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March 31, 2010 by admin
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Dear TR,
After reading the ‘14 year old Singaporean vows to leave Singapore if PAP is not voted out by the next general election’. The article written by the student has given me a wake up call. I am also a Secondary School student just like her.
First off, what I would like to mention is that I am literally being overran by Foreign Students in my school. I agree that they do provide some motivation for us to catch up and win them. However, what I cannot accept is that they are not only rude, but also inconsiderate for others. I had an experience where the foreign students would just sit at any table they like in the canteen and throw whoever’s belongings onto the floor just to sit there – yes, even if there are already students sitting there, they will just push them off or threaten them.
The foreign students are mostly from Indonesia, a minority of them are from china though. They usually stick together and do not welcome others into their group. I would say not a lot of people pay attention to them but they do piss people off and I would say my friends and I do not really like them. They shout across to each other in class in their own language like we are invisible, they talk loudly everywhere, copy our homework.
Even when they want to copy our homework, they go like “Oi, let me see” I do not believe that they are from scholarships but rather they’re family are just plain rich. Also, some of them have the habit of skipping school for no reason whatsoever, even though we are having our O lvls this year, some of them can still go clubbing at night to the wee hours and just report sick the next day. They also treat our belonging like thrash and just throw it around on the floor if they want to sit at the place. I do not see my school doing anything about them even though they skip their CCA’s and skip school. Sometimes I really wish they would all just pack up and go back to their country.
Why should these type of people be accepted into our society, they are only doing more harm than good to it. Also, why is it that Singaporean’s are a minority in Singapore, doesn’t that just prove that something is very wrong with the way this country is being run?
Till this day, I still do not understand why people still vote for the PAP, when they tell people to send the elderly to Malaysia while they work in Singapore. I quote from HEALTH MINISTER Mr Khaw Boon Wan speech “My personal view is, our land is expensive. But we have nearby neighbours in Johor, Batam and Bintan. The elderly want to reach their doctors within half to one hour.” Why do we have to send our elderly overseas just to ensure they get treatment on time. Singapore is a world class country, yet we cannot even assure the elderly that they will be able to reach treatment in time when they request for help. What rights do we have to boast that we are a world class country. Shouldn’t a world class country be able to do that?
I wish to share this with many others too. Why is it that in Singapore, things only go one way – up. It seems that Singapore is the only country in the world that is able to defy gravity as everything goes up, except our pays. Prices of food have increased, prices of housing have increased, GST increases, the Government gets a pay rise to avoid corruption, prices of public transport goes up, the number of ERP in Singapore goes up, Electricity and water prices goes up. Our pay? One way, down and rarely up. I still remember that during my primary school. $2 can last me for the whole week in school, right now? $2 is barely enough to last me for one meal in my school.
That is all I have to share. Thank you for reading.
Adrian Heng
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March 31, 2010 by admin
Filed under Life Stories, Opinion
Leave a comment
Dear TR,
After reading the ‘14 year old Singaporean vows to leave Singapore if PAP is not voted out by the next general election’. The article written by the student has given me a wake up call. I am also a Secondary School student just like her.
First off, what I would like to mention is that I am literally being overran by Foreign Students in my school. I agree that they do provide some motivation for us to catch up and win them. However, what I cannot accept is that they are not only rude, but also inconsiderate for others. I had an experience where the foreign students would just sit at any table they like in the canteen and throw whoever’s belongings onto the floor just to sit there – yes, even if there are already students sitting there, they will just push them off or threaten them.
The foreign students are mostly from Indonesia, a minority of them are from china though. They usually stick together and do not welcome others into their group. I would say not a lot of people pay attention to them but they do piss people off and I would say my friends and I do not really like them. They shout across to each other in class in their own language like we are invisible, they talk loudly everywhere, copy our homework.
Even when they want to copy our homework, they go like “Oi, let me see” I do not believe that they are from scholarships but rather they’re family are just plain rich. Also, some of them have the habit of skipping school for no reason whatsoever, even though we are having our O lvls this year, some of them can still go clubbing at night to the wee hours and just report sick the next day. They also treat our belonging like thrash and just throw it around on the floor if they want to sit at the place. I do not see my school doing anything about them even though they skip their CCA’s and skip school. Sometimes I really wish they would all just pack up and go back to their country.
Why should these type of people be accepted into our society, they are only doing more harm than good to it. Also, why is it that Singaporean’s are a minority in Singapore, doesn’t that just prove that something is very wrong with the way this country is being run?
Till this day, I still do not understand why people still vote for the PAP, when they tell people to send the elderly to Malaysia while they work in Singapore. I quote from HEALTH MINISTER Mr Khaw Boon Wan speech “My personal view is, our land is expensive. But we have nearby neighbours in Johor, Batam and Bintan. The elderly want to reach their doctors within half to one hour.” Why do we have to send our elderly overseas just to ensure they get treatment on time. Singapore is a world class country, yet we cannot even assure the elderly that they will be able to reach treatment in time when they request for help. What rights do we have to boast that we are a world class country. Shouldn’t a world class country be able to do that?
I wish to share this with many others too. Why is it that in Singapore, things only go one way – up. It seems that Singapore is the only country in the world that is able to defy gravity as everything goes up, except our pays. Prices of food have increased, prices of housing have increased, GST increases, the Government gets a pay rise to avoid corruption, prices of public transport goes up, the number of ERP in Singapore goes up, Electricity and water prices goes up. Our pay? One way, down and rarely up. I still remember that during my primary school. $2 can last me for the whole week in school, right now? $2 is barely enough to last me for one meal in my school.
That is all I have to share. Thank you for reading.
Adrian Heng
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