The ridiculous nature of things

Recently we are hearing more and more Third World people coming here to set up businesses and claiming that we don’t have talents to work for them. And the only talents good enough are their own natives. Why would these Third World people want to set up businesses here when the cost of operating their businesses back in their Third World countries would be so much cheaper, cost of living cheaper, and plenty of talents that they are bragging about?

And the funny thing, why, with their talents, that they could not turn their Third World countries into First World countries?

And why would a First World country like ours go on its knees to beg for Third World businesses and Third World talents to come here and treating them as better talents than our local talents? Or the truth is that our talents are really worst off than Third World talents? Then why are we paying our talents ‘out of this world’ salaries, and Third World talents who could not find any good jobs in their home countries coming here to be paid First World salaries and to look down on our local talents.

My view is that businesses operating here, employing more than 70% of their own kind at management level should be encouraged to leave as they are not contributing much to our economy but taking advantage of our system and infrastructure and our efficiency and location. We are so good in so many aspects as a country, as a business centre, but behaving like a cheap prostitute with no bargaining power and have to accept any customer that comes along.

Isn’t that pathetic? Even Third World so called talents are despising us as unworthy of employment. Where is our dignity?

Raymond attacks Redbean

One of the key issues raised at the May Day Protest Rally is the emergence of the Sedition Act and the persecution of bloggers. One of the speakers were unhappy that the Govt is using a sledgehammer to whack the little bloggers in cyberspace who little infringement.

In mysingaporenews blog there is a Raymond that has been harassing me almost daily making personal attacks instead of discussing the issues raised. Yesterday he went one step further by threatening report me to the police for sedition. This is what he quoted me and claimed that it was seditious.

Raymond said...

..."will Hong Lim prove that Singaporeans are a defeated people, waiting to be extinguished and to disappear, to be replaced by new migrants becoming new citizens?"

There you go with your dangerous extremist views again... Keep it up and I might just make a police report against you for sedition.

May 01, 2013 12:35 pm

Who is this Raymond and why is he so arrogant to think that he could go around threatening bloggers and feeling so confident that the police will take up his wild and lame accusation against other bloggers? Why does he think that it is his duty to police the social media and report on bloggers for indiscretion according to his interpretation? Why would he think that the police would be at his becks and calls?

This Raymond acted as if he is somebody, or maybe well connected, or he has some strong backing, to slam bloggers as he likes. It would be nice to expose his connections.

What I can safely conclude is that he cannot be linked to the Govt as the Govt cannot be seen to be indulging in such nefarious activities and using public funds. An ass like Raymond, if exposed and found connected, can be very embarrassing. Neither can he belong to any political party as it will be equally embarrassing and reflects very badly of any political party sanctioning such shameless activities in the net.

So, who is this Raymond and who is behind him? Or is he just an individual running loose, perhaps with some mental problems? I am now collating all his comments in my blog that are intimidating or harassing in nature. I am building up a case and may submit it to the police to investigate this Raymond for harassment and intimidation. I am sure his IP can be easily traced out and identified by the authority unless he is operating from some safe house that is untraceable.

These people in social media are like pests, disease. While the Govt has been talking about some control in the social media, would the Govt also be considering ridding social media of such pests, otherwise they will go on harassing bloggers with immunity.

What to make out of May Day at Hong Lim?

I was there as an observer, met some bloggers who have followed my blog and listened to the views of Singaporeans there, mostly negative. One thing, the crowd was much smaller than the previous rally, probably less than 3,000. But this time there were more media representations. The other point to note was the predominantly older crowd. The young were less represented, perhaps more busy having a good time while it still lasts.

I must say that despite the smaller crowd, the speakers were more enthusiastic this time and speaking with more vigour. Leong Sze Hian made his often statistics laced speech simpler and easier for the people to understand. And the star speaker must be Ravi, the famous lawyer of the downtrodden. He posed for a photo shot for me. Ravi was simply exciting and witty in his speech. I remembered him saying that it needed a cleaner like Vellama to sweep clean up the Constitution or something to that effect. The crowd loved him. He was furthest from the stigma that he was having some mental problem. I think the people having mental problems are those who think so.

Many issues were raised in the presence of a respectable crowd. The main issue of 6.9 took the main platform. But after all have been said, would it have any impact on the Govt? Would the Govt be bothered to listen and reflect on this big population game plan and tone down on the aggressive ambition? I think the Govt is likely to ignore this Rally totally as if nothing happens.

There was a lone independent speaker who spoke generally about the same issues. He must have felt very passionate about it to mount a little mountain in Hong Lim with his own loudspeaker to speak to the crowd. And beside him was a poster that said it all. ‘You call us noise. We call it truth!’.

To some, what were being said are plain noise. But for the noise makers, it is their version of truth. Who’s will shall prevail? No prize for the answer. Looks like Hong Lim Rally will just be another rally that will soon be forgotten as most Singaporeans are busy making money and have no time for it. 6.9m or 10m, so what, they will take them in their stride.

Gilbert and his team and their hope for a bigger turn out must be feeling a bit dejected though they were not showing it. The Singaporeans that would be affected by the outcome of a huge population were not coming forward to support the cause. The Govt won hands down. The White Population Paper will be executed duly and in good time. Singaporeans should just live with the 6.9m comes 2030.

Selfish Meritocracy? Chok Tong is wrong

In his latest sermon, Chok Tong preached about selfish meritocracy and the need for those who have risen to the top of the heap to help those below, not to pull away the ladder. It is a serious call, a virtuous sermon to remind the successful to help those that are less successful, to give a helping hand instead of keeping the hands in the cookie jar to help themselves for more.

I think Chok Tong is seeing only one side of the coin. Singapore is a very selfless meritocracy in every count. As a country, we are extremely successful and we are very generous in sharing our success and wealth with people around the world. The people from the Third World are invited and swarming here to make their fortunes. The luckless and unable to make it people from the First World are also here to be treated like gods and given great jobs and great salaries that they would not get back home.

We have turned a swamp into a shining jewel and our first class infrastructure and systems are for people of the world to come and share and enjoy. We have the best universities and students from Third World countries are invited to study here instead of their down and out universities at home. And if they cannot afford the high cost of living, no sweat, our Govt will pay for tuition and living allowances, bond free. Several hundreds of scholarships were given out every year to these fortunate foreign students. Even their monthly allowances were more than what Singaporeans gave to their children.

We are even more generous in offering job opportunities to foreigners as long as they tell us that they are talents and have papers to prove it. We even sideline our not so able PMETs to make way for these foreign talents to make it good here.

Now, who is saying that we are guilty of selfish meritocracy? Look at how many foreigners who are now CEOs of our local institutions earning millions annually, which we could have kept them for our locals. But no, we are generous, and we believe in selfless meritocracy. We don’t mind giving the millions to foreigners who are good, and hopefully they don’t pull the ladder from the locals when they are up there, given the opportunity by the our govt to be here. Hopefully they don’t see it as tribal preservation to pull the ladders from the locals and offer the ladders to their friends from their home countries.

Singapore and Singaporeans can vouch and swear that we practise selfless meritocracy, and particularly in favour of foreign talents. Many foreigners have benefited from our meritocrazy. The locals that failed to enjoy the generosity and the meritocrazy policy have only themselves to be blamed.

What do you think? I think I am telling the truth. I only wish that our Govt practises a little bit of selfish meritocracy to benefit our own people.

Gilbert and his speakers

Gilbert being interviewed

The speakers

Gilbert and Zaobao reporter

Ravi enthralling the crowd

An independent speaker on his own

This one is carrying LKY on his back