life goes on

What is the worse that can happen if the PAP loses 10-20 seats?

Will people really miss those part time PAP MPs with little to say on critical life-affecting issues?

the answer is obvious.

Too many jobs were created which led to an influx of foreigners to fill the positions too fast, too soon.

The momentum has now ground to a halt because of the economic crisis.
But if the pace picks up again, Singaporeans could end up being outnumbered by foreigners in the workplace.

there could be more than three million foreigners working here by 2030, forming half the workforce. That will jump to almost 10 million by 2050, making up 75 per cent of employees here.

It is a frightening leap from the current figure of one million, or 36 per cent of the workforce.

Of the 235,000 jobs added in 2007, six in 10 went to foreigners. The ratio rose last year, with foreigners taking seven in 10 of the 222,000 new jobs.
This means that almost 300,000 foreigners flocked here to take up jobs in the past two years, pushing their population past the one million mark for the first time.

they did not care about you, they care for themselves

in the end, it was ME, ME and ME.

Health Minister Mr Khaw Boon Wan had apologized

on his blog in an entry dated 22 November 2009:

The chemo overdose errors in KKH were human errors. They should not have happened, but they did. We are sorry for the mistakes and are all saddened by the incidents,” he wrote in the opening paragraph.

Mr Khaw also commended the Yip family for their magnanimity in forgiving the two pharmacists responsible for the error.

“We all make mistakes but we must readily admit them and learn from the mistakes so that they do not get repeated.

To err is human; to forgive, divine. To be able to forgive requires a higher level of wisdom and generosity,”

he added.

nothing is heard from KKH CEO Prof Ivy Ng, who is incidentally the wife of Education Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen.

maximise growth at any cost, at the expense of singaporeans

Singapore has the third-largest share of foreign-born persons in its population of any country, after the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

It is inevitable that foreigner numbers will continue to swell, but the key is how many the country can accommodate and how fast it wants to grow.

PAP govt had went overboard in trying to maximise growth, at the expense of singaporeans.

For the investments that were brought in, the criteria were more to generate growth.

This has led to more low- skilled and cheaper foreign workers on work permits.

Their presence, in turn, has depressed the salaries of low-skilled Singaporeans.

It is not a new trend, and PAP govt policymakers are aware of it,

government labour reports show that wages of workers such as cleaners and labourers have stayed stagnant or even declined in the past decade, while the wages of higher- skilled workers rose.

Singapore had the biggest gap in both years. It also had one of the fastest widening gaps: In 1996, the top 10 per cent earned 4.9 times the income earned by the bottom 10 per cent; in 2006, that proportion had increased to 5.7.

The PAP govt has not done their job well, people has eyes to see.

cheers to our great leader who made thw wrong policies while they are aware of it.

the need to change

Japan can, why not singapore.
not only for our generation, but the next and the next and the next.

Now is the time to change.

two-thirds of s'pore PR applications are successful

Singapore PAP govt gave PR like free candies..

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Mr Wong Kan Seng said in Parliament yesterday that an average of 46,300 people are granted Singaporean permanent resident (PR) status every year for the past eight years.

From 2000 to 2008, an average of 74,500 applications for permanent residency were submitted by foreigners each year. Of these, an average of 46,300 applications were successful which translates to two successful applications out of every three.
MM Lee said earlier that all applications are carefully vetted so that “highly qualified” foreigners will become PRs.

However, some of the new PRs include beauticians, language teachers, clinic assistants and administrative personnel who are not quite considered “qualified” as exemplified by the case of

Chinese national Zhang Yuanyuan who got her PR in only 2 months while working as a Chinese teacher in a private school.

In his reply to Mr Chiam See Tong’s question about the number of PR applications received, granted and PR statuses renounced,

Mr Wong said that PR applications have been increasing steadily in recent years.

As of June this year, there were 1.253 million non-residents, but only 533,000 PRs. In total, foreigners now make up 36 per cent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 per cent in 1990.


An online furore over Chinese national and

Singapore PR Zhang Yuanyuan proclaiming her loyalty to China on TV

was even reported in The Economist.

Despite concerns on the ground at the direction and viability of Singapore’s liberal immigration policy to import foreigners en masse to make up for the population shortfall here,

the ruling party is adamant that there will be no wholesale changes to it.

In the past, immigrants were concentrated at the top or bottom of the jobs ladder, performing work that Singaporeans could not or did not want to do.

Today, foreigners compete on almost every rung. Some, like geneticists, bring in useful skills. Others—it is feared—displace local skills and depress wages at the bottom.

PRs enjoy the benefits of citizenship without all the responsibilities, such as national service for men (first-generation PRs are generally exempt).

High immigration has coincided with a widening income gap. Singapore’s Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, rose from 0.444 in 2000 to 0.481 in 2008—higher than in China and America.

it was the latest sign of resentment towards incomers and evidence that immigration is becoming the city-state’s dominant political issue.

they did not care about people and aimed for economic growth at all cost,including downgrading singapore citizen to play second fiddle to PR.

cheers to our great leaders.

nightmare

one of our Favourite Tim Burton's movies.

they are liars

In the past, immigrants were concentrated at the top or bottom of the jobs ladder, performing work that Singaporeans could not or did not want to do.

Today, foreigners compete on almost every rung. Some, like geneticists, bring in useful skills. Others—it is feared—displace local skills and depress wages at the bottom.

our great leader told us that they will create jobs for us.
in the end, we are played out by them.

they are liars.

social unrest : can we all get along?

In 1990, citizens made up 86% of Singapore’s 3m people.
Today, the share is 64% of 5m-odd. More than one in three people are foreigners (permanent residents, known as PRs, and non-residents).

In the past, immigrants were concentrated at the top or bottom of the jobs ladder, performing work that Singaporeans could not or did not want to do.

Today, foreigners compete on almost every rung. Some, like geneticists, bring in useful skills. Others—it is feared—displace local skills and depress wages at the bottom.

PRs enjoy the benefits of citizenship without all the responsibilities, such as national service for men (first-generation PRs are generally exempt).

High immigration has coincided with a widening income gap. Singapore’s Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, rose from 0.444 in 2000 to 0.481 in 2008—higher than in China and America. The contrast between the glitzy downtown and the “heartlands” is glaring, and more damaging in tiny, dense Singapore than it would be in a big country

And the dominance of the ruling People’s Action Party means that in Singapore—unlike many countries—anti-immigrant sentiment cannot easily gain a strong political voice.

Expect no drastic policy changes.

it was the latest sign of resentment towards incomers and evidence that immigration is becoming the city-state’s dominant political issue.

cheers to great leaders for their good policies.

they did not care

so what they said..not a big deal.

the higher earners pay is peanuts

they want the casino because of themselves

these casinos are not built to benefit ordinary Singaporeans.
the govt will gain huge revenue from the casino revenue.

they will leave the churches, volunteers and social workers to cope with the problem(shit) it generates.


that's how they did the things!

cheers to our great leaders.

space 1999

the TV series which we used watched ..

protrait of the monster

handsome but he was series of cold-blooded killer.

like politicians, they are no differences between him and them.

they are the same.

the price of happiness

"Cheaper, better, and faster "....its the same old story. The last time they promised Swiss cheese if we worked harder and faster but this time they don't even bother to promise anything.
All they can say is we will get to keep our jobs to service our HDB debts if we can keep up with their system.

first things we asked ourselves: despite our 3rd quarter of 15% growth, did we get the share? are we happier now or then?

they said we are choosy of the jobs, they told us foreigners would not take away your jobs. they said that the foreigners would create jobs in return.

they gave PR like free candies and when they became so big, and create problems, they asked us to solve their shit for what they created in the first place.

can you believe them?

not anymore.

the buck stops here.





all lies and more lies.

quake strike twice in indonesia

the price of S'pore PR

zero loyalty

Argentina through the world cup 2010

For those who didn't believe in this team, for those who treated me like shit, today we are in the World Cup,"

"That's it, we've suffered, but we've made it", said Veron calmly after the match. "From the President of AFA to the last player, we all want to see a better team. Working it out together, there are a lot of things we can improve on"

market plunge

it is coming.

vietnam bride

wonder why singaporeans choose Vietnam brides?

harmony with new immigrant singaporeans

UBS survey shows Singapore slipping in standard of living

In a nutshell, it showed that Singapore is ranked as one of the world's more expensive cities to live in, but people here earn only middling wages.
The result is that our purchasing power is far from sterling.
Compared to the last time the survey was carried out, in 2006, it also shows a worsening trend.



Our economy is to be one where we have an extraordinary gap between the powerful and the powerless, even by Asian standards -- countries not known for soft-hearted socialism.

Average wages for Singapore as a whole are pulled down the city rankings because our low-paid are so lowly paid.
why? influx of foreigners.

Meanwhile, one suspects that our prices seem to be kept up not so much by labour costs but by profit-taking and the government's share.

With the resulting degradation of purchasing power, one can then ask:

Is the average Singaporean really having it so good?

integrate with foreigners

Now we know where we stand

confirmed: singaporeans played second fiddle to the foreigners

Of course, it does not really surprise me.

For years, Singapore has been moving steadily in the pro-foreigner / anti-citizen direction.

Another writer said: “Now we know where we stand. The policy has downgraded Singaporeans to below foreigners.”

we're not the only country in the world with stupid politicians. Each of us just needs to find a way to move on, adapt and survive - notwithstanding the government's errors.

No point complaining about it.
Just take the PAP as another challenge in life you need to overcome.

Take your small, steady steps to deal with it.

people before profit?actually it was the reverse

Japanese Govt Ban "Amakudari"

descent from heaven.
the japanese praticed that, they are not alone.
singapore also have the same policy of allowing top civil servants when they retired, they will chaired as one of our statuary boards.

they have done it, why not singapore?

the moment of TRUTH

we wonder when politician stood for the reality show,"the moment of truth", how much that they stand to "win" and "strengthened" the ties with the people.
we wonder.

refresh

Search: National captain Noh Alam Shah slams local football

Singapore football captain Noh Alam Shah has slammed Singapore football, saying it is stagnant.
also, the referee standards has also gone down
third, poor attendances at S.League matches.each match averaging 2,500 while in indonesia it was 30,000.

four, the prize monies in indonesia is far bigger than in singapore.

lastly,good players have been left out of the league because of the Football Association of Singapore's insistence on them passing the beep or fitness test.


he is the brave soul who told the truth.
welcome to the dream of ex-FAS chairman that singapore to be competing in 2010 world cup

Speak Good English Movement

speak simple English: make it simple

world economy

long u shaped

let them win

health care: step down care

back to square one

: you have to take care of your elder parents by yourself.

foreign immigrant:

double-edge sword

you solve one problem but gave rise to a dozen of other problems as well, cheers to the great leaders.

no money for retirement in singapore

you have to work until you are dead.
life's tough in singapore where our leaders did not tell you that.
they only care for themselves.

they care for the people

read they care for themselves

singapore in 2010 world cup soccer

someone has said that singapore will in 2010 world cup soccer, competing with the countries like Brazil..

recession :The beginning of the end

still far away from recovery

we like new immigrant

From the Straits Times: "Helping foreigners fit in"

With his trademark grin, [MP Charles Chong] added: "When you ask Singaporean residents for feedback, they will complain that they have to wait more than 15 minutes for the bus. But when you ask new immigrants, they are happy that the bus comes in under 30 minutes."

MP Charles Chong was told what he was told

. and he told us what he was being told.
it was confirmed that they have preferred new immigrants than local singaporeans..

they are much easier to please and serve them. and they do fit in the overall great plan..to eliminate singaporean from their comfort zone and let them "venture" to oversea.

sleeping on the job

first, the lehman brother: they did not expect it to fall. town councils invested in exotic structured product which they did not fully understood them and suffered great losses. including the ordinary investor who trusted our banks and in the end, were played out. dirty people.

then came the losses made by Taemasek holding when they sold BOa shares, which we could not understand what they are doing?

then came the private school which offered fake degrees in 2007 and closed down only two years later.

we asked ourselves: what are they doing in the first place?

What's Love Got to Do With It?

it was just more than love alone.

It found that a husband who is nine or more years older than his wife is twice as likely to get divorced.

Children also influence the longevity of a marriage or relationship.

A couple's parents also have a role to play in their own relationship.

Not surprisingly, money also plays a role, with up to 16 percent of respondents who indicated they were poor or where the husband -- not the wife -- was unemployed saying they had separated, compared with only nine percent of couples with healthy finances.

more companies hired older workers

we have heard older workers being retrenched as the companies shift to overseas and they have a hard time in getting jobs, just because they are over 45 years and have no certificates.
they are experienced people and yet not fully maximized their potential.
the companies, even GLC employed young and inexperienced foreign talents, eliminating the locals.

and the older worker who still able to work found idling at home, doing nothing to contribute to the economy.

it was the failure of the tightly control labour market.

painless punishments

MAS has banned 10 institutions from selling structured notes for periods of 6 months to 2 years.

the finance companies got away scotfree with painless punishments while the investor who trusted these companies suffered huge losses while their whole life saving vanished in the air.

in the end, trust no one.

cherish each day

Michael Jackson's sudden death reminded us of how fragile life is.
two days ago, he was rehearsing for the live concerts in London, alive and full of energy.
two days later, he has passed away, at the age of 50 years.
he has so much things to do, and things have not been done yet.

luckily he has prepared his will 5 years ago in 2002. he has at least left behind something for his sons and daughter.

these things we should planned ahead, and not to rush when things are needed urgently.


so, cherish each day.
plan ahead.
you will never know what will happened the next day.

Machael Jackson's Last will

student

have met some of the students from polytechnics recently.
they have commented it was getting more and more difficult to get a position which they liked. the market is highly competitive with the influx of the students from asia and the import of foreign talent to boost our population.

at one hand, they have solved the aging population, but on the other hand, they have caused great discomfort for the job market for the new graduates, especially those who are local-born as they lost the edge to them.

tough as the recession is yet to recover although we saw signs of pick-ups.

Michael Jackson

from economist:

FOR a life so extraordinary the manner of Michael Jackson’s passing on Thursday June 25th was utterly banal: a middle-aged man succumbing to an apparent heart-attack. (There was speculation that an alleged dependency on prescription painkillers may have been a contributing factor.) During his progress from child prodigy to the self-styled “King of Pop” and, more recently, an eccentric semi-recluse, no part of Mr Jackson’s private life had given any other hint of normality. But behind the mask that plastic surgeons had made of his face was a keen brain for wringing cash out of pop music—and for spending it.

Mr Jackson first performed on stage at the age of six, accompanying his four older brothers. The Jackson Five, under the strict stewardship of their manager and father, signed to Motown Records in the late 1960s and began producing a string of hit records—a sequence of success that Mr Jackson continued in a 30-year solo recording career. It is reckoned that his final tally of album sales is around 750m—the most that any artist has sold. And one of those, “Thriller”, released in 1982, became the most successful yet seen, shifting 65m units. This record may well remain unchallenged: sales of albums have suffered as pop fans these days prefer downloading individual tracks from the internet.

The length of Mr Jackson’s career ensured that he experienced, popularised and even pioneered many of the techniques that help artists to profit from their musical talents. At the beginning of his career, touring was a vital component of performers' incomes, though a shift to earning money from selling records was well under way. By its peak, in the 1980s, touring had come to be seen by the music industry as a loss-making promotional tool to shift albums.

Mr Jackson did not invent the pop promotional video, as he is sometimes credited with doing. But he took this art form to new heights with the lavishly expensive video he made in 1983 for the title track of the “Thriller” album. He brought in one of Hollywood's top directors, John Landis (best known for “The Blues Brothers”), and spent an unprecedented $500,000 on the 14-minute miniature epic. But it was money well spent: the launch of MTV, two years earlier, whose format was being copied by other broadcasters, meant that videos had rapidly become one of the most valuable tools for marketing recorded music, and more cost-effective than concert tours. The “Thriller” video was broadcast incessantly all around the world, pumping up the album's sales.

At the height of his success Mr Jackson and his team of managers made the shrewd calculation that the value of pop music was wrapped up in the publishing rights to songs just as much as in record sales. In 1985 he paid $47.5m for ATV Music, which owned the copyrights to most of the Beatles' songs. Ten years later he sold half his interest for $150m to Sony. The value of his stake was probably around $500m when he died. This was roughly equal to the upper estimates of the debts he was struggling to refinance, which he had amassed funding his increasingly bizarre style of living.

Despite his vast earnings Mr Jackson was forced to borrow huge sums against his stake in ATV and his future earnings (recently reckoned to be about $19m a year) to pay for his huge shopping sprees and the upkeep of “Neverland”, his ranch in California. Last year he announced plans for a long series of concerts in London to boost his income and pay off his creditors. Playing live has re-emerged as the way to make money from pop as falling sales, rampant piracy and digital distribution have slashed revenues from recorded music.

Despite having built himself an extravagant fun palace, with its own zoo, fairground and elaborate topiary, Mr Jackson cut an increasingly lost and lonely figure in his later years. Though twice married and with three children, his closest relationships appeared to be with a chimpanzee and a succession of young boys. The questions raised by these unusual friendships continued to hang in the air until his death. He was acquitted in a Californian court in 2005 on charges of molesting one 13-year-old boy but reportedly paid $20m out of court in 1994 to head off other allegations of child abuse.

His status as a pop genius may well always be tainted by the strangeness of the life he chose to lead. Elvis Presley, still the unchallenged King of Rock’n’Roll, is increasingly remembered for his music, as memories fade of his own unusual private life. Mr Jackson would doubtless have craved to be held in the same public awe and affection (his dynastic ambitions even stretched to a brief marriage with Lisa Marie, Presley’s only child). But, sadly, for now he will be remembered by many as “Wacko Jacko” rather than the King of Pop.

home

there are so many things in life that you have wanted, but you knew that it will be difficult to get it.
and you went far away to search for the things you have been hunting for.
years after years, you have found none.

until you have reached your home and finally found the things you have looking is all the while in your home.

cared for the old, aged and the ugly

whether the political system tilted a bit or changed slightly, the bottom line is the care for the old, aged and the ugly was still much desired for improvement.

Things such as free ride for buses and MRT for the old as a respect to their contribution to the economy when they are young, but we did not see it coming soon, not now or this year.

when do they get 50% discount for the food or necessities for those who still can worked but lower wage? but they cannot get the subsidy as their wage was deemed too high.

for those who earned ten thousand dollars a month, a bread that cost S$2 is the same as those who salary of S$700 a month.

Full knee replacement operation

My mother went for knee replacement operation at NUH by one of the ambitious and young orthopedic doctor. He was also the head of the department. Since then, he has left NUH for private practice.
as he was new to the position and did not have much practical experience, he called for full knee replacement operation.
i was opposed to the operation, but he has persuaded our mother to do it. and she agreed to do it.

i should have asked for second opinion, but did not. i asked sister and she also agreed mother to do the operation.

few years, our mother found her operated leg was much longer than the normal one and she walked with a limp.

trust

my sister told me that you just cannot trust certain type of people.
i did not believe her and challenge her instead.
in the end, i lost the bet and have to take back my words instead.

yes, certain type of people whom you trusted will ended up betrayed by them.

i have no doubts about it and since then, have changed my perception on them.

they can't be trusted, no matter how good they are

the success of singapore

Taemasek on BOA (bank of America):
It was a long-term investment.
The sold them at the loss in 1Q2009.

The Singapore flyer’s breakdown for month in 2009.
They said, “It was good so that more people will know and come for the flyer.
What rubbish they are talking!

Town council invested on exotic structured products such Lehman brother and made a loss.
They said, “Overall, we are still earning profit for the past 10 years.
A loss is a loss, just admit it.

screening

A H1NI flu virus originated from the swine, surprising.
WHO has raised the level to 5, signaling a long draw battle and we estimated it will last for at least one year before MOH to lift the code yellow.
it was not like SARS, more like influenza, where it will infected many, but the casualty low.

still, it will be sometime before code yellow turn to green