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  • Starhub Fibre Broadband Service Outage Sparks Customers’ Ire

    Starhub Fibre Broadband Service Outage Sparks Customers’ Ire

    StarHub customers took to social media to air their frustrations following a fibre broadband service outage by the local telco on Saturday evening (Oct 22).

    According to affected StarHub customers on social media, the outage started at around 10pm and has yet to be resolved.

    Responding to queries from Channel NewsAsia, a StarHub spokesperson said the telco is “working as fast as it can to fix an issue affecting customers’ broadband service” and added that updates on the outage will be provided on its Facebook page.

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia

  • Angry Foreigner: Foreign Workers Can Screw Singapore If They Continue To Be Treated Like Dirt

    Angry Foreigner: Foreign Workers Can Screw Singapore If They Continue To Be Treated Like Dirt

    My dear Singaporean friends, please excuse this rant but I am royally pissed this evening.

    It is not usual for me to use expletives on Facebook but today I really do feel the urge with two particular reasons.

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    Firstly, I was clearing out some of my stuff from the old house in SG and the boys were watching some Mediacorp drivel that they produce pretending it to be “Entertainment” I believe it was not a quiz show per se with real contestants, rather a pseudo quiz staffed with people who imagine themselves to be celebrities.

    About the final question was “What makes you happy to be Singaporean?” One of them replied “That we are not Malaysian”. The expletive that I am avoiding in this case would refer to the aforementioned person as an arrogant player of the pink trombone. Seriously? Singapore that great country whose citizens venture into neighbouring countries and have sex with their cars in order to get more cheap fuel into them? Where Mediacorp “entertainment” is anything but?

    The second was the way the Singaporean side of the causeway is being run. After 9.30 p.m. there are two feeds onto the causeway for cars, over the viaduct from the BKE or up the ramp from Woodlands road / Woodland Central. Each of these is funnelled into a specific lane and they are usually manned pretty much equally.
    Tonight, I joined the queue over the viaduct at about 3.00 a.m. It was SLOW. The sign said HEAVY TRAFFIC INTO JB. I reached passport control at 4.45 a.m. The reason? The channel that the viaduct feeds into had TWO booths open while the other channel had about eight open. There wasn’t really much traffic – it was simply poor load balancing. All kudos to the officer in charge of handling the manning of the booths, he was obviously busy handling him own interests instead. SO I finally get home to loved ones around 5.15. Thanks a lot. (See the cheeky reference I slipped in there?)

    Both annoy me – but the thing that annoys me far more is that there was an almost stationary jam in the bike lane.

    I find it odd that Middle Eastern countries are criticised for their treatment of foreign workers but everybody keeps mum on Singapore’s attitude.

    Without the tens of thousands of Malaysians who come in by bike and bus every day the Singapore economy would be screwed. How do they reward these brave people who ride through hot sun and torrential rain to power the Singapore economy? My putting in place such a inefficient system that the jam for bikes can be up to two hours EVERY DAY. Rain or shine. And today it was still jammed at 4.45 p.m. when I left.It is getting worse.

    Shame on you for this Singapore. I really feel that you can do better. You don’t pay enough for Singaporeans to be able to survive doing these jobs, but you treat the heroes who have a similar enterprising spirit to those who built your country, the construction workers, the domestic helpers, the shipyard hands – you treat them all like dirt, while you sit in a nice air-conditioned office feeling smug.

     

    Source: Dave Appleton

  • Singaporeans Prefer To Be Fooled by PAP, Good Jobs Go to Foreigners

    Singaporeans Prefer To Be Fooled by PAP, Good Jobs Go to Foreigners

    In PAP’s elitist eyes, Singaporeans are fools and are therefore treated as such. No one should blame PAP.

    For years, Singaporeans have been fooled by PAP’s creation of “good” jobs for citizens, which is of course another half truth. We don’t bother, or are afraid, to ask the government point blank to list all the good jobs it has created. Well, there’s likely to be only a handful and that’s about it because most of the “good” jobs go to foreigners.

    Whether a job is ‘good’ is relative: it’s dependent on our living costs.

    To a foreigner degree holder from India, any job paying between $2000 and $3000 a month is a good job. Damn good in fact for he would be earning only a fraction of this amount back home and could also have been periodically unemployed. In 15 to 20 years, he would have sufficient savings to enjoy an early retirement back home, not eating at hawker centres but restaurants.

    For a local diploma graduate, a $2000 starting salary won’t get him far if he is considering marriage and having kids. Our high cost of living, inflated by PAP through property prices, is a killer and there is little prospect of retirement, even if one eats at a hawker centre every day.

    One would have thought that after 26 years of prostituting Singaporeans for GDP growth, PAP must have created hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs. So how come PAP is unable to provide a breakdown of good jobs in the various industries created for SINGAPOREANS?

    In a self-insulting statement, DPM Teo insisted PAP was unable to provide “a more detailed breakdown because it may not be in our interests to do so”. “Our” of course refers to “PAP”, not Singaporeans. PAP has resorted to obfuscating the truth by lumping PRs and citizens together. There would be public outrage and all hell will break loose should relevant employment statistics be publicly disclosed.

    The majority of Singaporeans appear to be sleepwalking and don’t seem to be aware that government-linked companies are totally dependent on hundreds of thousands of foreigners to mitigate high rental and labour costs. Profit driven PAP will always enact legislations in GLCs’ favour.

    (Besides GLCs, there are PAP-affiliated companies – SMCs set up by PAP grasslooters – whose employees are mostly foreigners.)

    Sleepwalkers should wake up and take a look at Changi Airport, SATS, SBS Transit, SMRT, NTUC, etc. Still cannot see the hundreds of thousands of jobs created for foreigners?

    With the opening of Jewel Changi Airport in 2019, what is the ratio of good jobs created for foreigners vs locals? Of course there are good management positions but don’t they all go to PAP cronies?

    Even GLCs in the security industry such as Certis CISCO and AETOS employ at least 80% of foreigners to lower business costs. (AETOS was recently transferred to Surbana Jurong)

    If PAP wasn’t profit driven and had focused on improving productivity, it would not have set up an entire business park in Changi for foreigners, mostly Indians. And guess which nationality some of the Indian companies employ. PAP creating good jobs for Singaporeans? Or are we expected to believe that Singaporeans are so choosy that few want good jobs with good pay?

    Where is PAP’s ‘blueprint’ for job creation for Singaporeans? How come got no figures?

    The business model of most GLCs rely 100% on cheap labour, without which they would have gone ‘pock kai’ years ago. PAP has created hundreds of thousands of jobs which pay peanuts and they do not benefit Singaporeans. PAP has not been creating good jobs for locals.

    Singaporeans are supposed to be an educated lot but what’s the point of a ‘good’ education when we choose to go down the same path after being repeatedly fooled?

     

    Source: https://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.com

  • Gilbert Goh: Global Charitable Organisations Deserve Support

    Gilbert Goh: Global Charitable Organisations Deserve Support

    Supported the emboidery work of this handicapped Palestinian refugee woman at Musawat Saida.

    The Palestinians are great with their hand-sewn emboidery work and its a pity there is a lack of marketing effort to sell them abroad.

    The refugee emboidery market is a great money-churning goldmine that remains very much untapped and we are trying our best to assist in this area.

    Moreover, for the refugees themselves, its great to earn one’s keep than sitting at home and wait for handout. The emboidery sewing can also be done at home with minimal interruption to their household chores as most refugee women also tend to look after the children themselves.

    The wealthy international charitable bodies these days are stretched to the limits with their funding resources and many local NGOs suffer from this reduction in funds.

    The idea of a social enterprise model whereby NGOs self-fund themselves from selling their own hand-made products takes more eminence now.

    However, its still difficult to change the mindset of NGOs here as they are used to easy access to funds contributed from the European charitable organisations.

    But such days are truly numbered…and my fear is that some noble charitable organisations may need to close down soon due to a lack of funds.

     

    Source: Gilbert Goh

  • 2 Perusahaan Milik Anak Melayu Singapura Dinobat Usahawan Sosial Dunia

    2 Perusahaan Milik Anak Melayu Singapura Dinobat Usahawan Sosial Dunia

    Dua perusahaan sosial anak Melayu berjaya mengatasi 42 pasukan dari 15 negara untuk meraih hadiah wang tunai $40,000.

    Pasukan PsychKick dan Nomad di kalangan enam pasukan pemenang acara Usahawan Sosial Muda (YSE) anjuran Yayasan Antarabangsa Singapura (SIF) siang tadi (21 Okt).

    MASALAH SENDIRI JADI ILHAM TANGANI MASALAH PESAKIT LAIN

    Setahun lalu, Nurul Syafiqah, pelajar La Salle, 23 tahun, mengalami masalah kemurungan dan dimasukkan ke ward psikoterapi. Melalui pengalaman itu, beliau melihat sendiri kekurangan dari segi sistem rawatan yang diberi kepada pesakit. Ini memberi beliau ilham untuk menolong pesakit yang mengalami masalah sepertinya.

    Bersama dua lagi rakan beliau Sayid Hafiz dan Zachary, mereka memulakan PsychKick April tahun lalu.


    Kumpulan tiga sekawan ini menghasilkan sebuah aplikasi untuk membantu ahli psikoterapi memantau dan berhubung lebih rapat dengan pesakit mereka, sekali gus meningkatkan keberkesanan program rawatan dan mempercepat proses pemulihan.

    Mengulas tentang dana yang dimenangi, Nurul Shafiqah berkata, “Kita mahu menggunakan wang itu untuk operasi dan mbangunkan produk kami. Kami juga mahu habiskan aplikasi kami yang sedang kami buat.”

    Kini sedang diuji, PsychKick berharap untuk melancarkan ujian perintis apps itu hujung tahun ini. Syafiqah berharap setelah dilancarkan, aplikasi ini dapat menolong pesakit bukan sahaja di Singapura tetapi di luar negara.

    TEKAD TOLONG KANAK-KANAK SEDUNIA HASIL PENGALAMAN MERANTAU

    Muhammad Haziq Mohd Rashid dan Mohd Nasrul Rohmat, kedua-duanya pelajar sepenuh masa di Universiti Teknologi Nanyang (NTU), mendapat ilham di Jaisalmer, India, di mana kemahiran menghasilkan kraftangan kulit adalah kemahiran turun temurun penduduk di sana.

    Di kawasan berhampiran juga, mereka ketemui sebuah daerah perkampungan di mana ramai keluarga tidak mampu menghantar anak-anak mereka ke sekolah dek kemiskinan. Sekolah di kampung itu juga dalam keadaan serba kedaifan dan memerlukan kerja-kerja naik taraf.

    Dengan memanfaatkan bakat penduduk di situ, kedua-dua sepupu ini memasarkan barangan kulit berkualiti tinggi dan mesra alam dari Jaisalmer ke pasaran sejagat.

    Ini memberi mereka pendapatan tetap.

    Keuntungan selebihnya pula disalurkan bagi kerja-kerja naik taraf sekolah dan membiaya lebih 100 kanak-kanak di sekolah tersebut.

    NOMAD kini sedang meneroka pelbagai wadah untuk memperluaskan pasarannya dan meningkatkan penjualan beg-beg tersebut. Buat jangka masa panjang, NOMAD berharap untuk menolong masyarakat-masyarakat miskin di negara Asia lain.

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