Venerable Ming Yi drew flak for "performing stunts" to jack up the calls for donation.
Some want the charity shows to stop using Mediacorp artistes.
Some guy said there is no need for charity shows to get the public to donate to the various charitable organisations.They can do so directly by writing cheques instead of paying fees for calling in.

Come on,get real you bastards.

No matter how you twist your words and try to twist our thoughts,I know that you people love watching the celebrities risk it all just to perform those stunts.You voyeurs love watching them suffer and grimace,and then you think you are doing them a favour by calling and supporting your favourite artiste.How do you explain the 260,000 calls made during the few minutes when Venerable Ming Yi was shaking and shivering on top of Republic Plaze in the storm?You just store power until the main event right?And yet you say there is no need for anyone to risk their health and lives for an attractive show.
I am so sure, that a show without dangerous stunts will draw more calls than a classical music concert,that I am willing to risk my life in the next NKF show and go bungee-jumping without a bungee if that happens.
And to that airhead who said people will donate directly to the organisations without these shows,it is clear that you're not very smart shooting our mouth off like that without passing shit through your brain.Hardly anyone knew about Ren Ci Hospital until the show came about.And being a Singaporean myself,I know that no one waste their 'precious'time sending a cheque to the charitable organisations.All we want is efficiency and speed nowadays,and we'd love nothing more than a show that gives us more opportunity to fondle our beloved handphones,and feel great and proud about ourselves when we hear the Venerable say "Xie Xie Ni De Zi Chi".Without the show,the patients would be sleeping in the streets,and we still won't do anything about it.
What Venerable Ming Yi did drew tears from me when I was watching.I was not 'touched' by the danger posed to him.I was bewildered and shocked by his willingness to do all this for the sake of the patients lying in their beds in a hospital that runs solely on the donations from the public.Who would risk 40 minutes in ice,abseiling face-first down a skyscraper,standing for 2 hours on an elevated platform,and now a balancing act for people who aren't related to him?Few.And not me either.And fuckers say he is playing on the audience's hearts.If you donated just because he was performing a circus act,I say you are treating him as a stuntman.For fuck's sake I'm sure he wasn't the one who proposed the stunt,he wasn't the one who got the celebrities to train like madmen and he certainly wouldn't need a show if we showed a bit more compassion more often by donating to whatever needs our money now and then.
The poor man needs a break.
My dad said, "Why they never ask Durai to walk the plank?"
How appropriate.They can do without the safety cable.He has his golden peanuts.