KICK! HIT! GOAL!!!.

Mr Tharman SHANMUGARATNAM
Minister for Education &
Second Minister for Finance

I present to you, HIS testimonial.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam is Minister for Education and Second Minister for Finance in the Singapore Cabinet.

Tharman spent much of his earlier, professional career at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator, where he was the Managing Director before he entered politics in 2001. He continues to serve on the Board of MAS, and sits on the Board of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. He is also Deputy Chairman of the National Research Foundation.

MAS, it's almost impossible for NON talents to get in.

Tharman has been Member of Parliament for Jurong GRC since Oct 2001. He was appointed to the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the People’s Action Party (PAP) in 2002. He was re-elected to the CEC in 2004, and appointed Assistant Treasurer in the Party.

After entering politics in Oct 2001, he was appointed Senior Minister of State in the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Education. He took office as Acting Minister for Education in Aug 2003, and subsequently as Minister for Education in Aug 2004. He was appointed Minister for Education and Second Minister for Finance in May 2006. Tharman is also Co-Chairman of the Singapore-Liaoning Economic and Trade Council (SLETC), which was established in 2003 to advance stronger links between Singapore and Liaoning Province, China. He is Chairman of the Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies, and serves as a Life Trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association.

Tharman obtained undergraduate and masters degrees in Economics from the London School of Economics and Cambridge University. He later obtained a masters degree in Public Administration at Harvard University, where he received the Littauer Fellow award. He was awarded the Singapore Public Administration Gold Medal in 1999.

He is married to Jane Yumiko Ittogi, a lawyer. They have four children, of school-going age.

what!! Is that a japanese?

Anyway , my point is, his testimonial, so short yet full of content, He does not have to enlarge his font just to fill the page. Do people like them deserve a pay rise?
If all testimonials are somewhat similar, I believe, they have more than what it takes to receive a 1.2 million per year pay.I'm not exactly jealous. But think about his achievements, is it what you desire?

note: i realised there is this copyright law about this.

June 2006

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Am i going to die? What i am doing is an infringement/violation of law after all. I am so in deep shit.

.][-Splattered my blood on
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