Certainly not the first time this issue has been discussed,
remember Derek Wee and Wee Shu Min saga?
Singapore's so called Foreign Talent policy had gone horribly wrong
and the State Times is still trying to convince people on the
ground of its merits.
Expertise transfer did not happen, what happened was opportunists
taking advantage and heading back home after making money. One just
needs to look at our sports scene. What happened to our so called
Foreign Talents? Another renaming Marina Bay project?
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/212944print.asp
Even now, disillusioned Singaporeans are running off and the doors
are going to be opened wider. This works to be a self-fulfilling
event. The saddest thing is that the real effects of this failed
policy will show up in 10 to 20 years down the road.
Tell that to the men in white? They will tell you to face "the
brutal truth". I can't write as well as an elite, so i just copy
and paste.
mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid
40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots
have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an
insecure place, how old ppl (ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs,
how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between
inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no
actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery
Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a
liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government
really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't
because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how
the world works, yadayadayadayada.
i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as
crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often
singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned
socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like
most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a
tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is
the complement.
sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his
poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax
at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true
views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to
gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think
the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed
diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as
sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.
derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron
ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?
if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's
just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government
for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of
fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and
it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other
people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when
people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will
be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if
uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be
poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully,
which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i
doubt.
then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i
guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will
read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners
who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go
ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when
people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear
derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear
derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his
clan massacred by the government?
i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched,
undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this
world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax
lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the
foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales
assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper. these shitbags
don't want anything without "manager" and a name card.
please, get out of my elite uncaring face.
