The piece of symbolic brick costs only $2, for charities and to
supplement social funds, and the $2 may seem small change to
many, but if your pockets have only 90cts, you cant even get a bus
ride, let alone the MRT, and would have to walk a long way
home.
Better you keep what you have, and seek help from kind souls
than to give it to charities. Others and charities understand,
appreciate the thought for charity but would not want it any
other way, to deprave you of what you have, for they too, had
either been deprived before and know the pain, and wish it not upon
others.
I know how you feel, more so in these hard times and
suffering from both being laid off and getting a job with perhaps a
lower pay which you would find unreasonable.
Perhaps think of the FT/FW issue this way - if they were
not here, more companies may not be able to compete and will even
to have fold, causing lesser jobs in the market. Every foriegner
hired means another citizen gets to be hired or keeps his job.
There is a qouta system in place. Abusers of the qouta system gets
penalised.
Many more are like you, caught in a doing not of our own but
living in a new world order of globalisation. There are still good
paying jobs if you had upgraded. Many are doing everything they can
to keep their jobs, applying for jobs, upgrading for jobs,
competting in jobs, working hard with the right attitude, proving
themselves and getting promoted.
Words may be easily said, but the facts and realities are
there for all to see. They had not given up and most found success.
So too can you. I wish you all the best and good luck, because you
are ONE OF US.
Take care. 
“A stronger currency and a rise in inflation have
made Singapore a more expensive place for expatriates to live in, a
survey has found.
Singapore
jumped three
spots from a year ago to become the ninth priciest Asian city in
the latest cost of living ranking by human resource company ECA
International.
It beat Taiwan's Taipei and
China's Shenzhen and Guangzhou, but remained cheaper than Japan's
Tokyo and Yokohama, and China's Beijing, Shanghai and Hong
Kong.
Worldwide, Singapore's rising cost of living
catapulted it into the 78th spot on this year's global survey, up
almost 20 places from 97th last year….” ST,
3-12-09
Please explain how to seek a balance in our daily expenses when
the pay keep going down and expenses is the other way? The FTs are
not on equal footing here when they set foot into a company, they
ousted the locals with their expected pay. And then realised later
that things are not so cheap here, but damaged had already
done...to locals