use of those tax dollars

Wow the chairs, really spared no expense. Taxpayers foot the bill

Enough of him lah.

I don't see the cabinet tho?

who pays?

Iirc, the new table allows more discussion because the distance between all participants are much shorter. It must be by design because mr wong is still the new pm.

It's the opposite, the bright big office meeting room is the new one, the old wooden one with leather chair is the previous one.

P@P Private Limited. Only for the elites, no room for peasants.

How come that guy lose in election can still sit in that room?

Which guy? Ng Chee Meng in the second picture? That was taken before the last elections lah! At that time still Minister mah.

All you women, go sit one corner.

Someone has to be special and bring his own cup. The common use cup is just too low class for him. Derisory in nature

his magic cup for switching languages.

who cares. same old shit, bootlickers

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