Horror! Foreigners leaving Singapore in droves...Really ah?

Amid an unprecedented pandemic which has turned the world upside down, Singapore has lost its shine as an expat haven, said some HR experts who work closely with firms who hire expatriates. (Illustration: TODAY/Anam Musta'ein)

Foreign workers at all skill levels have been leaving Singapore in large numbers since the start of the pandemic

For expatriates, some have left because they do not see new job opportunities here, while others find the COVID-19 restrictions too strict for their liking

For mid- and lower-skilled foreign workers, many have returned to visit their families and some have faced trouble getting approval to return

While this spells trouble for firms typically reliant on foreign hires, it has meant more opportunities for Singaporean workers

Experts say that while Singaporeans can plug some of the manpower gaps, Singapore will need a fair share of foreigners in its workforce to maintain its global hub status.

Above is from CNA.

Whose narrative is that? What is the intent and purpose of writing and publishing this piece of shit? This is clearly a foreigner's perspective, hyping up fear that the foreigners are fleeing Singapore and not returning and hoping that the imbeciles would cower in fear and start to open their legs wider and going down on their knees to beg the fake talent foreigners not to leave, please stay in no talent Singapore or Singapore would sink into the third world without them. 

This is the same tactic that the Americans are using in Ukraine. hyping up the fear of war, that Russia is going to invade Ukraine and Ukraine is crazily pushing for it. The truth is that the Americans wanted to start a war to let Europe burn. But Putin and Zelensky said relax, stop lying and hyping the fear of war. There would be no invasion.  Both have sat down and defused the tension that the Americans are fanning.

Let's hope the imbeciles have wisen up and take this opportunity to clear the swamp, clean up the shit and let Singaporeans take up the jobs, the good jobs that Singaporeans deserved. Tell the fake foreign talents to go to home and be unemployed instead of coming here to make Singaporeans unemployed. Singapore has enough talents of its own and no longer drugged and drunk and in fear of not having enough foreign fake talents to compete in the world. In fact many of the jobs are local jobs for the local economy, no need to compete with the world. Why need to bring in foreigners to run transport services, postal services? Who is the idiot that thought so? Why need foreigners to run homeland banks serving the heartlanders and local businesses? Toa Payoh Branch competing with Bishan Branch using foreign talents to better themselves?

This is a golden opportunity to close the gap, put the legs closed together, and start anew, to have confidence in our own Singaporeans, not instant Singaporeans, like instant trees with short roots. Singapore must reinvent itself with its own people, depends on organic growth instead of building castles in the air. The banks are awaiting a major crisis to happen with so many foreigners with their fingers in the IT system, allowed to access private and confidential data of clients. This is more than opening the backdoor and praying that nothing bad would happen. Only silly imbeciles would allow this slippery situation to continue.

There are millions of foreigners queueing outside the door to come in for every foreigner that left. But this is not the point. It is time to shut the door and make sure that all Singaporeans are gainfully employed first, both here and those overseas that wanted to come home.  In the older days, the western countries were paying good money, good exchange rates and attractive for Singaporeans to work there. Now the situation has changed. Singapore is paying just as well, and with a stronger currency than western currencies.  Given the chance, Singaporeans would want to come back and work at home.

Singapore must take charge of its employment market and set the direction and must not allowed foreigners to take control and decide who should be employed, with foreigners having priorities over Singaporeans. The Stupidity has no cure Syndrome must be erased from the minds of the imbeciles. Bring back Philip Yeo to return to the future when Singapore depended on Singaporeans to compete with the world and succeeded to rise from third world to first world, with very little foreign talents.

The crime against Singaporeans must end here. The pandemic is the chance to reset and get things right again, Singapore is for Singaporeans, not rubbish from the hungry third world villages.

The deep cultural aspects of the Chinese Zodiac calendar.

        This article is reposted for those who missed out the story before and for the benefit of those who want to know more about the deep cultural aspects of the Chinese Lunar New Year or Spring Festival which calendar is based on the 12 year cycle of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac calendar.

Westerners see the dragon as a fire-breathing evil being. Greek mythology had a 100-headed dragon that was slain by Heracles. Similarly, Heracles slays another dragon called Lerneaen Hydra. In ancient China, the ‘Chinese Dragons’ are legendary creatures that are benevolent. Dragon for the Chinese is “strength and good fortune”.

The Chinese people believe that they are the descendants of the dragon. While ‘Western Dragons’ lived in castles and caves the Chinese dragon lived in the sea, rivers, and lakes. The Western Dragon breathed fire, the Chinese Dragon brings rain.

Over the centuries, the Chinese Dragon was associated with the Emperor of China. Only Emperors and high Mandarins were allowed to wear robes depicting Dragon motifs. For the Chinese, dragon festivals with dragon boat races, and dragon dances are part of their culture. Children are named dragon, actors such as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee were given Chinese names as dragon. Incidentally, Chinese movies named Enter the Dragon, Way of the Dragon, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon were popular.

The West took awhile to understand the difference. The West and East saw the same dragon differently.

This Chinese New Year is “The Year of the Dog”. The Chinese greet each other by saying “Gong Xi Fa Cai” (pronounced goon si fa sai), which means “may you be blessed with prosperity”. In the Chinese zodiac calendar there are 12 animals for each year, in a cycle of 12 years. In the Western zodiac calendar each animal is for a month with 12 zodiac signs for a year.

The story of the Chinese zodiac animals

There are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac calendar, starting with the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. Each animal has its own unique characteristics.

The fable goes that the Jade Emperor wanted to invite the animals for dinner and another story says that he wanted to select 12 animals to be his guards. He sent an immortal being into man’s world to spread the message that the first 12 animals that went passed the heavenly gate, would be selected.

Once the news spread across the animal kingdom, the rat got up very early. On his way to the gate, he encountered a river. He had to stop there, owing to the swift current. After waiting a long time, the rat noticed the ox about to cross the river and swiftly jumped onto the ox’s back. The amiable ox did not mind.

The cat too lazily walked up to the ox and jumped. Once upon a time the cat and rat were good friends; so all three of them were on the way to the heavenly gate. In the middle of the river, the cunning rat kicked the sleeping cat off the ox’s back. The cat fell into the river and since cats are poor swimmers never made it to the heavenly gate.

Ever since, the cat has never forgiven the rat. After crossing the river, the rat swiftly jumped off the ox’s back and dashed to the feet of the emperor. The rat won first place and the ox was second.

The tiger and rabbit came third and fourth because both are fast and competitive, but the Tiger was faster. (The rabbit got across the river by hopping on stepping stones and a floating log also with the help of the dragon.)

After the ox, came the tiger, panting away while explaining to the emperor just how difficult it was to cross the river with the heavy currents pushing it downstream all the time. But with powerful strength, it made it to shore and was named the third animal in the cycle.

From a distance came a thumping sound and out hopped the rabbit. It explained how it crossed the river: by jumping from one stone to another in nimble fashion. Halfway through, it almost lost the race but the rabbit was lucky enough to grab hold of a floating log that later washed him to shore. For that, it became the fourth animal in the zodiac cycle.

Coming in fifth place was the gallant dragon. Of course the Emperor was deeply curious as to why a strong flying creature such as the dragon should fail to reach first. The mighty dragon explained that he had to stop and make rain to help all the people and creatures of the earth; therefore he was held back a little. Then on his way to the finish line, he saw a little helpless rabbit clinging on to a log so he did a good deed and gave a puff of breath to the poor creature so that it could land on the shore.

The emperor was very pleased with the actions of the dragon and he was added into the zodiac cycle. As soon as he had done so, a galloping sound was heard and the horse appeared. Hidden on the horse’s hoof was the slimy sneaky snake whose sudden appearance gave the horse a fright thus making it fall back and gave the snake sixth spot whilst the horse took seventh.

Not long after that, a little distance away, the sheep, monkey, and rooster came to the shore. These three creatures helped each other to get to where they are. The rooster spotted a raft, and took the other two animals with it. Together, the sheep and the monkey cleared the weeds, tugged and pulled and finally got the raft to the shore. Because of their combined efforts, the Emperor was very pleased and promptly named the sheep as the eighth creature, the monkey as the ninth, and the rooster the tenth.

The 11th animal is the dog. His explanation for being late although he was supposed to be the best swimmer amongst the rest was that he needed a good bath after a long spell, and the fresh water from the river was too big a temptation. For that, he almost didn’t make it to the finish line.

Just as the emperor was about to call it a day, an oink and squeal was heard from a little pig. The term “lazy pig” is due here as the pig got hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast, then fell asleep. After the nap, the pig continued the race and was named the twelfth and last animal of the zodiac cycle.

These 12 animals became guards of the heavenly gate and entered the Chinese zodiac signs.

The Chinese zodiac sign based on the year one is born signifies your character. This is the Chinese belief. 

Chinese zodiac signs – meaning and significance

For the western mind, it is unthinkable that a person is associated with an animal. In Chinese culture, by birth one could be a dog, a pig, a monkey, or a snake. These are derogatory terms to be associated with a human being. In the Chinese way of life and thinking, these very animals symbolise salient characteristics. These animal characteristics are part of human nature too. In Chinese martial arts, there are many forms of fighting; fighting like a tiger, a dog on river barges, a snake. The Chinese, in their ancient wisdom, understood the importance of the behaviour and characteristics of animals and used it to benefit them in their daily lives.

It was said that Premier Chou En-lai was once having a meal with his European friends. A person in this group passed an impolite comment when he was drunk. “You Chinese carry the signs of pigs, dogs, and mice at birth. I can’t understand what’s going on in the mind of your ancestors?”

At that point, the distinguished group of friends started to laugh. They started to toast each other boisterously.

The cultured and serene atmosphere was broken.

Some people believe that when someone insults your ancestors, even if you don’t have a response to it, the least you could do is to retort calmly. For a while, not a single word was uttered. It was probably because they have not come across this situation before, especially in the presence of such a distinguished host. Then, Premier Chou En-lai stood up and spoke to everybody in a calm and peaceful way.

“The Chinese ancestors were very wise. They arranged the twelve zodiac signs in pairs; six pairs in a cycle. In this way, they expressed their hopes and wishes for the generation that came after them.” The room became silent. There were some sceptical looks among the audience.

Premier Chou En-lai continued: “The first pair of animals is the rat and ox.

“The rat represents wisdom and the ox represents diligence. Wisdom and diligence must operate in harmony. If there is wisdom but no diligence in applying it, it’s foolishness. On the other hand, if there is diligence but no wisdom, it’s an act of folly.

“That’s why wisdom and diligence must go hand in hand. This is our ancestor’s first wish for us. The first pair of animal also represents the most important hope.

“The second pair is the tiger and rabbit.

“The tiger represents courage and the rabbit represents carefulness. These two qualities must work closely together. In that way, it can have a better chance to achieve success. Without carefulness, courage becomes recklessness. Similarly, without courage, carefulness becomes cowardice. This pair of qualities is very important. That’s why it is the second pair.”

Premier Zhou En-lai looked at the audience and then he added: “Therefore, when we demonstrate our carefulness, please do not think that we do not have the courage to fight for social justice.

“In truth, what our ancestors are pursuing is wisdom through integrity, harmony, and balance. It’s never about a single hope or task.”

When he saw that the audience was deep in thought, Premier Chou En-lai continued: “The third pair is the dragon and snake.

“They represent strength and flexibility. Strength without flexibility becomes brittle. Without strength, flexibility becomes meaningless. That’s why strength with flexibility is an important lesson from our ancestors that has lasted through time.

“The next pair is the horse and goat.

“The horse represents the ability to gallop to success. The goat represents the ability to be considerate and have compassion. If a person only looks after himself as he pursues his goal and with no consideration for others, he will face obstacles from the people around him. Finally, he may not even be successful. However, if a person only looks after others and seek only to be amiable, he will not have a sense of direction. His goal will eventually be lost.

“That’s why the spirit of the horse and virtues of the goat must be applied in harmony with each other. This is our ancestors’ fourth wish for us.

“The next pair is the monkey and the chicken.

“The monkey represents agility. As for chicken, as there were no clocks in the days of old, it is needed to wake humans to start a new day. The chicken represents stability. The qualities of agility and stability must be tightly coupled together.

“If you have agility but no stability, your best plan will not come to pass. However, if you focused on having stability and refuse to change, you will not have a better future. When the two qualities are in harmony, on one side, there will be stability in terms of having, for example, effective system and collaboration.

“On the other side, there will be a release of unrelenting creativity and innovation to achieve progress. When these two qualities operate in synergy, it is one of the basic imperatives to achieve success.

“Lastly, we have the dog and pig.

“The dog represents loyalty while the pig represents good nature. If a person is loyal but does not have a good nature, he will be blindly following others. On the other hand, if he has a good nature but does not have loyalty, he will have no people and principles to guide him.

“That’s why whether its loyalty to a country, loyalty to a team, or loyalty to an ideal, you need to ensure that good nature is tightly coupled with and working alongside with it. In that way, you can have a deep-seated sense of loyalty that comes from the heart.

“This is why the Chinese believe that the outer core must be in alignment with the inner core. At the inner core, we must have a pure heart that subscribes to high moral values. We must seek to live with ethos and positive principles. We must live up to our words and not do anything that will harm others.

“At the external core, we must be knowledgeable about the ways of the world. We must be wise in managing affairs around us. We need to focus on what matters in life and not be influenced by evil.

“We need to live with integrity and in harmony with others and the environment. We must not have any form of prejudice or seek to discriminate against anyone.”

At the end of his speech, there was complete silence.

This is ancient wisdom passed down from Laotze and Confucius and dozens of great thinkers from China. To understand the Chinese, even something as simple as a zodiac sign, one must understand the Chinese way of thinking.

This story was first shared by Mr. Sun Lai Yung.

(Sun Lai Yung has worked in the USA, Singapore, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Bahrain. He is currently employed as a consultant at a global consultancy company. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from Northeastern University Boston. He can be contacted at laisun.consultancy@gmail.com)

 

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Wednesday, 2nd February, 2022

Covid19 - Questionable logic of mRNA vaccines

 The human body is made to reject foreign tissues, matters, virus or bacteria etc etc. This is the main problem of tissue rejection in transplant cases. But the body will not reject whatever it produces as the tissue or matter would have its own genetic or DNA code that the body would regard as its own, no rejection means no antibodies produced to destroy them.

The basic assumption of mRNA vaccine is to introduce spike proteins of the coronavirus into the body during vaccination. The mRNA, the messenger would then trigger the body to produce more spike proteins. Next the body would have to produce more antibodies to destroy all the spike proteins, introduced into the body or made by the body.

The part about the body producing antibodies to attack the foreign spike proteins introduced into the body is an accepted and acknowledged natural process. What is questionable is the body producing antibodies to attack the spike proteins it produced when triggered by the mRNA. Is this the case? Biologically this should not be the case as the spike proteins produced by the body would not be seen as a foreign tissue. The big difference, foreign spike proteins are foreign. Spike proteins produced by the body have the body's genetic code, ie not foreign. There is no tissue rejection problem.

If this is medically and clinically correct, the mRNA vaccines would only be effective in the first phase, ie, the body producing antibodies to fight the foreign spike proteins.  The second phase of antibodies fighting the 'body produced' spike proteins could be redundant, might not happen at all, same body tissues.

What could happen is that the foreign spike proteins would be destroyed, but the spike proteins that the body produced could continue to live inside the body, co exist as part of the tissues of the body. The question is, would this be continuously produced by the messenger RNA and accumulate in the body? If it does, what then, would the spike proteins be causing mischief in the body?

The logic of the body attacking its own tissues, in this case body produced spike proteins, is a moot point. Would it, does it? The body does not attack and destroy its own tissue unless it goes berserk.  If not, would the spike proteins produced by the body be harmful to the body if not destroyed? The only exception so far is malignant cancerous cells, cells that have gone berserk. But the body's defence system against cancerous cell is weak, maybe for the same reason, own tissues.

The body produced spike proteins may be harmless to the body that produced it.  But it is still spike proteins, and if not destroyed, could be spread to others. And other bodies would reject and fight it as infection, covid virus. This could be the reason by vaccinated people are more dangerous and carriers and spreaders of the virus, with body produced spike proteins, not destroyed by the original host body but still spike proteins of the virus. Logical?

COVID-19 Vaccination: Malpractice Against Humanity

 
According to reports from Israel, the population there is 90% vaccinated and boostered with some on 4 jabs, and hospitals are full of Omicron patients and so many doctors and nurses are themselves sick that there is no one to care for the patients.

What is going on?

First of all, here is total proof that the Covid vaccines do not protect, so why are they still being pushed using tyrannical methods as protection? It makes no sense other than the profits of pharmaceutical companies and the power it gives governments to dispense with civil liberty.

Second, according to numerous reports from countries, what is called the Omicron variant is not deadly and seldom hospitalizes those infected. So why is it that in Israel hospitals cannot cope with Omicron patients?

Can it be that so many hospitalized vaccinated people are suffering from adverse reactions to the vaccine? Medical scientists have established that the mRNA vaccines cause our immune system to attack our vital organs. The extent of this is difficult to nail down for two reasons. One is that in the US, for example, hospitals are discouraged from reporting vaccine-associated injuries and deaths to the adverse reaction reporting system. The other is that the Fauci-Big Pharma controlled medical establishment refuses to acknowledge that adverse reactions are not “rare” but widespread.

Enormous increases in heart, lung, neurological an other problems have been reported in vaccinated populations, and the rollout of vaccination has been followed by the unprecedented event of children and healthy athletes dropping dead from heart attacks. There is no other explanation but the vaccines.

If the evidence that independent medical scientists have found is correct that the vaccine turns our immune system into a weapon against our vital organs, countries, such as Israel, with most of their populations vaccinated will lose a significant percentage of their populations to injuries and death.

It is clearly medical malpractice to continue to vaccinate before examining the evidence provided by independent scientists. All vaccination should cease until open and uncensored examination of the evidence either refutes or confirms the independent scientists. The scientists on Fauci’s and Big Pharma’s payrolls obviously have conflicts of interest.

As all of the public health authorities, such as WHO, NIH, CDC, and regulatory authorities such as FDA are themselves compromised by their financial relationships with Big Pharma, and as the presstitutes censor and deplatform the evidence of independent scientists, there seem to be no way to stop the insane and irresponsible malpractice that is the heart and soul of the Covid protocol.

Humanity is being driven over the cliff by malpractice that is called “science.”



Harder Truth

Korean War Revisited movie - Battle of Chosin Reservoir/Lake Changjin

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone. Today is a good time to enjoy a good movie. Below is the link to the Battle of Changjin Lake or Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. 2hr 48 minutes of entertainment and a history lesson. This is a new production jointly put together by 3 of the best directors of the Chinese film industry.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgHDopG6Xw

 A dramatic chapter of the Korean War when the PLA Volunteers Army fought the mightiest military power, the USA, and also the -40C weather. This nearly 3 hours movie is now the top grossing movie screening in China with many footages of American soldiers and generals, including Gen MacArthur, Smith, Walker etc.

The Battle of Lake Changjin aka Chosin Reservoir, was the turning point in the Korean War when the PLAV mounted a massive attack on the American forces on the eastern and western parts of the reservoir and forcing the Americans to retreat back to the 38th parallel.

The movie related how out gunned and poorly equipped the PLAV were and how heavy were the casualties for taking on the mighty elite American forces with mainly mortars, hand grenades, machine guns and small arms. No air force, no navy, no big artillery, no food, no winter clothings, running and marching with their two feet, except the will to fight to defend their country. 

1950 Oct was just one year after China defeated the KMT and became a republic and faced with insurmountable problems of rebuilding a very poor and broken country. Fighting the Korean War was something they did not want and could not afford to but had to when the enemies were on their border at the Yalu River, and threatening to cross into China.

It was a war against all odds, 197,000 PLAV were killed in action and many more maimed for life.

A timely movie to show the difference in the PLA then and today and how far they had come, and to honour the brave soldiers that offered their lives for the love of their motherland, to win a peace for the rejuvenation of a new China today, a war that won China 70 years of peace.