Singapore has yet again tested the limits of our patience and impudently underestimated our intelligence and our ability to safeguard our honour. An ever hungry hyena testing the good mannered lion in trying to steal the carcass under his very nose.

They did that once under a different setting during the premiership of Tunku Abdul Rahman. The result was Singapore leaving Malaysia. They are doing it again this time through a series of viscous and inscrutable positions taken by them in the supposedly neighbourly negotiations to sort out longstanding issues and address new ones in the light of current developments in the ecology and economy of the two countries.

The result is that the 'scenic' bridge project now has become a euphemism describing the lack of good will and bilateral abhorrence that we have for each other.

As a Malaysian, I fully support the decision made by our government. By making all sorts of unreasonable demands on us that would tantamount to jeopardising our national integrity for the construction of the proposed 'scenic' bridge, they had indeed gone overboard and have transgressed all known decorum of good neighbourliness.

It is like a robber who have broken into our house, who, after being caught red-handed, tries to buy his freedom by suggesting that the spoils be shared with us! This has always been the mindset that has been molded by the 'kiasu' mentality. We should just smack them for such nonsense.