Citizens deficit? or what?

Today’s Yahoo online has mentioned that Singaporean is not producing enough babies that justifies the main cause of the lack of manpower of the republic. Singaporean has around 5 millions including 1 million foreign workers.

For many years the manpower supply has been outsourced from north Johor, Malaysia which most of them were employed in an industrial sectors. In addition, most of raw materials were brought and supplied from Malaysia and the currency exchange, which Singapore is relatively better and the international seaport, are the republic’s concrete factors as a magnet that attracts foreign workers.

Yahoo online said that “Ministers and community leaders said allaying the fears of Singaporeans about foreign talent and bringing in new citizens is not something that can happen overnight. It is a long—term initiative and work-in-progress. In the final analysis, they said what is important is to assure Singaporeans that the immigration policy is for the benefit of the people, with Singaporeans always coming first.”

In contrast, Dr. Michael D. Barr who is an Australian historian specialising in the modern political history of Singapore and Malaysia quotes that “Lee Kuan Yew used his 1989 National Day Rally address to defend the Government's programme of encouraging Chinese immigration from Hong Kong on the basis that the birth rate of Singapore's Chinese is lower than that of the Indians and Malays. Lee also took the opportunity to assure Malays that they need not fear Hong Kong immigrants taking their jobs because the immigrants will all be high income earners.

The question is, what is the basis of Singaporean’s fear? fear of foreign talent or fear of racial imbalance?. But if Singaporean always comes first, why import Hong Kong immigrants?

Facebook : Internet Social Networking

I believe that some of you has your own Internet’s social networking to keep in touch with old and new friends. Amid all of it, to opt Facebook is the most popular and being used widely all over the world by individuals, companies and etc.
Individual that keen to publish their up-to-date story, what they eat, where they go, preference, emotions and etc. being updated and can be reached by PC, laptop, mobile phone by their cliques.

It was created by Mark Zuckerberg who creates Facebook and turns himself into billionaire, which Facebook makes most of its money from advertising.
Microsoft has taken 1.6% or $240 million Facebook’s stake from an online bidding which Facebook supports a software for Microsoft’s Xbox games.

Zuckerberg who is a 24-year old Jewish boy, created Facebook limited user to Harvard’s students and then give wide-ranging access throughout public users. To expand the number of users, he has sold part of his stake in the company in exchange for server space. In addition, Facebook market value is estimated around $15 billion.

Before Facebook, in 2002, another social networking that used to be so famous called Friendster has 75 million users worldwide, while the current Facebook has 350 million active users worldwide.

In Malaysia, some companies including Government and Private sector has blocked the Facebook from their IT access to discourage employees from wasting time using the service instead of doing their work. The productivity at work is dismal because they spend most of the day reading it because of addicted to it.
Despite this, Malaysian’s cellular telecommunication service provider, Celcom, has offer Facebook link throughout mobile phone SMS with an affordable rate of RM1 for a week, which subscriber can indulge themselves with a pouring SMS into their inbox.

Here are some surefire signs that you are addicted*:

1. You are late for meetings because you are on Facebook.


2. You think about it when you are offline.


3. Your friends and family comment on your excessive internet use.


4. You check your accounts from your Blackberry.


5. You get stressed when a Facebook “friend” doesn’t add you.
   * based on http://www.thedailymind.com/productivity/facebook-syndrome-8-ways-to-beat-your-facebook-addiction/

Ignorance is no defence

You’re waiting patiently in the line for security at the airport when an official suddenly pulls you from the queue. With your heart pounding, you’re led away. Confused, your mind speeds through the scenarios – entering Australia with a half-eaten sandwich, the USA with a imitation music CD ? On the surface, they all seem like acceptable activities, but all these could result in a hefty fine or, at worse, a prison sentence.

Step By Step

The Guru has urged me to write and write until I have finally decided to create this blog and named it “new kid on the blogQ”.
Reason being of the extra suffix “Q” is to have similar pronunciation to “Blog” as it is no longer available in this blogspot.com.
May be I’m the last person to have this title as newcomer on the blogq!
Step By Step…..Hope the steps are not too steep.......