Thursday, November 6, 2014

Expensive English Tuition

Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen's explanation for spending $25,900 on a language challenged People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer makes you wonder if he was dropped on his head when he was a child. Or born stupid. Answering a question from Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP), he said the personalised, one-on-one, 360-hour course, was needed to get the officer to the level of proficiency conducted by a qualified English instructor.

The PLA is a big army, why did they have to select one that can't understand basic English? What's so special about this officer who can't find the way to the men's room without subtitles? Is he a PRC version of a White Horse, the type that makes general in 10 years, 7 years of which was spent in classrooms, scion of some powerful political family, destined to be the El Supremo of the whole damn country? That's $25,900 for English tuition, on top of free board and lodging, and probably several more thousands to acquire parade ground language proficiency in Malay. Oh, we forgot, this type won't be addressed in mono-syllabic expletives by some drill sergeant, or pass a basic marksmanship course. They'll probably assign a Pinoy domestic to carry his pencil box.

This waste of public funds reminds one of the hundreds of of "scholars" from PRC now learning English in Hwa Chung and the like preparatory courses before they proceed to 4 years of university and another 6 years of guaranteed employment. That's 11 years on taxpayers' money - another reason why they are holding on to our CPF? The outrage here is that our own teens can be denied a place in the same local universities if they fail to get a good grade for the General Paper. And those who do pass, will have to compete for jobs from these favoured foreigners.

With his pro-alien sentimentality, Ng should really be Foreign Minister. That way Singaporeans may not have to sent to harm's way in Syria or Iraq. When he expanded, “When our SAF officers go to other countries, they do the same in terms of spending some months to gain language proficiency,” he was alluding to the sweetener in language training courses. So that our men will understand what's happening to them when captured and interrogated by some foreign speaking jihadist.

17 comments:

  1. The SAF comprises mainly Singaporean Chinese and there is no one in it sufficiently proficient to give China Chinese Language Lesson?
    Orang Cheena buka Cheena as I had often being told is not a joke after all.

    patriot

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    1. Most chinks here speak singles and have already been castrated. That also explains the low birth rate.

      Many chinks have told me personally that the worst chink is a Singaporean chink as he is a coward with no values, courage or moral compass.

      This is why 50% local chinks married Vietnamese mail order brides in 2013 as local girls would rather die single than marry a local ah beng loser.

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  2. As usual, they will not reveal their true intentions. Ng, by the way, used to sing Negara-ku. Going by LKY' explanation on why Malays are not in senior positions in the SAF, Ng must be prepared to bomb Malaysia into the dark ages.

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    1. Ng is a true blue Singaporean. Irene Ng sang Negara Ku. All of us sang Negara Ku during 1963-1965.

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  3. Please enlighten me. What is the purpose of having a PLA soldier in the soil of our SAF turf? Why is this person so special that he is getting a training in English here? Thought we have all the hokkien peng and singlish speaking culture in army, so why bother $25k british english course then? Soldiers in overseas assignment should learn in case they care captured by jihadist..but what would a PLA officer on a harmless assignment here be captured for what?!

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  4. More and more people are questioning now why our PAP Minister says a degree is not important in Singapore but yet spent millions of our public funds offering university scholarships for oversea students ?

    Why say one thing to locals but do the opposite for foreigners ? Is it time for our PAP Ministers to come clean why they are they in such a strange manner ?

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  5. Truly privilege11/06/2014 12:09 PM

    Not only did we roll out red carpet treatments for them in schools and workplace, we also give them white-horse reception in the army. I am surprised how come the recent volunteerings from PRs are so low at 200+ count when we have admitted more than what - 2 million by now? Shouldn't there be more takers then?

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  6. The $25,900 tuition is likely only the tip of the iceberg. What other special VIP treatments are showered upon these PLA soldiers?

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  7. No expense too high when it's not your money. Pity the poor tax, tariff, levy, payment for injured feelings and sundry compulsory fines and fees payers.

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  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Eutci7ack

    The problem with our society, is that not enough people understand Power Compounds, and how they are being acted upon. They have no levers whatsoever as this govt under PAP has slowly and quietly eroding the civic rights in EVERY aspects and areas that make them a lame sitting duck. It will take a HK style revolution to re-calibrate the powers that is today.

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    1. Once upon a time in Australia, that nation's wealth came from the sheep's back. Today in Sin City the elite's wealth is also obtained by fleecing - but not from any sheep at all.

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    2. Of course they are from sheep - the sheeple with pink ICs.

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  9. Why would the globe’s largest or 2nd largest economy with the 3rd most powerful military on this planet, needs $25,900 from a tiny island state ranked only 35 in the world’s GDP (nominal) and a military strength ranked 44 out of 106 others?

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    1. Why not, if the island state is a partner willing to bend backwards and prostitute itself.

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  10. The next question to ask is who is the tutor. Surely he/she has to be a English language graduate right? Else the fee should not be that high

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  11. http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/11/08/mindef-found-doing-business-with-a-1-firm/

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  12. Who is the tutor for the PLO officer's english lessons? It is a $1 company owned by some one who does not sound like a singaporean. I wonder whether he can speak english at all!

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