Mothers' Day is juz round the corner...n tears rolled down my leechie face when i saw the following clips! :'( my leechie heart really goes out to her...
Everything is abt $$$ here in SG...n if u have no $ here in SG...u die!!! n when u r out dining in some fine restaurants, do spare a thought for ppl like this old lady in the clips! she could have been our old granny! :'( so pls donate generously towards needy ppl!
i'll admit readily tt i love $$$...but who doesnt? o.O" to quote auntie Lillian Too -> "if u think tt $$$ is not important, u muz b living on Mars!" either tt, or tt person has never been hungry before =.=" when a rich person tells u tt he can empathize with the poor...esp when he's born with a silver spoon in his mouth n has a blessed life n has never been hungry in his life n has never seen how the poor live their lives in poverty...i really need to stretch my imagination to believe such words...lol ;p n who goes on to preach abt what $$$ cant buy: family, love, health, etc...but tell me...if both a rich man n a poor man were to suffer from some major illness...who's gonna die first? obviously, the poor man who cant afford the medical care will die first! $$$ cant buy u health...but $$$ can buy u medical care! juz go ask those who r struggling with medical bills! =.=" n we read abt more suicide cases amongst the poor aged here in SG...haiz >.<" n what's so wrong with loving $$$? i slog damn hard for my $$$...but i live by my own values...n i have a clear conscience...that is good enough for me...i cant please everyone...n i shldnt waste my life trying to please everyone when i know tt i cant! n i dont act atas n noble to pretend tt $$$ aint impt! =.=" what i learnt from Joey Yap, ppl will always talk...(in leechie words: ppl will always find somthing to bitch abt u!)
"People who mind, don't matter. People who matter, don't mind."
Btw, there r many ppl who have raised concerns abt the way how The Strait Times n The New Paper have presented their reports on the General Elections...well, lemme tell u this...i have kinda stopped reading these 2 papers for donkey years ler...except tt i still like reading Urban n i still read the weekend editions of The Strait Times n The Sunday Times...n i have foreign frenz who laughed at how a fallen tree could have made it to the front page of our national papers...i kinda feel abit embarrassed too >.<" n i dont like reading tabloids btw...anyway most stuff r on facebook or internet these days...why waste $ to buy tabloids? =.=" an interesting quote tt i saw -> "I only buy ST or TNP for picking up my dogs' poos and wrapping fish when I go to the wet market." on fb page "Boycott TNP The New Paper - Stop Gutter Journalism" (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-TNP-The-New-Paper-Stop-Gutter-Journalism/121082877970493?sk=wall)
U dont need to agree with a leechie...it's juz som late nite ramblings from a leechie while i watch Man U champions league matchie o.O"
"What do you need to do today to reach your goal? What is it that if you take an action today, it would bring more happiness, money and health to your life?"
I'm greatly amused with the lies tt ppl tell me...disillusioned...haiz >.<"
"一說謊, 便是永遠的沉淪在謊言之中, 因為得靠繼續說謊來圓謊。"
"assume = putting an ass in front of u and me"
"Be truthful to yourself. You are not needed to reform anybody else in the world. If you can grow yourself, that's enough. Don't be a reformer, and don't try to teach others, and don't try to change others. If you change, that's enough of a message." ~ Osho Intimacy
"It's Amazing how easily we can forget what we have and take for Granted all that we are given. We do not want to lose it to than regret what we have lost!" ~ Elim Chew
"It's easier if you stop trying hard to become a person of success, but instead - become a person of value." ~ Joey Yap
"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. "It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear." ~ Winnie the Pooh
"Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today I choose to give love." ~ Louise L. Hay
"Love is one of life's biggest gambles. You can lose (as many had lost) - lose time, money, effort, faith...etc. You can also win. When you win, not only you get love, you will get health, you will get wealth. No wonder they say, "Winner takes it all.""
"People are so afraid of hearing “No” that they often don’t even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, “Harv, a closed mouth won’t get fed.” Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren’t going the way you’d like." ~ Harv
"The key glue that keeps most partnerships together is respect." Build it each day by giving more than anyone would ever expect!
"如果心里有喜欢的人 对方回头说后悔了，再也不可能回到那种感觉 有遇到更好的 就不要丢下 毕竟回头只会让大家痛苦 不可能那么相爱了"
"爱情这东西，时间很关键。认识得太早或太晚，都不行。"
"不要让那个喜欢你的人，撕心裂肺地为你哭那么一次。因为，你能把他/她伤害到那个程度的机会只有一次。那一次以後，你就从一个不可或缺的人，变成一个可有可无的人了。即使他/她还深愛着你，可是总有一些東西真的是改变了，和从前不再一样了。"
"緣起~~是前世未完成的詩篇,相遇~~是今生延綿的下闕~~祝福你們細水長流一帆風順"
"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"People always think a girl like you has a lot of suitors but actually you're just by yourself, no one dares to woo you - it's true"
Do you want your parents or your children to end up like her in old age? :'(
Haiz :'(
Hope she'll have a happy Mothers' Day with her family too...n hope tt her kids will be fillal to her... ♥
Juz 1 or 2 months ago, while having drinks, Harn was telling me abt how the poor in SG gets left behind...n although she's not affected by the system...she feels strongly abt the issue...n i'm being reminded of what she said after reading the following yahoo article =.=" (http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/Singapore-Fast-Growth-cnbcwp-351444525.html?x=0) ya, contrary to popular beliefs, we do talk abt serious subjects while having drinks...ya, n i'm supposed to be a materialistic airhead...go figure =.="
Singapore’s Fast Growth Creating Rich-Poor Divide?
"Liyana Dhamirah, 24, her husband Fazli bin Mohd Jailani, 31, and their three young children lived in a tent on the beach in Singapore for four months in 2009 when their Housing Development Board flat was repossessed as they were unable to service their mortgage loan.
The Singapore government provides subsidized housing via the Board to its citizens. Liyana and Fazli now share a rented flat with another family.
"It's unfair. I'm a Singaporean, yet I'm not benefiting at all from how rich Singapore has become."
Liyana and Fazli earn a combined S$800 ($652) a month but have been unable to make ends meet. "Sometimes I can't even afford a S$1 ($0.80) ice cream cone for my kids," says Fazli, a former mechanic apprentice, who is now unemployed and depends on the income from his wife's online handmade trinkets business.
Singapore, which goes to the polls on Saturday, reported sterling growth in the first quarter of this year. The economy expanded 23.5 percent quarter on quarter and 8.5 percent over the previous year. This was on the back of an unprecedented growth of almost 15 percent in 2010.
But not everyone in this island nation of 5 million people is celebrating. Irvin Seah, an economist at Singapore bank DBS says, "Plainly, not everyone has benefited equally from the economic growth that has occurred over the past decade."
Median household incomes have grown only 21 percent in the past decade, compared to real GDP growth of 72 percent in the same period, according to government statistics.
In 2010 when GDP expanded by 14.5 percent, household incomes rose on average just 0.3 percent after adjusting for inflation.
Take the case of Rokiah Ahmad, 46, a librarian at the Singapore Department of Statistics. Her salary was S$1,500 ($1,222) per month 10 years ago, and after a decade of small increments, it's now S$1,700 ($1,385) a month.
"It's not enough to raise three daughters and one son. We have financial difficulties."
Chow Penn Nee, an economist at United Overseas Bank says, "Wage growth is clearly not keeping up with GDP growth and the divide between the rich and the poor is getting bigger."
Asked for the government's response, Singapore's Minister for Manpower, Gan Kim Yong said income growth cannot be equated with GDP growth, "as the former is also influenced by other demand and supply factors."
The opposition Workers' Party candidate, Chen Show Mao, who was a corporate lawyer before he joined the largest opposition party in Singapore, said during the party's election rally that the benefit of Singapore's economic growth "went to corporate profits and the wages of top earners".
Government data showed that last year the bottom 10 percent of the population had a household monthly income of S$1,400 ($1,141) compared with S$23,684 ($19,308) for households in the top 10 percent.
Singapore has the highest concentration of millionaires in the world. According to the Boston Consulting Group's Global Wealth 2010 Report, 11.4 percent of Singapore's population is millionaires.
And it has the second highest income gap among 42 nations "with very high human development," according to the United Nations. Singapore's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality where zero is complete equality and one maximum inequality, was 0.472 in 2010.
CIMB-GK Research economist Song Seng Wun believes that growth itself partly explains the widening income gap. "In any capitalist society where profit maximization is key, this gap will widen unless we get heavy government intervention."
According to Leif Eskesen, HSBC's chief economist for India & ASEAN, some inequality is integral to the effective functioning of a market economy, "but too much inequality could also hurt growth."
When contacted, Singapore's Ministry of Finance cited the recent budget in which the government promised to raise the productivity of Singaporeans via training and other benefits.
In its budget in February, the government handed out one-time benefits valued at S$3.2 billion ($2.6 billion) targeting lower-income citizens. The ruling People's Action Party has also promised larger bursaries and grants in its manifesto.
OSK-DMG economist Enrico Tanuwidjaja says these handouts can only cushion the impact of inflation temporarily since they are one-offs. "Purchasing power actually stays the same."
Liyana and Fazli say since 90 percent of their wages are used to pay bills, the extra money
Singapore's Ministry of Manpower says the government aims to raise incomes by 30 percent in the next 10 years by improving productivity. The ministry also says it has committed S$5.5 billion ($4.47 billion) for this purpose over the next five years.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has promised in his party's political broadcasts that the PAP, which is widely expected to win the elections, will ensure that low-wage workers are not left behind.
71-year-old cleaner Mr Tan, who only wanted to be identified by his last name, has been earning just S$4.00 ($3.20) an hour for the past 5 years. He says he's not convinced.
"They don't care about us. The profits all go to the bosses and government ministers. And when we speak up, we're considered as complaining.""
What's being done to help the poor n ppl who get left behind in SG? o.O
GE 2011 ;p
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