There is
still a bit of time before the pressure of the GE comes to bear for me to
indulge in a little frivolous activity, but with a subtle message for the
people as well. Before I begin, I would like to quote Sultan Ibrahim Sultan
Iskandar of Johore. He said, ‘The rakyat (people) today are a generation of
smart and learned people who can dissect the information they receive, so
please do not take them for fools by feeding them rosy news and information to
hide what is really going on.’ This comment is equally applicable in the
Singapore context without a word and comma out of place. Yes, Singaporeans are
also being fed with misinformation that calling it frivolous is being polite.
While
foreigners of undisclosed authenticity, many from dubious universities that are
equivalent to junk bonds in the finance world, are touted by the govt as
talents, and brought in by plane loads while Singaporeans with their genuine
degrees from some of the best universities are condemned as talentless, no
skill sets to compete with the fakes and cheats brought into this island.
And they are
encouraged to go overseas to compete with the rest of the world’s talent armed
with a certificate from the Trade Union to boot. My god, if they can’t make it
in home ground against the dirts and shits, can they make it elsewhere? Maybe
in some god forsaken places, in some little villages probably.
The second
point, knowing that the competition is unfair against crooks and cheats, with
many local PMETs dumped or sacked and ended up unemployed or underemployed,
instead of protecting their livelihood with legislation like other countries
are doing, even the countries of the cheats and fakes are doing it, they are
fed with illusions and delusions. Sinaporeans are expected to compete with the
fakes and cheats on a level playing field in home ground. How stupid can this
be when the foreigners are cheating all the way?
Never mind.
Since Singaporeans cannot compete, let’s tell them to try to do good in other
trades like hawkers and crane drivers. There is no need for a university
education. Tell the Singaporeans that these are great jobs. Set up institutions
to produced degrees for hawkers. Now this will serve two purposes, getting a
degree and a good job. You can’t beat this kind of ingenuity.
For those PMETs
who can’t get a job anymore, tell them it is a very good thing to be their own
boss by driving taxis. And they can paste their degrees, masters and PhDs on
the back of the driver’s seats to show their passengers, the maids and
foreigner workers and the fakes that took their jobs, that they are highly
qualified.
Now the
latest, brag about how good it is to be bus drivers. Oops, they called them bus captains! The
aspiration for undergrads today is to be bus captains, a dream job. And the
qualifications for a bus driver, first get a diploma in molecular science and
follow up by a degree. Then go and apply for this dream job, especially the
girls. They can drive something since car ownership is out of reach and see the
world. Little bird said many girls are
applying to read molecular science in the polytechnics and aspiring to be bus
drivers after graduation. Oops, pardon me, I mean bus captains. They have a
very bright future ahead of them in their dream job.
How silly
has this country become? Is this where you are going? Is this where you are
being led to? Is this the future for our young graduates?
You have a
last chance to decide your future, your fate, in the GE, in two weeks time.
Think very carefully. Read the message of the Sultan of Johore over and over
again. It makes sense.
