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[Singapore] - Hitler doesn't get his Sg$9k NS man award
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYEcpqMRXSY[Singapore] - Mr Brown dedicates this song to old soldiers who don't get Sg$9k
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[Music] - Justin Bieber's "Baby" (female vocals version)
Justin Bieber's "Baby" by Izzahazirah :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=825tUyrsxc0Justin Bieber's "Baby" by Mica Soellner :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFRxtdbCUawJustin Bieber's "Baby" by Tiffany Alvord :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDgTAIPXC4Justin Bieber's "Baby" by Zeldax64 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSFmti2uvwJustin Bieber's "Baby" by Veronica Ballestrini :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2odmEdFs_yoJustin Bieber's "Baby" by Sarah LaMantia :
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[USA] - Congress must unlock Obama's energy innovation plans
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"The part that really bothers me though is that as the fish squirms for its life-- seared alive and gasping for air, they tease it with chopsticks and laugh at it. It's seriously evil when you think about it... a family gathered around a tortured desperate animal laughing and making fun at it-- have some dignity and? respect for other creatures."
50% of its flesh sliced off for sashimi, fish not allowed to die but is instead put back into tank alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__jD48kkzY
Fish deep fried and eaten while kept alive the entire time. In this particular video, the diners keep laughing and poking at the gasping fish with chopsticks to see it squirm.
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Posted on other Sg-based forums :
"What actually happened at Downtown east."
What actually happened at Downtown east.
Just found out the true story behind it. Please dont ask me how i know. My motive is just to share with you guys, and expose how the media lie to us.
Here are a few facts we need to establish.
1-This case has nothing to do with staring.
2-Darren is also in a gang
3-The other gang already targeted Darren for a very long time.
4- Darren was also carrying a chopper.
So lets say The attackers are from gang A and darren and his friends are from gang B.
Gang B was at downtown east hanging around. GangA knew Darren is going to be there , that is why they are carrying choppers. And also because Darren's Gang(b) "claims" Downtown east as their territory.
GangA found Darren and his friend but they aim Darren alone because he is their main target. At first it was just a normal beating. Their intention was to teach Darren a lesson. Then some of Darrens gang members ran to call for backup and some of them ran to get weapons.
When the beating was over, GangA walked off. Darren went to grab his weapon and call his backups. They found GangA and Darren provoked them again, not knowing that all his friends actually dont have any weapon and all their rivals has weapon with them.
So he act hero, took out his weapon and shouted at them "LAI LA" then GangA also withdrew their weapons. When Darren's friend saw them with weapons, all of them ran.
Darren thought his friends would stay behind him and fight together but when he turn around, all of them already ran. Darren tried to run too but ended up hitting the glass and fall down, hence getting chopped.
After Darren was chopped, those attackers went to book a challet. The police tracked them down and raided their challet. One guy jumped from the 3rd floor and fall into a 1m deep swimming pool injuring himself (fail) while the others got caught.
From my source, Darren is the most guai lan in that group and always provoking others.
Do dont listen to all the crap the media is telling you. Like Darren being a good guy, that the incident was because of staring and all the other bullshit. I know which gangs Darren and the attackers belong to but i dont wish to disclose it.Police are investigating both gangs :
http://www.straitstimes.com/PrimeNews/Story/STIStory_599535.htmlTWO gangs are being investigated for their possible involvement in the murder of Republic Polytechnic student Darren Ng Wei Jie.
The Straits Times understands that police are looking into the two groups after Saturday's bloody fracas, in which the 19-year-old was chased and then hacked to death by chopper-wielding youths in front of passers-by at Downtown East.
It is believed that the two gang names - 'Sah lak kau' (Hokkien for 369) and 'Fong hong san', a group that is believed to be active in Pasir Ris - were uttered during the confrontation at the popular Pasir Ris resort and amusement park.
The attack on Mr Ng and three friends by a group of nine young men was allegedly over a staring incident.
The investigations into the two groups come amid online chatter about possible retaliation for Mr Ng's death. On YouTube, where a tribute video to the student was posted a few days ago, some netizens have been trading insults and proclaiming gang affiliations. Some of these posts include daring 'members' to meet at a shopping centre at a specific date and time for a confrontation to settle the score.
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This particular blog entry may have been a couple years back in 2008, but if anything, the problem has exacerbated, not diminished. It's black sheep (whether foreign or local) that hurt everyone else.
http://topmleehsienloong.blogspot.com/2008/11/2-china-scholars-run-away-from-jc.html
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Brutally Tortured Maid in Stable Condition in Saudi Hospital, Consulate Official
Jakarta Globe | November 16, 2010Photo above : Indonesian migrant worker Sumiati binti Salan Mustapa after she was brutalized by her Saudi Arabian employers. (Photo courtesy of the Saudi Gazette)
Jakarta - Didi Wahyudi, an Indonesian Consulate official involved in providing protection for Indonesian citizens in Saudi Arabia, said brutalized Indonesian maid Sumiati binti Salan Mustapa was in a stable condition.
“Thank God, she’s in a stable condition,” Didi told the Jakarta Globe. “We had a small chat and she said she felt better.”
Sumiati, 23, has been hospitalized in Medina since Nov. 8 after her employers tortured her remorselessly. Her body is riddled with injuries allegedly inflicted by her employers, including cuts around her lips believed to be made with scissors.
The Saudi Gazette reported that she was also burned with an iron and had skin cut from her head.
Didi said it would take time for Sumiati to recover from the trauma.
“Doctors said to heal her psychological condition after such brutal abuse would take time,” Didi said, adding that doctors did not know yet when Sumiati would be able to leave the hospital.
“We want her to be fully recovered medically, mentally and physically. She came to Saudi Arabia in a good shape and she should return to Indonesia in similar condition as well.”
Sumiati is from Dompu in West Nusa Tenggara. She traveled to Saudi Arabia four months ago in search of a better life.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Michael Tene said on Monday that Indonesia was working closely with Saudi Arabia to ensure that the employers allegedly responsible for the serious injuries inflicted on Sumiati would be punished for the crimes.
“We are going to go all out to resolve this case. The employers must be punished based on their regulations for the inhumane treatment they inflicted on our citizen,” Michael said.
It is the latest in a string of physical abuse cases involving Indonesian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. -
Incident which occurred in Singapore, makes news in Hong Kong :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlpJZk8ewsk
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According to a reader who worked as a HR manager in a company based in China, when he put up a job advertisement to hire locals (mainland Chinese) for a few engineering positions in Shanghai, he received a deluge of resumes from PRC NTU students instead.
“I have got 78 PRC China national resumes on FREE Singapore Govt sponsor scholarship expecting to graduate from NTU this March. All of them already got a work permit and are allow to apply for PR within 2 month of working in Singapore . But these 78 PRC NTU students are not finding a jobs in Singapore , because jobs position is in Shanghai . They are planning to get a free scholarship and head back to China upon graduation, not planning to come back and without serving the bond,” he wrote.
The scholarship these students are holding is the Khoo Teck Puat Scholarship Programme which only Singaporeans (excluding Singapore PRs) and People’s Republic of China (PRC) citizens from both NUS and NTU are eligible to apply.
The terms and conditions include:•The Khoo Teck Puat Scholarship Programme covers tuition fees and provides an annual living allowance of S$5,800. For PRC citizens, an annual accommodation allowance (pegged to the lowest room rates) as well as one-way airfare at beginning of course and two-way air return passage upon graduation will be provided.
•The scholarship is tenable for the minimum period of candidature for the respective undergraduate course at NUS.
•This scholarship is tenable for any course leading to a first degree, except Medicine and Dentistry, Nursing and Music. Only Singaporeans (excluding Singapore PRs) and People’s Republic of China (PRC) citizens are eligible to apply.
•There is no scholarship bond attached to the Khoo Teck Puat Scholarship. PRC scholars are required to take advantage of the Tuition Grant Scheme and serve a 3-year Tuition Grant bond under the Scheme upon graduation.
[Source: NUS Office of Admission]
[Source: NTU Admission office (added on 28 February 2010)]
Despite the generous terms offered to PRC students studying in Singapore institutions, an increasing number of them prefer to return to China and further their careers rather than staying on here.
In a Gallup poll done in July last year, the top three emigration destinations for college students in China are the United States , France and South Korea . Singapore was not featured within the top five.
One PRC student we know told us that though he earn slightly less in China (RMB), the cost of living is comparatively lower there and he is closer to home with his families and friends
Another still find it harder to adapt to the lifestyle in Singapore after spending six years here.
“The culture in China is very different from Singapore . Though Singapore is predominantly a Chinese society, the locals here have a completely different mindset from the Chinese (in China ). The motherland is always a home in our hearts,” he said.
A common trait among mainland Chinese is that many of them are strongly patriotic about China . They would rather offer their services to China than to swear allegiance to Singapore .
A PRC national and Singapore PR by the name of Zhang Yuanyuan sparked an outcry last year by proclaiming her loyalty to China proudly on a Chinese television.
Many Chinese nationals from Singapore universities have since returned home including a famous broadcaster from CCTV who came to study in NTU in the 1990s.
With China becoming an econo mic power to reckon with, the brain drain will reverse in the next few years as Singaporeans flock to China in search of new opportunities and challenges.
As for the Singapore government which has been happily sponsoring the education of these PRC students, it is unlikely that they will get any returns on their investments when even the top students are abandoning Singapore for “greener pastures” in China . -
Source :Friday, Nov. 26, 2010
Winning Essay: I Have a Dollar. My Neighbor Has a Million.
The Case of the Old Lady
The old lady walks in with the evening crowd, clutching an old bag that she sets down in the middle of the square. Surrounded by fancy windows promoting sparkling jewelry and diamond brocaded watches, and restaurants that charge more per meal than she spends on her food in a week, she unties her sac of wares and lays them out. Five minutes later, she is sitting on her foldable chair with her arms stretched out in front of her, with two packets of paper tissues at the end of each, quietly beckoning the flowing multitude around her to equip themselves for an unexpected case of a sweaty brow or a running nose.
It is Friday evening in Orchard, Singapore's premier shopping district, and the setting sun is making way for the revelry of yet another weekend. The old lady is beginning her lonely struggle to earn what she will need to feed herself tomorrow. She does not have a pension fund, social security, unemployment insurance or old-age benefits. Fluctuations in her daily earnings matter more to her than the ups and downs of the stock market, and she is probably as disconnected a participant as one can be in the economic juggernaut that Singapore is often spoken of as.
Yet if you could zoom out of this tiny island to gaze across the entire expanse of Asia, you will see that she is not alone. From homeless have-nots huddled together in the cold subways of Seoul, watching the smartly dressed haves hustle from swanky offices to heated homes, to a family of six sheltered in their one room wooden shack, listening to the thundering roar of airplanes landing on the strip beside the world's largest slum in Mumbai — jarring illustrations of social and economic inequality abound across this continent.
In the aftermath of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression, pundits in the hallowed financial centers of London and New York speak of Asia as the next success story. "Asian countries have been leading a recovery in the world economy," claims an IMF report. (1) Separately, Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the IMF, has remarked that "rapid economic growth has turned the region into a global economic powerhouse ... Asia's economic weight is on track to grow even larger." (2)
That most emerging economies from the Middle East to the Far East will continue to develop in the coming decades seems to be an inescapable conclusion. What is not guaranteed however is whether the fruits of this almost incontrovertible development will be available to all who dwell in these countries. As Asia has grown, so has an underbelly of penniless paupers. The bulk of Asian countries face a growing impoverished population that does not have any stake in the spoils being flaunted by their rich.
See TIME's Pictures of the Week.
Which brings me to the question of this essay. If there is one challenge above all others that policymakers in the region need to address within the next decade, it is this: rising economic inequality. The only way for countries to ensure that their economic growth is sustainable and remains so through their own future and that of their children is to offer Inclusive Development to their citizens.
Economic Inequality
A new measure of global poverty — the Multidimensional Poverty Index — recently made headlines when it pronounced that "eight Indian states account for more poor people than in the 26 poorest African countries combined." (3) Quite a surprise given the contrast between the images that underprivileged Africa usually conjures — that of parched landscapes and malnourished children — and the beaming headlines Indian businesses generate in the pages of the world's business and financial dailies.
But the least confounded were those living in India itself. There, poverty moves alongside opulence like chocolate in a marble cake. BMWs and Mercedes run over fly-overs that shelter shanty towns and slums. And beggars beseech the drivers and the driven when the same cars stop at the next traffic light. The top 10% of India's population possesses 31.1% of the country's income, but the lowest 10% has access to only 3.6%. (4)
The numbers don't get much better if look across the northern border to the country's larger neighbor. According to a Credit-Suisse sponsored report released earlier this year, the average per-capita income for the richest 10% in China is 65 times higher (thrice as compared to even the official estimate) than the bottom 10%. (5)
And yet, static snapshots tell only half the story. Bad becomes far more unsettling if it gets worse over time. And that is exactly what's happening with inequality in Asia. The GINI coefficient of income — a commonly used measure of income inequality — for most Asian countries has only gotten worse through the 1990s, as shown alongside. It isn't quite as much the case of the "rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer" as it is of the "rich getting richer faster than the poor." (6) Nevertheless, worsening inequality does not bode well for many countries riding the waves of economic success in Asia. Figure Source: See 17
A 2007 report by the Asian Development Bank identifies a litany of problems — economic, political and social, associated with rising inequality. (6) According to the report, in imperfect financial markets — a category even the most open of Asian economies belong to — inequality can trap the poor in an inescapable spiral, shutting them out from access to credit, education or business opportunities. To add to this, rising inequality increases pressure to redistribute income, adding potentially distorting mechanisms and making the markets even less perfect. The report declares that in the long run, "a high level of inequality may actually hinder... growth and development prospects."
See TIME's Pictures of the Week.
Of a more immediate worry however, is the report's conclusion that rising inequality can impose tremendous social costs, "ranging from peaceful but prolonged street demonstrations all the way to violent civil war." So even as an economy develops, if it is unable to offer a stake in this development to its poorest, it is only creating a recipe for more social tension. The report quotes a study that "suggests that a 10 percentage point increase in poverty is associated with 23 – 25 additional conflict-related deaths."
A separate study released last year drew a positive correlation between higher socioeconomic inequality and negative social phenomena such as "shorter life expectancy, higher disease rates, homicide, infant mortality, obesity, teenage pregnancies, emotional depression and prison population." (7) And if recent events are anything to go by, there is clear evidence that such phenomena related to economic inequality are increasingly their toll across the region.
Some commentators have linked the attacks on schoolchildren in China to the rising discontent among its poor and marginalized, "many of whom feel left behind as the rest of China gets wealthier." (8) Similar explanations have been offered for the groundswell of support behind the violence in Thailand earlier this year. According to the country's own Ministry of Social Development, the public protests in the nation's capital offered an opportunity to the country's most strapped citizens "to vent their frustrations over declining living standards and the deepening divide between rich and poor." (9)
Biggest Challenge
In breaking down the effects of rising economic inequality, I am perhaps missing out on a slew of others. Nevertheless, it is not the mere number of such repercussions that makes it the most significant challenge facing Asia today. It is the fact that very high (and rising) levels of inequality can make other problems worse.
To present a few examples, inequality makes it more difficult to address problems of ethnic or religious tensions (socioeconomic disparity has been credited for adding fuel to fire in the troubled southern Thailand), or uncontrollable population (rising poverty means more people without access to family planning) or even natural calamities (the greater the number of impoverished, the more the potential victims without the means to prepare for or rescue themselves from floods and earthquakes).
So what then, is the solution? Some economists maintain that rising inequality is merely a stage in the development of any economy. This idea is captured in the Kuznet's curve. As a country picks up from an initial low-level of development, the acquisition of capital adds to the wealth of the new owners of this capital and shows up as rising inequality. Gradually however, redistribution mechanisms restore equality bringing the formerly marginalized sections back into the mainstream economy.
This theory is supported by data from the United States, where the share of wealth held by the top 1% of the society grew from 15% in 1775 to 45% in 1935, before falling back through the 1970's. (10) It could be that Deng Xiaoping had his one eye on these numbers when the then Communist Party leader launched market reforms in China in the 1970's with the famous words "Let some get rich first," (8) conceivably with the unspoken assumption that the rest will follow later.
What worked for America cannot however be expected work in Asia as well. This region is different; many developing countries here are more densely populated, which means that there are more poor who can band together in groups of sizeable clout, or be brought together by political parties with populist agendas, to demand for immediate action. In addition, the times have changed. With technology now connecting previously far-flung regions of a country, the underprivileged can now more easily gape at the affluence of their fellow countrymen, potentially inflaming their grievances even further.
Misguided Solutions
Waiting patiently therefore, for things to take their natural course as predicted by debatable economic theory, is not an option. Before discussing whether an alternative, affirmative approach can make a difference however, it will be helpful to take a detour and briefly look at the underlying causes of economic inequality. Figure Source: See 18
See TIME's Pictures of the Week.
The ADB report quoted earlier claims that worsening inequality limits the poverty alleviating impact of economic growth. "Poverty rates would have been lower had the economies in question been able to achieve the growth in mean per capita expenditure that they did but with their previous and more equal distributions."
Which brings me to the proverbial million dollar question — Is it even possible for these two to go hand in hand? Is economic growth that is driven by free markets and loose regulation, as is the one that has been embraced by many Asian countries over the last two decades, compatible with an egalitarian society? Or is such a growth the very agent that kindles inequality in the first place?
A cursory analysis seems to support the latter proposition. A capitalist economy rewards — with income being the reward — initiative, skill, education, labor and capital. The fewer of these you possess, the less is the eventual reward you walk away with. Empirical data further reinforces this sometimes anecdotally perceived causality. As shown in the charts below, income inequality started rising after a brief drop a few years into the launch of the Chinese economic reform in the late 1970's and hasn't looked back since. Likewise, inequality in India also began its consistently upward climb only after the liberalization reforms were launched in 1991.
It is not my intention however to prosecute economic liberalism for the ills of inequality. To do so would be to close one's eyes to the body of evidence that indicates otherwise. A comprehensive study published in 2007 by the Economic Freedom Network testified that there is nothing inherent in the idea of a free economy that worsens the state of its poor. (11) On the contrary, the authors of the report found that the freer a country is economically, the higher the income of its poorest, together with a better average income, life expectancy, and environment.
The real agents of inequality lie not in free-market driven growth itself, but one level below, in how this growth has traditionally been unevenly distributed across geographical regions (urban vs. rural) and industry sectors (non-agricultural vs. agricultural). (6)
And herein lies the understanding that guides us to the answer to Asia's biggest challenge today. Income redistribution or social redress measures as solutions are incomplete, ineffective or worse because they often follow from a case of mistaken provenance of economic inequality. Numbers that demonstrate a worsening inequality aren't so much a disease that needs a cure, but more a symptom indicative of the real malaise — that unevenly distributed economic growth offers uneven opportunities across peoples, translating into unevenly distributed income and hence economic inequality.
See TIME's Pictures of the Week.
In the long run, it is opportunity and not income that we should strive to equalize. It will not eradicate inequality. But it will be an important step towards preventing it from growing further without compromising on continued economic growth.
The 'ESLH Framework
What remains then is for us to translate this idea of equality of opportunity into a set of policy guidelines. A detailed prescription of such recommendations is out of scope for this essay. Instead, what I would like to do is to outline a framework (let's call it the Economic Sustainability Lessons from History, or ESLH, framework) that can allow us to use empirical macroeconomic data from global economic history to pick out these guidelines ourselves.
Keeping in mind that any recipe for more equality that compromises on economic growth is unlikely to be palatable to policy makers, investors or economists, the underlying idea of the ESLH Framework is to hunt for instances in the history of developing nations where income inequality has fallen even as the economy has continued to grow. Once identified, these windows of economic history can then be studied further for specific policies that were designed to equalize opportunities and correspondingly succeeded in equalizing incomes, while maintaining economic growth.
To see this framework in action, we can look at the example of Mexico. Between 1999 and 2008, Mexico's GINI coefficient fell 7 percentage points from 53 to 46, less than any recorded score for the country in the last 60 years. (15) In the same period, the country's real GDP continued to grow at an average rate of around 3%. (16)
What counsel can we draw from this experience? No doubt, the economies of Latin America and Asia are different, and there are things that worked in Mexico's favor that aren't applicable to Asia. But surely there should be a few ingredients of Mexico's success that can offer Asia a lesson in balancing economic growth with equality of opportunity.
There is at least one: the country's focus on rural development. A depreciation in rural poverty contributed significantly to Mexico's economic growth as well as its tempering inequality over the last decade. "Between 2000 and 2004, extreme poverty fell almost 7 percentage points, which can be explained by development in rural areas, where extreme poverty fell from 42.4 percent to 27.9 percent." 12
According to the World Bank, the factors that contributed to this reduction include "macroeconomic stability ... and the diversification of income from non-agricultural activities, such as tourism and services," arguably also applicable in equal measure in at least some parts of emerging Asia.
Gandhi said that India lives in her villages. Sixty-three years after the country's independence, his words are still true. Seventy-two percent of the country's one-billion-plus population today lives in rural areas. The same number for Nepal is 85%, Sri Lanka is 79%, Bangladesh is 76% and Pakistan is 66%. (13) For much of their history, these regions have formed the bread baskets for the rest of their countries. But with the rapidly declining share of agriculture in the GDPs for many of these countries, (14) it is imperative that there now be new avenues for development of rural territories, such as tourism as in the Mexican example above.
Bringing growth to the country-side, instead of luring village folk the other way with the glitter of swanky metropolitan development offers many advantages. It opens up new opportunities for the inhabitants of those areas without requiring them to desert their families or familiar landscapes. It reduces migratory pressures on urban centres, many of which in Asia are reeling from the effects of an exploding population density and an overburdened infrastructure. And it attracts more investment to the rural areas, allowing for economic growth to continue and at the same time be spread more evenly across communities.
Eliciting from the Mexican experience then, we have at least one strategic guideline that Asian leaders can follow in pursuing the goal of Inclusive Development: emphasis on rural development. There is of course no reason to stop at one. Following the ESLH Framework can allow for other such lessons to be learnt from economic histories of other countries as well that may be applicable in this region.
Conclusion
In many circles in emerging Asia, the recent financial crisis is already being talked about as history. A history that will teach us some lessons, but will not repeat itself, not in the immediate future at least. The future is bright. In the relentless journey of the Asia's economic bandwagon however, a growing number of its poor are being thrown off the cart along the way. Rising economic inequality now plagues countries across the continent's expanse, and threatens to undermine the very purpose that the polity of the region swears by: economic growth for its people.
It is essential for the long-term sustainability of this growth that Asian countries pursue a model of Inclusive Development, that offers a stake in the fruits of this progress to their poorest. The ESLH framework outlined in this essay helps us discover periods in our economic history when economic growth did not come at the expense of rising economic inequality, and learn from them. Nevertheless, this framework is but one step towards formulating an effective response. The key point is this — unless we are able to ensure that economic development creates new opportunities for each and every one amongst us, we may just be laying the stage for more men and women to give up hopes for a better future and resort to the business of selling paper tissues on street sidewalks.
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posted elsewhere on the internet :
December 4th, 2010
I used to be PR five years ago before I converted to be a citizen. Meanwhile I have strong ability at Japanese and Chinese (I am not a mainland Chinese) as I was trained and educated in this two languages but I have no strong ground in English as I never gone through education system of Singapore. My whole families converted to be Singapore citizen.Since then, I lost my job. My full time job taken by dependent pass holder & EP holders.
I forced to take up part time job and lived apart with family by studying overseas for two years.My partner’s job was taken by foreigner too, he is on contract job until next July.
I have got a job after coming back from overseas, the working place located in Singapore, but they laid me off two months later as my pay is too high for them and I am not a Japanese.
How ridiculous the reason given to me, the whole section are only filled with Japanese people.Young Japanese like to take up an overseas position with pretty low pay just for fun. And as I know some of the Japanese companies in Singapore hiring 100%(EPs & PR,some only EPS holders) their own people. They treat Singapore like their home. Money flow in to our country, we should feel happy right?? Government always persuades us to sacrifice for the nation.
Am I thinking too much?Sometimes I am really depress( as I cant accept myself out of job or working part time.Not sure whether it’s a pride problem.And also I am worrying about the future of my nephews and my son”s though I am still very young.
If VOTE PAP OUT could change the environment, I would vote for it!
I am not good at handling frustration and depression caused by outward environment, but hope to share with you the following statement which can comforting me sometimes.
Matthew 6:34
“So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
Cheers for today.
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CIP HOURS ARE BANANA MONEY
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Someone posted on another forum :
>>> New Paper today writes of a Malay woman and her japanese husband who languished in Mumbai prison for more than 6 years to await trial although they were innocent. The woman even contracted breast cancer and her husband got prostate cancer - Fianally they were acquitted and will be back soon. Ridiculous situation in India - how can they make some one wait that long before being charged???? <<<The article he was referring to may be found here :
http://www.tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,264263,00.html?They can finally come home
Unable to leave India for 10 years over drug charges, cancer-stricken couple clear their names
By Amanda Yong
December 08, 2010Their dream vacation to India in 2000, which turned into a 10-year-nightmare, may soon be over.
The Singapore couple may finally be able to return home after an appeal against their acquittal on drug charges was rejected by the Indian Supreme Court.
Madam Zainab Yousuf, 48, a Singaporean, and her husband, Mr Tetsyo Hiryama, 63, a Japanese citizen, spent six years in a Mumbai jail while waiting for their case to come before the courts after being arrested and charged with bringing drugs into the country.
They then spent another four years forced to live in India with no money after they were first convicted and then acquitted on appeal as the prosecution was appealing against the second verdict.
Their lawyer, Mr Ayaz Khan, told The New Paper that his clients are in the midst of going through the formalities as they prepare to finally go home.
