Budget carrier Scoot's "Escape Plan: Fly to Perth Cheap Cheap, Poor or not!" promotional offer was quickly snapped up, faster than bak kwa sales at Chinatown, even though tar and feathers were not permitted as carry-on luggage.
The accompanying copy said it all: ""Hmm... we heard that Perth has become the destination of choice for an escape. So we decided to work overtime to bring you The great A.C Perth Escape Sale! (A.C for Amazingly Cheap of course.)"
200,000 Singaporeans were living overseas in 2012 – an increase of 27% from 2003. Of these 50,000 were staying in Australia. In 2013, one part-time banquet server with a Diploma in Tourism & Hospitality Management made plans to leave Singapore for greener pastures in Australia, and explained why:
"The many years of army reservist training and obligations staring down the barrel and the stiff competition (through the foreign talent programme) from skilled migrants in jobs and other areas, such as housing – are two factors. The fact that foreigners do not have National Service and reservist obligations but I do, makes me feel like a second-class citizen."
The speaker is no disgruntled wuss, he was honoured to be chosen as a torchbearer at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games. Push factor was the motivator:
"The Singapore government has already announced their “White Paper” at the beginning of this year. This means that they intend to increase the current population of 5.3 million people to 6.9 million by the year 2030. Singapore is such a very small country and the land is definitely insufficient to accommodate 6.9 million people! When 2030 comes, it will definitely be too crowded living here!"
Hmm... somebody may have the last laugh after all.
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The delusory retards that rule this red dot think they have a boundless land mass equal to their humongous ambition.
ReplyDeleteAt least one TLC is not managed by retards, looks like budget airline competition is doing more good than harm to companies. Its a real pity the Oxbridge scholar-retards and their senile mentors cannot convince themselves of the benefits of a true free market system. No need for wet-behind-ears ministers of states going around preaching better-cheaper-fasterer tooth picks. If you can beat the competition, that will improve productivity and profits. No need for molly-coddled state-guaranteed profits monopolies like SMRT, ST etc
DeleteMm mm. ... I wonder how a scholar from Oxbridge can be a retard at the same time? Maybe they are only found here in this part of the world? Lol!
DeleteSo perth has become the new dumping place for ex-singapore foreign trashes?
ReplyDeleteWell, this is a win-win situation. The average IQ for both Singapore and Perth will improve dramatically.
DeleteBring our Singaporean brothers & sisters home.
ReplyDeleteVote out the Pro Alien Party in GE 2016.
Otherwise, the next Singaporean quitter could be your children.
The first batch of emigrants to Perth were civil servants collecting their retirement packages during Goh Chok Tong's time - they must have been the first to see the writing on the wall. Goh was so incensed, he labelled them "quitters". The irony was that his own daughter quitted for the UK, and now he has to fly across continents to see his grand children. How's that for a vote of confidence by your own flesh and blood?
ReplyDeleteBy now, many offsprings of the Ruling Class would have bases in many countries. Even if they can live here with no threat to their wellbeings, they will just feel better to enjoy their livings of plenty elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteDid I read here in My Singapore News that Someone has bought a $50 million dollar property in France?
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Stephanie Koh has said she is not proud to be a Singaporean. I think when citizenship is easily given out to foreigners and this little red dot is so crowded now like a third world country, more locals will not be proud to be Singaporeans.
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