Learn from this Myanmar maid, Singaporeans!
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"Myanmar national Chaw Su Htwe, a philosophy graduate from Yangon's Dagon University, said she came to Singapore because it is hard to find a job back home.
Said the 28-year-old: 'Now that I'm in Singapore, I want to work very hard, earn a lot of money and send it home to my mother.' "
(Straits Times, Dec 3)
If a graduate is prepared to work 24/7 for $300 a month as a maid, without annual leave or day off, what does that say about the Singaporean who refuses a job because it involves shifts or having to work in a clean room? The Myanmar maid also has to work for free the first three months to pay the cost of the passport to leave Myanmar. -
Yes,sir,we shall learn from her
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What about your good self? Why should we stay in Singapore and slog when it is easy to go to UK and get a 20k per annum job? Once i get enough working experience i will fly there and join my relatives for sure.Originally posted by oxford mushroom:"Myanmar national Chaw Su Htwe, a philosophy graduate from Yangon's Dagon University, said she came to Singapore because it is hard to find a job back home.
Said the 28-year-old: 'Now that I'm in Singapore, I want to work very hard, earn a lot of money and send it home to my mother.' "
(Straits Times, Dec 3)
If a graduate is prepared to work 24/7 for $300 a month as a maid, without annual leave or day off, what does that say about the Singaporean who refuses a job because it involves shifts or having to work in a clean room? The Myanmar maid also has to work for free the first three months to pay the cost of the passport to leave Myanmar. -
Using her as an example is misleading. The expenses of myanmar is diff. She can work and suffer for a few years beside she can go back to her country and retire and enjoy life. U think we can do the same like her?Originally posted by oxford mushroom:"Myanmar national Chaw Su Htwe, a philosophy graduate from Yangon's Dagon University, said she came to Singapore because it is hard to find a job back home.
Said the 28-year-old: 'Now that I'm in Singapore, I want to work very hard, earn a lot of money and send it home to my mother.' "
(Straits Times, Dec 3)
If a graduate is prepared to work 24/7 for $300 a month as a maid, without annual leave or day off, what does that say about the Singaporean who refuses a job because it involves shifts or having to work in a clean room? The Myanmar maid also has to work for free the first three months to pay the cost of the passport to leave Myanmar.
Let me give u another example, if USA wants to employ singaporean doing an operator job for 1500USD/per mth working 15 days. u think how many singaporean will apply? Given with the market now, I think alot of ppl might rush to grab. 1500USD is almost equal to 2400SGD. Some graduate are also not getting this pay in singapore. And 15 days only!! U finish ur work and fark off...who don't want to do? And do you know what I see? Alot of fillipino, burmanese, vietnamese, laos, mexicans, blacks and some other south east asia countries ppl are working as an operator.
On the other hand, yes, I agree some singaporeans are picky. Times is bad, we can't choose over things we liked as compare to what we have in the past. -
If you can get a job easily, you would be picky.
If you can't, you grab everything that comes by. -
You try surviving woth just $300 a month and tell me whether you can survive here.
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Why don't YOU learn from her?
You must consider her degree, and whether it is accepted etc etc etc and the currency exchange rate. -
maybe mushroom is working as a maid in oxford, sending money back to singapore to feed his aged mom?
he learnt from her?
frankly, if my family is in need, and i don't have a job to put food on the table, i'm going to go flip burgers at McD's if i have to... and it'll be an honest day's wage..
HOWEVER, it will not stop me from trying to get a better job which i am qualified for, because it will not only put better food on the table of my family, it will also help give my family a better life...
btw, the Burmese lady... i don't think the mushroom has the complete picture... there is more to the story than is published.. something about passports and the Burmese regime..
as always, superficially, it looks good.. but there is an underlying mess which the mushroom either doesn't know, or feels he must selectively ignore -
If we all learn from her, sei loh, that's the end of singapore.
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What kind of wrong example u trying to give us again?
Why always compare us with poor countries around the region?
If we always compare ourself with poor countries, we will never progress, we should always look forward. Issnt it what ur PAP political masters have been asking as to do?
damn, is ur next post going to be like some poor african starvation country? and u trying to ask us to learn from these?
can u wake up ur bloody idea or not? u really have a very sick mind. -
we must be entrepreneurs.. like the Nigerians
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I presume that good 'ole mushroom boi is from an established Singaporean 'elite' family, whether involved or politics or not is inconseqential, and feels he is not a quitter, even though he finds better opportunities in UK.
He probably can't understand why Singaporeans are fretting when there are opportunities abound, and yet he himself chose to work in another location.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
If an Oxford PhD holder can harbor such pathetic shallowness in critical analysis, are Singaporeans more fortunate, or should God better help the remaining Singaporeans who have not ventured overseas to obtain even a basic degree - let alone a PhD.
"Myanmar national Chaw Su Htwe, a philosophy graduate from Yangon's Dagon University, said she came to Singapore because it is hard to find a job back home.
Said the 28-year-old: 'Now that I'm in Singapore, I want to work very hard, earn a lot of money and send it home to my mother.' "
(Straits Times, Dec 3)
If a graduate is prepared to work 24/7 for $300 a month as a maid, without annual leave or day off, what does that say about the Singaporean who refuses a job because it involves shifts or having to work in a clean room? The Myanmar maid also has to work for free the first three months to pay the cost of the passport to leave Myanmar.
What is the ranking of Yangon's Dagon University by any World Standard ?
What will you expect a Philosophy graduate do - even if one is to graduate from our NUS - let alone from a lowly placed Dagon University ?
Which Singaporean has ever refused a job in this tight job market ?
Is it not a fact that the current employment situation in Singapore remains an 'Employers' Market' - which allows employers to pick and be choosy ?
How many Singaporeans - who have been laid off, or who have graduated - will actually qualify to work in a Clean Room ?
You still have not address my previous question to a few of your nonsensical postings - in which I have asked: " How do you retrain the large pool of blue collar workers (welders or assembly line workers) to work in the BioScience industries identified for the 21st Century Singapore Economy ? "
It is disgusting to read some of your postings that chastise Singaporeans while you have no understanding of the reality on the ground.
What is the premise of all your views ?
From some cleverly manipulated statistics to substantiate government propaganda ?
Have you associated yourself with those two NUS Associate Professors who were entangled with the Department of Statistics - on the actual numbers of unemployed in Singapore ?
Get in touch with the real world before offering your patronising remarks with such arrogance. -
Gone are the good old days where jobs are aplenty, pay is gd, the cost of living is low. We live in a new reality, maybe that is Oxford's point. Of course, it is illogical to literally compare Singaporeans with the Burmese Philosopher maid (Well, maybe she did philosophize that it wasn't such a bad thing after all working as a maid). However, Mushroom has to realize that most Singaporeans possess the dependent mentality as a result of the government's 'nanny state' grip on day to day lives. When things were going well, the kid 's happy. But when things go awry, the kids throws a tentrum and blames the nanny.
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Another selectively pathetic attempt to selective comparison between a person who's from a regime to someone who's in a hybrid regime.
might as well make comparisons to African states.. -
Originally posted by Quincey:
You are correct with your statement that "gone are the good old days where jobs are aplenty, pay is gd, the cost of living is low" .
Gone are the good old days where jobs are aplenty, pay is gd, the cost of living is low. We live in a new reality, maybe that is Oxford's point. Of course, it is illogical to literally compare Singaporeans with the Burmese Philosopher maid (Well, maybe she did philosophize that it wasn't such a bad thing after all working as a maid). However, Mushroom has to realize that most Singaporeans possess the dependent mentality as a result of the government's 'nanny state' grip on day to day lives. When things were going well, the kid 's happy. But when things go awry, the kids throws a tentrum and blames the nanny.
Unfortunately, Oxford's point was simply an attempt at deriding Singaporeans for not wanting to work even at menial works - so much so that we have to employ a Myanmese Graduate in Philosophy - and Singaporeans still will not even work on shift jobs, as well as in 'Clean Room'.
On what basis did he form his views, while perched on an ivory tower in UK ?
Is he in touch with the reality on Singapore soil, or is he dependent on Singapore Government propaganda to form his opinions and chastise Singaporeans ?
He should count himself fortunate to be perched on that ivory tower, while offering partonising opinions with such regular arrogance; as there are others in the UK who are less fortunate, let alone those in Singapore.
Globalisation is a fact of Life, which Singapore has been faced with ever since we were kicked out of Malaysia, and had to be plugged into the World Economy for our survival.
It is not a recent phenomenon, and yet this Singapore Government had 45 years of leadership position, and did not steer our ship clear of this approaching competitive storm - in which the whole world has awaken to be plugged into the same energy source.
This Singapore Government continue to monopolise the Singapore Economy, ensuring that Singaporeans continue to be dependent on their GLCs for all essential services - name which essential service that Singaporeans can obtain from alternative source that is approved by the Government - and not owned by the Government ?
During the last three economic downturns - in 1987, 1997 and 2002 - economic committees were formed with carefully deliberated recomendations made. Yet less then 30 per cent of those recommendations from three separate committees were adopted.
The Government was supposed to get out of business, and yet remain as the lynch-pin in a pseudo-privatise economy that remains largely in the hands of previous GLCs that were reformed but continue to be in Government hands.
Is it any surprise that the sluggish status quo will continue despite the glowing economic reports of growth coming from narrow sectors of the Singapore economy ?
If I am not mistaken, Oxford's PhD is in the medical field, which leave him even more entire out-of-touch with the economic reality faced by Singaporeans, while he is overpaid in UK offering patronising and chastising remarks with such arrogance. -
selective comparison.
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how silly to make such a comparision.
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Oxford standard drop sia..Originally posted by dragg:how silly to make such a comparision. -
Month of April is next year.
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stop using foreigner to compare wif us. frankly speaking, they r happy here since our government treat foreigners like gods n locals like dirts.
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S$80 is 400 yuan. I was able to have a feast in Beijing just with S$80 with 3 waiters waiting on us hand and foot. We ate specials that to the locals costs a bomb and food that flown from different parts of China. It was a 10 course meal, with several rounds of beer and drinks.
Currency exchange is the game, low cost of living is the name.
I would not mind being a maid in Singapore where life is safe and decent and my meals are provided vs life in Myanmar where I could become a prostitude working for coins barely enough for my family. Besides, some maids in Sg has side lines. -
It was NTU professors, not NUS.Originally posted by Atobe:Have you associated yourself with those two NUS Associate Professors who were entangled with the Department of Statistics - on the actual numbers of unemployed in Singapore ?
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You are telling Singaporeans, that after all these decades of "progress", they should now slog like a third world citizen???Originally posted by oxford mushroom:"Myanmar national Chaw Su Htwe, a philosophy graduate from Yangon's Dagon University, said she came to Singapore because it is hard to find a job back home.
Said the 28-year-old: 'Now that I'm in Singapore, I want to work very hard, earn a lot of money and send it home to my mother.' "
(Straits Times, Dec 3)
If a graduate is prepared to work 24/7 for $300 a month as a maid, without annual leave or day off, what does that say about the Singaporean who refuses a job because it involves shifts or having to work in a clean room? The Myanmar maid also has to work for free the first three months to pay the cost of the passport to leave Myanmar.
What's wrong with you? Too much education rotted your senses or something?? -
yeah, i absolutely agree. our MPs should learn from this maid.
with their salary, they should work 6000 hours per day as compared to wat the maid is getting.
compare apple to apple and orange to orange.