When the faces are fat and oily, and millions in the bank accounts... no time for competition?

 LKY once said if you are fully satisfied and well fed and had the notion that you had alreday arrived, then your downfall be soon very soon.

He meant that once you are no longer hungry to further your improve and kept going that you are still hungry then it will be your demise.

There are so many in the not so well developed and are the Third World Countries that are very hungry.

Still hungry, they be struggling to be NOT hungry and are fighting NOT to be hungry.

So they will worked doubly hard and innovative.

Those countries that are been fully fed for their good times will decline in time to come as their peoples will become too complacent and thought that these happenings will last forever

So the West, Japan, South Korea and Sinkieland will be in a M.O.T. be down hill.

Their generations will not be as hungry as their old generations and had long been pampered by the good lifes that they been enjoying.

Some been supported by even their parents etc had taken too much for granted their cosy comfortable lifes.

Even same as for China. See their now young generations are even laidback and wanted lepak lifes.

Likewise Sinkieland, our young had become a Strawberry Generation.

Unlike our old generations where we are happy to have a job even though not so well paid.

Also worked for three quarters of our lifes before even taking a break or holidays.

They will prefer to work in Aircond comforts been a MacDonald Server with bare minimum pay rather than be a tradesman or even a labourer in the hot sun to have a better salary.

Also, many like those prefered the gig gig platform workers on their own as somewhat's own time and work as works life balances not so stressful work lifes.

Some had no choices as I do not want to sweep all as such as they had no opportunities to secure full time employment.

The worse is that our own Government that was supposed to take care of own let so called market forces to the employers even our own locals to employ as their plans and wishes.

In a truly well knitted Nation, the peoples as citizens would firstly take care of own employing our own even though the bottom lines or even losses occurred in their enterprises as must as patriotic own that's their honourable duties.

In times of Wars and emergency to defend our Nation, most if NOT all will answer the calls forward.

But Sinkies Land been an migrant nation even till now with one another still having the same mentality that you die your business is NOT fully integrated.


That's why I reckoned why our Government is NOT too keen to have manufacturing those industrial factories economy.

As the young spoilt Sinkies, most thought that they had sound education and string of papers would not want these types of preceived low status jobs or professions.

Most wanted to be white collared and esteem jobs and professions even though they are pay lower.

How many these types of White Collared Jobs and Professions the Government can generates every year with thr influx of si many Graduates that come out into the Jobs Market?

With our small Service Economy?

So MOT if thr young generation do not change their mindsets to recognise that even blue collared high paying jobs are for them, then they be in future be in McDonalds and KFC and gig gig gila platform jobs.

Then later be buskers at the Markets and the MRT stations.

Virgo

Asian Games 2022 - Great moment for Shanti and Singapore

 

After waiting for 40 years since Chee Swee Lee won a gold in the 400m, finally another gold in athletics delivered by Shanti Pereira. She also won a silver in the 100m.

Well done Shanti.

China - 74 years after liberation by the PLA/CCP

 

16 minutes of flag raising ceremony and hundreds of thousands of Chinese celebrating peacefully together as one people in TianAnmen Square.

74 years after the Chinese people expelled all the foreign invaders, China has rebuilt and recovered from its past glory to become a rich, strong and respectable nation state. The CCP saved China and the Chinese people from being colonised and ruled by foreign savages and uplift the lives of all Chinese people, totally eradicated poverty in the country and raising the standard of living to the envy of others. The Chinese now have good jobs, have good homes, have enough to eat and have dignity as a proud people from an ancient civilisation, are proud of being Chinese and would not be bullied by any country anymore. 

The Chinese people did not forget the years of humiliation, poverty and suffering and have stood up not only for themselves but also to share their good fortune with the rest of the people in the world, helping every country that asked for help to rebuild their countries and economies. The Chinese are so busy rebuilding their country and now rebuilding countries around the world, not involved in any conflict of war, and living a good life of plenty.

But they are still being provoked and smeared by the evil Americans and their cronies as an aggressive and expansionist state when these labels should be pasted on the faces of the evil Americans and their warmongering crony states. China can only continue to live in peace and prosperity if the Chinese people are united, and also uniting the rest of the world to put up a strong defence against the American terrorists and warmongers. The American and their cronies have been defeated economically and are heading towards bankruptcies and eventual collapse and they think the only way out for their demise is to start a war to destroy China.

While China and the Chinese people are celebrating their 74th year as a united country, free from foreign oppression, they must be ever ready to fight to protect their good life at any moment.

One trick pony raising price of water

 Singapore is going back to basics, encouraging farming on rooftops of HDB flats and resorting to high rise soil-less farming, using chemicals instead. The problem is that the market demand for such local produce is not anything to shout about. In fact, locals are shunning them, even when such ventures are still in its infancy, as such produce are found to be less palatable besides being more expensive.

The writing was already on the wall when Singapore decided to bring in the two casinos out of desperation. Desperate situations called for desperate solutions. LKY had earlier been dead set against casinos, even warning that such casinos will only be built over his dead body. But even before he passed on, he had to bend over backwards to accomodate the idea. Why? Ok, lets not spoil the old man's fans now celebrating his 100 years old anniversary.

Even outside the arena of manufacturing, Singapore was already losing the edge to China in other areas, like new computer software development. This was revealed by the then NTUC chief who was in a delegation that visited China years ago, planning to sell a new insurance software package developed locally to Chinese insurance companies. He was shocked to find that the Chinese insurance sector had an even more advance system already in place, and ended up probably being sold instead of selling. That was just one example. There were others like NTUC trying to run a bus or taxi service in China and getting clobbered. Do not try to teach the Chinese how to suck eggs.

Now, trying our luck in India, thinking the Indians are nowhere as competitive as the Chinese, and we can have it all our way. The signing of the CECA deal was thought to help and favour our investments in India, but we were blindsided by the Indian Government demanding the opening up of our employment market to more Indians or else. I think we are betting on the wrong horse in time to come. 

Anonymous

Lucky Singaporeans can sell $1m HDB and retire

 In time to come, those above 35 years of age do not have to work. Selling off their million dollar HDB homes will take care of early retirement. Who knows, we may even be like the USA with citizens living on the streets. They call it a 'lifestyle choice' when homes become unaffordable, though still very affordable according to official narratives, for some folks. With every family having two or three HDBs, ie the elderly and two kids, even renting out one home is good enough to tide them through.

In time to come, Singapore will be a retirement paradise. Citizens do not have to work till 65, just live on the rental of their properties at age 35, and do not have to work after that. Now with HDB flats selling above a million dollars happening a dime a dozen, life is really so good that not many think it necessary to work, with all the added subsidies thrown at them. They are even asking for applications to participate in various schemes. No wonder so many foreigners are rushing for citizenship.

But as they say, all good things must come to an end sooner or later. Just like the Whites and now the Japanese. They used to say that Japan is a rich country with poor people. In the past of course. 

Anonymous