Diamond Dustdrops – Born and bred Singaporean who doesn’t follow rules for the sake of it, who has done some travelling to know what is good and what lacks in our system, and thus isn’t quite a typical conformist Singaporean. Definitely a eye-pleaser to many and a Gen-X critic of the foreign talent invasion right now. Educated locally and now working in a MNC, she will be a regular writer for this blog…
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Topic – Useless foreign talents
I work in the service line and this week I’m very disturbed and affected – my British boss just fired my mixed colleague – he’s half Malay and half White. The thing is I don’t see the justification for this. My colleague has done very well so far and I believe it was because my boss had to make someone a scapegoat to justify his earnings so he kicked out this one. But I don’t see him firing those useless angmoh colleagues? One or two of them are really useless – never made much sales or money for the company. Yet my colleague who is half white is treated like one of us Asian Singaporeans. Our salaries I know are much lower than these angmohs’.
Why this treatment? Why the unfairness? Why? WHY? Then these foreigner colleagues of mine always go on holiday and come back and make such a big scene of how “utterly beautiful” some of these countries they’ve been to are.
Singapore has changed so much the last few years it’s beyond recognition. Where is the sense of belonging when you have all these immirgants who are bullies and errant bosses and co-workers?
The more I am in my own country, the more I don’t recognise it anymore. I cringe whenever I take the train, or go anywhere for that matter – the BO (body odor), the stares (from mainly Pinoys and PRCs and Indians), the jerking back and forth and consequentially the lateness to work. Day in and day out, we compete so much, not just with one another fellow Singaporeans but also with the foreigners. So then society forces us to stay in, indoors, in our little shoebox apartment called HDB which is ridiculously expensive and not even freehold, only 99 years lease.
I will be a regular writer here as I go along and see the sights and sounds of Singapore. So stick around!
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Topic – Space
Where is our well deserved space?
Today I was walking to office and the man walking in front of me just decided to stop walking, causing me to come to an abrupt halt. Like what the?
Later in the evening another man was walking in front of me down the stairs and then he decided to stop and play on his phone – I made a sound “tsk” and went in front of him. I gave him a look and he didn’t like that, obviously. When the train came I went in and there he was! What the? How can this be when I had walked few cabins down before I boarded the train?
I made a turn towards the staircase in the MRT station and there stood an Angmoh man typing away on his phone! He wasn’t going down the stairs at all…and blocking others from behind!
Few times people have stepped onto my flip flops – people’s big ass, backpacks and handbags had bumped into me so hard it really hurt. The worst thing is that they never apologized at all as if you don’t exist!
Are we becoming so much of an apathetic society now that we don’t even remember basic manners? Where is our social consciousness or rather where is theirs?
What a joke this country has become! So much for having those “Be kind and caring and smile” campaigns and those “Speak Good English” too when half or most of these FTs can’t speak proper English.
Claustrophobic is the word – when we don’t even feel our own personal space and that it’s been invaded. And then we are cooped up at home in what I call a pigeon-hole/shoebox apartment with parents just because we aren’t married, or we choose to coop up at home on weekends with our families because there’s nowhere else to go on the weekends and we’d rather not get squeezed in with the foreigners out there…
Like many here, I am looking at emigrating…sigh.
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Hi there, not surprising for all your observations but perhaps cos ur a lady thus u are gripes unfortunately happens to be men when u are talking about space. It’s true I do drive and take the MRT to commute to work. Sometimes, it’s a matter of either “If u can’t win them then join them” attitude or just simply ignore them. I won’t want to get pissed by these inconsiderates just as the day is starting. My worst encounter, some idiot literally using my back as a support for his bloody newspaper and I was even wearing a white shirt! Another time, a lady literally leaning into me to get support on the train and with the train movement, she is basically gyrating against me man. Damn, I had to tell her off and many was surprised that I did perhaps they thought I shiuld be enjoying it. Yeah wait till she decided to scream “molest” and yes she is a sweet young thing too. People nowadays simply lack patience and tolerance and they make no qualms about showing their selfishness and shamelessness known, look no further – the lastest elderly day care centre and elderly studio apartments faiscos.
With all these nonsense no wonder rustic and nostalgia are back in trend now, cause things are indeed very very much simpler and cheaper too. Well what to do, just trying our best to survive each day then. Cheers!
For those foreign trash ..After working here, our government hope they formed a family and become citizens. Instead most will go back to build their bungalow, while we true-blue Singaporeans still go back to our pigeon-holes!.