I still use proper spelling for instant messaging wherever possible. With dictionary autocorrect there is no excuse not to do so.
For example, there is no reason to use 'I no' instead of 'I know'.
[h=2]Don’t waste your money on tertiary education[/h]December 31st, 2013 |Author: Contributions
It is not worth it. Read the below comment by a mother posted in TRE.
mala:Sadly, many parents and their graduate children are in the same dire straits. Many have dug out their life savings to put their children through universities. Some sold their properties, downgrade from private to HDB, some from bigger HDB to smaller HDB flats, to squeeze the money needed for overseas university tuition fees, for the sake of their children. And what happened? They could not get a decent job in their home country, the same country they called home, served NS and pledged to defend with their lives, while there are more than a million good jobs taken up by foreigners.
December 20, 2013 at 7:04 pm
I m 62years mum, my son nus graduate is jobless for nearly 3years.he is depress now and on medication.can the pap gov understand my pain and how my heart is aching.
I encourage all parents not to waste their money sending their children to universities, here in world best universities, or overseas in unranked universities. Many would end up jobless and suffer depression. And if they ended up working in part time jobs or driving taxis, they would never be able to earn enough to recover what the parents had paid for their education. If parents do not want to heed my advice, never mind, just listen to the good ministers, no need university education, be hawkers or be other skill workers. These are good advices from people in the know, people who made policies that affect everyone of us. Don’t listen to me, listen to them.
I feel very sorry to so many parents and their graduate children who ended up jobless and had no better choice than to drive taxis while foreigners are swarming this Sin City to replace them. Sad indeed.
This is the real hard truth that more and more Sinkies would have to live with. Great place to live, and a great life, for the very rich and for foreigners. Sinkies must be grateful for their good fortune to live in this great city.
Chua Chin Leng aka redbean
* The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com.
I dare you to vote my Leegime out in 2016! *hee*hee*
I have to agree with boss sam on this. Engrish in ozland also chia lat. Kids r not taught to spell n grammar not taught properly. I heard they r just taught to talk.
It is the same in Toronto, Canada.
When I arrived in 1981, they asked me to take a test administered by "Test of English as a Foreign Language", but I believe that I write better than most of the graduates which the firm hired in my cohort. Later, I even wrote to the CEO of a mutual fund company and offered to edit their "Investment Newsletter" and Quarterly Reports, and he did engaged my services at $60 an hour.
It is sad that too many individuals, including journalists, are unable to write and spell proper English, such as [you are vs your]; [principle vs principal]; [practice vs practise]; [there vs their]; do not when to use "and" or "but"; "compared with"; [different from] rather than [different than].
It is either "he engaged" or "he did engage".
i suspect something is wrong with this guy, or he could have rejected certain job with pay not up to his expectation. or he could be opposition supporter always finding fault with pap's cronies, then i find it believable. i know someone who is an eccentric sinkie but a pap lackey always attending and going to RC events and always helping out at meet people session, he was jobless for a year, however, found a job which pays $4k a month as soon as the cronies around him knew about his state, so if you are jobless, go support pap and be a crony, crony tend to help another crony.
Are u a pappie RC groupie?
no, I AM DEFINITELY NOT! but this guy i mentioned besides eccentric really got a serious EQ problem, his colleague wanted to bash him up then. besides, the most unbelievable thing he got hired by an MNC..
Actually, zero percent of being jobless as a young graduate, unless the person is totally lazy, useless, or picky. Sure they may not be able to land plum jobs but can always start with jobs with big title and low pay and move from there.
Take example I know of someone working as an RC Manager, title big but pay only $1.9k, worse than clerk...but she was able to get a public relations officer job with only a few applications and this person is 45 years old.
Having big title, the potential employer thinks she has a job with lots of responsibilities, so offered her the PRO job as they felt she could manage the residents which she will encounter in her next job.
So just go for some retail manager post, Macds or Buger King for a start, maybe pay is $2k or less but when you apply next job, employers would have the impression that you are able to manage and offer you similar better paying manager jobs.
There was a time, some long while back, in between careers, before I got fed up & decided to work for myself, I lowered my expectations, to that level I could almost ' smell the ground'. That period, was my greatest learning experience, I took on work, except the fast foods one, from companies like Tricon, Dairy Farms etc.. they just don't want me, for various reasons ( now they are hiring for those reasons) not that I am disabled or....but they say I am over qualified, over experienced. I was willing to put in long hours for pitiful per hr without benefits jobs. I managed to worked in various jobs competing with Foreigners who are on dependent pass, have to fight, hand & nail for $8 - $16 hr jobs, that include overtime , week ends & holidays. I have even worked for a Town Council as a relief clerk for $600 GROSS before CPF. ( I worked 2 weeks, the cost going to work, was higher than the pay).
Ahh!, I had even walked in to a department store, who was advertising for a Santa Claus for Christmas....what I am saying is, the undergrads must be somewhat useless bum....there are so many things that a person can do, if that person is willing for put his/her mind to work, to earn an income...& in the mean time...put in applications, calling up friends etc..tapping into network of friends, ex clients etc... but in the meantime, take on jobs to get pay, to pay bills to eat...
Never mind about the degree, the diploma...just take on any jobs, why get depressed? if not join : www. pap.org.sg they love graduates...
There was a time, some long while back, in between careers, before I got fed up & decided to work for myself, I lowered my expectations, to that level I could almost ' smell the ground'. That period, was my greatest learning experience, I took on work, except the fast foods one, from companies like Tricon, Dairy Farms etc.. they just don't want me, for various reasons ( now they are hiring for those reasons) not that I am disabled or....but they say I am over qualified, over experienced. I was willing to put in long hours for pitiful per hr without benefits jobs. I managed to worked in various jobs competing with Foreigners who are on dependent pass, have to fight, hand & nail for $8 - $16 hr jobs, that include overtime , week ends & holidays. I have even worked for a Town Council as a relief clerk for $600 GROSS before CPF. ( I worked 2 weeks, the cost going to work, was higher than the pay).
Ahh!, I had even walked in to a department store, who was advertising for a Santa Claus for Christmas....what I am saying is, the undergrads must be somewhat useless bum....there are so many things that a person can do, if that person is willing for put his/her mind to work, to earn an income...& in the mean time...put in applications, calling up friends etc..tapping into network of friends, ex clients etc... but in the meantime, take on jobs to get pay, to pay bills to eat...
Never mind about the degree, the diploma...just take on any jobs, why get depressed? if not join : www. pap.org.sg they love graduates...