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?

Educating other people’s children

When Deng Xiaoping opened up China, what he found wanting was the lack of talents in the latest technology, science and engineering. He embarked on a massive education programme by sending hundreds of thousands of young Chinese to the West to learn everything they could. The number by now could be in the millions. And when asked what happened if they refused to return to China? Deng was confident to say that if some returned, that would be good enough. He was confident that many would return, knowing China’s history and being the home for the Chinese. Sure many would stay put in Europe and the US, by there would be some to come home where the families and roots were.

Confidentially he might be saying to himself, if he could build a rich and prosperous China, the graduated students would come home when the opportunities were there. China is now a land of opportunities, and not only Chinese students are returning home, the Americans and Europeans are marching to China for their pot of gold. The fear of an exodus of talented Chinese did not materialise. The Chinese are coming home. Communist, capitalist or whatever, when life is good, when opportunities abound, it would attract talents all over the world to China.

China was investing in their children and counting on them to return home to build their country and to prosper their country.

What have we been doing in the education of our children? We rather educate the children of other countries and hoping that they stayed to work here, or if not, they would be good to us and say a few good words for us when they returned home. Is this what we hoped to achieve by spending hundreds of millions or billions to educate other countries’ children? What about our own children? How much are we investing on our own children other than the 250 PSC scholars?

Think how many of our children would have benefited from the hundreds of millions or billions invested in other people’s children? And think how many of our children will be home contributing to our economy and our growth? We have wasted a lot of money on foreign students with returns that are barely a fraction of our investments. And we have sacrificed the interests to our own children by depriving them of a good education as many could not do so.

And we are wasting more money to employ foreigners as lecturers in our universities, to fatten them, to make them more valuable, while our own lecturers were let go and left in the lurch. Is this a wise policy, a pro Singaporean policy?

We are losing a whole generation of our children by these flawed policies of educating other people’s children and fattening other people’s talents at the expense of our very own people and children. The long term ill effect would be worst as our people started to lose out and opt out of the talent pool and economic system.

What is happening? What kind of silly policies are these? Good? We need more foreign talents, we don’t need our own talents, our own talents are no good? Fakes and cheats are better? If we cannot get a fundamental policy like this right, everything down stream will be tearing our society and country apart. What is the point of a Singapore filled by foreigners and all the good jobs taken over by foreigners?

This is home? Really, surely? Or this is home to the foreigners? What would happen to the true blue Singaporeans if these silly policies are not killed immediately?

Is there a country called Singapore?

Below is a comment left in a thread in TRE on the bullying of a young man by a foreigner titled ‘Abusive Caucasian in MRT train caught on video’. What happened was that a burly Caucasian was not happy with the words on a T shirt worn by the young man. Such things are very common in the West and our young are just imitating the fad. And the brute shouted, taunted and threatened to throw the young man out of the train. The small built local man was obviously unable to match the burly animal and kept quiet. When the brute moved towards the young man a local Malay man stood up to confront him. There was a heated argument and both were called up by the police.

There were many comments of outrage againt this foreign brute but with some silly comments implying that we should be nice to the brute as he is a darling of the establishment, invited here to help us and our economy. Here is one of the comments.

Lim Pei Say Swee Swee:

July 12, 2015 at 5:13 am  (Quote)

1stly, BRAVO to our Malay bro for standing up for hid fellow citizen. Anyone would be honored to have him as a friend.
NEXT: SHAME SHAME SHAME on;
1) The cowardly guy being bullied for not even defending himself. Useless.
2) The commuters who hide quietly in the face of seeing a moron bully another innocent human being, let alone citizen.
3) And OBVIOUSLY, this lower than gutter TRASH Ang Mo, who sounds either British or Aussie, for THREATENING to cause bodily harm to another without provocation. This is clearly a CRIME!!! WTF is the SPF gonna do about this , now that video evidence is shown.
There is something very GRAVELY wrong and anaemic with the Sinkie society here. It slowly resembling China where spectators would rather ignore pleas for help and cheer rapists raping victims than help. Signs of a fast dying nation….


What is disgusting is to see the frequent harassment by these foreign brutes with size advantage and a meek people that would just bent their heads in shame and waiting to be bashed. What happens to the pride of being a people of a nation? Or is there still a country called Singapore with proud citizens, or a failed state with a sick people that, as the above commentator said, resembled the pariah people of a China known as the Sick Man of Asia where its people no longer believed in themselves and their meekness only invited bashing from foreigners?

What is there to be proud of as Singaporeans when foreigners come here freely and feel so free to taunt, insult and bash the citizens? And where are the leaders to stand up for the citizens? Never heard of, not a word to defend the victims of foreigner bashing. They only have praises for the foreigners and would reprimand the people and demand the people to be nice to the bullies and thugs.

And some commentators rightly pointed their fear that the Police may file charges against the Malay man whom they regard as their hero while the brute would be let off. Why are the people thinking that things would turn out this way and our hero would be punished instead of being honoured? Wasn’t this a case of criminal intimidation by the foreign brute against a local? It would be a dark day of shame if the brute is let off and the local hero charged.

Our country, or shall called it a hotel, or a prostitute den, is sick. It can only get sicker by the day if nothing is done to stop the foreigners from bullying our people. We used to have the secret societies or commandos that would take on the rogues and thugs that bullied our people. There was pride, there was identity, there were Singaporeans. Now our people are left defenceless and being taunted, threatened and beaten in our very own country by foreigners acting as if they are above the law, in front of the public as if they are more equal than the locals.

What kind of shit country is this? Why do we need to have such a powerful defence force? Who are they protecting? What is there to be proud about this country? What are we celebrating this SG50 for, the new Sick Man of Asia, to be bullied and bashed around by foreigners invited here to have good jobs and a good life and treating bashing Singaporeans as a past time?

No need to plan forward. No need to think what would happen in 50 years time. The shit is all over the place today, now. If we cannot take care of the problems now, what is the use of planning and talking about how glorious the future will be?

This is home? Really?