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March 18, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/03/18/singaporean-unhappy-at-his-rc-spending-money-to-organize-floor-party-to-promote-interaction-among-residents/
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An irate resident tipped us off on a floor party organized by his Residents’ Committee lately to “promote and enhance understanding, respect, mutual support and interaction among residents of different backgrounds.” He felt that the money used to organize the party could be better used to help the poor and needy in Singapore.
Floor and block parties are becoming more common in the HDB heartlands as the PAP continues to pour in taxpayers’ monies to rectify a blatant mistake of their making and to court the votes of the new citizens by making them feel welcomed and happy in Singapore.
Too many foreigners were allowed into the country within too short a period of time and Singapore is now experiencing a major headache on how to integrate all of them into society.
Minister for Community, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan unveiled a mega $10-million dollar Community Integration Fund last October to sponsor “integration” programmes such as free language classes for foreigners and HDB floor parties.
It is most naive of the PAP to think that they can promote “interaction” between native Singaporeans and the immigrants by organizing such parties. They will simply come for the free food and leave without knowing one another.
The foreigners will tend to stick within their own cliques because there are simply so many of them here in Singapore now that they have few incentives to reach out to the larger community of Singaporeans.
Attached below is the flyer promoting the floor party and an account from our reader:
“My RC recently organised a floor party outside my unit at the lift lobby. I said to one of the RC members that I had been staying here since 2001 but there was no such floor party before. He replied me that only since last year 2009 that they had “the fund” to organise floor party for the residents. But he did not say why previously his RC did not have the fund? Was it due to the recent massive influx of FTs, PRs and new citizens that his RC decided to organise this kind of floor party? I really had to thank these FTs, PRs and new citizens for the “free” buffet dinner.
The RC “wayang” prior to the commencement of floor party by getting town council cleaners to use “high tech” cleaning machine to clean up the dirty floor tiles of my lift lobby in which the floor party would be hosted there. Never before that the cleaners use such a “high tech” cleaning machine to clean up the lift lobby dirty floor tiles, what they normally did was just sweeping the floor using a broom, only once a month that they use high pressure water jet machine to wash corridor and lift lobby.
The buffet dinner as expected did not taste good since it was “free”. The floor party as expected turned out to be a “free” dinner meal for the residents here, not much “interacting” between the residents, most residents left the floor party after filling their hungry stomachs.
I feel that as a resident who “benefited” from the “free” buffet dinner, the RC or the ruling party should use the floor party fund for the poor and needy people of S’pore instead of using it on the residents who may not be “grateful” after eating a “free” buffet dinner.”
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March 18, 2010 by admin
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/03/18/singaporean-unhappy-at-his-rc-spending-money-to-organize-floor-party-to-promote-interaction-among-residents/
Written by Our Correspondent
An irate resident tipped us off on a floor party organized by his Residents’ Committee lately to “promote and enhance understanding, respect, mutual support and interaction among residents of different backgrounds.” He felt that the money used to organize the party could be better used to help the poor and needy in Singapore.
Floor and block parties are becoming more common in the HDB heartlands as the PAP continues to pour in taxpayers’ monies to rectify a blatant mistake of their making and to court the votes of the new citizens by making them feel welcomed and happy in Singapore.
Too many foreigners were allowed into the country within too short a period of time and Singapore is now experiencing a major headache on how to integrate all of them into society.
Minister for Community, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan unveiled a mega $10-million dollar Community Integration Fund last October to sponsor “integration” programmes such as free language classes for foreigners and HDB floor parties.
It is most naive of the PAP to think that they can promote “interaction” between native Singaporeans and the immigrants by organizing such parties. They will simply come for the free food and leave without knowing one another.
The foreigners will tend to stick within their own cliques because there are simply so many of them here in Singapore now that they have few incentives to reach out to the larger community of Singaporeans.
Attached below is the flyer promoting the floor party and an account from our reader:
“My RC recently organised a floor party outside my unit at the lift lobby. I said to one of the RC members that I had been staying here since 2001 but there was no such floor party before. He replied me that only since last year 2009 that they had “the fund” to organise floor party for the residents. But he did not say why previously his RC did not have the fund? Was it due to the recent massive influx of FTs, PRs and new citizens that his RC decided to organise this kind of floor party? I really had to thank these FTs, PRs and new citizens for the “free” buffet dinner.
The RC “wayang” prior to the commencement of floor party by getting town council cleaners to use “high tech” cleaning machine to clean up the dirty floor tiles of my lift lobby in which the floor party would be hosted there. Never before that the cleaners use such a “high tech” cleaning machine to clean up the lift lobby dirty floor tiles, what they normally did was just sweeping the floor using a broom, only once a month that they use high pressure water jet machine to wash corridor and lift lobby.
The buffet dinner as expected did not taste good since it was “free”. The floor party as expected turned out to be a “free” dinner meal for the residents here, not much “interacting” between the residents, most residents left the floor party after filling their hungry stomachs.
I feel that as a resident who “benefited” from the “free” buffet dinner, the RC or the ruling party should use the floor party fund for the poor and needy people of S’pore instead of using it on the residents who may not be “grateful” after eating a “free” buffet dinner.”
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