WILL THE REAL SINGAPOREAN PLEASE STAND UP?
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"After a lifetime of toil, slaving to pay off the house, car and kids' education, so it's back to the grind, only to work for a younger, less qualified boss at reduced wages?"
Signs of Senility, July 29th, 2010
Having come across a blog recently where the above was quoted, may I have your views, opinion and critical deduction of this statement.
Thank you.
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SInce I am not real and also cannot stand up like a guy, can i sit down teacher.
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We need to be cheaper, better and faster.
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Complain, complain and complain. You ever go to poor country before ah? I go to Cambodia last time to do social work for the poor, they don't even have TV, live in small bamboo hut. Live on just $3 a day. If can get 2 meal a day also happy.
You cloth in nice cotton and velvet cloth, got concrete rooth over your head and go back home with salary want to complain so much.
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Lol, I think u reali need to travel more or read more news. U shld be glad S'poreans oni use mouth/typing to complain. Other countries use actions such as riot, strike, protest, bombing, shooting spree to complain de. So which one u prefer?
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LOL,
Let me guess you live were born in a HDB, now live in one and probably your children will aspire to live in one too. Or at best make it to one of Singapore's many fine 'Upgrader Type Condo's'.
Ever wonder why you only play golf outside SICC?
Is first world living because you drive a cheap Japanese sub-compact (oh I beg your pardon, CEO's cost $35k in your category at last check)? Or that the Singapore Dollar is at an all time high against the green back (in case you haven't noticed most pan-asian currencies are too)? Or is it because you have a new HD TV in your living room of your 1000 sq ft. pigeon hole? Or is it because you have a domestic helper whom you think you have rescued from a third world?
Ever wonder why that elusive degree you persue still doesn't admit you to law or medicine or any other truly professional degree?
Can you count amongst any of your relatives, a bus or taxi driver or hawker?
Now know the stock and breed you come from!
LOL I think the joke is on you man. You shouldn't read more than you can comprehend.
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Originally posted by Maeren63:
"After a lifetime of toil, slaving to pay off the house, car and kids' education, so it's back to the grind, only to work for a younger, less qualified boss at reduced wages?"
Signs of Senility, July 29th, 2010
Having come across a blog recently where the above was quoted, may I have your views, opinion and critical deduction of this statement.
Thank you.
What do you mean by real singaporean? the one who support the pap, or the one opposing? the young ones born in singapore or the old ones who migrated here?
You already paid up your house, raised your kids, got car somemore, many young people are waiting for jobs to pay for their house, raise their kids, and you think you should be the boss with a high salary.
What make you think you are more qualified than the younger ones? The only thing I see in you is that you have aged.
if you have paid up your house, your car, raised your children, why are you still in the job market taking the jobs from those in greater needs? My critical deduction: you think you are LKY ...want to work until you die. My advice: If you don't know how to retire, you will be senile in no time, or you already are?
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Originally posted by Maeren63:
LOL,
Let me guess you live were born in a HDB, now live in one and probably your children will aspire to live in one too. Or at best make it to one of Singapore's many fine 'Upgrader Type Condo's'.
Ever wonder why you only play golf outside SICC?
Is first world living because you drive a cheap Japanese sub-compact (oh I beg your pardon, CEO's cost $35k in your category at last check)? Or that the Singapore Dollar is at an all time high against the green back (in case you haven't noticed most pan-asian currencies are too)? Or is it because you have a new HD TV in your living room of your 1000 sq ft. pigeon hole? Or is it because you have a domestic helper whom you think you have rescued from a third world?
Ever wonder why that elusive degree you persue still doesn't admit you to law or medicine or any other truly professional degree?
Can you count amongst any of your relatives, a bus or taxi driver or hawker?
Now know the stock and breed you come from!
LOL I think the joke is on you man. You shouldn't read more than you can comprehend.
Underlined is irrelevant.
Are you suggesting that life in Singapore is harsh and not first world?
Kind Regards
Genie
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There are people who love comparing irrelevantly. Poor countries like Cambodia, and africa and so on don't have govt who greedily pay themselves millions and millions of salary to deserve their people to expect world class managing of their countries.
Is durian and apple the same? Do you walk into a high class restaurant expecting to eat low quality food?
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Originally posted by Maeren63:
LOL,
Let me guess you live were born in a HDB, now live in one and probably your children will aspire to live in one too. Or at best make it to one of Singapore's many fine 'Upgrader Type Condo's'.
Ever wonder why you only play golf outside SICC?
Is first world living because you drive a cheap Japanese sub-compact (oh I beg your pardon, CEO's cost $35k in your category at last check)? Or that the Singapore Dollar is at an all time high against the green back (in case you haven't noticed most pan-asian currencies are too)? Or is it because you have a new HD TV in your living room of your 1000 sq ft. pigeon hole? Or is it because you have a domestic helper whom you think you have rescued from a third world?
Ever wonder why that elusive degree you persue still doesn't admit you to law or medicine or any other truly professional degree?
Can you count amongst any of your relatives, a bus or taxi driver or hawker?
Now know the stock and breed you come from!
LOL I think the joke is on you man. You shouldn't read more than you can comprehend.
it is your english that is very difficult to comprehend. "Let me guess you live were born in a HDB, now live in one and probably your children will aspire to live in one too." Dont understand what are you guessing.
I don't play golf outside SICC, I play inside, and also inside TMCC, NSRCC, ....whenever I pay green fee.
don't understand why I need a degree to be admitted to law, medicine, my degree is truely professional.
I got an uncle taxi driver, so?
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Elections are coming.
Suddenly new posters will spring up like mushrooms after a rainy day.
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Author: Dr Wong Wee Nam
13 September 2010“It is important to guarantee the people’s democratic rights and legitimate rights and interests. We must resolve the problem of excessive concentration of power, create conditions that allow people to criticise and supervise the government….”
– Wen Jiabao Prime Minister of China in 2010
Singapore’s BuildersIn 1819 Singapore had the good fortune of one man’s foresight. A man by the name of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles decided to acquire this swampy malaria-infested fishing village for the British Crown and began to lay plans to turn the insignificant island into a thriving trading centre. The plans called for the creation of a town, a system of preserving law and order, the development of free trade and the provision of education.
With this vision, Raffles laid down the embryo for the transformation of Singapore from a hiding place for pirates, a stopover for seafarers and a market place for traders into a more permanent society.
This was how Singapore was born and Raffles rightly took his place in history as the founding father of Singapore.
Raffles may have planted the seed but it was our forefathers who had cultivated this seed to grow Singapore into what we are today. In other words, Singapore has become a nation because our forefathers had decided to plant their roots and raise their families here.
Singapore has always been a small place with few natural resources. In the past, it had to depend purely on the drive, determination, enterprise and resourcefulness of its people to turn a fishing village into a trading centre. It was these qualities of our forefathers that soon made Singapore a trading capital of the East. It is we, their descendents, who have carried on the good work and made Singapore what it is today.
The New World
We are now living in a globalised world and Singapore will continue to adapt and evolve. As we change we need to remember that the global economy is a double-edged sword especially for a city-state. It can make us richer and more prosperous but the income gap will be widened and make a lot of us poor. It can create jobs and depress wages at the same time. It can attract people as well as fragment society, destroy our identity as a nation and tear us apart.
To survive as a nation, therefore, not only do we need to be as resourceful and innovative as our forefathers, we need also to be able to live and work together as one people as they did.
The Conditions for Creativity
Like everyone else in the world, there is no doubt that Singapore will need more and more creative people in order to survive. However have we the right environment to nurture more creative people? A classroom with a hectoring teacher cannot produce creative students. Similarly a country of cowed citizens fed by official state opinions and ruled by lecturers who have this habit of talking down to the people cannot be expected to produce a lot of creative people.
When I was a teenager, the song Puff, The Magic Dragon was banned. This song was based on a poem written by Leonard Lipton who was inspired by a poem Custard the Dragon written by Ogden Nash. Yet the authorities at that time deemed that the words “puff” and “dragon” connotes the taking of drugs. Nevertheless, after listening to the song for nearly forty years, I have not even puffed cigarettes, let alone smoked pot.
In those days, the authorities saw metaphors in the ordinary meaning of words.
Nowadays, it is the opposite. The authorities see literal meaning in metaphors.
Recently a young man was hauled up by the police for using a metaphor. The authorities then and now may choose to interpret words literally or figuratively, but the intention to control is the same.
This means that a writer now has to be very careful in using figures of speech. By extension, there is nothing to say that a person may not be charged for criminal defamation for using hyperboles.
Figures of speech are part of good creative writing. Metaphors are expressions that use words imaginatively to enliven an idea. How can we, therefore, encourage creativity if people have to over-censor what they write or do and non-conformists are not tolerated?
Forty years on, things are still the same.
Attracting Talents
There is also no doubt we need to attract talented people from all over the world to supplement and complement our own pool of talents. However if we do not even have the conducive environment to nurture our own talents, this same stifling climate will ultimately stifle any foreign talent that we import.
Foreign talents are not constrained by national borders. They are here precisely because of their nomadic nature. This means they can leave as easily as they come. Furthermore, the migrants of today are different from our forefathers.
Our forefathers came with nothing and had to start life from scratch. They had to stay because there was no hope of them going back to their homeland.
The modern migrants are different. They are here purely for economic interests. Having no deep roots here, and with a globally marketable skill, they will leave as readily as they had come if they can find that a better place for the cultivation of their talent. Many also still have a greater motherland to go back to.
Money attracts talents. However, money will not be able to buy commitment. Neither will it entice foreigners to rush in to apply for citizenship. Nor will money be able to stem the tide of emigration by our own citizens, if they are not happy to live here.
Ultimately whether these people will give their hearts to the country depends on whether there is a conducive social and political climate for them to fulfil themselves as citizens of the country.
Professor Udo Zander from the Stockholm School of Economics said, “Talented women and men will look for societies that to the best of their knowledge promise a way of life that they have been dreaming of.”
In other words, they want a way of life that they dream of and not what politicians think they should have.
Looking After Our Own Citizens
Our parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents had evolved a shared culture and lived through a common history to give a meaning to this country as a nation.
For Singapore to continue being a cohesive nation we need to ensure that our talented citizens who have been born and bred here, or newly acquired, continue to make this their home.
Yet many of these people or their children are migrating and migrants from other countries are replacing them. If this persists, the majority of Singapore’s population will soon be fresh migrants with very little roots to sustain us as a tightly cohesive nation. Singapore will then just become a multi-national office for talented people to work and not a home for our people and our children to stay forever.
Let us not for one moment think that it is possible, by patriotic asseveration, to get Singaporeans who have migrated to a foreign land and brought up their children there to have a heart in Singapore. They may miss their friends and the local food, but in the age of travel and e-mails, these deprivations would not make them feel homesick at all.
Singapore has a very short history as a nation. Singing national day songs will not be enough to provide a strong cultural and historical glue to bind the younger Singaporeans.
They need to feel that this is home. Unfortunately, the PAP’s style of government makes them feel like guests in hotel. Though better educated than their parents, many have felt that they do not have much say in the affairs of their country. They may be physically comfortable but there is little spiritual attachment.
The government wants its citizens to participate but it decides how, what, when and where it should be done. In order for participation to have a meaning, there must be real freedom to generate, test and implement ideas.
It is no use having lots of feedback sessions if these are to be just grumbling sessions against unpopular policies. And the government should not see genuine complaints as grumblings but as pleas for solutions. When people complained against crowded MRTs and high costs of HDB flats, they are meant to highlight problems that the government needs to address. They moan not because they are victims of their own success but because they are sufferers of poor policies. It is really a bad joke to ask them to stop griping and think of the unfortunate in society.
Conclusion
National allegiance grows from a deeply ingrained sense of shared heritage and destiny. And this can only come about through generations of participation in shaping one’s own lives in one’s own country.
If we want Singaporeans to have their hearts in Singapore, then we must give them the mental and psychological space to fulfil themselves as co-owners of this country. People do not just fulfil themselves by being mere owners of upgraded HDB flats.
Thus as long as we do not have a place that we can strongly feel to be a home, we will continue to lose our talents and draw in second rate foreign talents. If our climate is not conducive for enough intellectual inquiry and critical thinking to the extent that many of our own people have chosen not to come back, how can we hope to attract the really top talents from the world to come here and grow roots?
If we want our people to think of home, let us feel at home first.
Source: http://www.sgpolitics.net
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Singapore pink ic holders, the majority are not emotionally attached to this country.
They are more attached to and concerned about their loved ones and families in Singapore. In order not to jeopardize themselves, thus jeopardizing the livelihood or well-being of their loved ones and families, Singapore pink ic holders rather shut themselves out from politics and just follow what the Govt tells them to do.
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it is a good question....in fact...this is only a matter of time....
the real concern is whether such "younger or so called unqualified bosses" have an encompassing view of ethics...besides getting their degree with cut and paste culture...
can they think deeper and wider for their older colleagues working under them? will they take up responsibilities or just shirk it downline or using the oft abused term such as "delegation" to cover up? could they serve as an example? could they distribute "goodies" or rather bring it home and enjoy themselves?
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hey for those who say the poor country people suffering and suffering no food no water. Hey why u compare to them? why u not compare to australia? then u say if u like australia go immigrate to australia lo. this kind of moron talking.
people post here tell real singaporean stand up as he see that singapore government letting many problem enter. example, jobs being threatened by foreigner. etc.
but u people compare with third world country. say singapore good.
ok u just get 50% for your exam. and when your mum wanna rotan u, u say some lazy boys get 0 marks so at least u passed.
when u did a good job and the promotion go to the foreigner because by promoting them they signed another 2 years contract. and u didn't get a chance, for years it go like that. and u say: luckily i am in singapore, if i am in other country i won't have food to eat. and foreigner coming to singapore and work steal your job u will say: they don't have food to eat in their home land. come steal my job better.
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My parents came here after WWII. Became Singapore citizens.
I am born here. I am a Singapore Citizen.
My colleague and his wife came here in 1984. They are now Singapore citizen.
They have a child born here. A boy. He is a Singapore Citizen.
Other than the time frame, whats the diff?