This Singaporean reject will not return as FT

‘….Encourage bold visions and idea, no matter what they are. One of the reasons why Singaporeans overseas do not want to come back, is because the smallness of the vision of the local population. The big bold visions draws out the best in us, they draw people to us. No one believed me when I first said we could build a space industry on our own, now 18 months later, the Australian government is supporting its creation along with Universities and Commercial entities in the creation of the Delta –V which is now leading the creation of the Space Industry in Australia.
 
Reduce the amount of red tape to experiment. At Singularity University, I am investigating, Bio electric batteries, next generation drone flight systems, Genetic Modifying organism, and new ways of traveling into space. We know that we can’t do all of them, but we can test all our ideas and experiments on them to validate them.This is incredibly useful for generating new ideas and validating old ones. I intend to already build a similar facility back in Sydney to support the space industry….’
 
Above is part of a letter from a Brian Lim to Jack Sim explaining why he would not return to Singapore. That is not all. If he had not migrated to Australia, he would probably be a hawker or someone peddling goods in the pasar malams. This Brian Lim did poorly in his PSLE, ended in the Normal Stream, repeated his O level, and failed in polytechnic. What kind of prospect or jobs would he be fit to do?
 
Today he earned a Masters in Space and working in NASA in Singularity University in Australia. Would he be invited to be a returned FT? Can we find the reason why there is no talent among Singaporeans and why other countries are producing so many talents? If a PSLE failure can be remoulded into a top talent, surely all the straight As and near straight As students must be better potentials. But no, they are not even good enough to compete against 3rd World funny degree graduates.
 
And this Brian Lim is not a single or exceptional story. There are many Singaporeans overseas that are rejects of our educational system but earning Masters and PhDs and working in high tech, science and engineering industries. Can we figure out what is wrong with this kind of developments?
 
And look at what this Brian Lim is doing, ‘investigating Bio electric batteries, next generation drone flight systems, Genetic Modifying organism, and new ways of traveling into space.’ Some of our super talents would laugh out their dentures if they found out Brian Lim failed his PSLE. Brian is employed by the Australian govt in space exploration and space mining. What are our local talents doing, building more costly shopping centres and monuments? Or maybe trying to study solar flares, earthquakes and tsunamis or desert storms.

There have been many stories of our failed students that turned out to be gems in foreign educational systems. How many of our Einsteins have been wasted in the process and going through the decades of our educational system?

Kopi Level - Green

Roy Ngerng and Han Hui Hui at Hong Lim - 12 Jul 14 (Sat)

Roy Ngerng and Han Hui Hui will be at Hong Lim again this Saturday on a follow up to their earlier protest rally last month. The issues would still be about the CPF withdrawal and Minimum Sum Schemes. They will be doing an update on these issues and on the debate in Parliament.

The protest rally will start at 4pm. Not sure about the speakers but very likely the same as in the last rally. Not sure if they have invited Irene or Renee Yap to speak about her plight. Maybe her problem has been resolved and she has gotten her CPF money back.Anyone got any update about her case, or has it died a natural death?

India: Over 1,000 teaches with fake degrees sacked

‘(AFP, 8 Jul) – India’s Bihar state has sacked 1,100 school teachers in the last five years for faking their own education qualifications, an official said on Tuesday.
 
Bihar’s government has launched an investigation into the eastern state’s primary and secondary teachers to check the authenticity of their degrees, the official said….
 
Bihar, with a population of almost 100 million, has some of the poorest literacy rates in India….
Standards of education in rural India have declined almost every year since 2009 despite huge government investment, a survey by Indian education research group Pratham has found.’
 
The above full article is posted in TRE.
 
Singapore is so lucky that only honest Indian professionals with genuine certificates are coming here for employment. Or maybe it is our strict criteria and controls that are weeding the fakes from coming here. And we have probably a few hundred thousands of honest and genuinely qualified Indian professionals working here, some in very high positions. No problem really, all genuine talents.
 
Dunno who to thank for this or what lucky star to thank for. Or maybe we are just a born lucky country where the houseflies would not think this is a piece of shit, a place fit for them.

Kopi Level - Green

TRE under planned routine maintenance?

Yesterday I noticed the home page of TRE was not normal with overlapping words that could not be removed and thus making reading difficult. Was TRE attacked and defaced?

This morning it is down for maintenance.Oh, it is unplanned maintenance!

Singaporean bashing Round 2

Singaporeans are up for bashing again by Singaporeans that think they are immigrants or anglophiles. An article in the Mypaper titled, “‘Us and them’ drag us down’, gave a no holds bar attack against Singaporeans by a group that is noted for Singaporean bashing. They share the same mindset and together they supported and reinforced each other’s view that Singaporeans are to be blamed for being ungracious to foreigners. William Wan even identified himself as immigrant to take side with the foreigners. We were immigrants and are one of them.
 
Do the immigrants think that they were one of us? The angmohs have been pretty cocky, vicious and arrogant in how they made fun of Singaporeans, teasing Singaporeans with racist remarks, threatening Singaporeans in broad daylight and beating up Singaporeans as a past time. Did any Singaporean do such things to the angmohs? Did any of these angmoh lovers make any vile remarks against the Singaporean beating angmohs?
 
And as for the very nice foreign workers, they burnt our police cars, rioted and beaten up the Singaporean drivers and bus attendant and put all the blame on them for their rioting, causing loss of properties and disturbing the peace. And now our police are even the target of attacks, for being incapable, incompetent and poor leadership in managing the riot.
 
Why is it the fault of the police when the rioting was committed by foreigners? Why is it the fault of Singaporeans for being angry with so many foreigners here and growing impatient and intolerant to their abrasive and boorish behavior and invading our space? Why is there no criticism of foreigners cheating on Singaporeans, sacking and replacing Singaporeans in PME jobs with their own kind? Why is it tolerated when foreigners practiced discrimination in the industries by hiring their own kinds in our very own country?
 
Pauline Straughan even commented, ‘when things get rough and tough in Singapore, it is easy to blame outsiders’. What this group of elite or academics is doing is exactly the opposite. When things get rough and tough, it is so easy to blame the Singaporeans. And the whole gang is whacking Singaporeans, particularly the netizens for the ‘rudest and vilest of comments’. Are these worst off than what the likes of Casey Anton did? Are these worst off than Singaporeans being threatened by foreigners, with a burly angmoh chasing a young NS man into lift and choking his neck, threatening him with bodily harm, and walking away like he owned this island? Are these worst off than those cocky and aggressive angmoh cyclists threatening to beat up Singaporeans on the road, in defiance of the law?
 
And there is this Christine Leong saying, ‘Just because the streets and public transport are getting more congested, people get annoyed and want to find someone to blame for this, and the first group that comes to mind are the foreigners’. Is that unexpected when the average Singaporeans would have to push their way into the trains with the foreigners and to smell their smelly armpits and tolerate their loud talking in the confines of the train? And many of our oldies and young women would have to stand while the young and tough foreigners enjoyed their ride sitting?
 
People living in ivory towers and a different lifestyle that hardly have to bear with the antics of the foreigners could talk cock like in the academia. If they were to encounter the foreigners day in and day out, and be victims of their nonsense, threatened or beaten by them, lost their jobs to the foreigners, would they be talking such nice cock and bull stories?
 
Yes, I must agree that Singaporeans should not blame the foreigners. Singaporeans should blame the policies that brought about the influx of foreigners and be victims of the foreigners. But no, it is not just the policies that made Singaporeans see red. It is the people that made the policies that the Singaporeans should be angry with. It is the people that condone the academics and elite to bash Singaporeans because of their bad policies that should be the target of Singaporeans’ anger.
 
For the past centuries, Singaporeans have been very kind and inviting to foreigners. And they still do except when their privacy, dignity and safety are violated. They have the right to be angry when these things happened to them. And the true blue Singaporeans are born here, not immigrants. Your forefathers may be immigrants, without a country, starting off as foreigners, not even citizens. Now we are citizens of this island, our country. We are not immigrants and we want to have a say in the number of immigrants being brought in and how they behave and how they treat Singaporeans. Bad foreigners must be kicked out of our island, be it that they are very nice angmohs and very nice foreign workers.
 
The people’s tolerance for the foreigners is being tested daily and they are losing their patience. The people’s tolerance for being bashed by our own kind, blindly in support of foreigners, in defending the rights of foreigners but ignoring the rights of Singaporeans, is also being tested. Singaporeans would soon turn to this group of people who think of nothing but bashing Singaporeans for all the wrong reasons except for their fond of foreigners. And they can choose to be immigrants and called themselves immigrants for all they want. The true blue Singaporeans would not tolerate their cock and bull remarks and disgraceful comments against the good nature Singaporeans in general.

Kopi Level - Green