Singapore 's sole ideology is materialism. As one netcitizen commented : " In the maximization of profit in our society,we have mercedes but no mercy."
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Foreign Workers making themselves heard
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Singapore 's sole ideology is materialism. As one netcitizen commented : " In the maximization of profit in our society,we have mercedes but no mercy."
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SFI is just one of the caterers. I believe SATS does the catering in some camps now. Back in the day NTUC Foodfare also managed the cookhouse of some camps.
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Aiyah, old news lah. SFI is now changed name to SATS. Which is a GLC as they are also doing the same at Changi Airport.
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We miss so many opportunities in the old days when pengkias were the ones that actually did the cooking in the cookhouse. Lau cheow will remember those days when they line up with them metal trays and pengkias cooks will ladle the slop onto the various compartments of your tray.
Imagine, these pengkias, many of them were school drop outs or those that cannot study and have poor prospects, imagine during their vocation training, they could be taught how to make the traditional singapore hawker food. eg. char kway teow, chicken rice, wontan mee, etc. The SAF could have hired older hawkers as instructors and train them. They can use their training to cook better hawker style food in the cookhouse. Today, these cooks would be the ones running the stalls in the hawker centres and keeping alive the singapore food tradition. Instead we have a lot of old uncles and aunties that will retire soon and the recipe will die with them.
We miss so many opportunities in the old days when pengkias were the ones that actually did the cooking in the cookhouse. Lau cheow will remember those days when they line up with them metal trays and pengkias cooks will ladle the slop onto the various compartments of your tray.
Imagine, these pengkias, many of them were school drop outs or those that cannot study and have poor prospects, imagine during their vocation training, they could be taught how to make the traditional singapore hawker food. eg. char kway teow, chicken rice, wontan mee, etc. The SAF could have hired older hawkers as instructors and train them. They can use their training to cook better hawker style food in the cookhouse. Today, these cooks would be the ones running the stalls in the hawker centres and keeping alive the singapore food tradition. Instead we have a lot of old uncles and aunties that will retire soon and the recipe will die with them.
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My BMT time had already phased out vocational cooks.
I believe certain overseas reservist training still have cooks, but rare and situational. Most of the NSmen prefer to hang out at the canteen anyway.
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What you are talking about is at the unit level. I am talking about at the schools like OCS, SAFOS, Tekong, Nee Soon, etc. These camps see many personnel every yer and there is no canteen for recruits. Therefore, the cooks were NSmen themselves. Now its all catered and cook vocation is phased out. Very short sighted of the PAP. U have peenoise and PRCs and cheap FTs cooking army food now. When an army has to rely on other country citizens for its food, its pretty pathetic.
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was it Gandhi who said ??? --
how the Govt treat Foreign workers
means how it will treat its local ???
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A pity indeed, I was hoping that he would lead the team to clean the foreign workers dormitories. 
SAF to the rescue!
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To cut the chain of transmission in dormitories, thousands of foreign workers who are healthy - especially those working in essential services - will be moved to army camps, floating hotels, and vacant Housing Board blocks.
Singapore has also started active case finding and is swab-testing workers in various dormitories, said the Health Ministry's (MOH) director of medical services Kenneth Mak at a press conference on Thursday.
Preliminary investigations have linked the cluster at Mustafa Centre with clusters at the construction site at Project Glory and five dormitories.
Associate Professor Mak said the ministry believes that foreign workers had visited Mustafa Centre, where some employees had fallen ill, and got infected there.
Singapore has also started active case finding and is swab-testing workers in various dormitories, said the Health Ministry's (MOH) director of medical services Kenneth Mak at a press conference on Thursday.
Preliminary investigations have linked the cluster at Mustafa Centre with clusters at the construction site at Project Glory and five dormitories.
Associate Professor Mak said the ministry believes that foreign workers had visited Mustafa Centre, where some employees had fallen ill, and got infected there.
