Alvin Tan – I like him

Anyone remember this name? Oh if you don’t, let me give you a clue. He was a foreigner given a scholarship to study free and provided with accommodation and allowances to make him feel comfortable in Singapore, without having to work but to study in this very expensive city. Ok, another clue, he is famously known as the sex blogger. He did law and was expelled from law school, not sure if he completed the law degree. Now you remember who is this Alvin Tan? He is a Malaysian now living in exiled in the US for his insensitive jokes during Hari Raya in Malaysia.

Now why did I say I like him? You see, he made a lot of people here looked very stupid and foolish. And because of him, maybe more Singapore children will now have a chance to study in our world best universities, and maybe even get a scholarship like Alvin Tan to spare their parents from selling their homes. How so?

Read Alvin’s latest post in the TRE, ‘Sex blogger Alvin Tan: I was offered SPR in 2007’.  See how good they thought of him as someone with great talent and to be a Singaporean to contribute or to help make Singapore a better place for daft Sinkies.

In brief he said a few things that would make some people feel very angry and malu, with red faces. And I quote,

‘Alvin slammed the cramped quarters that Singaporeans called housing, saying their flats were “smaller than even the upstairs area of your terrace house…. about how tough it was to own a car and how Singaporeans had to depend on “riding trains that break down” despite the fares being pricey… He said many became “bitter, cynical individuals early on in life” due to the compulsory national service they attended in Pulau Tekong and spent their working lives “competing fruitlessly” with foreigners who stole their jobs.

Noting that monthly commitments were sky-high, he said many simply resigned themselves to their corporate lives and paid chunks of their salaries into a “compulsory saving scam” called CPF that he likened to a Ponzi scheme.’

And if the above did not rile anyone from his comfort zone, read this, ‘I was offered Singaporean Permanent Residence (status) in 2007. I tossed the letter into the rubbish bin. I had no intention of becoming a cog in the wheel to fund the CPF, Temasek Holdings, and your ministers’ million-dollar salaries.’

Now you understand why I like Alvin Tan? He made those silly people who thought throwing money at people like him would make them grateful and would want to be cog to pay their fat salaries. Any one of these intelligent young men and women would easily see through the whole farce and would take them for a ride.

Would those silly buggers realize how stupid they were and stop wasting public money on these foreigners and, instead use the money to repay the citizens for paying taxes and helping to build this country and to pay their fat salaries? Hopefully they would not be so thick and stubborn and continue to throw our taxpayers money to these ungrateful foreigners that are too smart for them to handle.

Thank you Alvin Tan, for giving them a piece of your mind on their stupidity. Singaporean parents would be grateful to you and maybe lesser Singaporean children would have to become financial burdens to their parents who have to pay for their tertiary education in Singapore or forced to pay even more for their overseas education.
Alvin Tan is an angel in disguise.