The myth of quality education

To be ranked as world best university by western organisations seemed to be a highly desired accolade for many universities. To be ranked among the top 10, the top 100, confers the graduates from these universities as among the best in the world, top talents. In general this looks like the case and of course there are exceptions. Some universities are ranked very high but produced duds, useless graduates that are good only at mid executive levels at most and many could not even find gainful employment and have to resort to part time jobs, some even have to drive for Grab.

Then there this outstanding exception that has stunned the world. India, without any university in the top 100, maybe not even in the top 500 best, is producing the most top executives for MNCs in the whole wide world. The Indian graduates are beating the Europeans and Americans in their home ground, taking over their companies not just as middle executives or senior executives but as the top dogs, the CEOs. There are thousands of Indian CEOs heading western MNCs, even Japanese MNCs and of course Singaporean MNCs.

Surprising, shocking, not true? Yes, the Indians have got their education system right. Many may still think the Indian education system is half baked, primitive, and basic. Think again, and look at the names of all the top CEOs in western MNCs, the big and reputable ones, the Fortune 500 companies, they are mostly Indians. They must be teaching the right stuff, and not the unnecessary and frivolous. And Singapore is salivating at the prospect of bringing in more Indians to fill the top posts in business and in govt. The Indians are the best in the world, in business and in govt. Ok, the latter still needs more proof.

The irony, very few foreigners would want to send their children to India to benefit from what they are doing right and to become future CEOs of big MNCs. And more surprising, some Indians are sending their students to study in Singapore's world class universities that could hardly produce a MNC CEO other than in local companies in tiny Singapore. Increasingly Singapore companies, the bigger and more established ones, are going to be helmed by Indians from India.

What is the moral of the story? Go to India to get a good education, an education that would turn graduates into future CEOs if that is what you want. And Indian education is relatively cheap. Do not send your children to super expensive highly ranked universities that are good on paper only, good to look at, good to brag about but turning out unemployeable graduates or graduates at best be good enough to work for MacDonalds or Grab.

Get the idea? See the myth? What is good and real is in the pudding.

Covid19 - God Trump has done everything right,....

Trump has done everything right according to his script given by God, to end the evil American Empire. He started his campaign by isolating the USA and followed this by abandoning free trade and breaking the world apart instead of bringing the world closer together in a close knit interdependent world, trading and working with one another. This is like the Tower of Babel incident in the Bible, so God dispersed the people and separated them by making them speak in different tongues. The people of the world should be divided, not united. Trump has been sent back to earth to do just that. Man has become too evil again, wanting to build a Space Force, penetrating deeper into space than the Tower of Babel.

Trump has been launching a war against every country and with China as his main target. The trade war is only the surface of his evil acts against China that could be seen. What he had done behind everyone's back, covert operations, black ops, were more insidious and evil. Everytime he said Kim is my good friend, Xi is my good friend, they cringed. Both Kim and Xi knew this evil man through and through and would just smiled and played along but preparing to counter every move this evil man with his number One hatchet man Pompeo executing every wicked move in his white gloves. They think Xi and Kim were idiots to be conned. Kim has as good as totally negated every commitment he had with Trump and is back to do whatever he wants to do.

Xi and China have been fighting every dirty trick Trump and Pompeo have been launching against China with non stop attacks of deadly diseases several times a year. Trump and his wicked men thought this Covid19 would be the death blow that would crippled China to become the Sick Man of Asia all over again. Never could they imagine that China is now a strong united country, every Chinese is well educated and proud to be a Chinese and are working as one people to drive China to become the most powerful and richest country in the world. Covid19 would not do much harm to China. With the concerted effort of the Chinese people and their dedication and wisdom, China has triumphed over this deadly disease planted in Wuhan by the Americans.

What the evil Americans did not bargain for, thinking that the whole of China would be hit by this Covid19 and the Chinese people be wiped out from the surface of the earth just like they did to the American natives. No, China would fight this disease and has won. China has recovered and would be stronger than before.  China is now helping all the countries badly hit by this disease to recover and to prevent it from spreading.

Unfortunately for the Americans, and Europe, the game has just begun. Europe and the USA are just getting hit by the same virus the Americans planted in Wuhan. Need proof for this hideous and covert act? Ask Trump and Pompeo. But before Covid19 returns to its source in the USA in full bloom, the Americans have lost tens of trillions in the stock market crash and the whole American economy will come next. This is just retribution coming real fast at the evil American Empire that God has set to destroy. God has had enough of this evil Empire and has sent Trump, his messenger to do the necessary.

Watch the fall of the evil American Empire. The show has started. The Covid19 has boomeranged back to the USA. Incidentally this Covid19 virus has shown a special liking for politicians and celebrities. Many ministers have been infected and there is a high likelihood that Trump and his gangsters in the White House are all infected. Nice.

PS. Not only China has conquered Covid19, it has developed a vaccine for it.  China is now in a position to help the world and also making money from this vaccine.

Covid19 - Still believing that this virus started in Wuhan, China?

So far we have found that this Covid19 is an exceptionally clean virus. It has displayed very special characteristics that are different from other viruses. Why did I say that it is a clean virus? Look at the chart below, only clean and rich countries are more badly affected by this virus than dirty filthy and polluted third world countries. This virus does not stand a chance to survive in third world polluted environment, rivers, drains and rubbish dumps.

European countries are their favourites, clean air, clean environment, can go to church, travel in cruises, eat in nice restaurants and shopping belts. 

NOVEL CORONAVIRUS CASES

PLACES	CONFIRMED CASES	REPORTED DEATHS
China	80,793	3,169
Italy	12,462	827
Iran	9,000	354
South Korea	7,755	60
France	2,281	48
Spain	2,277	54
Germany	1,908	3
United States	1,302	38
Cruise ship (Diamond Princess)	696	7
Switzerland	652	4
Japan	568	12
Denmark	514	0
Netherlands	503	5
Sweden	500	1
Norway	489	0
United Kingdom	460	8
Belgium	314	3
Qatar	262	0
Austria	246	0
Bahrain	189	0

Click to see more

As of 10:32am Mar 12, 2020

Back to the question whether this virus started its life in Wuhan, China. When it first started in Wuhan, no one knew about this virus until the Chinese identified and isolated it and reported to WHO.  And one good thing, when it was spreading furiously the Chinese govt thought it necessary to impose an immediate lockdown to prevent it from spreading across China and also to the rest of the world. 

China did this very effectively and it is now under control in China and new cases are getting lesser and lesser. China is confident that by end of Mar or April this virus would be contained and no more new cases originating from China.

Remember that the virus hit Wuhan, China just as the Chinese were preparing to celebrate Chinese New Year and were returning home. Some who were working in Wuhan were returning to their provinces. Chinese around the world were returning to China to roost, to be with their families. It was more a one way traffic, inflow rather than outflow though some Chinese were preparing to go overseas for holidays. This is a small minority.

China was able to contain the spread of the virus to its other provinces very quickly with very few cases reported and quickly stumped out. If this virus originated from Wuhan, China, then the spread to Chinese provinces would be big and quite widespread and those working in Wuhan would have brought them to their respective provinces. This was not the case, though some did.

If the virus could not spread widely across China, how did the virus spread to the rest of the world in such a short period of time if they originated from Wuhan, China? From recent experience and reports, the virus was found in every corner of the earth with many places that were not visited by anyone from China or people who had been to China especially in the USA, Europe and far corners of the earth. Does this ring a bell, that the viruses in these places did not come from China, very likely indigenous? The case in point are the nursing homes in the USA and many corners of America where people are infected with different variants of this virus. It cannot be that these viruses came from Wuhan, China.

The Americans and many countries did not know the existence of this virus and many infected persons were treated as flu or common cold. As they said, ignorance is bliss. Only when they are specifically tested for this virus with the new test kits that they are found to have it. The Wuhan virus might have affected some countries when there were people visiting both places. For countries far far away where no one from Wuhan, or visited Wuhan and returned, and still found the virus affecting their people, where did the virus come from? Many cases in the USA and Europe have absolutely no connection with Wuhan.

So, are the evil and mischievous Americans still smearing China, insisting that the virus originated from Wuhan, China and spread to them and to the rest of the world? Who is lying? Would the unthinking still stick to this white lie and blame China and Chinese for this virus?

There are empirical evidence that the virus in many countries did not come from China. And there are many cases of virus infections in the USA that did not come from China. How many would still believe in the American white lie?

Thus USA, stop playing the mischievous blame game! Your evil deeds are coming back to you.

PS. Western media continue to trumpet the Trump Administration lie that the virus came from Wuhan in today's Yahoo News by AP.

TRUMP OFFICIALS STRESS VIRUS ORIGINATED IN CHINA

Members of the Trump administration — on the defensive about how they have handled the coronavirus outbreak — are seeking to remind Americans that the coronavirus outbreak originated in China. They have repeatedly reminded people that the virus started in Wuhan, a city in China’s Hubei province, and they have faulted China's initial handling of the outbreak. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called it the “Wuhan coronavirus.” China stresses that it is trying to help the international community battle the virus, sending medical teams to countries that need help now that the crisis at home is waning.

Covid19 - Social distancing at least 2 metres

The authorities will have to double down on measures within Singapore, even as some basic surveillance at the borders continue, said the minister, who is the co-chair of a multi-ministry task force set up to handle the coronavirus.

“We will look at the whole range of social distancing measures,” he said at a press conference held at the National Press Centre.

The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that senior-centric activities by government agencies will be suspended for two weeks. Over time, the Government will have to ramp up and implement more social distancing measures, Mr Wong said.

Advertisement

READ: COVID-19: People's Association to suspend courses and activities for seniors

“We will look at a fuller range of social distancing measures we can put in place including for public events, community activities, school closures, workplace social distancing - including things like staggered hours, telecommuting - as well as religious services too. We will cover a broad spectrum and we will see what we should put in place,” Mr Wong said.

Singapore already has other social distancing measures like isolating patients, putting close contacts on quarantine and issuing Stay-Home Notices, he added.  CNA

The above quotes from CNA show how serious the Singapore govt is taking this Covid19 threat to the wellbeing of Singaporeans. The latest spurt in number of new infected cases due to irresponsible social behaviour has prompted the govt to close down on many activities associated with senior citizens. The main point is to keep social mixing down to a minimum with social contacts to be kept at maybe a minimum of 2 metres apart to be safe. Big social gatherings are to be avoided.

The concept sounds very good and should be reasonably effective. The biggest loophole and unavoidable is the pack trains carrying commuters all over the islands. Many of them are less than 20 cm apart with some idiots unconsciously chose to stand very close to other commuters even if the train is not really full when they could keep a reasonable distance from other commuters. Most of these are wildlife from countries where sticking close to each other with no respect to the private space of a stranger is the norm. You can smell them whenever they are close to you in the trains.

So how to maintain the 2 metre distancing gap when the trains are carrying 1 or 2 million commuters daily?  This is like putting money into a pocket with a big hole in it.  Heheheh, 6.9m population or 10m or 15m population is the way to go.A serious infectious disease could wipe out the whole population within weeks.

What do you think?

Lee Kuan Yew being ridiculed and disrespected so soon after his death

The family feud of Lee Kuan Yew is still brewing. I am not taking sides and do not want to be involved. What saddens me is that Lee Kuan Yew was the founding father or one of the founding fathers of modern Singapore. It is written in our history books. The least Singaporeans can do for him is not to badmouth him when he can no longer defend himself.

Today, everywhere, in the main media and social media, Lee Kuan Yew is like an old useless football being kicked around by anyone as they like it. He has been called senile, easily misled, did not know what he was doing in his last few years alive. He cannot read, cannot understand law, cannot understand a legal document like his own will even when he was the one that wanted it changed. And people around him could do anything they wanted with him as if he was a walking dead. Were these true?

What happened to the tough and sharp talking double honours top politician from Cambridge University Law School? Are Singaporeans expected to believe this is the Lee Kuan Yew they admired and held in deference, the man that ruled Singapore and brought Singapore from the Third World to the First World, highly regarded as a world leader?

If this saga goes on like this, soon this founding father of Singapore would have been so belittled to a point that Singaporeans would lose all respect for him, thinking and believing that he was a senile old man, a foolish man and could be easily misled while still alive. Dragging this man over a pool of mud is very disrespectful and unbecoming.

Let' spare this man and his good name and stop tarnishing him so soon after his death. Have some respect for the man even if you dislike him or disagree with him.

My God, when would this nonsense stop?

PS. This is reported in TRE in an article by Lim Tean

The Straits Times today have reported that sales of LKY coins and copper busts were stopped just hours after launch due to online criticism from netizens.

From the ST article ‘Many netizens criticised the latest launch, saying the medallions and busts in Mr Lee’s likeness went against his wishes, as he had said he did not want to be memorialised.

Facebook user Dereth Tan wrote: “Didn’t the late Mr Lee explicitly (express) his wish to not be idolised in such a way? Why is this simple request being disrespected?”

Some thought the use of his image was political in what could be an election year, while others said it was in poor taste to profit from his image through the sale of medallions and busts.’