These are memories of him:

(1) He felt he was intellectually superior to locals because he’s a white man… he believed he was an “asset” to Singapore… even though he came here on his own

(2) He especially disliked the Chinese

(3) To my best recall, he was never able to hold a job for more than 3-4 months, at any place

(4) He was disliked by his non-Chinese colleagues

(5) He parents are from Italy and Eric changed his name to sound more Anglo-Saxon

“Sigh, after staying in Singapore, Brooks fellow still cannot see the street-level socioeconomic conditions of Singapore.”

But of course. Back home in Canada, Mr. Brooks is most likely “street-level” himself. Here in Singapore, he should be at least “10th floor-level”. So far above the street, how to understand street conditions?

This is what Spore does to homeless people,
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_418240.html

jail them, that’s why no beggers in Spore…..

You hit the nail on the head when you said: “The lifestyle difference between a typical Singaporean and a Canadian is that a Singaporean spends his life making a living, whereas a Canadian lives his life.”

Indeed, most Singaporeans will spend 30 years of their live paying off the mortgage of their PUBLIC HOUSING flats whose prices are astronomical even in a recession – thanks to all the foreign nationals from China and India here.

I’m very happy that you with a vocational education have done very well for yourself and your children. If you had stayed in Singapore, you’d be a low-wage PMET earning just $1,700 and probably retrenched.

I seriously think our PMETs would do so much better in New Zealand, USA, Australia and Canada if only they had the chance to migrate. In these countries, even cleaners, mechanics, electricians, brick layers can afford to buy and live in a house, albeit not in pricey zone 1 areas, but in outlying suburbs.

There is SPACE to bring up your children there, there are rivers, national parks, cricket fields, ovals, lakes etc to take your family on the weekends. And if you’re too poor to buy food, at least you can grown them in your backyard!

Sigh, after staying in Singapore, Brooks fellow still cannot see the street-level socioeconomic conditions of Singapore.

i too love OUR country singaPORE, unfortunateLEE some1 here make it his familLEE county, everythinggie he changed from the peoples’ companies to his familLEE companies and endup to make it a profitable corporation irregardless of who usin the faciLEEties.
ole youn never mind all must pay FULL rates………..
~sigh~

I did agree that the current gov should be more prudent in immigration rule. BUT hey, which singaporean going to do the construction work or clear the rubbish bin for us??

The reasoning is valid, just that we don’t know when that will reached a boiling point. Given the vast resources of canada.

Well, i admitted that many over here can not get over the emotional barrier. Just like a lousy joke i always cracked, to many here, they seems to think that anyone wearing white shirts is a PAP. :P

Hatred sometimes just clouded everyone’s mind.

BUT to me, it is very CLEAR. I may not like the current ruling party, BUT no doubt abt the COUNTRY, singapore.

If Singapore is so good and Canada so bad, please exchange citizenship with me.

What a bunch of stupid nonsense. Whether they are sustainable or not, does that affect you ? Our system is even more pathetic. Isn’t our system come with clauses that they don’t even pay a dim should the CPF goes insolvent ? At least other country didn’t state those clauses. For all we know, more than half of 4 decades of accumulated reserves and assets have been gambled away by the Leegime, and that is why they are manipulating the CPF and increasing inflation at our expenses, so what are you going to do about it ? So wht care about other country when your own country is not much better ? What should have been a welfare for Singapore for more than $100 billions have been gambled at your expenses , so are you happy ?

The question is not a matter of future but of now. the old fart can give all the fart and con reason and excuses of manipulating for the future where he and his family and lackeys get to enjoy those state wealth now.

Do you rather enjoy welfare now and in your lifetime or in next 50-100 years when you dead ? Dead man tells no tale after all.

Why lambasting the country that give birth to you? One always has to keep in mind that the country and the ruling party is two different entities. Don’t shoot the wrong birds lah.[/i]

ok don’t shoot the wron birds…let see lines by lines shall we?
do you know of some minister who commandeer a sia plane and convert it into a flyin ambulance just for the sake of his sick wife who is not supposed to travel in the first place?
the same minister who scold our ole aged parents for visitin china and brin in the SAR flu
since we are ALL singapooriums
can you make tiger airways.com to do the same biddin if your wife suddenly have the h1n1 virus infected? let alone commandeer the whole singapore general hospital as well?
why can the same minister do it onced more while we cannot?
now we want YOU to answer your OWNED question..
the country and the ruling party is two different entities….
please shared with us where are the lines bein drawn on different entities… PLEASE? i beg of you…………

I am not sure about Europe and I know nothing about them, but Canada is a big country, fyi its a little smaller than 10 mil km sq. even if just 10% is developed which is roughly 1mil km sq, she can affort to continue recieving immigrants and there are still enough space for everyone.

The way the SIngapore Govt are accepting foreigners, given such a small dot, its just short sighted and irresponsible.

And if you ever come to see Vancouver, you will learn a whole new meaning of words like multi racial, multi- cultural, multi-religious as those define by the PAP govt.

So those logical reasons you gave just doesn’t sound logical here.

In the Singapore context, do you REALLY think that there is a difference between PAP and the country? Get real, the PAP have make it quite clear that loyalty to the PAP is a prelude to loving the country.

Those “rubbish” are simply logical reasoning. Just look at uk, europe, aust and those so called welfare state. “Green shoots”already been there. The citizens there are just plain mortal like us. When there is enough resources ( jobs, money, woman) going around, people are a little bit more gracious and forgiving abt foreigners. When there is not, hehe, god bless you. Aust is a very good example. Recent\ly anti-indian, previosuly anti-viet, anti-asian, anti-muslims are not unheard of.

Why lambasting the country that give birth to you? One always has to keep in mind that the country and the ruling party is two different entities. Don’t shoot the wrong birds lah.