From foreign students to PR to citizenship

Responding to Png Eng Huat’s query on the number of foreign students taking up PR and citizenship, Iswaran was reported to have said ‘that about 7,000 foreign students at the secondary and junior college levels became permanent residents between 2001 and last year on their own merits. Of the 7,000, about 840 of them or 12 per cent subsequently took up citizenship’
 
Let’s look at the numbers more intimately. In 14 years, from 2001 to 2014, 7000 students became PR and 840 took up citizenship. These mean that 500 students became PR and 60 took up citizenship yearly for the same period. Not every encouraging right?
 
Another question to ask, presuming that all of them were on govt scholarships, how many of them were here during these 14 years and how much were spent on them using taxpayers’ money. These numbers would help to work out how much it cost to get one PR or one citizen. Then maybe the number can be used to compare if it is better to use the money on our citizens to encourage them to produce more babies. Just give the money to every child that is born, that may be cheaper in the long run.
 
What do you thing? It would be interesting to know the absolute number of foreign students given scholarships under this scheme and how much were actually spent. The former would give a percentage on the success rate. Could it be 10%, or 20%?

PS. Based on the 12% taking up PR, total scholarships given out would be 58,300 over 14 years.

Naming monuments after LKY

This is about the most important thing to think about and to do today. The whole population is thinking of some ingenious ways to honour the founding father. And many great ideas have been mentioned in Parliament about naming this and that or erecting this and that to name after LKY. Of course my idea of a 100m Statue of Liberty, I mean Statue of LKY, at the Marina Barrage is not well received as no one seems to want to mention it. So far the thinking has been very positive and everyone is very high about this, like on drugs.
 
Before anyone gone too far overboard and over excited by this exercise, just consider for a moment about the not so savoury part. Think of assholes, yes assholes like Matilah Singapura and the likes of him. Think of what rascals like him would be thinking and what they would be contemplating and would want to do. Just bear this in mind before doing anything. Think security. Think vandalism. If these hints are not good enough, think of Ah Long, I mean the loan sharks and what they are famous for when they went chasing for bad debt.
 
I think by now people should have a good idea what I am driving at and what they should do and should not do. It is always good to think positive, but at times it is important to consider the unthinkable. Not everyone is head over heels about this matter. Maybe a better idea is to ask people like Matilah Singapura, to read his mind to understand what they may be up to and not to make things too easy for them. Yes, pay him a consultation fee, kind of learning from a thief to catch a thief.
 
Get it?

PS. Careful about the acts of God. Remember the Merlion? A little proactive thinking would go a long way.

Shanghai Singapore Connect – An Impossible Dream

The success of the Shanghai Hong Kong Connect has been making many people here salivating. Why are their markets so active and bullish while the touted as the most progressive and advanced SGX is still in ICU? No doubt the exuberance in Shanghai/Hong Kong exchanges is having a spillover effect on the otherwise dead but artificially boosted computer infested market and giving it a semblance of life. But do not believe much in it as the bulk of the trading is done by computers, not real participation from real investors.
 
With the surge in prices and volumes in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, some are questioning why the SGX would not do a Singapore Shanghai Connect and bring some life back to the market. It is wishful thinking for many reasons but most important is the philosophy behind Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges. The Chinese are promoting Shanghai and Hong Kong as the alternative trading model to the excessively manipulated American modeled exchanges that are dominated by computer trading, cheating on the innocent investors and the fund managers.
 
China would not allow such unfair practices to operate in the Shanghai Hong Kong exchanges. No way. How then could SGX dream of a connect with Shanghai and Hong Kong to form a holy trinity when one is obviously looking ungodly?
 
Actually SGX should have no fear as it is the best exchange in the region with all the best practices and hi speed computers and the most advanced trading concepts in the system. There is no need to be envious of the Shanghai Hong Kong Connect. Soon Shanghai and Hong Kong would fail and would adopt the same practices like the SGX. That is the only way to go forward. Everything is so fine in the SGX. And with the new reputation as a Mickey Mouse stock exchange inundated with penny and penniless stocks, with tiny bid sizes, smaller lot sizes, the market is idea for all ages. Children can also afford to buy stocks with their pocket money. It is so liquid and so cheap to play in this Mickey Mouse stock market, not much more expensive than playing Monopoly.
 
And with children participating in the market, as proxies since they cannot trade directly, the de facto number of investors could easily doubled or tripled, to give the added trading volume or if not, the number of investors that can be theoretically playing the market.
 
The Shanghai Hong Kong stock markets are incompatible to the SGX as the value of their stocks are too expensive, the bit size and the lot size are also too big and expensive for children to play. They are playing in a different league, adults only. And how can they allow a connect to a system that uses computers to trade against the innocent and ignorant investors to take advantage of them with their computer power? No way. Unfair trading is unfair trading.
 
The Chinese would go their own way, do their own things. The SGX would be happy with its Mickey Mouse status and image and targeting a different clientele, investors that can only afford to play super penny stocks.
 
A Singapore Shanghai Connect under the present arrangement and operating platforms is simply no go. The only way to operate a sustainable and sophisticated stock market is the SGX way. The Shanghai Hong Kong model will not work, for long if the foreign funds would have their ways, to force them to be more like the SGX or the New York Exchange.

The most powerful Asean state going to declare war with China

The most powerful military state in Asean is drumming at ever higher pitch to start a war with China. With its battle order headed by the biggest warship in Asean donated by the Americans, the Americans wanted to scrap this WW2 junk but found a country that could put it to good use, and a few patrol boats donated by the Japanese, the war machine of the Philippines is formidable. China’s navy would soon be wiped out and all its South China Sea islands would be taken over by the Philippines. Maybe Aquino would be generous enough to offer a few pieces to the Americans for more antique warships to invade China.
 
The Pinoys, without failed, have been drumming up fears of a China monster sitting in the South China Sea, the picture of this monster is even more vivid than what the Americans could envisage and imagine. And the Americans and the Japanese believe that this is true. Not sure if the monster was created in Hollywood or in Tokyo, not sure if the Pinoys were given the image of this monster to whip by the Americans. Or was it created by the top intellectuals from the Pinoy think tanks?
 
Anyway the origin of this monster is not important. What is important is that more military agreements would be signed between the US and the Philippines and more American troops and hardware would find their way to the Philippines, more war games and more provocations to get China into a fight.
 
The Pinoys are sure to win this war. Singapore got to be extra careful. Some of the Pinoys have unintentionally divulged a Pinoy state secret, that they are harbouring the ambition of making Singapore a state of the Pinoy Empire. I think the proof is still floating in the internet. Just google Edz Ello and you will get the message. Indonesia also has to step aside. It is no longer the most powerful country in Asean, militarily. Subic and Clark Air Bases would come to life again with American soldiers helping the Pinoys to rule South East Asia. The Pinays would have a lot of good jobs to do and no need to be foreign maids.
 
We are witnesses to the rise of a regional military power in South East Asia. The country that would defeat China and seize control of China’s islands in the South China Sea, the Philippines is the new and top regional military power.

The tragic fate of Sinkies going the dodo way

The passing of LKY and the weeklong documentary on the TV channels showing how great the country he had built to the world, the achievements of a people he led to turn a swamp into a glittering jewel of the world must have impressed the people of the whole world. It was a very proud moment for Singaporeans. And the testament, many world leaders were here during the state funeral, and the island city state is half filled by foreigners to make their fortune and enjoy the hospitality and facilities of this modern day miracle.

Who built this wonderful city and providing jobs to the world, providing free education, world class education to the children of the world that could not afford it, could not afford the quality of such education? In the past the Singaporeans believed that this city was built by them. Today, the foreigners here claimed that they built this city for the Singaporeans, provided good jobs for the Singaporeans. And the leaders of this island also agreed.

Many Singaporeans are losing their jobs, the professionals and managers, for not having the right skills set. And they are told by foreigners here that they are not good enough. And these Singaporean professionals believed so too. They believed that they are not good enough, by foreigners, many with fake degrees, with lower qualifications than them that would have failed in our education system. And the some leaders agreed. No one has a little common sense to question these findings that the Singaporeans are turning into unskilled people, obsolete, unemployable, because the foreigners and our people said so.

And because the Singaporeans, actually now called daft Sinkies for good reasons, are so useless, there is no choice but to replace them with foreigners who have all the talent and skills set to build this country and to continue to make it grow. There is no need for Sinkies anymore. They cannot fit in. The foreigners are the best people to replace the daft Sinkies and to live in this country.

Nobody believes in the ability of the Sinkies anymore. They are being encouraged not to waste their time getting a degree. They should be happy becoming hawkers and taxi drivers and security guards. That is the way for the Sinkies to go forward before they join the dodo birds, to be rediscovered in the next century, in the ruins of an island city state they built and left behind.

It is unbelieveable, but this is the truth. Everyone in the city state knows that Sinkies are useless, hopeless and need to be replaced by better and more talented people deserving to inherit this jewel and keep it glowing forever. They did not know how to defend themselves, their rights as owners of this city state they built but have forgotten or conned to believe it was built by the newcomers. And they are giving up by default, by resignation, by their own admission and acceptance that they are truly daft and beyond redemption.

And who is spreading this lie? And who believes in this lie without questioning? And who is helping to make this lie a reality? The Sinkies are more stupid than the PRCs, the India Indians, the Pinoys, the Myanmese or anyone from the 3rd World. The Sinkies need help from these foreigners to get a job, to get their economy going.
What is going on? The people who built a paradise are daft and useless, unemployable, despite having graduated from some of the best universities and most expensive education system in the world. And the villagers, the country bumpkins from the 3rd World, are here to inherit this city built by the Sinkies. They are taking over.