SG at turning point, next 20 yrs will bring more changes: PM

QX179R SG · 2012-10-12T17:50:04+00:00

i still feel angry that i have been shoirtchanged in lfe in singapoere!!

QX179R SG

MELBOURNE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has arrived in Melbourne for the start of his official visit to Australia.

At a reception with some 200 Singaporeans, mainly students studying in the city, Mr Lee said Singapore is at a turning point in its development.

He said the country is getting more developed, crowded but also filled with vibrancy and buzz.

He added the next 20 years will bring on more changes and even as Singaporeans seek opportunities elsewhere, he urged them to come back home.

"We hope that wherever you may go, you remember that you're Singaporean and your friends are at home, and your families are at home, and one day, hopefully before too long, you come back to Singapore - either come back to get married or get married and bring somebody home to Singapore," said Mr Lee.

- CNA/ir

SJS6638 SG

What is so good about coming home from Australia after study to live in a country where the "bitch" is getting more foreigners in to affect our way of life and having a widening of income gap

Army 21 SG

MELBOURNE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has arrived in Melbourne for the start of his official visit to Australia.

At a reception with some 200 Singaporeans, mainly students studying in the city, Mr Lee said Singapore is at a turning point in its development.

u increase the salary by twice then u can start to talk.no use u keep harping and forcing people back when u cant give them decent wage jobs in spore nor jobs overseas.

mr pm.,,u are a damn fool and if i have to wait for yer results .............we would have died of starvation long ago!

speakoutfor SG

Yes come back and live in a few hundred square feet apartment cost over $500k. Buy car also need to tender for COE. Then what more pay high price for car. Parking expensive as hell. Work life stress like cock - bully and pressure from superior, no protection from labour law, can get sack just like that. Then gahmen never build places to sit, bus stop no place to sit, shopping complex no bench to sit and rest. to sit down have to go to restaurant to pay to sit and eat. Then got GST. Have to worry about finding girlfriend with rich taste and materialistic mentality. Even if find also, then worry about marriage cost, book expensive hotel, buy expensive wedding gown, photo book, etc. After that spend more and more, to buy home. 30% of income go to housing loan. Then after that have to worry about which hospital best to give birth in. After that worry over children education. Save money for their tertiary education. Focus on them, so they don't go stray, so they study hard and make sure they go univeristy. If they don't succeed, make sure they don't commit suicide. THen after that, have to worry about retirement. Then medical cost, by then in 60s, insurance premium getting high, kena stroke or heart attack, need operation, medical cost super super high. Then stupid doctor recommend some dumb dumb anti high blood pressure pill, have to take for life, damn expensive. After retirement burn all CPF. Argue with children over who gets my home. Then after that become very old then get dementia, start forgetting who is who. Children send me to old folks. More expenses ! THen after that die...children have to spend more money on crematorium expenses.

Then my children will experience the same thing as me, as for my grandchildren too. But things will be far worse in future, with super high property prices, super high medicare, super traffic jams, high unemployment, so on and so forth.

On and on and on and on.....this is the circle of life....no break at all.

Come back? Is PM Lee hallucinating?

bycai SG

u increase the salary by twice then u can start to talk.no use u keep harping and forcing people back when u cant give them decent wage jobs in spore nor jobs overseas.

mr pm.,,u are a damn fool and if i have to wait for yer results .............we would have died of starvation long ago!

Lazybumy SG

Our elites are really very good at feng shui, During the 90 time, there the Swiss Standard of living, come 00 there Singapore 21 Vision and More Good Years. Now during the 10, they tell us to look 20 years ahead. 风水师骗你个十年八载, even feng shui master can only see 8-10 yrs beyond, but our elites can tell you what happen in 20 years later.

Of cos the elites want the Lesser Mortals to come back, if not how they get their “peanuts” salary.

troublemaker2005 SG

more cctvs, s/cc will keep going up. still the same number of cheap foreign labor (not talent), else they should be less than 1k talent. rental, cost of doing business still so high, birth rate still so low, still rely on fake people to make up the population blah blah blah

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A method of forming an asymmetrical encapsulant bead on a series of wire bonds electrically connecting a micro-electronic device to a series of conductors, the micro-electronic device having a planar active surface. The method has the steps of positioning the die and the wire bonds beneath an encapsulant jetter that jets drops of encapsulant on to the wire bonds, the drops of encapsulant following...more

A method of jetting drops of encapsulant from an encapsulant jetter, the drops including primary drops and satellite drops that are much smaller than the primary drops. The method has the steps of providing a series of wire bonds electrically connecting a micro-electronic device to a series of conductors, jetting the drops of encapsulant from the jetter and, inducing a gas flow with a velocity...more

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1986 – 1995

Army 21 SG

MR pm lee.im afraid your clowns in parliament have done worse damage after your father LKY left.How u expect anyone to ever return to spore if u dont protect your own citizens and instead protect the interests of citizens of other countries in the past till today!

PM lee hsien loong,you are simply not doing enough for your own citizens at all!

Army 21 SG

grrrrr!!!

Army 21 SG

i have almost the same expertise as them without a degree .however i was shortchanged as i was neither given a simple process engineer job that was basically a production operator job with a degree nor an education at NUS which i would have undoubtly passed it.I actually saw for myself that in high tech arena they had a factory production operator from china promoted to process engineer in spore in 5 years.

so why should i come back when singapore doesnt care for my well being in reality?think i have already reached the point of no return.

good bye singapore!

Army 21 SG

ans:simple thing like that using common sense also need to patent!!!!!!!just use vacuum sourcing mah!!!!so easy also need to waste a million $$$$ on patenting!!!

Army 21 SG

Next: The best part about being a god is that u can name your own miracles and fish,KFC and bread will fall from the skies

Army 21 SG

why this important post in forum get pushed down by taxi or bus posts one???singapore only have taxi and bus drivers now is it?!!!!

troublemaker2005 SG

Of cos the elites want the Lesser Mortals to come back, if not how they get their “peanuts” salary.

becuase we paid them millions so they think they are god mah!

laff out lah for me - what vison?

F-stop 2, 2-F stop, STOP AT Two! that was quite a vision!

Oppositon should stress on thie err during 2016 elections - i look forward to it.

the house will rock again if situation don;t improve for the better for sgreans!