Originally posted by soul_rage:
Hi Laddie,
you have to be a bit more tactful when coming to discussions about
Australia. In all fairness, you and I have not lived in Australia
before, so I think you are positioning yourself for some flak by
stereotyping Chinese to be washing dishes in Chinese restaurants
(well, I may open my own restaurant and be the boss, but may be
washing dishes as well coz I just ate dinner. Ok, lousy joke
).
Just as the world over now stereotypes us as freaking rich citizens
coz our ministers are earning ridiculous salaries
Back to the topic, I feel the govt has always been myopic and
short-sighted (thus it breeds myopic people like Gazelle). Some of
the very short-sighted policies:
"Stop at 2". (now in trouble liao)
"Engineering is good, everyone should go engineering" (now so many
engineers, not enough good jobs)
"IT is good, everyone should go IT" (now so many IT grads, not
enough good jobs)
"Biomedical is good, everyone should go biomedical" (it remains to
be seen what is going to happen)
"Outsourcing is good, everyone should outsource" (the head of IT in
my prev job said "We should outsource, coz its now a trend. Its not
we should outsource coz we need to, but it became we should
outsource coz everyone else is doing it)
"FT is good, let's bring in FT" (Tom, Dick and Harry (no pun
intended on LKY) all come in, what a mess, no control of the
'talent' they bring in.)
[b]This is the problem with our Govt. It
has shown repeatedly it has NO foresight. All
decisions are made based on the current trends in the world, and
not enough analysis is being made on HOW TO adopt a certain trend,
instead just jumping in and causing damage to locals (This is what
I am telling the silly Gazelle, about a certain level of
protectionism to ensure our locals get some advantage. He instead
agree with the govt to open the door and windows so wide, that
these people come in, rob us, and leave without even a sense of
gratitude)
The hub fiasco
"We want to be IT hub" (did we become an IT hub?)
"We want to be a biomedical hub" (did we become that?)
"We want to be a gaming hub" (?)
"We want to be a medical hub" (?)
"We want to be an educational hub" (look what happened
recently)
"We want to be a business hub"
The list goes on...
Ended up, we become a CONFUSED hub.
As a corporation it also failed, in that its so greedy it wants to
eat every trend in the world, that our hub idealogy is now falling
flat on its face.
Every capable corporation knows that you have to focus, and usually
each corporation will pick 3 directions to focus (to ensure that
the company is resilent enough in times of crisis). We, on the
other hand, hantum everything that comes our way.
Look at Korea, everyone knows its technology is strong becoz it is
focused there. HK is focused on being a business centre. What is
Singapore? A mess...[/b]
you just mentioned that your salary got doubled. where? in
singapore.
then you start to think, Hey, I can earn a lot more here and
there.
then you start to look at everything in details to decide whether
you should go here and there to earn the higher salaries.
sadly to say, ONLY on negative ones. your heart already has
"anger". This "anger" i guess accumulates overtime when you grow up
here.
let me tell you a real story. I know a young lady. she grows up
feeling that her mom does not love her. she begins to hate where
she lives, i mean her home. she begins to have the thought of
wanting to marry off ASAP so that she can leave her family ASAP.
That she did. 10 years later, one will expect her to be better,
happier. Unfortunately, she now said, in the last 10 years, she was
crying because she thinks BOTH her mom and her husband dont love
her.
the moral of the story is, Singapore is your home, where you grow
up, no matter how shitty you think it is. It is your home. Accept
it with an open heart, then go with an open heart. you will be a
happier and better person than the lady mentioned above.
