Saturday, 25 February 2012

Sun Xu – The Chinaman who says there are more dogs than humans in Singapore


I have been very the busy with my business these few weeks but when my friend told me got a Chinaman who scolded Singaporeans on his weibo (micro blog) account, I was damn pissed off and decided to check it out on the Internet. Click here.


It turns out that this boy, who consumes milk much less than I consume salt, is actually a Ministry of Education (MOE) government-sponsored scholar. I wonder what he would say to his students when he graduates to become a teacher in a Singapore school.  

Maybe, to commence lesson, he may say: “Good morning puppies, today we are going to learn…..”

 

It is also very shocking for him to threaten Alex Tan, the Online Toothpick Seller, that he would be waiting for him with a knife. Jialat lah.… If you mess with some shit people, the outcome is you get more shit!

I wonder how MOE conduct their character profiling for all potential scholarship holders. A teacher should be someone who has a meek or kiasi character, slow to anger and be gracious to others right? Seems a simple online chatter has brought out the real character of Sun Xu. Is that what people call a “Freudian Slip”?

He thinks he is the top of the cream, having been schooled in a top junior college and selected to work in Schlumberger, world's largest oilfield services company, in his industrial attachment, which is part of his coursework in university. It would be much better if he showed some gratitude to this country which has given so much to him. The Chinese are famous for this idiom – 饮水思源, literally meaning to think of the origin of the water that you drink, which means to show gratitude for what you enjoy now.

IF Singapore really wants these type of talents to integrate into Singapore society, it should consider getting foreign scholarship holders to do regular community or social work. Have stints in some social welfare or voluntary organizations lah, then they can friend-friend chiobu volunteers and also rub shoulders with less well-to-do Singaporeans to understand their lifestyle. IF scholars like Sun Xu only limit their daily activities to China-based weibo accounts and their own circle of PRC friends, most likely they will leave Singapore once their bonds are served.

However, to be fair to this boy who doesn’t know how big the world is, we Singaporeans should be graceful and give him a chance to make right a wrong. How many of us did not make any silly mistake when we were in our teens? Maybe we were involved in some fights or had hurt people in some way or another.

So, it’s another of those times when we have to say again - ya, time to move on, fellow Sinkies!

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Woodlands Residents: Why you all so bo liao???

Update: After I wrote the article below, my friend showed me the link of a group of youngsters who actually created a facebook page to teach these residents what are the proper values in life. Well done! Click here.
My friend who is married to the Internet said his wife informed him about this stupid bo liao news – residents in Woodlands are not happy that their void deck kena used by Gahmen to build an eldercare centre.

See one related news article here.

The people there are damn bo liao. What are they thinking of actually? They scare their property value will drop because of too many lao ah peks around is it? That the centre will smell of old folks’ shit or harmful bacteria will swarm the void deck har? I very worried that the basic respect for old people is going down the drain liao.

Come on lah! Without your parents, do you think you will be around to fucking complain about this issue?

I, for one, will forever be grateful to my dear parents for bringing me into this nice world of sweet chiobus and beautiful sceneries. They are not rich, in fact, quite poor. My mum used to work three jobs in a single day – morning sell mah pui bo (newspapers), afternoon go cakeshop to work as assistant, then nighttime go restaurant to be a waitress. Midnight then come back home. My father also work hard in his job. But we the kids where got worry about money one? Only know how to play and have fun. No money to eat sng bao (a type of ice cream) will just show our palms to ask mother for pocket money.

Now both my parents are happily retired. They got four children. All four went to university, one even got a Master’s degree. Three of them still giving them pocket money, each more than S$500, only got 1 son kena controlled by his wife and act blur, one year visit parents a few times and only give them money once in a blue moon. So every month my parents’ “pension” is close to S$2,000. I think they are quite ho mia now. :) 

However I am fully aware got many ah peks and ah hmngs are old and penniless, and maybe kena deserted by their ungrateful children. They bo pian, have to work in some lan jiao food outlets which only give them $300-$500 per month and expect them to work hard everyday without falling sick or having back pain. These folks are really sibeh cham.

Taking care of ageing parents is the right thing to do, no matter where you are located or where the eldercare centre is to be located. Woodlands’ residents please shut the fuck up!

The lan jiao attitude of these Woodlands residents is the same as saying they don’t mind an MP having extramarital affairs with other married/single women as long as the MP does a sibeh solid job AND does not touch their wives or sisters or any females related to them!