Are you a peasant girl/boy?

Hitman 2010 SG

A minister takes home on average approximately $1,500,000 a year or $125,000 a month. A peasant takes home on average approximately $30,000 a year or $2,500 a month.

As 20% of the peasant’s pay has to go into CPF, the peasant is left with $2,000 in cash. Assuming the peasant saves 10% of his cash for rainy days, he would be left with $1800.

If the peasant spends every single cent of his $1,800 and is taxed at the rate of 7% in form of GST, he will have to pay $126 in GST every month. From here, we can conservatively gauge that it takes approximately 1000 peasants to feed one minister every month just from paying GST.

We have 20 ministers, which means about 20,000 peasants working their asses off to feed them every month.

Welcome to fiefdom Singapore.

Leslie Chew

Hitman 2010 SG

beetroot:

Some peasants make less then $2,500 per month.

You need to break it down further,
Peasant-$2,500 p.m
Poor Peasant-$1,800
Poorer Peasant-$1,300
Poorest Peasant-$1,000
Poorer Pest Peasant-$600

Hitman 2010 SG

Ugly Singaporean Jokes
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Democratic Blasphemy (Contributed by Edwin)

Why is it that Adam and Eve could not have been Chinese?
Because if Satan took the form of a snake and tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit, Eve would have said, "Quick, Adam! Catch the snake also! Snake also can eat, mah!"

Why is it that Adam and Eve could not have been Malay?
Because if Satan took the form of a snake and tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit, both Adam and Eve would have said to him, "Relac lah! Tomorrow also can eat!"

Why is that Adam and Eve could not have been Indian?
Because they would have conned the snake into eating the apple.

Drive You Mad

One day, Mr. Choe Seng Lee walked into a bank and asked for the loan officer. He said he was going to Batam on Business for two days and needed to borrow $5000. The loan officer said the bank would need some security for the loan.

Mr. Choe then handed over the keys to his Mercedes that was parked on the street in front of the bank. Everything checked out and the loan officer accepted the car as collateral for the loan.

An employee then drove the Mercedes into the bank's carpark and parked it there. Two days later Mr. Choe returned and repaid the $5,000 and the interest which came to $13.07.

The loan officer said, "We do appreciate your business and this transaction has worked out very nicely. But we are a bit puzzled. While you were away, we checked and found that you are a very rich contractor. Why would you need to borrow $5,000?"

Mr. Choe replied, "Aiyah, where else in Singapore can I park my car for 2 days for 13 dollars and with security officers to guard somemore?"

Starting Young

One day, 4 babies were born at K.K. Hospital: a German, a Jewish, a Filipino and a Singaporean.

However, someone mixed up the babies by mistake, and the nurses couldn't differentiate between them.

However, the head sister had a bright idea. She lined the babies up in front of her and exclaimed, "Heil Hitler!"

At hearing this, the German baby raised his arm in a salute, while the Jewish baby soiled his diapers. In the meantime, the Singaporean baby turned to the Filipino baby and said, "Clean that up!"

Can Die (Contributed by Setzer)

There was this case in a hospital's intensive care ward where patients always died in the same bed and always on Friday mornings, regardless of their medical conditions.

This puzzled the doctors and some even thought that it had to do with the supernatural. So the doctors decided to go down to that particular ward to investigate the cause.

Come Friday morning, everyone at the hospital ward nervously waited for the terrible phenomenon to occur again. Some held wooden crosses, prayer books and other holy objects to ward off evil....

As the time approached, their hearts began beating anxiously, and with every beat of the clock, everyone held their breath........ .... Then Ah Soh, the part-time Friday cleaner, came into the room and unplugged the life support system so that she could use the vacuum cleaner.

Hitman 2010 SG

Joo Chiat nightmare
While Singaporean behaviour is generally not extreme, there is a little bit of the flaunting, looking-down-on-others trait in every one of us. By Seah Chiang Nee.
Nov 16, 2002

Out of Singapore's gloomiest times, hard-pressed citizens are finding an unexpected source of respite from a decade-long neighbourhood dispute in a quiet eastern suburb.

The real life drama between the Chan family and seven of its neighbours has turned the area into a tourist attraction since it made it on prime time TV a month ago.

Every evening, up to 100 people, some coming from Malaysia, have been visiting the place, hoping to catch a glimpse of the action.

For awhile it even predominated coffee shop conversations, pushing aside terrorist fears and economic woes.

With 4 million people living in one of the world's densest-populated cities, neighbourhood disputes are not uncommon - but this is not the run-of-the-mill story.

Neither is it just about social friction of life in a fishbowl.

It raises the bigger question whether - in its haste to achieve prosperity - Singapore has neglected developing the people's social graces.

Although it is not representative of the average family here, the Joo Chiat conflict shows how far Singaporeans have to go to catch up on becoming a civil society.

The incredible story unfolded on Oct 12 over Channel U's programme "Inside Out" which features neighbourhood living.

Retiree Chan Cheng Koon, 67, lives at 130B Everitt Road with his wife Chua Gek Eng and daughter, Soo Yin, in her 40s.

For almost 10 years, seven of their neighbours have repeatedly complained of harassment by the Chans, who in turn blame them of having started it. All are occupants in a row of semi-detached houses.

The neighbours say the Chans mounted a spotlight which they turn on at night shining into their bedrooms (Chan says it for security). They would also video-filmed their neighbours and tailing them or their visitors, making them feel uncomfortable.

One of the scenes aired on TV shows the daughter, a secondary school teacher with a doctorate in life sciences, standing next to her mother, shouting across to the neighbours: "You see, this is diamonds, you can buy or not? You got money to buy?"

Another comment was "...My time is very precious, an hour $200..." and "See my car, brand new"

A neighbour was labelled as "low class" because she spoke only Mandarin, not English. Chan told the reporter "I don't know Hokkien, dialects and I don't speak Mandarin. I am English-educated you know?"

The police have been called in several times and the warring parties have resorted to getting video evidence of each other.

All efforts at mediation, including one by the Member of Parliament, have failed.

Last week, one of the neighbours, Madam Cheong Siew Ying, 38, supported by others took the case to the court.

After an hour, the magistrate ordered both sides to cool off for a month before pursuing another settlement attempt.

Predictably, public sentiments, especially over the Internet, are overwhelmingly against the Chans, considering them to be arrogant and crude.

Others, however, say their neighbours, too, should take part of the blame for allowing the matter to go this far.

What disturbed people most was the crude flaunting of wealth and earning capacity, showing off of jewellery and car and educational status - on national TV.

While Singaporeans are generally far from such extreme behaviour, there are people who believe there is a little bit of the Chan trait in every one of us.

With a society that measures success by wealth and educational status, it is not uncommon for richer Singaporeans to look down on others, especially the non-English educated, as "low class" or "poor achievers."

One manifestation is the incidence of maid abuse. There were 157 cases in 1997.

Only after the enactment of tough new laws against guilty employers did the numbers drop falling to six for the first half of this year.

But the behaviour of many Singaporeans towards their maids - numbering some 140,000 - still falls short of acceptability. They are made to work hours, without a day off and given only five or six hours of sleep a day.

Mr. Chew Kim Whatt, president of Singapore's biggest maid 45% of employers "don't know how to treat their domestic workers."

An academic, however, put it this way: For 30 years, Singapore's economy has developed rapidly but this was never matched by development of its people.

"Many earn good income, dress well but their minds are little different from their ancestors' - quite primitive" he added.

A month before the Joo Chiat drama became public, a 37-year-old Singaporean man was jailed for three months for kicking his Indonesian maid in the buttocks after she forgot to shut a window when it rained.

Criticism has fallen on the education system, which places global-winning emphasis on Science and Mathematics and little on character or social upbringing.

Others say working parents are to be blamed in this two-income society. Youths grow up without being taught social values.

One web-site chatter says the Joo Chiat episode is a setback to the city's efforts to build a gracious society.

"We have just spent S$600 million on The Theatres on The Esplanade (the Durian) cultivating the arts to nurture the souls," he said.

"If the society values graciousness, it is definitely not showing it by allowing such uncouth behaviour bordering on the surreal to go unpunished."

It will take another generation at least before Singaporeans can shake off their refugee past, when concern for others ranked well below self-survival.

Many of our ancestors had to fight others for a space on board a ship or to get food for their children.

This trait lives on today among many Singaporeans, a self-centered, couldn't-care-less for other people attitude. The changes come but only gradually.

It surfaces in everyday routines. People (irrespective of education) jump queues, talk on a handphone in a cinema or restaurant, and grab anything that is free in disregard for others.

Others fiercely protect their turf if they consider it under threat. A well-behaving person, for example, may turn into a monster when he is driving and someone cuts into his lane.

And after a life of hard knocks, many achievers are less tolerant towards others who are behind.

All this lead to disputes even in the most unexpected places.

They range from such the high-class Singapore Recreation Club (over elections) to two combative fruit sellers engaging in a self-defeating business war (selling 30 apples for $1).

As a result, mediation has become a business of the courts - and aspirant lawyers are trained in university to handle it. ends

(This article was first published on Sunday Star, Malaysia, on Nov 10, 2002.)

Hitman 2010 SG

DO you agree?

I am a Singaporean myself.... and at times I just feel why are we all not doing such.... -_-" Singaporeans are just too self-centered in general. Do you agree?

e.g
ESCALATOR
standing to the left on Escalators while letting pple climb if they want.
it took us sooooooo long to do it almost right.

MRT - giving up your seat
Almost ALL expecting mother would agree wit this. From a colleague of mine... only when my wife became pregnant that I started to be more aware of my surroundings and letting go of my seat in public transport.... before that he was totally clueless.

Getting the door
You know when you are entering a door and someone is like 2~3 steps away we should actually just keep the door held open for the person on the back since once he /she reaches the door it will sort of sla on their face...
Personally, I was not doing this until I went overseas... -_-" shame on me.

Day to Day discussion
Epsecially, in forums.. I feel people do not seem to put themselves in ANOTHER angle (or simply cannot put themselves in other's shoes) to give opinions but usually like to sound out what they believe and THAT is THAT...

Seriously... we retarded or just simple too self-centered?

Hitman 2010 SG

With all that is happening around the world and in all our neighbouring countries, Singapore has it good. Everyone is so narrow minded, self centered and self absorbed. They only think of themselves and themselves only. Everyday worrying about the silly prices of food, gst hike, gst credits, workfare bonus, debate about the minister's and president's pay and most of all the stupid election (which we all know what the outcome will be even before the election is held).

Why don't we look around ourselves and see the pain and suffering that is going on, the disasters that have happened. If you compare ourselves to them, we are but a small little dot in this big ocean.

If Singapore did get hit by the tsunami, we would be wiped off the map and no one would have given a dam about it.

Hitman 2010 SG

C. H. Yeo is 42 years old, has a bachelor’s degree majoring in design from Australia, and works as an interior designer and part-time lecturer.

It is a pretty decent resume for any prospective girlfriend, but when it came to dating Singaporean women, Yeo thought his plump, 1.5m frame put him at a distinct disadvantage.

“I’ve heard the girls look for handsome guys and will start looking at you 360 degrees. I don’t want to be in that situation.” So he joined a growing band of higher-educated Singaporean men who go knocking on the doors of foreign bride agencies.

Last December, he tied the knot with a 23-year-old Vietnamese woman, Lu Thi Tham, who used to run a kiosk in Vietnam selling sugar cane. She is now four months’ pregnant.

Like Yeo, The Sunday Times said that one in four Singapore men married foreign brides last year, a phenomenon that has hit a 10-year high

Last year, 6,520 male Singaporeans and permanent residents married foreign brides, the highest number in 10 years, according to the Department of Statistics. The number is up from 5,210 the previous year and 4,425 in 2003. Traditionally, the paper said, matchmaking agencies have catered to men with lower academic qualifications, but now they are seeing more and more diploma and degree holders.

One agency, Mr Cupid, said seven out of every 10 customers have a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Five years ago, most clients had up to Secondary 2 education, said director Martin Wong. Mr Cupid gets six to seven clients a month.

Of the seven men who spoke to The Sunday Times about their foreign marriages, four said they preferred foreign women because they would be more demure and accommodating.

What they want, they said, is a woman who will put the family and husband first, rather than demand cars, condominiums and credit cards.

See Chee Hong, 35, a chef with Secondary 2 education, said: “Few Singaporean women will want to live with my parents and two sisters in our four-room HDB flat.”

He married a Vietnamese farmer’s daughter in 2004.

They have two sons, aged 17 months and seven months. His wife is 22.

“My wife takes care of the kids and all the housework. Her requests are simple: Care for me, don’t bully me and don’t go out to look for other women.”

Another reason more Singapore men are marrying foreigners, the experts say, is simply that they have more opportunities to meet.

Besides the 30 or so foreign bride agencies that are operating here at any one time, Singaporeans are travelling overseas more often, more foreign women are coming to work here and the Internet enables singles to meet online wherever they live. Figures on which nationalities Singaporean men prefer were not available, but back in 1998, Malaysians topped the chart, followed by women from Indonesia and China.

The Sunday Times understands Malaysians still form the bulk of foreign brides, but Vietnamese and China brides are gaining ground.

On the other hand, far fewer Singapore women than men marry foreigners. The possibility of having to leave the country may be part of the reason far fewer Singapore women than men marry foreigners.

Even so, the number of female Singaporeans and permanent residents marrying foreign men has gone up slightly over the past 10 years.

Last year, 1,596 local women married foreign men, up from 1,134 in 1996

Hitman 2010 SG

The "save myself" and "keep quiet" mentality is a result of our upbringing in Singapore. We have always been taught to listen, keep quiet and just obey.

I realise most Singaporeans have this mentality : When troubles come, "SIAM", in other words meaning, "When troubles or inconveniece come, get out of the way, and not do anything to help.

Sometimes, when we are on the bus and we see an old woman boarding the bus, we pretend to be asleep. We sleep, and we do not care about her need and we give ourselves a whole load of excuses of not giving up the seat.

I talked to a number of my friends who are Singaporeans about fighting for Singapore in the context of a war or conflicts with neighbouring countries. They told me they would run away, and not fight, because a fight is not worthy of their time, money and lives. It was more about themselves, than the nation.

I have seen an old man collapsed on the bus due to heat and exhaustion. All the passengers in the bus could do was to watch, or pretend not to see, and do nothing or just talk about it. I went up and help, and shouted for someone to help too. It was just a basic compassion moment, I thought.

The problem is, in any case of a need for public assistance, and if I do step up to help, I know there will be some people at the back of the bus or crowd, muttering, and criticising what I am doing.

"Oh, why is that young lad so kaypo?"

"Oh what does he think he is trying to do...act kind and concerned?", some will mock.

"Can't he just leave it to the bus driver??"

"Can't this guy just leave it to the people that are coming?"

"He's blocking the way of alighting passengers by helping the guy and creating a commotion!"

These people are typical self-centred Singaporeans - Watch and do nothing when a need arises. And when its too inconvenient or deemed too dangerous for them to help, they will pretend not to see, and prevent others from helping by discouraging and muttering under their breaths so as to hide their own selfishness. They will back down.

At the end of the day, Singaporeans as a nation did grow up with the mentality of "Big Brother is watching, and he will take care of everything."

Hitman 2010 SG

of Change for Singaporeans: Wake Up Cowardly Singaporeans!

Dear Fellow Citizens,

This coming Election will be the litmus test. We win or doom!

Do will have what it takes to stand-up in against the PAP?

Are we the Coward of our own misery?

Put aside the carrot now being presented by PAP. Filter through their “rationale” for the real truth of their motive.

Future of Singapore is in your hands!

PAP does not seem to care! –they do not show much compassion and conscience anymore.

PAP watches, controls, dictates and manipulates our minds, our souls and our lives. We seem to live in a Perfect “Truman Show”-PAP style!

Every rationale PAP gives has cleverly guarded insidious motive-their self-interest of perpetuity.

They have everything to live laps of luxuries for their generation and next generation. Yet they do little to listen to the woes and anguish of citizen earnestly.

PAP delivers so-called “enrichment” calibrated to maximum to their leverage to “buy” votes.

They have tremendous wealth-all that they ever needed. They want now, more Power and Prestige! Absolute Power!

What do most of us have! Our frustrations and angst on housing and foreign influx are not heeded earnestly.

Our past, current generation has to suffer for next generation to have something call decent home. This seems more and more unachievable with escalating cost and insidious stranglehold of PAP over nearly every aspect of our lives.

Is that what we want?

Or ARE WE cowards to the extent we cow in fear of every threat of PAP, and sucks to every carrot which they bait us?

I am afraid we are. We will also “prostitute” ourselves for money carrot dangling in front.

It is in our blood-the fear, the cowardice, the greed?

Singapore is NOT Singapore in the FUTURE. PAP is NOT PAP before! Singapore is PAP soon!

The world is its labor-a pool to select increase population and displace Singaporeans at their discretion.

The Elite, Rich and Powerful will dance with the Lions and regale in Absolute Power & Wealth.

What will happen to most of true-bred Singaporeans in the Future?

So we cowardly Singaporeans, please wake up!

We need to band together, stand-up in what we believe! Or we will never have our next generation of Singaporean we called the “true-bred”!

Nation-hood is only a fiction it seems under PAP!

Let vote and vote victoriously for once in our life to make a very powerful statement to PAP!

Singaporeans, do what is right!

Do we want OUR LIVES, or the LIVES PAP wants US to live!!!

Please discuss this serious issue of current and future prosperity with your families and friends.

Everyone do a little bit, together will be a unity of strength of the Nation we seek!

Opposition Parties, please UNITE, do your part for Singapore for Singaporeans!

Hitman 2010 SG

On Mar 6, 5:11 pm, Zanzibar <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mar 6, 2:30 pm, baldeagle <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mar 6, 2:03 pm, baldeagle <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mar 6, 12:46 pm, "truth" <[email protected]> wrote:

truth comment: way back we used to laugh at india for producing
mba to sell kachang puteh. now due to the screwed up policies of
the papist leegime, we are producing phd to drive taxi. this is worst
than india in the 70's. like dat must vote oppositions.

http://www.thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2010/3/6/columni...
Singaporean white collar professionals are going though a rough patch in a
changing world economy, having to compete for scarce jobs with a mass influx
of 'cheap foreigners'.

A FORMER lecturer in America with a Master's in music is reportedly working
at a job here that pays only S$2,500 (RM6010) a month.

A retrenched sales executive was rejected for a temporary job as
administrative assistant at a government hospital because he was
"over-qualified".

In his account to STOMP, the Straits Times online mobile print, the
disappointed applicant said: "I sincerely hope that recruiters and companies
(can) understand the pain we are going through...

"We are all out to earn a living and to put food on the table for our
family."

Last year, unemployed scientist Cai Mingjie, who has a PhD from Stanford
University and a list of research papers, became a cab driver when he failed
repeatedly to land another job. He still cruises the streets of Singapore.

In this land of dream jobs for one million foreigners who have flocked here
over the past 10 years, such anecdotes - once considered unusual and rare -
are becoming more frequent these days.

White-collar professionals are going through a rough patch certainly.

The wider story is that the changing world economy - aggravated by the mass
influx of "cheap foreigners" - is rendering local graduates "over-priced"
and "over qualified".

Economic productivity is in continuous decline, and to survive in this
expensive city, higher-educated job seekers are reducing their ambitions to
settle for lower-level work.

In a way, Singapore is being penalised for its own success. For years, the
government has successfully invested in upgrading its citizens.

Since my early teens, I had been repeatedly reminded that my future depended
on getting a degree because it was the key to a successful life.

Some of Singapore's exuberance faded 10 years ago as globalisation spread,
and unemployment among the highly-educated began to rise.

Nevertheless, a varsity education remains a prized asset. In this
competitive age, even a hotel receptionist requires one.

Everyone is upgrading. It has long become a national buzzword.

Up to half the Singaporeans who already have a diploma are flocking to the
universities to improve themselves.

Some 18,000 Singaporeans are studying in foreign universities. The education
budget is one of the highest, and of this, about 30% goes to tertiary
studies.

The result has been a rapid rise in the quality of the work force.

Today, two out of three workers have a university degree (27%) or a diploma
(39%), and the goal is to push it to 89% by 2020.

If you throw a stone in this city, it will more likely than not hit a
graduate.

In the industrial era - especially before the global downturn - Singapore's
professionals were virtually guaranteed a job, often a good one, and this
contributed to the state's prosperity.

Today, the majority remains gainfully employed, making up Singapore's
affluent middle class. But the guarantee is long gone.

With the eclipse of manufacturing, many quality jobs were lost, probably for
good, and life is getting harder for the PMET (read Professionals, Managers,
Executives and Technicians).

The phenomenon is, of course, not unique to Singapore. In America, engineers
have become hamburger flippers or insurance salesmen.

The PMET plight here is aggravated by the influx of expatriate graduates
from abroad hungry for work for less money.

At the same time, Singapore's productivity growth is in long-term decline,
dragged down by the addition of two million foreigners.

The opposition Workers' Party leader, Low Thia Khiang, said productivity in
the past decade was an average 1% a year - down from 5% in the 1980s and 3%
in the 1990s.

By allowing easy access to cheap imported labour, the government was partly
to blame for the decline, he said.

The authorities have drawn up long-term plans to lift productivity, starting
with higher levies on foreign workers and greater retraining help for
locals.

For downgraded Singaporeans, the action means little.

They include some 600 graduates who have applied for a licence to drive a
taxi, an increase of 23% over 2003.

"What a waste of talent," said the Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao, which
noticed that graduate-drivers were also becoming younger.

To government backbencher and trade union leader Halimah Yacob, the idea of
retrenched degree holders driving taxis is "unavoidable" at times when
growth is slow and jobs hard to come by.

Online news site Temasek Review said, in the past, only highly qualified
expats and blue collar workers were permitted to work here.

"In the past few years, foreign PMETs have flooded the Singapore labour
market, leading to intense competition with locals for jobs" and forcing
down earnings.

Under the headline "Graduates dealt harder jobs blow", The Straits Times,
quoting revised official figures, reported: "Despite signs of a turnaround
in the job market, university graduates are no better off. In fact, more of
them are without jobs and taking longer to land a job."

To avoid losing out, some youths are leaving out their post-graduate
qualifications when they apply for a job, and it often works.

A blogger notes: "Remember that being 'over-qualified' won't make the house
payments; rather it can prove to be a roadblock to winning your desired
job."

The general decline is not lost on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Looong.

In a recent speech, he applauded "resilient Singaporeans" who had willingly
taken on "any available jobs to support themselves and their families, and
keep the unemployment rate down".

When thousands of graduates coming into the job market...there
will come a day, when well qualified graduates would not find
jobs easily. This day has NOT come for Singapore yet.

But why are local graduates NOT finding good jobs ?

Local graduates have to compete, on unfair terms, for jobs
with tens of thousands of 'foreigner' graduates from India
and elsewhere.....

There are thousands of good executive jobs available for
graduates...but unfortunately, because of government policy,
the local graduate are unfortunately passed over...and the
jobs are given to cheap foreigners.

We cannot blame the employers who are have watch of their
bottom line...we cannot blame the local graduates...for expecting
fair pay for good work...who should bear the blame ?

I was at the Immigrations/Citizenship office at Lavender St
last week....the number of Indian nationals (mostly executive
types and their families) being granted citizen papers are
just unbelievable... ?!
I cannot help but felt sorry for those locals whose jobs are
being taken over by these 'new citizens'.

Is there an explanation ....for giving good executive jobs to
foreigners and making them citizens...depriving local
graduates jobs ?

This policy is beyond logic !- Hide quoted text -

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Yes....it is unpardonable.

This uncaring bunch of selfish, self-centered
'leaders' don't deserve to be the leaders any
more. Singapore definitely need a 'CHANGE' urgently..
a change to better leadership.

The way they screwed Singaporeans by importing
almost a millions foreigners had definitely led to
more jobless Singaporeans,... more hardship for
us,... lower wages for Singaporeans, ... few available
hospital beds for the dangerous ills...forced Singaporeans
to live in cramped HDB flats...unable to get their own
flats for years....
If allowed to continue their erroneous ways, the poor
Singaporeans will suffer even greater hardship and
pains...

They cannot sweep these critical social problems
under the carpet simply claiming that these are
bread of butter issues at the next election. These
are critical issue issues ...to the life of poor Singaporeans..
critical issues to the future of local born Singaporeans.
.