Friday, February 26, 2010
Go to this link and take a look at the vid, as well as the comments are listed by some of our fellow singaporeans.
http://sg.video.yahoo.com/watch/7046459/18331562
1st impression on the video and the interviewees: "Oh, the budget is bound to help us tide over this financial crisis and improve our standards of living as a whole for people from all walks of life."
I, missing out from the budget rally, tried to understand what it's all about.
And thanks to someone who summarised in his comment, it's all about productivity.
Cool, productivity = efficiency = maximising productive capacity = trying to shift the PPC out = improving our QQT.
True enough, by granting incentives to Singaporeans to engage in life-long training and upgrading will indeed enhance the Quality of our human resource and thus economically, productive capacity increases, attaining potential or otherwise, economic growth.
Then again, with a good side comes a devil.
the comments are really omg-ly funny and ironic.
Whilst the people in the video are all-praises, the ones commenting are reflecting their rants through the virtual world.
Training is good economically. But our singaporeans raves about extensive working hours or otherwise "working until we die". A better adjective would be "work, work, work and die" as cited from our internetian. We may be given incentives to work harder and retrain, but who would singaporeans react to this incentive given that people are already dying from all the office stresses and politics?
5-day work week already spanning across the entire week, and while our SOLs improve, how would our quality of life fare? That's the problem about using GDP per capita as an indicator on development levels coz with rising affluence doesnt mean that our society is gracious and happy.
in other words, our standards of living are rising but everyone is unhappy with this increase in affluence. Talking GP-wise, money doesnt equate to happiness.
Moving on, 'veronica' commented: "I applied to Hong Kong for an attractive job before. Then the company there told me that despite my good credentials, they rather keep the job for the locals. I think our country makes foreigners so easy to come here. I have a number of china chinese friends. They told me straight in the face here that they find the place so small and are just using this place as a stepping stone to boost their resume and then they can go somewhere else like USA or back to china for a more senior position. To them, this place is a land of opportunities. best still, if they find a partner, they take the partner together with them to china or other place after a few years here. "
I was in awe, lol. Singaporeans want to move out to other countries = braindrain problem.
then, other countries shun FT, and singapore embraces it. Economically, foreign talent bring along their expertise, technology and probably their familes. This enhances all aspects of our QQT, quality, quantity and technology.
Wahseh, productivity rise like siao. GDP also increases and unemployment rate decreases.
More FT the better, come come come.
now, singaporeans are asking for protectionistic measures to shield them from their china talents. We are asking for protection not because we are not productive, but because our labour is soooooo expensive we cant compete with them price-wise. Moreover, they are training fast(and we are helping them train to become as smart as us), and are taking over our tertiary industries as well. With equivalent capabilities, price wins. lol.
Hongkong dont want us coz they want to protect their people, and chinese are finding our majestic homeland a mere stepping pebble for them to grow and return to their omfg-ly huge homeland or other affleunt DCs. I gotta disagree with the last part though, singaporeans are not even marrying singaporeans, less say to settle abroad.
Then, another comment says that housing and living costs are so high, they cant imagine the additional costs of bearing and nurturing a child. AD rises faster than AS, inflation sets in, wala.
true, singaporeans cant even provide for themselves and how the hell are they going to provide for another head? Moreover, with constant retraining and long woking hours, parents cant even spend time educating their children. Maids? wah, a child comes in a package. Bear a child = get a maid NOT-free. maid levies are increasing as well. a child is becoming a more and more expensive luxury.
Aiyo, housing rates are rising fast. When i grow up and dont die before age 30, how can i afford a flat? 80million leh, siao siao ah. Even if i rent a chalet for 10years, i dont even know if it will amount to 80million anot lor. Live with your parents? wah, overcrowding and no privacy leh.
30 yo, and still cannot lead your own life? must depend on others? SAD.
The video so nice, but the comments suck. This is what i call the freedom of speech across a virtual media where you are anonymous. Why are so many people losing faith in the government? they are just applying economic concepts to make our lives richer, not?
sighs.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
didnt know that doing a chemistry tutorial can be such a chore.
still, i conquered it and within me there is this lasting joy and self-satisfaction.
i am so proud of myself, lol.
for the 1st time since last year; and hope its not the last.
more and more accomplishments to come by, getting my 4Es for common tests, and to complete all my tute on time, dutifully and correctly.
i am so happy now, really, over such trivial academic matters.
ironic right? happy over academics? omg, i must be crazy now.
come to think of it, am rather honoured about my previous post too.
though pissed :P
nights everyone, though i know my night's not gonna end just yet due to the ultra-powderful nescafe latte this afternoon, and this never-dying cough still haunting over me, depriving me of my dreamlands.
have fun, WITH TUTES~
Friday, February 5, 2010
Browsed through Facebook,
found a group for the all-boys schools and stumbled upon this discussion topic "Why other boys from non all boy's schools say we're gay".
Laughed at it at 1st, till i scanned through the comments.
This was what the initiator of the topic introduced:
I keep thinking that there has to be a reason that they love to use this on us and that would be: PURE JEALOUSY. Is it me or are all boys school somewhat above the grade? Is it because we grow from boys to men while for them, boys will be boys? What make us targets for such insults? Are we better?
and as well, from some other similar species:
Specie A: bcos they suck..
Specie B: They are epic failures ( referring to co-ed people ) so they tend to use this insult as it is the only one, I am not saying that every one of them is the same. Have u ever seen an all-boys school that is not one of the FINE INSTITUTIONS? :) yeah, i love VS. ty.
Specie C:
I feel that we have a disadvantage somewhat when it comes to girls like what XXXXX said, but it only applies to some of us, not the entire boy population in the school so I still feel we're better off.
We become more manly and gentlemanly than co-eds cause there aren't any girls in school to make us wanna "show-off" or be the hero to get their attention, so we become what we truly are when we are around friends, not girls. We act normal cause we're only among guys.
Well, unless you count in the occasional homosexual that enrolls, but that's a different story.
Specie D:
like the topic starter said,
PURE JEALOUSLY
we aint competing so hard to get hooked,
we're just too manly to fairly choose the girls that adores us (boys in boys' schools)
I had to say, boys from mixed-gender schools are the gays!
instead they were just trying to get attention by their physical appearance despite their conscience, compassion and, competence of being men in true manners. more likely, we can call them douchebags
Im from Indonesia, Canisius College Jakarta
well, after all those bits and pieces of info from our lovely boys, i shall share a lil of my 2 cents' worth.
Pointing fingers at the starter, its really weird to say that people call you a gay coz you are superior to them and that they are jealous of you. Who the hell in poly or JC, and coming from a co-ed environment, would not be realistic enough to realise and mean what they meant? Who the hell call you a gay if you aint one or behave like one? and wtf, jealous = call you gay? lol. And if you guys evolve into men in your own world, elaborate why we, as co-ed guys, dont.
And then, we have a Specie A, who said that we suck. Thanks for the compliment, i guess not all boys turn into men afterall.
haha, and then we have Specie B degrading us being epic failures in this society who snob at people who are superior to us. ironic right? How can inferiors run down on the superiors? And, i sense elitism in his comment, and being such an elite, the inferior us actually snob at them. wow, we suck, now i agree with Specie A, lol.
LOL at Specie C. he says that the co-ed guys pretend to be masochistic so as to be attention-magnets. Oh, and that we dont behave like ourselves in front of them.
omg, we are FAKERS! how many times have i come by more boys trying to be these magnets instead? i think we co-eds behave normally in front of girls but instead it's these boys that act manly in front of girls wanting to be the magnets, lol. Sorry if i offend, but seriously, i dont find this problem prevalent back then in my secondary school days. oh, and also the part about them being more gentlemanly and manly than us T_T
well, i do have some really really nice boy-school friends. really really nice! gentlemanly is really the word for them. but hey, C is being too generic saying that they will definitely be more gentlemanly and manly than us. well, at least i can say that i am very very nice too. probably nicer than the best they could do. and some of them really suck. suck ttm.
The Specie D is the best.
"we aint competing so hard to get hooked,
we're just too manly to fairly choose the girls that adores us"
lol, some of them fucking want girlfriends like despo shit.
and people like him who have too many suitors, good for you.
but do choose one quick ok? the co-ed guys are waiting for gods-for-the-girls like you to make your pick so that we have some chances to get the leftovers. lol.
is getting hooked some kind of competition?
and omg, damn pissed at this sentence "get attention by their physical appearance despite their conscience, compassion and, competence of being men in true manners".
wtf, we no conscience, compassion and competence?
and get attention by physical appearance. we do dress ourselves up, but hey dude, we want ourselves to look good in front of everyone, not only the females. and it's only right that we do so, because dressing nicely for an appointment shows how important a meeting or gathering is to you, not solely to attract attention.
and summing up, you guys didn go through a co-ed life. and whatever you boys said sounded more applicable to your characteristics. like "being manly to attract", "not behaving naturally in presence of opposites" and "we are boys while they become men".
1stly, its not manly to bicker about this issue and openly saying that co-eds suck. and 2ndly, Species C and D now call us, the co-ed guys "GAY". Should we start a new discussion group on facebook named "Why other boys from all-boys' schools say we're gay"? i am in for it, i guess. COZ THEY ARE JEALOUS, lol.
see? dont try to decipher one another from completely different backgrounds, coz we will hurt each other instead. embrace our differences, and come together. and to whoever who called the manly initiator gay and really mean it, you suck, coz you just made me blog about it and made me damn pissed reading their comments.
Still, majority of the boys from boys'-schools are really nice.
people like weirong, bastien and tengyau and many many many more.
we are all gonna grow up to be men, be gentlemanly, natural and fashionable - not entirely for girls, but for a better and more gracious society. Now, i feel at ease.