Singapore's population rises to record 4.68 million!
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pack pack pack, jam jam jam
everywhere queue queue queue -
work work work
squeeze squeeze squeeze
expensive expensive expensive
so we die die die
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The real natives are orang asli..not malays oh well that's another story
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this is probably insignificant, but i just shared a table with a tourist sri lankan's over lunch in busy little india at noon today. he came over as there were no other table available. we started chatting not long after....
a retired engineer at almost 70, he came to buy machine parts to take back home. first came in 1973, he loved singapore back then when things were simple, orderly and affordable. he lamented singapore has changed since (obviously).
keep the long story short, he said the singapore today is fueled by money. he sees no `life' in the people here, nor compassion. all activities and daily activities are driven by 2 things, the need to survive (for the lesser ones), and the need to accumulate material things (for the ones who are successful). tt the old here need to work to sustain themselves is a sad thing to him (of cos, the govt here is putting a positive spin to it, otherwise, the poor here will starve and the gahmen is too busy to look after those with a short shelf life).....ultimately, he thinks tt singapore will falter (badly). he said all this without me even prompting or skewing our conversation. obviously, he sees something he not entirely comfortable with.
i listen more than i talk....obviously, since he has `taken more salt than i have rice'...so i know my place. separately, he also said something to me that pricked me and now has make me look at things from a different perspective. he said, "today, i eat when i need to, not when i want to".
as i got up from my chair to said my leave as he continues to munch his simple meal of rice, fish and curry, he just look at me and said, "this rice has too much starch...it is no good". i took it as an analogy of singapore has too much focus on the wrong thing,.....and this is no good.
i walked away, no doubt feeling slightly uncomfortable clutching the new dvd player i just bought at mustaffa.... -
This is truly a money-driven place, impolite, and heartless society. Most people are like that but not all. Mental problem will soon become a trend in this overcrowded place. Squeezed until crazy.Originally posted by weiqimun:this is probably insignificant, but i just shared a table with a tourist sri lankan's over lunch in busy little india at noon today. he came over as there were no other table available. we started chatting not long after....
a retired engineer at almost 70, he came to buy machine parts to take back home. first came in 1973, he loved singapore back then when things were simple, orderly and affordable. he lamented singapore has changed since (obviously).
keep the long story short, he said the singapore today is fueled by money. he sees no `life' in the people here, nor compassion. all activities and daily activities are driven by 2 things, the need to survive (for the lesser ones), and the need to accumulate material things (for the ones who are successful). tt the old here need to work to sustain themselves is a sad thing to him (of cos, the govt here is putting a positive spin to it, otherwise, the poor here will starve and the gahmen is too busy to look after those with a short shelf life).....ultimately, he thinks tt singapore will falter (badly). he said all this without me even prompting or skewing our conversation. obviously, he sees something he not entirely comfortable with.
i listen more than i talk....obviously, since he has `taken more salt than i have rice'...so i know my place. separately, he also said something to me that pricked me and now has make me look at things from a different perspective. he said, "today, i eat when i need to, not when i want to".
as i got up from my chair to said my leave as he continues to munch his simple meal of rice, fish and curry, he just look at me and said, "this rice has too much starch...it is no good". i took it as an analogy of singapore has too much focus on the wrong thing,.....and this is no good.
i walked away, no doubt feeling slightly uncomfortable clutching the new dvd player i just bought at mustaffa....
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really de meh?Originally posted by Seven_Dragon:work work work
squeeze squeeze squeeze
expensive expensive expensive
so we die die die
if so, our boombostico leaders will tell us tsunami alert already .
our news would tell us alsready.
no de. -
It will be useful to carry out a truthful survey to determine the suicides, divorces and broken families were caused by poverty-induced factor due to double charging on lands, profiteering schemes of HDB and GLCs.
Where will all the golden calf worshipping lead us to one day? -
one million foreigners out of the four million. 800000 local citizens are old people.Originally posted by kramnave:70%..maybe less. -
The foreigners can exploit the old, wait for them at HDB lift lobbies.Originally posted by will4:one million foreigners out of the four million. 800000 local citizens are old people.
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I think this calls for some celebration.
it would be even better if more high quality come in.
like this, as time goes by and you reach or pass 40, your employability will become more and more challenging.
doon be scared that your job no more challenging. it will be.
some more, they also citizen.
and young young.
ha ha ... congratulations!!!!!!!!!! challenging jobs. -
True. Thanks to the bleedy PAP's policy of "stop at 2" and don't forget if you not as highly educated as them, then only have 1, so now we have to import all these foreigners, then we "celebrate" like its a wonderful thing to have so many foreigners in our country!Originally posted by will4:one million foreigners out of the four million. 800000 local citizens are old people. -
where got sad?Originally posted by Seven_Dragon:treat singapore as a place for you to work and sleep, just like a hotel... if you treat singapore as your own country, you will feel sad why it turns into a money country... so just treat is as a hotel, you will feel better...
don't bother, don't care, sh1t and go
I do not think majority are sad.
they want more challenging life and retirement.
as long as the incoming are high quality and young, retirement will be very challenging.
congrats for challenging retirement - your last phase of your life. -
Now with tiny population, already they say traffic congest.
then later, when pop goes up,
expect what you think can be expected.
you are not that dum dum right?
u guys know what i mean right?
more people means more needs for amenities.
more needed but money does not fall from the sky.
make a guess where it will come from? -
more people also can mean bigger GDP.Originally posted by reddressman:Now with tiny population, already they say traffic congest.
then later, when pop goes up,
expect what you think can be expected.
you are not that dum dum right?
u guys know what i mean right?
more people means more needs for amenities.
more needed but money does not fall from the sky.
make a guess where it will come from? -
Most of these foriegn peeps don't need to serve NS lei
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Ngiam questions need to boost S'pore's population
SINGAPORE: If former Permanent Secretary Ngiam Tong Dow had his way, Singapore would think twice before beefing up its population to 6.5 million people.
In a candid interview in the People's Action Party's latest Petir newsletter, Mr Ngiam - while stressing that "my role is to give an alternative, not an opposing view, to government policies" - questions the rationale behind the new target. Singapore doesn't need numbers, it needs talent, he said.
Pointing out that managing the population is the main challenge facing Singapore, the 70-year-old said: "If we do it wrongly, it will change our economic and social system."
Some 40 years ago, while serving on the Economic Development Board (EDB), he and others had studied the question of an "optimum size" for an industrial country.
Said Mr Ngiam: "We looked at successful small countries such as Sweden, Norway and Israel. They each had a population of six million. So we said Singapore needed to have six million people."
But given the technological advances and rising educational levels, Singapore "no longer needs numbers now but more quality", he added.
Mr Ngiam said he was told that the number "was based on Gross Domestic Product growth of six per cent a year".
"A back-of-the-envelope calculation would show this comprises a 2-per-cent increase in population and 4-per-cent growth in productivity. But if we can increase our productivity by more than 4 per cent, we can still have 6-per-cent growth, but with fewer people who are highly productive."
He stressed the need to appeal to people's hearts. "Otherwise Â… Singapore will become just a six-star hotel where guests stay in good times and flee when times are bad. We will never become a nation," he said.
His vision: Set up a think tank to "think strategically" on top of tactics such as dual-citizenship and a more broadly-defined concept of National Service. "For instance, a foreign Singaporean living overseas should have no voting rights and less national service obligations."
The Government could even invite former citizens for "a month-long holiday" to advise policymakers on areas in which they have specialist knowledge. Said Mr Ngiam: "Do you know Chinese Nobel Prize winners are invited to China to teach for three months?"
"Our population policy should be more emotional ... You don't say to Singaporeans who are no longer citizens, 'You come back, we have a job for you'. You say, 'What about contributing your knowledge to Singapore? Better still, you want a job, we give you a job'." - TODAY/ym