There are too many talents imported, one better than the other. So how? Did he get 6A or all special papers A?

PRCs if really smart, are hoping to spring board elsewhere, outside Singapore. Dont be taken in by their appearance, I got a PRC first class hons and masters colleague from nus, worked in Singapore for 5 years, got the experience and move to Washington. Maybe its fair, he served his time.

But once he landed there, he messaged me on IM and told me how XXX is our leaders and Singapore is worst than China ie no freedom, stupid etc…. to give him a chance to come to Singapore and get free education and to learn to speak English. Every time, he just keep repeating those unbearable comments on Singapore, how dumb we are.. “fine city”.. silly leaders… more communist than China etc…

Can you take this crab?

if u go to the top two independent schools, u will be shocked at the number of ft students. about 1/3 in numbers! All paid by govrt including fee, food and lodging and these students just use singapore and go elsewhere after jc!

Let’s say singaporean are really smart at 100% of the population.
Let’s say chinese are really dumpt with only 1% of smart people…
The 1% smart chinese will be many times over 100% smart singaporean :-)
All we need is 1% of the 1% of the smart chinese to come over to singapore and within 20 years we will have a chinese parliament ;-) they will all be president scholars… by chinese i mean “china origin” people :-)

Singapore screw him, and end up doing it to themselves….

how many of those who took the opportunity to come here will feel gratitude and wants to repay back?

In the end, we get people, who after finishing their studies etc, gloat about how bad out country and systems are…which i do agree on….as the systems give this people the chance to screw back the system…and this same system brought in ungrateful people

So… he jumped ship to the USA just because he didn’t get a scholarship?!

What about the vast majority of S’poreans who don’t / can’t get scholarships? Should all non-scholar A students emigrate?

Talk about sense of entitlement…

agree with pragmatic!

More Money should be spent using people’s money to help foreigners, PRs and new citizens integrate.

the reason is their presence saves you your job although they do not OWE you a living.

singaporeans should be grateful to them.

This is a great example why foreigners don’t want to take up citizenship. The moment you become a Singaporean you are treated as third class citizens.

You are denied all the benefits given to foreigners. This situation is so sad.

But Singaporeans have the power to effect Change.

The time for Change is now.

Use your votes wisely. Become a 1st class citizen.

You guys got to read the blog to get the full story. In the blog, it says that “And, even though he is strictly speaking a first generation PR, he served National Service.” There is so much time, money and energy spent on creating programs to integrate the new immigrants. But for immigrants like this PRC guy who has integrated pretty well to Singapore, and has chosen to serve his NS, this is what he gets.

Imaginary Ad:

Employer:

– Must speak good Engerish. Lesson weir be powided upon sussessfoo application. Loker teacher will be patience to help chew.

Its really a simple thingie Readers.
Either We Be CHANGED
or
We CHANGE.

Each Asean scorer probably cost $300,000 of my daddy tax-payer money.
Compelled them to do 4 year NS as payback—or else scrapped NS.
It has become totally meaningless as tax-payers fund is given away so freely to educate the world, university places is taken away from citizens,plum jobs are offered. to them on a silver platter……..
What are we defending with the billions that we spend on defence?
I think we are certainly helping to prop up the defence industry in the US—not much else.

Let me related two recent before & after stories (heard from friends):

Before the tighten of PR rule:
My malaysian friend successfully got the PR and went to ICA to collect the blue IC. All the PRs that day went through a briefing by a Malay Officer, and of course the briefing were all the English. My friend understood everything and keep nodding. At the end of the briefing, he was swarm by many PRC people and they asked my friend what was the Malay Officer talking about.

After the tighten of PR rule:
A PRC student went through 4 years of engineering course at NTU. Got 2nd upper degree. Got a decent job. Rejected PR application. He was asked to apply again next year.

What is this government doing ?

Moral of the story: Don’t be too good or you will get screwed.

Loyalty is deemed as folly – even in the eyes of the one you are loyal to

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#13) 3rd Class on November 21st, 2009 10.03 pm
What is this government doing ? ——- in one word, stupid , and not limited in ica

It may not just be about grades since I’m sure it’s not only the PRCs that can do well in their exams and speak fairly good English (perhaps even better than the writer of that blog).

Perhaps he did not show or pretend to show that he had genuine interest to become a Singaporean if given the chance, which is understandable if the govt is so naive to stick to their thinking that these ppl are all dying or queueing up to be Singaporeans.

Face the fact – only those foreigners who cannot make it in their countries or elsewhere would be interested to be singaporeans – that is how much our citizenship is worth currently, thanks too to the govt’s own doing.

PS: there is no such word as “irregardless”. Are you sure you went to nus??! Is that our standard of english now???

@17) QQY on November 23rd, 2009 3.35 pm

“irregardless” is a common mistake many people make … it’s not so much a reflection on the standard of English as a reflection that we are increasingly lazy to do basic proofreading … oh wait, it does mean that our standard of English is going down, doesn’t it.

Also, foreigners should realise when they come in that when they are treated well here, it is because of their status, and to commit long-term to Singapore (ie to migrate) would be a mistake.

It doesn’t have to be this way, though – it can be win-win for locals and foreign talent alike. We need to come up with better ideas and make them somehow heard by the government.