Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Let's have Mi Rebus Haji Watusi for Lunch!

Rail travel has really come a long way for both sides of the Malaysia-Singapore divide. 
From Low Speed Senandung Malam to High Speed (K)night Rider (?), the modest locomotive has evolved by leaps and bounds to cut travelling time from a whole day (or night) to a mere 90 minutes.
Imagine spending Saturdays or Sundays having Mi Rebus Haji Watusi or Nasi Sambal Goreng at Hajjah Maimunah for lunch, catching up with long lost relatives all over the island in the afternoon, and heading home for KL in the evening.
A Popular Mi Rebus Joint
Restoran Hajjah Maimunah on Joo Chiat Road
Or having Ampang Yong Tau Foo for lunch and shopping at Pavillion after that for the Singaporeans. 
Famed Ampang Yong Tau Foo
On the downside though, hope this does not open the gates for the flooding of FTs from Singapore into Malaysia!   
Courtesy of transitioning.org
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PMs agree on high speed rail linking KL, Singapore

Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr Lee Hsien Loong (right), meets Malaysia's Prime Minister, Mr Najib Razak, in Singapore for the Singapore-Malaysia Leader's Retreat at the Shangri-La Hotel on Feb 19, 2013. Singapore and Malaysia have agreed to build a high speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, a move that will "dramatically improve" the connectivity between the two countries. -- ST PHOTO: NEO XIAOBIN
Singapore and Malaysia have agreed to build a high speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore by 2020, in a move that both heads of government called a "game-changer".
Announcing the breakthrough agreement at a press conference today following bilateral talks, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the rail link would create a 90 minute door to door journey for commuters, and that it will "change the way we do business, the way we look at each other and interact."
He pointed to the Eurostar link between Paris and London, which transformed "two European cities into one virtual urban community" as a model for the KL-SG link.
Malaysian PM Najib Razak said that the project will be a private-public one, with the link being built by private contractors with government infrastructural support. He declined to estimate how much the project will cost.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/pms-agree-high-speed-rail-link-between-kuala-lumpur-and-singapore-2013

Monday, February 18, 2013

Calling ALL Bawanis!


This is definitely news for Malaysians who feel that FREE education is their birth right. Scholarship packages offered by the Singapore MOE at Sec 1, Sec 3 and Pre-U Levels. Those who score well for their A-Level exams may continue their studies on scholarships at premier universities and colleges in the island republic.
NO Bond, NO NS (National Service), NO Reservist.
The question is why is the Sg government wooing and privileging ASEAN students at the expense of their own citizens who have to compete for limited places and financial aids?
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  • Albert Ching Keng Kiang No bond, No NS, No reservist. Free education in poly or u. Steal away jobs. Get pr or citizenship. Bring over their families. Pass remarks such as Singapore is stupid. Push up hdb prices. Discriminate poor Singaporean in workplace after build up their influence......the list goes on. All these i see and experience myself. Please wake up! Fellow Singaporeans.
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  • Han Nakata Fully agree with you Albert......well said!
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  • Tan Lien Heng Adrian Towards own citizens so calculative.... Every cents accounted for and in detailed ... So generous towards foreigners ... We are made to foot their bills ... Laughing stock... No bond ... .. 2016 ... Is the mandate
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  • Ignatius Anselm Chua please remember these when GE 2016 come. dun come talk so much now den all humji in 2016
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  • Hafyz Capulet Like seriously wtf..
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  • Zhi Wei give us NS boys more pay!!! y u give out the money n pocket for your own bonus. Some of us feel like doing full time job as regulars but only given nuts. Serving the nation no need jia peng ah?
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  • Vivian Tan piece of cow dung
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  • Tan Lien Heng Adrian All the education fees increases to sponsor foreigner to study without bond... When Locals lamented ... The garmen... Said is due to wage and admin cost..... Don't ever talk cock .. Again in 2016
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  • Kelvin Treon Come.screw us
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  • Emeritus Joshua Tay Really fucked up policy!!! Boycott the party!!!
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  • Yong Wei There goes our place and the reason for our $400 recruit pay
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  • Gates Nazri This is just insane....what about us???
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  • June Lim Angry.
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  • Lynn Kristine Kueh Citizens kept in the dark! A lot are still in the dark. Why is only Singapore so generous. And a certain MP call Vikram in parliament can ask chen shao mao where to find the money to invest in singaporeans? In this case I rather prefer a welfare state for our own citizens rather than giving as free gifts away.
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  • Annie Quah Really unfair!! Our locals dun get foc scholarships. All come with bonds attach. How come other countries like C, Mym... get foc full scholarships & even able to get local citizenship after completed so long... my co ft is one of these benefit.
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  • Tan Lien Heng Adrian ASEAN means 5 countries.... Excluding Singapore ...Means many FT.... If They take 50 from each country then .....
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  • Cindy Ho Fucked up! Treating own ppl like shit
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  • Yema Tharma Raj Why am I not surprised when it was a tough competition to enter Poly even with good O grades during my time in the late 90s
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  • Josephine Koh This is what happens when higher education is hijacked and marketised by capitalists. Singapore wants to be an education hub and follows the paths taken by so many institutions of higher learning in US and UK. But the weirdest thing is that it doesn't make economic sense to pay for such students who can potentially settle in other parts of the world or go back home.
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  • Jasmine Chow Anyone know how many Asean scholarship MOE gives out every year?
  • Terence Soon Back during my secondary school days, I was in a class full of ASEAN scholars. All fully paid for by the govt. There were less than half of us in our class that were actual Singaporeans. There were 4 such classes in my level. These scholars were no dou...See More
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  • Eric Wong Why our own son and daughter need to pay school fees and lodging? Discrimination to their own citizen!
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  • Rashidah Othman In the polytechnic I studied, there were a lot of foreigners. And I've asked them why did they choose to study in singapore, and they said because of scholarship. MOE went to their countries and recruit students. When I join the working force, all of m...See More
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  • KahWai Wong To be frank, without ASEAN scholarships I don't think they
  • Bert Hu betrayal is the word. when the evil pee-a-pee regime have no qualms betraying Singaporeans, any thing can happen. i mean, everything bad will happen to you daft Singaporeans.
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  • Keith Lee You see it for yourselves. So many why,so little answers. You are no longer fit to lead us, please step down.
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  • Eric Wong Someone need to pass this to thr WP mp and fire question to our educational minister what is the purpose of sponsoring foreigners student instead of using the money to invest in our own true citizen? Worse, fee is increasing steadily for the past several years and paid by the parent own money!
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  • Sheeda Hosyerin Wah.. allowance so big! Nearly d same as my pay which I had for the past 6 years!!!!! Tsk tsk.. so mucg money to invest on others but not on their own ppl!!
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  • Sheeda Hosyerin Oops annual allowance but it's sad still a better option compare to what we getting here!
  • Siti Nuraishah Because its so god damn difficult to make it to our local U, most Singaporeans have to depend on private intitutions and take up a hefty loans frm banks... Eeerrgh! How can those Singaporeans compete with those foreigners with our NUS certs when securing a job??!!!
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  • Feroz Bessir Prostituting Singaporeans hardwork and contribution to foreigners ..... our children have immediately become 2nd class in respect of governmental assistance to foreign aliens....
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  • Uday Aries Oh my god...
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  • Lee Puay Chiang foreigners will apply, since many applications had already been approved in the past,good for them,who is the suffering one that has to foot this bills.
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  • Augy Chew WTF...
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  • Wong Fui Sun It's not only the uni, the secondary school are also having these kind of scholarship, the recruiter from some of the "best" school go to china and recruit those students, and Singaporean are being denied of a place in some of these schools, these students get full board education for free, we Singaporean have to pay for every thing.
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  • Lynn Mamon There's a saying in Malay.. 'Kera di hutan disusukan, anak di rumah kelaparan' which loosely translates; 'the monkeys in the jungle are fed but the children at home were left in hunger.' That is what the govt are doing to our local born and bred children.
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  • Wong Fui Sun +1, when they graduate, they are have a good job standby for them, Singaporean graduate have to fight hard with the low cost foriegner.
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  • Dolly Peh If memory is right, this MOE policy was implemented about 20 years ago,
  • Peter Loh Why NO bond! Throwing away tax payers money then tax us to death! So generous to outsiders but tight fisted to own people even struggling poor only folks! How much total has been given away foc all these years! What is the stupid rational for this FREE education when many of our own are struggling with ever rising costs of living!
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  • Clarence Chong Singaporean student have to compete among themselves for those places while the gov are giving scholarship like door gift....
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  • Lawrence Oei MOE has the cheek to use tax-payers' money to fund the education of foreign imports who publish porn and abuse the generosity of Singaporeans! Ng Eng Hen says that the government is listening to Singaporeans? But, I say lip service to look good for the press is BULL SHIT! As Tan Jee Say said, if the PAP government refuses to change its UNJUST policies, then it is time for us to vote for a regime change!
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  • Basirart Rahman it's really shocking..!
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  • Gowri Ganesan How come underprivileged Singaporeans don't get such benefits?
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  • Cheryl Ong I feel so betrayed. Why didn't the government treat the locals like us as good as the foreigners? The foreigners are only making use of this scholarship to study here for a good degree and they'll go back to their country. Therefore, I really doubt if ...See More
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  • Royston Soon I think MOE should clarify this scholarship. 
    1) Why can't Singaporean apply too? 
    2) Why no bond? 
    3) Who is funding this scholarship? 4) What success stories have we derived from this scholarship?
    And, I think this scholarship should be reviewed again in current climate.
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  • Rylee Husainni Many see no sense in investing on foreigners that may decide to stay someplace else after their education as they dont have a bond to serve..e answer is easy...90% of foreigners that e govt accepts n sponsor are chinese..be it malaysian chinese or prc....all this is so that they can maintain racial population percentage difference to 70% chinese and 30% others...right now the percentage of others are steadily on e rise n our lacal chinese are either not risking theor kids future by not having kids or by finding a better life overseas...they cant let e minorities increase n overthrow e current majority so they can remain in control...im sad to say that minorities have nver been treated fairly..even our MM openly speaks of his distrust and displeasure against the minority races...its obvious that he would rather waste millions to pollute this land of ours with aliens rather then sharing it equally with e local minorities....