A very Singapore thing

I read with interest the rather spiritted discussions and threads on the online forums and pages between local born Singaporeans and imported ones and also of the locals against the government and so on.... Please do not get me wrong.... I am one of the ones who were the test subjects (I mean it literally hor) for their many policies and came out the wrong end of it hor..... "Stop at 2" and my stupid parents really stopped at 2... "Must pass 2nd language" and I did not... and guess what happened? My dad had to work 2 jobs to be able to send me overseas and then now I find that our gahmen invites and pays for all kinds of dong dongs to come and study... and once they graduate, they get cushy jobs and of course the ability to become imported citizens.... So guys, please do not get me started on a diatribe against the various policies.

But to be more to the point, I am not against import of foreign bodies into our little country... But with a disclaimer of course.... The speed and the application and the attitude the gahmen has to them. We are a small place and have only so little room left.... please do not allow us to be packed in even more and also to force us to "enjoy" it.... It is bullshit to say "here is your new neighbour".... or should I say a couple of tens of thousands and you should assimilate with them.... Ermmmm... sori dude we were here first!!! They should assimilate!!! And when I say that, I really do mean it.... I have a thiong family downstairs who loves to cook by charcoal and does it about 3 times a week... and as stated before in previous blogs... We can die from charcoal fires indoors...... But of course, like the "curry incident" the family downstairs will not be asked to cook with gas stoves and we will have to move out so that they can cook with their freaking charcoal....

Then of course, it is the increase in prices of everything because of the increased demand for everything.... Even our bloody durians are more expensive because the bloody thiongs from the north (I mean far far north from us hor) like it and are driving the price up... So up goes every freaking thing and guess what??? Not our salaries hor.... Our gahmen is firm in syaing that we must keep our cost down.... And we must increase our productivity.... This is such a airy fairy word.... That is productivity? To work better and to do more while costing same or less.... Get a freaking machine lah.... they never fail, never complain and also never falter.... Maybe if we do not import bodies to be citizens and just invest more in machines... even the next elections will be a snap for the gahmen.... after all, they just need to press and button, write a program and ensure that all votes go to them and they do not need to go thru the show of drawing boundaries, changing this and that and so on.... and also they can claim ultimate victory in this case.

So I guess its back to the online battles of words and I am thinking that there is a definite feeling that the policies have failed miserably and it is affecting the locals pretty badly and I think the gahmen has to come to terms with that and see what they can do without endangering future election results. As for the new imports, I guess it will take time for them to assimilate and for us to accept and for the time being, there had better be status quo and an end to imports and or there will definitely be pretty bad social and economic results. I am sure that the PAP will not lose the next elections, but if they persist in trying to justify why they need more imports, from low birth rates to growing economy and anything and everything from milking the cow to having some idiot who is not related to me or my father and mother looking after them, (mommy and daddy of course), I think that if they persist, then the spillover will produce very interesting futures for Singapore.

Well that is just me....