Lesson from a wise professor

Professor Low Teck Seng was offered the post of Chairman of Singpost.  As a human bean, he must be flattered for the confidence trusted onto him. He accepted the good offer. Then he had second thought. He is already the CEO of National Research Foundation (NRF), a big job reporting directly to Hsien Loong. Would he be able to take on two important jobs at the same time? Wisdom and good common sense took the better of him and he turned down the Singpost offer and apologizing for his acceptance as an error of judgment.

Any ordinary human bean would greatly accept the offer that comes with a substantial income yearly. Who in his right mind would reject such gracias? As a thinking professor and a responsible man, he knew his limitation and the constraint of time that he could not do justice to Singpost if he could not contribute fully for the trust and money being offered to him.

It is a sensible thing to do. When the plate is full, it is only reasonable and commonsensical to turn it down or risks suffering from indigestion, food poisoning or gluttony.

How many human beans would do what the professor did? How many immortals would do the same? How much time and effort does a person have to take on more than two or three or ten jobs?

This is a good lesson to learn from a professor. Do not be greedy and over commit one’s little ability and grab the money, the honour and the trust that came with the position. What about delivery and responsibility? Be sensible.

Thank you for the lesson and for showing the light to the unenlightened.

Singapore’s successful formula for Asean Economic Community(AEC)

With the impending implementation of the Asean Economic Community, ChannelNewsAsia held a forum on 6 Apr to discuss the implications and concerns of free movement of human capital in the Asean states. The three main concerns raised were, the different educational system, the different quality of degrees and professional qualifications and the political will of the respective govts to get this free movement of human capital across borders flowing.

The President of SMU commented that it was unsustainable and politically difficult for any govt to allow the free movement of workers across national border. The domestic political forces would not allow it to happen. But all these concerns have proven to be nothing to Singapore and Singapore has embraced free movement of human capital, we called in foreign talents, like fish in water. With the right political leadership and political will, nothing is an obstacle. The different education system, degrees and professional qualifications too were non issues. These have never been a problem to Singapore and it has more than 2 million foreigners in the island to prove that all is well.

Singapore’s successful formula is best seen in the broad and sweeping CECA agreement with India. This is the most important formula to prove that freedom of movement of talents can be done. Singapore simply accepts all the qualifications of all the Indian universities, all the differences in educational system and standards with no question asked.  This is not about stupidity or administrative convenience, but about building trust and trusting the quality of India’s universities and human talents. When these differences are set aside, there is no more problems to talk about.

In Singapore’s experience, all the foreigners hired are genuine foreign talents. No one has complained about hiring duds or fakes.  Even if they were fakes, as long as they can do the job, the piece of paper is irrelevant. There were one or two cases of mistakes but too little and too few to worry about. Only stupid employers will be hiring duds and fakes. Singapore’s employers are not stupid and therefore have no stupid problems.

Singapore should sell this wonderful CECA formula to the Asean countries, that this is the way to go forward. Forget about the differences, ignore the differences, don’t look at them, don’t bring them up, pretend that everything is fine and all will be fine. And Singapore can use its 2% economic growth as proof. By bringing in 2m foreigners, Singapore achieved a 2% growth. And to prove that Singapore truly believe in this formula, Singapore will raise its population to 10m, ie, bringing in another 5m foreigners which will translate to another 5% growth.

Singapore has done it, see how successful Singapore is? Have no fear about free movement of human capital. With the right political leadership and political will, all problems will become non problems.

CECA is the miracle formula that Singapore has signed with India that benefits both countries greatly, economically. And Singapore now has so many spare and  talented Singaporean PMETs to export to Asean countries, armed with certificates with courtesies from the NTUC, trained for export, to work around the world.  Singapore would not have the luxury of sharing these spare talents with Asean countries if we did not bring in the better foreign talents to replace these no skill set local talents, or obsolete talents.

Singapore can be the leading light in the free movement of human capital in Asean. We have been experimenting and enjoying a surge of productivity with so many foreign talents to choose from. There are so many waiting at the door for Singapore to pick and choose, attracted by the good working environment and very excellent pay package and a very strong Singapore dollar.  Singaporeans are so appreciative of these foreign talents that many are giving credits to the foreigners for building Singapore to what it is today. With the AEC, Singapore will have no problem boosting its population to 10m and all the property prices will go up 100 fold.

Singaporeans will all stand to gain, to rent out their expensive HDB flats and move out to live in Bintan, Batam and Johore. No need to work any more, except for the young doing two years of guard duties. The free movement of human capital with the implementation of AEC is the greatest thing that can happen for Singapore and Singaporeans.

Singaporeans are not just naïve but dumb and stupid

I can’t help but to repost this article from the TRE here. The more daft sinkies read this, the better, and hopefully they will get less daft. They said, stupidity has no cure.

 

Recently, a friend came to Singapore and I had to show her around. Being very rich, we took taxis every day. So I decided to talk to them about Singapore politics and coming by election.

I am very shocked to tell you of the 6 taxi drivers, 4 drivers were recent and retrenched to make way for foreigners. Then come the question about voting opposition into parliament, 3 retrenched were skeptical, 1 was neutral. They said the same thing, “Opposition will destroy the economy”. Wow, this national brainwashing does work very well with most people and most people actually buy this theory. Of 6 taxi drivers, they are from private sectors, from senior manager to senior engineers, all earning more than $4k, some higher than $6k.

So I decided to ask who they voted for. No one would tell me directly but their response was “Voting is secret”. So I countered by saying for those people who voted PAP because they are very happy with their policies especially importing foreigners to replace Singaporeans. One guy even said importing foreigners is to improve the economy!!! Wow….Then I used the word “You must be very happy to be replaced!”. 3 showed black face, 1 was like “LL”.

Then I added the PAP has been so successfully in brainwashing locals to accept their fate and policies without complaints. Despite being replaced by foreigners, ended jobless and had no choice but to turn to driving taxis, they still support the PAP.

At the end of the journey, I told them, you think for this country, you sacrifice yourself to be replaced and end up jobless, you should receive National Day Awards for your sacrifice instead of those parasite grassroots with ulterior motives. I hope your sons and daughters will continue your good work and sacrifice for this country too! Remember if you support the government, don’t complain, be happy being the sacrificial lambs! Also for the fact that you worry so much about the country collapsing due to opposition, my take is the economy or country has not even sank, you will be sinking in deep sea. LOL

My friends, these were professionals in their respective industries, making decent living and only in their early or mid 30s, replaced by foreigners and end up jobless. They had no choice but turn to driving taxis and yet being betrayed by the government, they do not seem to be angry at all. How amazing… *Laughs*

No wonder our ministers said Singaporeans are not competitive, naive and daft, we cannot compete with foreigners. I do agree that Singaporeans are not just naive, daft but completely moronic! The government is right, they import these third world foreign talents because Singaporeans are just morons, they cant really think. Despite being bullied left and right, they seem to be happy, very successful brainwashing by government.

Sounds similar to North Koreans who think North Korea is the best and most happy country in the world. *Croaks*

Do you agree?



SANJNBD

How stupid can a people become? This is a uniquely Singaporean trait. And like they said, after 50 years of brainwashing, the brain is now sparkling clean, no more brain cell left. Singaporeans have forgotten that they used to have a brain and the brain is used for thinking. But since the govt has been doing all the thinking and telling the daft Singaporeans how to think, Singaporeans have no necessity to think or want to think. So they just parrot the official line of thinking and reasoning. You can read a lot of such regurgitation in the commentaries in this blog as well.

Military Japan – A leopard does not change its spots

A letter by a Shigeru Ichige in the Today paper on 6 Apr, ‘Japan must play military role to maintain world stability’ is the clearest sign of what the Japanese have in mind. After running mad around Asia and killing millions and looting the Asian countries, turning them into colonies and waste land, Japan is claiming that it is the right country to maintain world stability by military means.

The Japanese psyche to want to go to war cannot be erased despite the suffering from two atomic bombs and the humiliating defeat in the Second World War. Japan and the Japanese people are itching to want to don on their military uniforms to go to war around the world.  They have amended their pacifist constitution that forbade them from conducting war outside Japan unless they were attacked. Abe and his militarist hawks have been rearming Japan and sending Japanese warships as a show of force in Asian seas. It is encouraging and promising to back up Asean countries to do battle with China.

The events that are happening in Japan, the revision of its pacifist constitution and the rearming of the Japanese military, the changing of the Self Defense Force into an Offensive military force is a repeat of what had happened before the Second World War, similar to the rise of Hitler’s Germany. The world is turning a blind eye to the military ambition of Japan.

A leopard does not change its spot. Japan is on a military path again, to want to engage in wars, to conduct wars.  Watch out, Asia! In the name of maintaining peace, like the Americans, Japan is preparing for war by building up its military forces and weaponry.  It is telling the Asean states that Japan is a reliable peace keeper despite its imperialist and colonial ambition in Asia. Can any country trust a murderer, a rapist, a looter of their country’s wealth?  Singapore still has many exhibits and memorials of the vicious and barbaric crimes of Imperial Japan to remind the young and the tourists of what Japan did during the Second World War. The world would soon see the true nature and intent of Abe’s Japan. Warfare and war mongering is in the Japanese blood.

The height of idiocy

What do you think is the height of Singaporean idiocy? Giving the pioneers $500 for training when many are about to kick the bucket? Why don’t they just give them the money to have a good time, a good meal, to splurge for themselves while they still can? No, this is not a good example of idiocy. These seniors can still learn a trick or two and may start to work again.

What about allowing the govt to want a more or less ceremonial president to be  more honest than the PM, smarter than the PM, have better experience in senior management than the PM, have better integrity than the PM…Oh, I must clarify here, the PM is referring to the post of the Prime Minister, not to anyone in particular. Do we need someone to be better than the PM to be the President? Oh, this is also not a good example of idiocy.

What about saving for a life time, contributing nearly 50% of one’s income to one’s saving scheme in the CPF only to find out that the amount is not enough for retirement? Not idiotic enough? What about allowing the govt to decide to spend it on medical insurance? Not idiotic enough? What about allowing the govt to set aside a huge sum as a minimum sum that cannot be touched until death do us part? Still not idiotic enough?

Someone in my blog said a NS man, a corporal would probably be smart enough to avoid the death of the two trainees killed in the train accident. How so? Because the problem was due to a lapse in communication, or a system fault.  Someone already got permission to go down onto the train track to repair a fault. So 15 men, inclusive of an instructor, went walking on the train track during morning peak hours thinking they would be safe. Did they presume that once permission was granted, it was safe to walk on the track, no train would come and hit them, the system would take care of it since permission already granted?

So when they were on the track, there was no need to look out for on coming trains? Got permission already.  Now, why would a corporal make a big difference between life and death?  In a situation like this, the corporal would simply detail one or two men to be on the look out for on coming train, like sentry duty. So simple!

Whether got permission or no permission, system working or not working, got system fault or no system fault, got lapses or no lapses, a simple order to post a look out was all that was needed. No need expensive operating or warning system, no need to bother if got communication lapses or train driver was sleeping or train on auto drive.  The 15 men could simply moved aside when seeing the train approaching.

Would this be good enough to be called the height of idiocy? System fault leh. Communication fault leh, someone never switch off the power leh.  What more excuses needed for stupidity?