Daily Lessons from Life 31 May 2013 - Ex-SCDF chief Peter Lim found guilty of corruption

Wow! Last day of May 2013 and 5/12th of the year is gone!! How time fly!! "Ex-SCDF chief Peter Lim found guilty of corruption - The Straits Times May 31, 2013 Former Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) chief Peter Lim Sin Pang is guilty of corruption. The 52-year-old was on Friday, handed a guilty verdict by District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim, who ruled that Lim had been the one who initiated the sexual encounter with Ms Angie Pang Chor Mui, whom he was not in an intimate relationship with. And since he was a high-ranking civil servant with years of experience in the public service, he should have know that he would contravene government procurement rules by calling her about the radiation portal monitors, said Judge Hamidah. "If he did not know that, then he has certainly made a wrong career choice in the last 25 years," she added." Well. The outcome of this case is certainly very different from the other one that involved another high ranking civil servant for 'sex for contracts' too. This one the accused is found guilty while the other one the accused was found 'not guilty'. Lessons for me are, in jest: 1. it pays to have a wife that stands by you throughout the trial as it might have helped the other accused's case. At least with the judge who is afterall just a fellow human being with feeling and compassion. :-); 2. it is important not to have too many 'business girl friends' at the same time and not only having 'blow job' as the other accused was able to establish exclusive 'feeling of affection', though this did not help the ex-law professor from NUS with his student in questioned professing (pun intended?) there were feeling between them!, since the lady in question actually had a 'Oh no, are you the father pregnancy' scarce; 3. this one sticks and have restored some lost, or re-inforced shaken, confidence in the work of the ultimate anti-corruption bureau who reports to the Prime Minister Office. When the CPIB goes after a suspect in open court, it simply has to deliver the most complete, professional, solid and irrefutable evidence based on facts and thorough investigative work. Hopefully justice has been delivered. Case closed. Next ... p/s: The current Dengue Fever claimed its first fatality in a young 20-year old man. What is most distressing and disturbing is that he left TTSH Emergency Department after almost 5 hours waiting at the Emergency Department on his RETURN VISIT within 24 hours after being discharged. While no one will ever know what if he had been given the necessary medical help during THAT return visit, it will be CRIMINAL if the TTSH Management and OTHER hospitals NOT think about the process of 'IMMEDIATE admission of patient who returned within 24 or 48 hours after being first discharged!'.