What I hate about the current Singapore

[3Boys]

Sun_2010:

tuition_czar:

[quote=\"3Boys\"]

Of course, and its too bad. Its a free country, if they feel they can do better elsewhere, then certainly its their prerogative to leave.

Hot potato issues? I think we've had it good for too long, we've become a navel-gazing society. A little bit of adversity and we go yelling to mama. Try 50% youth unemployment in Spain.

You are highly delusional if you really think this is a free country. You speak as if it is so easy to uproot and go away for good. If that was the case, we would have witnessed a mass exodus by now. Many of the poor and middle class are enslaved to their 30-40 year housing loans debts-how exactly can they simply pack up and say goodbye?

And pray, go where?
Which is that country that is not having any hot potato issues now?
Please share - let us know this fairy tale country[/quote]Oops, duplicated your post.

[3Boys]

verykiasu2010:

Mao Tse Dong said : \"Everyone must eat some bitterness\"

True true, but I still wouldn't eat a fellow Singaporean.....

[Funz]

I think I am very easily contented. I do not see how Singapore is so unbearable even with all it’s bad points. And I also do not see how any other country can offer me a life that have all the pluses and no minuses. Must be really blind. But a happy blind.

[3Boys]

Funz:

I think I am very easily contented. I do not see how Singapore is so unbearable even with all it's bad points. And I also do not see how any other country can offer me a life that have all the pluses and no minuses. Must be really blind. But a happy blind.

I guess we must have popped the blue pill instead of the red pill

[winchester]

3Boys:

Funz:

I think I am very easily contented. I do not see how Singapore is so unbearable even with all it's bad points. And I also do not see how any other country can offer me a life that have all the pluses and no minuses. Must be really blind. But a happy blind.

I guess we must have popped the blue pill instead of the red pill

lol that show so long time ago, i forgot which is red and blue pill liao!

[winchester]

Funz:

I think I am very easily contented. I do not see how Singapore is so unbearable even with all it's bad points. And I also do not see how any other country can offer me a life that have all the pluses and no minuses. Must be really blind. But a happy blind.

yah. grass is always greener. no country is perfect one, one must accept the trade-off and deal with it, in singapore, australia, canada etc

[3Boys]

winchester:

3Boys:

[quote=\"Funz\"]I think I am very easily contented. I do not see how Singapore is so unbearable even with all it's bad points. And I also do not see how any other country can offer me a life that have all the pluses and no minuses. Must be really blind. But a happy blind.

I guess we must have popped the blue pill instead of the red pill

lol that show so long time ago, i forgot which is red and blue pill liao![/quote]Blue is peaceful oblivion, Red is ugly reality......

Sometimes I feel like I am living on a different planet from some other Singaporeans, so divergent are our expectations.

[Lilac66]

Even though I have my grouses on tuition (not that it affects me too much)on the other thread, I still love Singapore. My hubby when away on business trips, always tells me how envious others are of our Sg ,with our capable, though not perfect (but who is?) and efficient governing leaders.

Feel a great sense of pride when I hear this.

[kiddo]

3Boys:

verykiasu2010:

Mao Tse Dong said : \"Everyone must eat some bitterness\"

True true, but I still wouldn't eat a fellow Singaporean.....

You hear of bitter \"Mao San Wang\"....

probably taste better than Bitter Sing Ga Por Rean...what fruit is this.... :?

I would presume many Kiasuparent member has no problem staying put in SG....
......even with the Gah'ment , scandal , breakdown, tuition
BTO, FT, curry smell, loud mouth in MRT etc etc , dog name tag.....
you not alone.....

isnt it part of Life little \"char zhue\".....little nuances.....
:hugs: :snuggles: :hi5:

[limlim]

3Boys:

limlim:

Look at SMRT, trains frequently breakdown, but they are are looking at rental biz..?

You look at NS line performance for the first decade of operation, and the circle line breakdown within ONE week of operation.. same company, different management.

Now, infrastructure funded by govt and taxpayer BUT profits are privatized. How can this be good? Please explain.

I'd like to know which benchmark you use in terms of service standards. If there is convincing data that public transport systems consistently outperform privatised ones worldwide, then ok, you win.

SMRT is a listed company, if you believe that they are making obscene amounts of money and distributing it to their shareholders, it'll only cost you a couple of thousand of S$ to partake in the gravy train.

The problem is that you are looking at things in isolation without reference points.

I highlighted for you. one is before privatization, one after.