1 in 2 people in Singapore being either a foreigner or permanent resident.

As of December 2011, Singapore’s total population stands at 5.26 million, of which, 2 million or 38 per cent are permanent residents (0.54 million) and non-residents (1.46 million), which largely consist of work permit holders. There are currently 3.27 million Singapore citizens. That works out to roughly 1 in 2 people in Singapore being either a foreigner or permanent resident.

contented

never in my life be contented with what i have.
truly blessed and counted myself and my sisters and brother as well.
we are fortunate.
the most important things in life is family.
it is true.

For the last 20 years productivity in USA has been rising and real wages has remain stagnant

Lets get this very clear. Low wage workers are lowly paid not because of globalisation or technology. Our low wage workers are the lowest paid in the developed world as a result of the massive foreign influx in the last 10 years. Yet on Labour Day the PAP message to workers is they have to get their productivity up first before wages rise. Our workers have been underpaid for the current productivity level due to PAP policies. When the income gap, structural unemployment and low wage problems showed up a decade ago, the PAP insisted that skills upgrading and retraining was the solution to these problems - under these programs low wage workers were retrained to do one low wage job after another. After one decade of applying the wrong remedy, they now claim that increasing productivity is the key. However, we know this is not true, in the US where productivity has been increasing there was no corresponding increase in wages due to the wage-productivity gap. The increased productivity simply went to raising profit margins and CEO salaries. Singapore workers have far less power than Americans to bargain for better wages when productivity goes up because of the foreign influx. Also, as long as companies have access to cheap foreign labour, there is little incentive to improve productivity. I'm certain, based on the current set of policies, we are going to waste another decade and hundreds of thousands of low wage workers will continue to struggle in the coming years. Lets get this clear : the large foreign influx of the last 10 years was not about maintaining our workforce due to declining TFR but to expand the workforce - the numbers of 100,000 (2008) is just too big to justify using declining TFR. Also, when you import an adult, you're compensating for lower TFR of 20-30 years ago when that adult should have been born in Singapore - our TFR was about 1.7 to 1.8 during that time. By expanding the workforce so rapidly in the last 10 years, we have a even bigger ageing workforce to replace in 2030 .....the PAP worsened the original problem through its liberal immigration policy now tells us that it needs to import people to fix it! For the last 20 years productivity in USA has been rising and real wages has remain stagnant. This is known as the wage-productivity gap. Where did all the money go when productivity of workers go up? In a society where income inequality is very high, it goes to the top management as excessive compensation packages.

City will celebrate their first title in 44 years

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany hails' crazy win: it was the best, but never again this way please Vincent Kompany described Manchester City’s injury-time title triumph as a ‘miracle’ after the most dramatic ending to a Premier League season

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I Love You

boy to girl:thank you so much hon!! I enjoy every single moment to be with you..I'm Happy that you are my gf and I Love You!!

girl to boy: am also happy bein wid you hon,,u are ONE in a million in dis planet..am so blessed for havin you in my life! i love you too..

You only need one person

You only need one person” my high school cross country coach once told me. At the time I thought she was referring to her – my coach whose job it was to guide me, teach me, keep me motivated, and remind me to stay focused. Turns out she meant me; I was the only person I needed.

I didn’t quite get her life lesson until much later in life and I’ve been relearning it and going through the lesson repeatedly ever since.

You only need one person – one person to believe in you, one person to push you, one person to stand up for you when others don’t. I get her lesson now. I have to be that one person because if I can’t be this one person to me than I can’t expect others to. More importantly though, I shouldn’t need to depend or expect others to join me in this role in my life so when it happens it’s should be respected, appreciated and regarded as pure bonus.

They support me but only as far as they can understand and grasp what it is they’re supporting. That’s where I need me to believe in me.

We all need this one person; we all need to be that one person to ourselves.

So to those who continually believe in me and in what I’m doing, thank you. From the bottom of my heart thank you. I can’t help but feel like I’ve let you down with my official record but I know that it’s one thing to talk it’s a whole different thing to do, to do what I do, and nobody can ever take that away from me.
I believe in me. I believe in what I stand for and in what I’m doing. I am the one person I need and everyone else is pure bonus.

be free

godfather

nose pain

fall in love, yet again.

fate

girl

miss you love

I'm gonna do what I have to do in order to get back to the people who are important to m

In 2003, 27-year-old Colorado native Aron Ralston was rock-climbing in Bluejohn Canyon in Utah when he accidentally set loose an 800-pound rock.

Trapped with only a liter of water, no jacket and a small, dull knife, Ralston realized what he'd have to do.

"It was a conversation I had out loud with myself. You're gonna have to cut your arm off, Aron. 'I don't want to cut my arm off.' Dude, you're gonna have to cut your arm off," he told CBS News.

Ralston considered suicide, but ultimately chose to break his own bones, cut off his own arm, rappel down a 60-foot cliff, then hike seven miles before being rescued by a helicopter that his mom had sent out.

"This is something I would not have believed that I was capable of doing. If you had told me eight years ago that I would do this, I wouldn't have believed it," he told CBS.

Rather than an animal instinct to survive, Ralston says he simply did what he had to do to see his loved ones again.

"Really it was a very simple thing, like, 'I'm gonna do what I have to do in order to get back to the people who are important to me,'" he said.

We'd want to see our loved ones again too

alien

less is good

less is good.

crab mentality

you're really such a nice and kindhearted man..appreciate it so much..though we are not same race, you cared and listened..it is just so sad sometimes that people of your own race are the one whose pulling you down., "crab mentality"?

Happiness

Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.[1] A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

humans seem happiest when they have
Pleasure (tasty foods, warm baths, etc.),
Engagement (or flow, the absorption of an enjoyed yet challenging activity),
Relationships (social ties have turned out to be extremely reliable indicator of happiness),
Meaning (a perceived quest or belonging to something bigger), and
Accomplishments (having realized tangible goals).

The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the "lesser self" (the physiological self) and the "greater self" (the moral self) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sage-hood. He argued that if we did not feel satisfaction or pleasure in nourishing one's "vital force" with "righteous deeds", that force would shrivel up (Mencius,6A:15 2A:2). More specifically, he mentions the experience of intoxicating joy if one celebrates the practice of the great virtues, especially through music.[7]