Ask not what your country can do for you...
..but what you can do for you country?
Lol, I can serve NS, work doubly hard, entually contribute to the society. And in return, I probably get taxed on almost everything possible, get an expatriate who is probably a reject from his country as my boss, slog 40 years to repay the loan for my car and house, enjoy retirement at the void deck of a HDB flat and then spend the rest of eternity crammed in an urn stored 3 stories under.
Gotta love it.
Once again, so and so mentioned on the rally that more singaporeans are going abroad. It is unfortunate, yet understandable. And for Singapore to maintain its success, 3 things must be done;
1) Cultivate strong bonds with overseas Singaporeans
2) Encourage baby-making
3) Welcome immigrants
Quite frankly, from my point of view, it's pretty much a load of crap. Being a student who is left with no other alternatives but to seek education overseas, I'd like to question why the minstry of education admit foreigners at our expense and what's their take on a LOCAL university. And in order for Singapore to succeed, it's alright that MORE foreign talents are welcomed compete with your local countrymen, even for a place in the universities?
Next you go on to say that since there's a result of more Singaporeans going abroad, we ought to maintain close ties and have such people feel a sense of belonging. So after serving the fking nation for 2 yrs, you deprive me of a place in the so-called LOCAL university, and give it to some Curryland or Ni-Hao-Ma-County migrant? Yet I'm expected to be thankful and patriotic, keeping a place in my heart for Singapore after spending hundreds of thousands to study abroad? (To think we're called smart people.)
Last but not least, in addition to that extra competition, not like there isn't enough already, we're expected to make babies? Dude, unless we live to the age of 200 and our reproductive systems are still active at 70, it's gonna be hard to go all out to carve a decent career and yet pay so much attention to children.
Lookie here, what exactly does this country want? Cream of the crop of talented workhorses from all over the world? Loyal country men who would stay satisfied with making babies and then living from hand to mouth, working through out their meaningless lives? To be some kind of ghetto version of Cambridge by increasing the standards of NUS/NTU/SMU? Whatever it is, those 3 ideas seem hella contradicting, or leading around a circle of problems.
Anyway, to the "ni hui shuo zhong guo hua ma?" MFer who probably has my place in NUS/NTU, there's a big F U. Go home, come back when you're regarded as a TALENTED individual. There's no need for you to learn your skills here. Serve your fucking 2 years or it will be totally retarded that you're getting a degree in MY country's uni at my expense and STILL graduate ahead of me. Carninabu.
This place doesn't give people a 2nd chance in life. Hell, they don't even provide a decent first chance.
Lol, I can serve NS, work doubly hard, entually contribute to the society. And in return, I probably get taxed on almost everything possible, get an expatriate who is probably a reject from his country as my boss, slog 40 years to repay the loan for my car and house, enjoy retirement at the void deck of a HDB flat and then spend the rest of eternity crammed in an urn stored 3 stories under.
Gotta love it.
Once again, so and so mentioned on the rally that more singaporeans are going abroad. It is unfortunate, yet understandable. And for Singapore to maintain its success, 3 things must be done;
1) Cultivate strong bonds with overseas Singaporeans
2) Encourage baby-making
3) Welcome immigrants
Quite frankly, from my point of view, it's pretty much a load of crap. Being a student who is left with no other alternatives but to seek education overseas, I'd like to question why the minstry of education admit foreigners at our expense and what's their take on a LOCAL university. And in order for Singapore to succeed, it's alright that MORE foreign talents are welcomed compete with your local countrymen, even for a place in the universities?
Next you go on to say that since there's a result of more Singaporeans going abroad, we ought to maintain close ties and have such people feel a sense of belonging. So after serving the fking nation for 2 yrs, you deprive me of a place in the so-called LOCAL university, and give it to some Curryland or Ni-Hao-Ma-County migrant? Yet I'm expected to be thankful and patriotic, keeping a place in my heart for Singapore after spending hundreds of thousands to study abroad? (To think we're called smart people.)
Last but not least, in addition to that extra competition, not like there isn't enough already, we're expected to make babies? Dude, unless we live to the age of 200 and our reproductive systems are still active at 70, it's gonna be hard to go all out to carve a decent career and yet pay so much attention to children.
Lookie here, what exactly does this country want? Cream of the crop of talented workhorses from all over the world? Loyal country men who would stay satisfied with making babies and then living from hand to mouth, working through out their meaningless lives? To be some kind of ghetto version of Cambridge by increasing the standards of NUS/NTU/SMU? Whatever it is, those 3 ideas seem hella contradicting, or leading around a circle of problems.
Anyway, to the "ni hui shuo zhong guo hua ma?" MFer who probably has my place in NUS/NTU, there's a big F U. Go home, come back when you're regarded as a TALENTED individual. There's no need for you to learn your skills here. Serve your fucking 2 years or it will be totally retarded that you're getting a degree in MY country's uni at my expense and STILL graduate ahead of me. Carninabu.
This place doesn't give people a 2nd chance in life. Hell, they don't even provide a decent first chance.
