SMRT lessons: Look at the positive side

It is not good to be negative. Look at the bright side of things. The recent and past breakdowns of the MRT should not be cause for alarm and depression. We need to look at things positively then we can put on a brave and cheerful front and go about life feeling good.

Just look at those countries that don’t have MRT, count yourself lucky to have MRT to move around.

Look at those countries that have people hanging on the trains from the outside, or sitting on the roof of the trains, aren’t you grateful?

Look at Japan, they have to hire pushers to push you into the trains. Here you wait for the second or third train and sure you will be able to get in without being pushed into it.

And where on earth can you find the best talents, paid in the millions, to manage the trains and run it so efficiently?

Be reasonable. It could be worst if you don’t have the best talents like ours running it, or don’t even have trains to take you around.

Don’t listen to people saying that only poor people take trains and you need to bath the moment you get home to rid yourself of the smell of poor people. Our trains are used by rich local people also. They don’t smell so bad like the snobs said.

Count your blessings. This is as good as you can get. Stop complaining. Wait till you get a rogue govt and mismanagement then you will know how good things are today.

See, positive thinking, I already feel better. Hope you people reading are also feeling better. And with the GE around the corner, things can only get betterer. Even the supply of COEs is more than before. And they have found out that Singaporeans are better for banking jobs also and the banks have started to recruit Singaporeans. Everything is so promising.

And there is a good chance that you may get a whole new train system to replace this ageing system. Now that must be something to look forward to. If we can scrap cars after using them for 10 years, we should consider scraping the train after 30 years and get a new and gleaming one with no problems to run again.

Smile, the sun is smiling.

Lin peh kong swee swee.

Transfer of knowledge from FT to Sinkies

After turning a swamp to a first world metropolis, being the best workers in Asia, we have reached full circle today. We are no longer the best knowledge based workers anymore. We are now no better than 3 world rejects. And rightfully we should learn from these 3^rd World rejects, hoping that they would transfer their skills to us even if they are still from the 3^rd World and would take another half a century if they are lucky to turn their countries into first World. Untalented Sinkies should not be shy to learn from the talented 3^rd World talents as they have longer experience being in the 3^rd World while we are rejoining the 3^rd World as a new member.

Now let’s see what skills the 3^rd World talents are better than us that they can pass it to us? What about building clean cities? Yeah, they have the experience in building clean cities. After all they built Singapore into what it is today. We better learn from them. Can anyone name some of the great 3^rd World cities that they built other than Sin City?

What about banking skills and knowledge? What is the name of the financial centres in Asia and SE Asia? Did anyone say Tokyo, Hongkong, Shanghai and did I hear Singapore? Now which 3rd World financial centre did the 3^rd World financial talents came from that is better than Singapore that we have to learn from them? They have the skills set and latest financial knowledge that we don’t have and we must learn from them, transfer of knowledge? Who built DBS, UOB, OCBC, Tat Lee, UOB, Chung Kiaw Bank, must be bankers from the 3^rd World.

Oh IT talents. Singapore got no IT talents. We need to learn IT knowledge from 3^rd World IT talents. What have our polytechnics and universities been teaching, Basic, Cobol or out dated IT programming knowledge? We are so lucky to have 3^rd World IT experts to transfer IT knowledge to us.

And medical knowledge too. There are so many specialists from the 3^rd World here and they can transfer their latest medical knowledge to us. Their hospitals and medical facilities must be world class and their medical techniques must be the best, better than out Mount Elizabeth, Raffles, our NUS and Tan Tock Seng and our general hospitals.

And yes, we need them to fill up our world class universities as lecturers. They are the best talents and our not so talented lecturers and students must learn from them before they are sacked.

Singapore, a first World to 3^rd World country has a lot to learn from 3^rd World talents and will greatly benefit from the transfer of knowledge from 3^rd World to first World talents? Or is it the other way round? Now I am very confused.

But one kind of knowledge sure we can learn. How to cheat in examinations, how to buy fake certificates, how to present degree mills degrees as the real thing? And how to con first World people that these fake degrees are the real thing. But the supreme knowledge or skill is how to make the daft first World talents believe they are daft and stupid by one with only a fake degree or a degree from the degree mills.

I think this is the most precious skill and knowledge that must be transferred to daft Sinkies to save them from being daft and continue to be cheated by the fakes and cheats and asking for more. It is time our world class universities start to teach this supreme knowledge before it is too late.

Seow liao.

Quotable quotes by Jess C Scott

Brain Drain: The emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country.

Jess C Scott posted this in her article in TRE titled ‘The main cause of Singapore’s brain drain’.

Let me try another definition.

Shit Drain: The emigration of highly untrained or shitty people from a particular country.

Singaporeans better in banking jobs

13 Jul 15, a Business Times article by Fiona Lam reads, ‘Banks in Singapore act to deepen local talent pool’. I am delirious. I think I might end up in IMH after reading the content and the comments made by the respective drones in HR. Why was Tharman talking about building a Singaporean core in banking and finance? Yes, you know the answer. For the last couple of decades, these drones could not find Singaporeans worthy of banking and finance jobs. So they went all out to hire foreigners, fakes and cheats also can, you can bet there are plenty of them entrenched in the banks.  Today, after all the kpkbs in the social media, they finally acknowledged that they had shortchanged and sold out the Singaporeans by replacing them with foreigners in this vital industry. Singaporeans were not talented, no skills set, in other words unfit to be bankers. Bloody hogwash!

Now you know what I am getting mad at? Listen to these drones and their comments. Oh, they are all starting to recruit Singaporeans to build a Singaporean core in banking and finance since yesterday. Wait a minute, aren’t they taking a big risk hiring untalented Singaporeans for banking? If Singaporeans are no good, (how can they be good overnight?) they must not be recruited into the industry just because we want a Singaporean core. They must be recruited based on  meritocracy, not nationalities. Are they not taking a big risk, compromising the interests of the banks? Who built OCBC, UOB, OUB, Tat Lee Bank, Chung Kiaw Bank and all the local banks? Not Singaporeans right?

Ok, here is one comment by a ‘Neil Clark, director of finance job site efinancialCareers, hiring managers here are showing a preference for local manpower. “This is because local candidates have a solid understanding of the operating environment and business culture, and are lower risk hires in the long term.” ‘ Wow, wow, say that again? Is he mad or what is he smoking? Are you telling the truth or you just discover the truth, that Singaporeans are better hires? Then why were the banking industry hiring foreigners in the last two decades instead of Singaporeans leading to this ugly and pathetic state that required govt intervention?  What cock?

JP Morgan’s de Josselin said, ‘wherever possible, it prefers to hire Singapore citizens and permanent residents.’ Pardon, me, who were JP Morgan hiring in the last two decades, Singaporeans, PRs or foreigners? How many Singaporeans are there in the bank versus foreigners?

Here is another one, ‘Theresa Phua, Singapore head of human resources at DBS, said homegrown staff also have a wider network and connect better with local clients.’  Ooooh, how come I dunno?  Thank you for saying that. Many people need to be educated on this, including the govt and CEO’s of banks and their top management. And here is the catch. ‘DBS has been recently focusing on local manpower…’  Recently? What was DBS hiring before recently focusing on local manpower? Why recently? How recent?

‘At Credit Suisse, the proportion of Singaporean staff has grown steadily over the past three years, said Lito Camacho, the bank’s vice chairman for Asia Pacific.’ So things are starting to change only in the last three years.  By the way, more than 70% of its employees are Singaporeans and PRs. Oh, how many are Singaporeans and how many are PRs? Can tell or not?

Why the volte face? Why the sudden interest in Singaporeans? As they said, the horse has bolted and they are trying to close the door to the barn. After two decades of damage due to reckless discrimination against Singaporeans, and a generation lost, the drones are droning a different tune. What would happen if Tharman had not spoken about a Singaporean core? Would it still be foreigners good, Singaporeans no good. Foreigners talented, got skills set, Singaporeans untalented, got no skills set? Is this another election gimmick to appease the angry Singaporeans?

My head is spinning and my eyes are rolling. What is happening? I must be having too much intoxicant? I am now in Alice’s Wonderland.

PS. Which bank wants to employ me, a true blue Singaporean, just to vet and clear the deck of fake degrees and degree mills? My biological age is 45 as fit as any 45 year olds.

Hsien Loong – Who will defend us?

This simple question used to be just that and very easy to answer. Today this is a very complex question and is very difficult to answer. The first part is the meaning of ‘us’. Who is this ‘us’, the elite, the new citizens, the PRs or the Singaporeans? Get the picture? This ‘us’ despite the Govt’s repetitive assurance that we are all inclusive is turning elusive. Are the new citizens ‘us’? Are the PRs ‘us’? Are the foreigners on employment passes ‘us’?  Or does ‘us’ refer to the elite, the PAP, the nobles and the aristocrats?

How many ordinary citizens would just take this ‘us’ at face value, that it means all of us, ie the Singaporeans, the people whose fathers, husbands, sons and brothers are NSmen?

Then there is the issue of what to defend? If you are not even eligible to buy a HDB and does not own any property here, what is there to defend, the foreigners, the elite, the rich property owners? 50 per cent of the residents is foreigners, or more if the new citizens are included. If one does not have a stake in this island, why should they be defending the foreigners and the rich?

Ask the taxi drivers and security guards or those who have remortgaged their properties to the govt, what is there to defend? Ask the displaced PMETs, what is there to defend?

The third point, defend against who? In the traditional interpretation of defence, the people of a country will defend against the invaders, the foreigners from taking over their country. If the country is already taken over by foreigners, if the foreigners have taken over everything, what is there to defend and to defend against who when the foreigners are already here have taken over the country?