Saturday, August 15, 2009
♥<3 the one where my ears nearly bleed.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!If you guys have been on board the MRT,
you might have heard the ANNOYING Phua Chua Kang theme song blasting from the LCD display on every MRT station in Singapore .
Other countries put a beautiful lady with biiiiiig boobs in a bikini or the most good looking man in their country on their advertisements and we put Rosie Phua and her ridiculous fashion-gone-horribly-wrong sense of style on our advertisements!
Nonsense!I really want to know what the SMRT people were thinking when they made the decision to have the Phua Chu Kang advert in all of the MRT stations...
and to think that it is as part of a campaign by
Singapore Kindness Movement and the public transport authorities??
Wth were they even thinking, man. Really.
I hope they put it down soon because I don't think it shows the good side of Singapore.
The character does not even represent Singapore.
The concern that they trying to actually emphasized on is actually narrowed down.
Bad dress sense, horrible grasp of the English language, poor etiquette.
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I believe that Singapore is more or less a gracious community.
We are not perfect but we ARE kind and polite and courteous.
tsktsktsk.
Our MM Lee mentioned that we have 2 challenges ahead:
(taken from http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20090813/tap-697-mm-lee-outlines-challenges-singa-231650b.html)
1) Is integrating new citizens and permanent residents (PRs) with the local population. The speed of this process depends on the openness of Singaporeans who are born and raised here, and the willingness of new citizens to adapt and be part of the Singapore society.
Mr Lee, however, assured Singaporeans that the government is conscious of protecting the interests of citizens. In fact, there is a clear distinction between citizens and PRs in terms of HDB housing, hospital charges, education fees and the Resilience Package.
On the other hand, he added that Singapore cannot make the immigration process so onerous that no one comes. For example, it cannot insist that PRs or new citizens be fluent in English when even some existing citizens are not.
2) Is to encouraging Chinese Singaporeans to speak more Mandarin and to take up scholarships to study in China’s top universities.
MM Lee said
Singapore cannot insist that PRs or new citizens be fluent in English when even some existing citizens are not. But his 2nd challenge was to encourage Chinese Singaporeans to speak more Mandarin and to take up scholarships to study in China’s top universities. Why not instead of encouraging them to speak more Mandarin, ENCOURAGE THEM TO SPEAK FLUENT ENGLISH INSTEAD OF 'SINGLISH'?
I think that the PRs or new citizens should not need to be
fluent in English but they should
at least have a BASIC command of English to be in Singapore.Example 1 - My indian colleague was asking a bus driver on where she should alight and the wonderful bus driver replied in Mandarin.
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Example 2 - I wanted my egg to be cooked thoroughly so I asked the cook and she couldn't understand me at all because she has no BASIC command in English.
Example 3 - "How can I address you?" "oh. my address ah! Blk 54632 efwerhygAfrhyh...."
sigh.
Maybe I should be the one upgrading myself and learn how to speak the Mandarin language instead of whining about this issue...
Maybe the government should subsidize Mandarin courses for Malay and Indian locals so that we won't be at a loss when more new citizens and PR live in Singapore...
