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Archive for the ‘Experience’ Category

Scholarship bond defaulters and the betrayal of our youth

Last week, former NTUC CEO Tan Kin Lian shared his experience with a foreign student who was given a scholarship at a local Polytechnic: According to Mr. Tan, the foreign student in question was unable to find a job due to the minimum salary and levy imposed by the S-pass scheme. Given that no employer was willing to pay $2,600...

Is DJ Joe Augustin living in PAP’s ivory tower?

I refer to “Jobless diploma graduate disappointed with degrading govt job fair” and “Radio DJ slams diploma holder for self-entitled rant against govt job fair”. DJ Joe Augustin appears unable to comprehend what the jobless diploma graduate’s (let’s call him ‘A’) rant was all about. Instead, Joe twisted the issue...

If don’t blame PAP, then blame my grandfather issit?

There are obvious reasons for me to keep heaping blame on an incompetent government. In fact, all citizens who love our country should do likewise. I find it strange that unthinking Singaporeans are able to rattle off propaganda to defend just about EVERYTHING the PAP has done wrong, including epic screw ups. But if don’t...

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