{"id":114,"date":"2007-04-26T23:30:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-04-26T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T15:30:52","slug":"dick-lee-in-new-york-city-singapore-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Dick Lee in New York City Singapore Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See, I told you you can do anything when you&#8217;re <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporeday.sg\/\">overseas<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 So, which is more entertaining, Hossan Leong or Dick Lee? And which is more correct?<br \/>\n[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5wk51lfLfIQ&#8221; height=&#8221;425&#8243; width=&#8221;350&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p>But what caught my attention is this (new?) unit called the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.overseassingaporean.sg\/\">Overseas Singaporean<\/a>. Wait a minute &#8211; wasn&#8217;t there already a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contactsingapore.org.sg\/\">Contact Singapore<\/a> that pops up like everywhere in job fairs and S&#8217;porean celebrations in US? Turns out that they are not related. CS is supposed to get people to S&#8217;pore, while OSU is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmo.gov.sg\/PMOHQ\/NPS\/Units+in+NPS\/OSU\/index.htm\">PMO<\/a>&#8216;s attempt to keep the citizens themselves in touch when they go overseas.<br \/>\nCompare this with grass-root efforts like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.recom.org\/\">ReCom<\/a> or commercial backed efforts like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalmalaysians.com\/\">Global Malaysians<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/\">thestar<\/a>, hey look, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/4\/26\/nation\/17551678&#038;sec=nation&#038;focus=1\">new king<\/a>!) which one is better? Can\/should a government micromanage communities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, I told you you can do anything when you&#8217;re overseas \ud83d\ude42 So, which is more entertaining, Hossan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-singapore","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}