Letter to Government: Renaming of Toa Payoh to China Town?
May 14th, 2010 | 
Author: Dear Government,
Having lived in Toa Payoh for just 3 short years, I would like to request that our little town be renamed China Town. You see, thanks to the easy migrating criteria that we have for “Foreign talents”, I’m now proud to say that every other chinese that you come across in Toa Payoh, is a PRC. And I’m by no means exagerrating, because right down to the “foreign talent” that makes my teh(tea) to the one that cooks what used to be my favourite hokkien prawn mee and chow kway teow, are all PRCs. My daily meals have never been more bland.
While i am all for foreign talents contributing to our economy and society(as is the model template answers always given), I have to question what these “talents” bring to the table when they gather nearly everyday and night at the void decks talking loudly and crudely in their native tongues, cook our very bland and DISTINCTLY singaporean dishes and of course occupying our flats. While the prices of HDB increases like our foreign talents, I would like to know if there is anyone governing rogue real estate agents as well as landlords who lease out brand new flats to such beloved talents?
Toa Payoh is no longer the place I call home, but a squatters’ paradise. Of course you do not have to take my word for it, just do a random SURPRISE inspection on these flats, namely the new blocks, Block 79A-E of toa payoh central and you will agree with me. Heck, just take a walk aound toa payoh central please.
And you wonder why people are leaving Singapore?
Leonard Lim
A Concerned Singaporean
Posted in Letters
PRCs have the privilege to stay in new flats?
citizens who don’t qualify to buy new flats have to wait 5 years for the flat to age before they are qualified to attempt to get them on the resale market.
can a PRC please teach me how they got to stay in the new flats? as a singaporean citizen, I envy your home in Singapore, which happens to be my country. Would you like to join me in my country and permanently share these new flats with me?
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This is the lop-sided policy the PAP government make when they consider what benefits them (not the citizen).
If you want to see more of these foreign trash balik kampung back to where they come from, please stop voting for PAP.
I know, they have made a lot of promises and pretend to lend you a symphathetic ear to all your gripes and grouses, but i tell you, after they won the elections all their promises will vanished into thin air.
One fine day, when you go look for a job in Singapore, you will find that the HR managers and the interviewers are mostly PRC people. Then I will say a BIG THANK YOU to you goondoos who voted in the PAP.
You voted in the PAP, you created this mess. So if you have really, whole-heartedly voted in the PAP, then I suggest you shut your gaps and live the life you chose.
For me, it is a forgone decision, democracy in Singapore is dead. The PAP ruled with totalitarian and authoritarian style, they have seized the news media by the throat and enslaved the citizen through the CPF and HDB schemes.
If you want to a change, then you MAKE that CHANGE, when election comes. Remember.
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@new flats with PRCs?:
May 14, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Soon we will call Chinkapore. Why need to rename TP to chinatown.
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Yes agree with ’sad’. Easily and very aptly, our new name should be Chinkapore or Chinkapoor, or even Sindia why not?
Padang can rename as Beijing Square, Shenton Way to Shangton Way, Jurong to Wurong, Chinatown (Gu Chia Chui) to Guangdong Place, etc etc. Bird park perhaps rename to Nancheow Yuan.
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This is the price Singaporeans pay for PAP’s policy to maintain a Chinese ethnic majority in Singapore
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Remember the days of our forefathers? They were chinese immigrants from china … it was an exodus of the chinese into the world and sadly has been hated. They persevered … that’s how had we arrived, made this our country, our home. BECAUSE OUR CHINESE IMMIGRANT FORFATHERS PERSEVERED!
Today, this is another “exodus” and we, the younger generation, are feeling the competition and struggle.
To many of us, these PRCs may be “crude”, “barbaric” and “unhygenic” but then have you thought what OUR forefathers were like when they came? I’m sure they were like that too cos that may be the culture in China.
Come on guys, give these people a chance to live and improve among us. I’m sure given time and I’m sure they’ll learn and improve their standard and eventually blend in with us.
Come on, Singaporeans … give these people a run for their money! Fair play in competition will only make us stronger!
Dont be complacent … why are these PRCs cooking our meals? Ask the stall owers! Because they are willing to pay a higher rent for the stall and these owners want to live life the FAST-BUCK-WAY!!!
Dont be too fast and critical to blame these hard-working PRCs … they come so far to forge a better live for themselves … this is history relived …
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maybe the PRCs rented these flats which are still new, less than 5 years old. that’s why you see so many around. possible?
that’s why all my friends do not want to sell their flats, they want to keep forever and rent forever, thanks to the sudden change in law 4 years ago in tune with the sudden change of immigration policy.
another set of friends, however, are now unable to buy anything at all because nobody wants to sell. all want to keep to rent to the next 1.5 million people coming in over the next 15 years.
it all happened quite suddenly, over one fine day in around 2006. roughly when the new government took power.
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You cannot simply rename a town, you dodo!
There are political friends and bootlickers to be paid off first.
So we must set a Renaming Toa Payoh Committee, yes just like the Renaming of Marina Bay committee. Spend 10s of millions to your cronies and bootlickers and then do a massive campaign.
When everyone has been paid, Rename Toa Payoh Town as Toa Payoh Town!!
3 cheers for PAP!!!
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Once upon a time Singaporean pity the Chinese in China and felt sad that they scarcely have enough to eat. Relatives hop on the fastest plane to China and give them color TV and start to think of themselves as philanthropist. Today they face each other as enemy because local are jealous of the PRC who are ever hardworking and turn out they are better.
Ask their employer who are mainly local to get rid of these PRC and employ their fellow man, they probably chased you down the alley and use their wok to knock you off. It is a long lost battle for the local and business cannot survive without PRC anymore. Give up the fight and work hard to establish yourself as the better workers, there is no way out. Mind you if the PRC is gone, the food at your food center will surely double and there you will cry even louder. LOL…
I know what you think. You want to vote out PAP and scare the hell out of them so that they will chase your nemesis out of Singapore. Sad to tell you it is useless. No opposition is strong enough to take on PAP. PAP can easily form the next government in the coming election by securing enough seats from the walk over.
After this election is over, there will be enough PRC turn citizen who are ready to vote PAP in the next and next and next election. Long live PAP. So capitulate and give up hope of ever winning the stand off. LOL. Vote PAP now if you are smart. Your vote is not really very very secret, you can put your father and mother in trouble if you never vote properly. At least don’t try to spoil your vote. Be ready… the general election will be coming because the ground is softening. LOL.. PAP…. PAP…. Nobody can beat you because you are the most credible party in Singapore….
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CruEL: Outstanding! =)
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There are so many streets named after non Chinese since independence. Why no one is having a cow about that? Tsk, tsk. With the new ingredients in town, it’s certainly more entertaining when one knows how to introduce them to local dishes. When you have rice, make porridge, if you don’t like it bland, spice it up, Singapore style. Same thing with these PRCs and whatever spice loving race new ashore, if you can’t beat them, it’s best to beat them at it. Delicious…….
Kicking foreigners back to their kampungs? Be realistic, this phenomenon has been a tool for other governments to win votes. It is not an ingenious invention and it is irreversible. So Singaporeans or Chinkaporeans, looks like it’s a marriage made for good for you for a long time coming. But don’t get mad….get comfortable. Then again, ‘original’ Singaporeans can always give preferential treatment to certain FTs? That would surely make the new ‘chinkaporeans’ mighty jealous, eh what?
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When a really real crisis hit Singapore which involve life and death.
those so call PRs and New Citizens will stay or run, we will know.
Stayers or Quitters
I wonder which town will be next.
Bishan, Ang Mo Kio or best Bukit Timah (elities)
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@Catherine: I’ll smoke some of what you’re smoking too… Helloooooooo…. so should the local coppers put on shorts again too? We’re not talking about the time of our forefathers! We’re talking here and now and nationalistic pride or whatever bullshit they’ll have us believe!
It is the likes of the 1% like you that’s feeding the PAP and all their inane policies! Open that ivory door of yours and take a good long look. The concerns and gripe brought up by everyone here is very real and very present!
To fight a war, you need to have strong provisions and solid backing, how can we fight a war when our leaders are deaf and our rightful backing and provisions going towards the enemy?!
Get real lady.
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A friend who runs biz hiring some foreigners, told me that it’s so easy for foreigners to become PR.
They don’t even have to step foot in Sg at all, just apply online and will obtain a PR – ‘Permanent Resident’.
WTF!
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The Housing Board’s inspectors are sleeping like Rip Van Winkle. Whole HDB flats are being rented out to PRCs. Say a three room flat has two rooms. Each room will be occupied by 4 PRCs paying $10 per day or $300 per month. So a three room HDB can fetch the owners $2400 per month tax free.
If a sweep by the HDB is done at Toa Payoh, let me tell you that you won’t get angry and exasperated writers like Leonard Lim airing his disgust.
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So may we also rename Jalan Besar as “Little India”
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Its should be CHINOPOR & FAMILEE CO.LTD. Sinpoyee should be more productive to boost the income of the shareholder (mainly the directors n company executives) of the company or else………..
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Er…are we part of China or India?
I know we once were a part of Malaysia.
Now what?
How come our Ministers- being merely provincial governors or mayors- are paid more than their BOSSES in PRC or India?
Come on Singapore,we don’t work for foreign sovereigns,we should work for our own people,shouldn’t we?
THE WHOLE CABINET NEEDS TO GO FOR PHSCHIATRIC TREATEMNT,they seem to suffer from schizophrenia…locals bad,foreign good,ya good?
LONESCU WAS EVEN BETTER…
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We should not blame the pain. We should blame the source of the pain.
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There are many more other areas where you can find PRC Chinese, may as well name them all Chinatowns – in Serangoon North, Ang Mo Kio,Beach Road, etc., etc.
Better still follow what the West call Singapore, a place somewhere part of China.
It is really ridiculous, isn’t it. We are overwhelmed by a nation that conquered us?
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Catherine Ng:
May 14, 2010 at 2:59 pm
You must like to live with rats and cats. Mau Ku Lau Su
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Now the local families can’t make their ends meet with everything increasing in price. So it’s natural that some will be forced to rent their rooms out to get $$$.
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Dear Leonard Lim,
Since we already have a place called Chinatown, it would be confusing to name another one as such.
However, we are Foreigners Action Party care for our daft, lazy and whiny people. We have two proposals.
Combining the entire Singapore into “Chinatown” under one GRC, this will attract more hard-driven PRC people here
or,
Rename Toa Payoh as Da Zhong Yao.
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黄老邪: May 14, 2010 at 2:05 pm
黄老邪 I concur with you, and to copy one paragraph from you
“You voted in the PAP, you created this mess. So if you have really, whole-heartedly voted in the PAP, then I suggest you shut your gaps and live the life you chose.”
Whoever have a chance to vote, if you cannot accept the alternative party candidate or the ruling party candidates, you have the choice of casting a “spoilt vote”.
Please do not complain and show displeasure when you have given your mandate to your choice of party. Just like 黄老邪 wrote “shut your gaps and live the life you chose.”
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SilenceIsGolden:
May 14, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Your confession below of Pigs-and-Poo thinking tells us all about the IMMIGRATION SCAM – it is the politics of election, not the economics snake-oil saleman’s preaching as we all know.
“After this election is over, there will be enough PRC turn citizen who are ready to vote PAP in the next and next and next election..”
But unlike you, PRs are NOT stupid, they know your little poo-laden scam. They won’t condemn their futures taking citizenship here and find it harder to migrate latter to Australia, Canada, EU, USA or New Zeland, who won’t want recycled waste from one rubbish dump to another looking for greener pastures. Most will be smart enough to just hold their PRs and reap whatever they can before this place crash to no rescue – given stupid frogs managing this economy. There will be plenty of free-loaders but no voters. No soldiers left to defend this country when crisis comes and you are too old a chicken to be acceptable for migration to any of the first world preferred destination. NOT even to a whore house to rebuild your life from scratch. All your assets and children, mother, father, ah kong and ah mah will rot in this rubbish dump here whilst we have long migrated to distant shores.
How stupid you are of being misled and fooling your stupidity around thinking PRs are just as stupid are you.
BUT IT IS STILL KIND OF YOU TO LET US KNOW OF YOUR NOT-SO-WELL-HIDDEN SCAM.
WE ARE READY TO PLAY YOUR GAME TO OUR ADVANTAGE. THANK YOU FOR THAT.
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basically, i have never known any PRC here who do not support the gonmin. China system and the system here has some overlaps, imho. China is monolithic.
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Dear Cobweb
Thanks for being “SMART” enough to expose your stupidity here for the world to see. You see, while we know the gov tend to do nothing, we also know that they are monitoring this site.
So in being so “clever” to mock your host country, you seek only to confirm your stupidity.
PS, no first world country will every accept citizenship of a person who’s country has contributed so much unsafe practices and products, killing hundreds and polluting the world.
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silenceisgolden is miw lollipopper, with juicydripping mouth, reason he is, “silenceisgolden” having a mouthful of dicks.
another one of his kind is PR citizen, half dog, half donkey, and i’m waiting for him to send me his family of prostitutes for finer tuning of kamasutra V2.0.
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COBWEBS
You just summarized basically the description for your country people and why no amount of money wasted on social integration is ever enough to convince us citizens to ever putting any trust on you conniving pigs.
We knew all along, in fact half of the world already knew the leechers and freeloaders you people are.In a way we must thank your kind too for being our servants to clear up our rubbish, utensils and even provide after hour social activities at our red light districts which are filled by your people. From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!
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@cobweb… -
Top talents are globolized and move in and out of countries with much ease especially those who has got money. If you take for instant Cristiano Ronaldo, if he wants to be a Singaporean, even opposition take over as government, they can’t stop him from coming over. The people of the country will hate the government of the day if they reject his citizenry. Maybe you are referring to this type of quality which I will not dispute as being transient but if you are talking about the average PR’s Joe, maybe you think too highly of them already. The average PRs are from India and China which counted the most I think, they will have difficulty migrating to the countries you mentioned unless they master their English and polish their image. They will be happy to be here but they will urge you to go because you speak English better than them. They will take over you and your HDB so that you can migrate. After you have left maybe the price of HDB will come down a little and their children can start enjoying market subsidy. Hopefully you land in a country that accumulate surpluses otherwise you can be jobless and live with black people in the gutter where gunshot is heard almost everyday.
When there is war, we won’t fight our enemy with human beings, especially with Singaporean because they are too unreliable, only know how to complain, we will use technology. We will use unman drone to destroy the enemy home and expand our country. Once mission accomplished we will invite the best in the world to take residency.
Look at all the PR standing at the sideline gleefully, waiting to take over once you vacate. LOL…
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@ Leonard:
May 15, 2010 at 12:54 pm
@ ZZZ:
May 15, 2010 at 1:16 pm
@ SilenceIsGolden:
May 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I knew I did stir the hornets’ nest when I mocked you STUPID Singaporeans bunch of shits. Look at how dumb and patronising you stupid flock of sheeps are. We con you in Suzhou Industrial Park and you are coming back for more!! HAHAHAHAHA.
We took you on a vacation ride there and we are doing the same here as your PR. It is very EASY, patronising Singaporeans sheep – straight, narrow, stupid, gullible who only know how to sing their comical “grandeur” to their neighbours on the global stage but really a bigger fool themselves, EFFORTLESSLY OF FALLING INTO THE GRAVEYARDS THEY DIGGED FOR THEMSELVES in our BELOVED MOTHERLAND. We laugh ourselves stupid how all these can happen in a sane world of some remote minimal intelligence. YOU GOT NONE!!
But thanks for the ride whilst the going is good – America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are far more enticing and begging of us going over AFTER WE MAKE USE OF YOU FOOLS AGAIN FROM THE GOONS AT THE TOP TO THE LITTLE PRETTY PATHETIC SALEGIRLS IN THE COPYRIGHT-VIOLATING BOOKS COPYING SHOPS.
And your military service is for citizens only. We are happy to be just conveniently, sometimes impolite but honest to goodness of truth PR guests.
Poor you Sillyporeans, it is great fun here in this tropical paradise wonder of stupidity.
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@ Leonard: May 15, 2010 at 12:54 pm
@ ZZZ: May 15, 2010 at 1:16 pm
@ SilenceIsGolden: May 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
You Singaporeans are really funny lot. Trying to entice old grandma and grandpa with little sweet looking for approval and favours, forgetting that it is ALWAYS the reverse. The STUPID does not know they are stupid and FUNNY OF LAUGHTER. Grandpa and Grandma live through 5000 years of history, have you all learnt how to change your nappies?
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@cobwebs.
With your country history of tainting products, poor personal hygiene, prostitution as a lifestyle and home wreckers, good luck “leeching” PRs to those countries. Better still go back to your beloved homeland, hopefully you will catch the syphilis epidemic currently plaguing your country and maybe next time you get trap in some coal mine you will wait for our country to pull your peasant ass out.
once again thanks for being servants and prostitutes.
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To Cobweb:
evidently, we’re not as proficient in changin our nappies as you and your comrades are in changing condoms, and going for abortions.
To that I salute you. You can go chime all you want about conning us and being favoured in other countries, at least at the end of the day, us locals can always vent our frustrations by bitch slapping all of you over at geylang, THE LOCAL GRAVES where YOU have dug for yourselves..
So go ahead and laugh… we’re laughing each and everytime we come on your faces.
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SILENCEISGOLDEN:
When there is war, we won’t fight our enemy with human beings, especially with Singaporean because they are too unreliable, only know how to complain, we will use technology. We will use unman drone to destroy the enemy home and expand our country. Once mission accomplished we will invite the best in the world to take residency.
Are you a patient of the IMH?
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SilenceIsGolden:
May 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Wow, Wow Wow, I see you joyous singing praises and licking PRC a*ses here and got a big one farted right into your face from your endearing ancestral “comrade” called “Cobweb of deceits”
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2075220/6527604
Enjoy your licking of these shitty foreigners while they are temporary here exploiting your stupidity.
Oh they love you!!
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This website has degenerated into a bunch of PAP and anti-PAP supporters childishly flinging mud at each other and trolling. What happened to the mature discussion which used to fill the pages?
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STOP PRESS
It is understood that MM is in shanghai.
Are you not surprised that he didn’t send out a press release expressing his condolences to a former comrade..Dr Goh Keng Swee?
For that matter, nothing from Toh Chin Chye, either.
Maybe their email servers are down
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I am ok with Toa Payoh becoming China Town II.
Heard that West end of spore is becoming Little India II…
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that charbo catherine ng…i curse u your job will be replaced any foreign trash on our shore…soon!
And moron cockweb….go back to your village! U r not welcome here!~
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Yes, I noticed Toa Payoh has unusal high concentration of China Chinese. Wonder are they residing in Toa Payoh, if they are PR and citizens.
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a hair dresser from inner mongolia was given PR within 1 year of stay, that is a foreign talent?
a talent means they have something we cannot offer. so many of our degree holders cannot hold full time jobs and have to resort to contract work.
the whole talent BS is nothing but importing millions of foreigners to take up citizenship so that they can manipulate elections and win.
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@ howtrue:
May 16, 2010 at 12:02 am
Remember Zhang Yuan Yuan? How she got our PR with practically only her panties on and nothing else of “talent” skills. She mocked our 1/c in Beijing to the Chinese media and cyberspace. The ultimate humiliation of the host.
And what did your MIW frogs@ parliament says? He is right!! The ( best left unspoken) part is that Singaporeans ARE INDEED STUPID SHITS. PR is just transient opportunity for foreigners here to exploit the host generosity to their advantage. Their loyalty is correctly to their national birth origin.
This nation has been prostituted and we have litle creepy crawlers like SilenceIsGolden here engaged in self-loathing this citizenry. How shameless of our national hypocritical pledge which we all now know is highfalutin.
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complain and complain but still vote pap, ha ha ha.
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As a PAP supporter, even my support for them has been deeply eroded since the last general election. I have doubts if their policies really have us at heart. They import massive amount of foreigners to boost GDP at the expense of productivity. Why? I guess mainly because their salaries are pegged to GDP growth.
The large influx of foreigners and drop in productivity led to a decline in Singaporean wages. Sometimes, the import of foreigners was done unfairly and ended up discriminating against Singaporeans. Ask our Singaporean tertiary students in the local universities and polytechnics who have to pay rising school fees while their foreign counterparts are enjoying free education and paid allowances.
Now, as this article shows, even Chinese Singaporeans are complaining about the massive influx of PRC foreigners. So, how are our Malay and Indian compatriots feeling? It is quite obvious the Malay and Indian ground support for PAP have been decimated by PAP foreign worker policies. They did themselves in. Many of the new foreigners (the old ones 10 years ago were much better) are just mediocre doing jobs which Singaporeans can do and want to do. By depriving Singaporeans of jobs and the job experience, Singapore will be in deep trouble when these PRC workers go back home. This is quite possible given the brighter prospects of China. What we end up is skill-less Singaporeans because they were deprived of work by cheaper foreigners over the years. The foreign workers who go home will take our secrets and skills away when they return home to compete against us. I think this will be a major policy mistake. This is a self-created foreign competition. But, of course, nobody in government will admit it. Probably, they will just blame it on external factors like globalization.
With so many foreigners taking up PMET jobs and in management positions, Singaporeans will be discriminated during the recruitment process. It is human nature to work with people they are comfortable with. This means their own kind of people. I will do the same if I am hiring people. In fact, being a Singaporean, although I am Chinese, I have preferences for Malay Singaporeans or Indian Singaporeans over China/Indian foreign workers, all other things being equal. We Singaporeans regardless of race have suffered through NS and the reservist burden together. This have bonded us together regardless of race and religion. We have done our fair share of sacrifice for the country. Why should these foreigners enjoy privileges close to ours??!!
I have an Singaporean Indian friend who is now looking for a job. I really feel for him because I myself have been unemployed before. I hope he finds a suitable job soon.
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As a PAP supporter, even my support for them has been deeply eroded since the last general election. I have doubts if their policies really have us at heart. They import massive amount of foreigners to boost GDP at the expense of productivity. Why? I guess mainly because their salaries are pegged to GDP growth.
The large influx of foreigners and drop in productivity led to a decline in Singaporean wages. Sometimes, the import of foreigners was done unfairly and ended up discriminating against Singaporeans. Ask our Singaporean tertiary students in the local universities and polytechnics who have to pay rising school fees while their foreign counterparts are enjoying free education and paid allowances.
Now, as this article shows, even Chinese Singaporeans are complaining about the massive influx of PRC foreigners. So, how are our Malay and Indian compatriots feeling? It is quite obvious the Malay and Indian ground support for PAP have been decimated by PAP foreign worker policies. They did themselves in. Many of the new foreigners (the old ones 10 years ago were much better) are just mediocre doing jobs which Singaporeans can do and want to do. By depriving Singaporeans of jobs and the job experience, Singapore will be in deep trouble when these PRC workers go back home. This is quite possible given the brighter prospects of China. What we end up is skill-less Singaporeans because they were deprived of work by cheaper foreigners over the years. The foreign workers who go home will take our secrets and skills away when they return home to compete against us. I think this will be a major policy mistake. This is a self-created foreign competition. But, of course, nobody in government will admit it. Probably, they will just blame it on external factors like globalization.
With so many foreigners taking up PMET jobs and in management positions, Singaporeans will be discriminated during the recruitment process. It is human nature to work with people they are comfortable with. This means their own kind of people. I will do the same if I am hiring people. In fact, being a Singaporean, although I am Chinese, I have preferences for Malay Singaporeans or Indian Singaporeans over China/Indian foreign workers, all other things being equal. We Singaporeans regardless of race have suffered through NS and the reservist burden together. This have bonded us together regardless of race and religion. We have done our fair share of sacrifice for the country. Why should these foreigners enjoy privileges close to ours??!!
I have an Singaporean Indian friend who is now looking for a job. I really feel for him because I myself have been unemployed before. I hope he finds a suitable job soon.
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@anonymous: it is sad but true, singaporeans by and large are quite daft, that’s why LKY labelled us as such, this is because we always fell for the sweet talks and empty promises dished out by PAP ministers. You see, Singaporeans so easy to con.
@IsThisUnfair: like i said ealier in the comment, don’t be surprise if you walk into a job interview and got interviewed by PRC or indian national. With this high speed, mass import if foreigners, thanks to Mr. dick head LHL, soon the foreigner/PR will out-number us and true-blue, local born singaporeans will be the out-cast.
@puttumayam: What you say is true, just go to any shopping centres, MRT, all crowd like hell. Maybe when the indian workers start to gather and sit on the grass patch outside oxley road then LHL will start to realize his mistake.
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I won’t be surprise in the next election Singpaoreans will still vote for PAP. The kiasunism and Kaisinism mentality would be rather than voting for the uncertainty it is better to be safe to vote PAP. At the end of the day PAP will introduce more migrants to shut us up. By then we will truely be minority.
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Then we are going to have many, many Chinatowns, because the West Coast area is another.
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@ 黄老邪:
May 16, 2010 at 2:36 pm
I believe it is the older (my) generation, especially the womenfolks but the men ( who at least are kept informed via the alternative media) are turning direction more and more. They know what cancerous cells have infected the social-economic and political fabric of this country. The irony is that some women wants financial security yet afraid to take that small step of a leap in faith to secure that financial security – better the known devil of unknown consequences than hedging with hope of new direction.
A lot of older disillusioned businessmen – even the “successful” ones who feared for their children future have turned against the PAP. This group is definitely NOT daft but actually battle-tested and proven street smart to have progress so much in their own lives. They see “big picture” deterioration and not easy to uproot their business and long established network here to migrate abroad. They don’t trust the Government.
How can we then?
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@ SilenceIsGolden:
May 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
After licking the arse of foreigners and “Cobweb of deceits” farted a rotten big one up your nostril, you are Missing In Action (MIA) here. Hope you have not suffered permanent head damage by his most timely, well-angled, perfect targetted, ungracious and inconsiderate gas emission.
I am deeply concerned about your humiliated state of mental health now after your a*se-licking enthusiasm for shitty ancestral kinship backfired so badly on this thread. You are noticeably absent of ghostly presence here.
Where are you?
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It not our country rather it’s called CINOPORE & FAMILEE CO. LTD. We Sinpoyee will ve to work hard, boost the productivity and increase the income of ”Directors” & ”Co. Executives”. or else u will sack n be replace by cheap alien……
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Singapore is now Chinapore and Indiapore. Malays die.
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Singaporeans are finished if they continue to be Kiasi & KiaSu.
Bear in mind our children & future generation will suffer worst to now.
To save one’s one ass is now or never !
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I agree.
I go to many kopitiams, and most of these idiots are cooking our national dishes.
Very bland, some tasteless. And I hate it when China PRCs mock that my mandarin is not good enough for their understanding because I’m a Chinese and that I should know how to speak it properly.
Fuck these assholes, English is my first language and if they are not happy, they shouldn’t even be here. Fuck this government too! For bringing cheebyes here like that! Fucking cunts!
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People who argue that Singaporeans should suck it up and compete with foreigners overlook a fundamental principle. That is the government is elected to SERVE its people.
Yes, globalization is inevitable BUT every government’s role is to ensure that it remains economically competitive as well as ensure it’s citizens are growing with the country. You cannot pursue the former and ignore the latter.
On a personal note, my gf, who is a property agent had a disturbing encounter with a PRC looking for a place. He is cash rich, residing in a HDB flat, but cashing in on it to buy a condo. His main request: The new condo he is looking for must not have any Malays residing in it.
This is very disturbing. I might be over generalizing, but nevertheless, it goes to show the type of immigrants we are letting in. Our loose policies have allowed them to be masters in our own home.
The government is naive to think that throwing money on integration ra ra will make them Singaporeans in a day. As easily as they come, as easily they will go once they find other greener pastures.
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A Malaysian here and my friend happened to show me this article. I somehow find this writer either to be very ignorant of his past or simply dense. Firstly he is complaining that a lot of migrants are migrating to his beloved homeland. But did he check his family tree? Where were his ancestors from? Born in Singapore? I dont think so. I dont think he has the right to complain.
The land in which the writer resides in belongs to Sultan of Johore and the indigenous people of Singapore and they are not complaining about giving up lands, water, and soil for Chinese whose ancestors incidentally came from China then why are you complaining. Incidentally I am a Chinese from Malaysia and I dont think my race is above other races. I accept that my ancestors came to south east asia and plundered the land.
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DonutFTW:
May 20, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Aargh, pay your confessed due and gratitude back to Malaysia. “Balek Kampong” then.
Why bother us with your self-loathing whilst being our unwelcomed guest?
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FTs are good, who said they were bad.
It is good to get decent talent and not any Ching,Chang and Thambi, from wherever they want to come from.
The pimp is PAP, for letting so many in, prostituting Singapore.
Even we will go, if given a chance to place, like Sweden or Norway, or even Australia. So don’t blame people who try wanting a better life. Blame the PAP for letting so many in without proper talent.
Yeah what happeneded to
Silence is Golden….after the heavy fart on his/her face.
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Toa payoh will soon be renamed as Ta-Ba-Yau to facilitate easy understanding for new FT. In fact, all the streets in spore will soon be given a HanyuPinYin name to facilitate undertanding for new Citizens and FTs as they will soon make up more than 50% of the 10 million population.
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I resent the fact that I have PRC neighbours on the right, and Burmese on my left. Yet here I am, a full-blooded Singaporean being ousted from my flat because HDB policy does not allow me as a divorcee to have a public housing roof over my head.
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I witnessed an interesting incident on my bus ride (#963 from Woodlands Interchange) last Friday. Someone hailed the bus at a stop before Bukit Panjang Plaza and asked in mandarin if the bus was going to “po di”(town). The PRC driver and a colleague seated behind him were stumpled by the question and answered that it was going to Harbour Front. Then later the two colleagues were figuring out the question and both came to a conclusion that the question was in English!
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