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Hey ya'll people!!!

Haha... Did you guys miss me???? haha... Guess not...

Anyway HAPPY 2012!!!! Hopefully the world won't end just yet cause I haven't enjoyed life enough... haha... Can't believe I haven't updated this place for such a long time... Like seriously busy these days... AND SCHOOL IS STARTING TOMORROW!!!! WHY!!!! T.T

Oh wells... Back from Korea on the 20th haha... Was fun... Wow!!! Just realised that there's a new interface for blogger... LOL!!! Ok that was random... Anyway, back to the topic... So, made some kimchi, went skiing, saw it snowing in Jeju Island, and had steamboat and grill for lunch and dinner everyday.... haha... Well, it was fun, and a first experience of winter in my 22 years of life... wahahaha... Cool...

Been busy with work these days though... Sent my laptop for repair since 23/12 and haven't get it back yet... Seriously?!?!?? It's been 2 freaking weeks and I've been using my really lousy desktop these days and it's driving me crazy!!! RAR!!!! Anyway, called them and they told me it will be back coming Monday... What lousy service... Grrr....

Ok... So I saw this facebook post the other day... http://forums.vr-zone.com/chit-chatting/1901017-working-the-banglas-new-yearas-eve.html

The post was about this Chinese boy and his friend who went to work on New Year's eve with a group of Bangladeshi worker to shift road barricades and regulate traffic as it would be chaotic, and how people were looking at them and looking down at these workers...

I personally feel that this post is quite interesting, and gave it some thought... Firstly, I must say that it is indeed true that Singaporeans look down at these foreign workers... Children have long since been taught that if you don't study well, you will one day be a construction worker, or road sweeper, or rubbish collector and whatnot... These were not only taught by parents, but also in schools, and everywhere you go, you may be able to catch some one telling their kids these things...

So seriously what is so undesirable about these people... Maybe because they are smelly, or because they are of a different country, different culture or that they can't assimilate into the country or whatever reasons that there is... People often complain about these people, like their dormitories are too close to my house, or they are dangerous, or that they hold hands with each other, or they litter and make a rackus, etc etc...

But are they??? Are they so different from us?? Are they also not people who just want to make a living?? Are they not trying to make their loved ones lives better?? Are they not contributing to our society?? Are they not doing a decent job?? If not then why do we shun them so much... We often stereotype people... Just because we think that the jobs they do are for the uneducated and filthy and that they are smelly and whatever, we look down on them... These days it is a topic about Singapore being divided by elitism, where the people are divided into the elites and common people... But I think the classification should be elites, common people, and these foreign workers...

Often, you see people treating them as if they are filth and complain that too many of them are entering the country and stealing our jobs... But seriously, what jobs are they stealing from us... Construction jobs?? Road sweeping jobs?? Traffic directing jobs?? These jobs which no Singaporeans want to do cause it is for the "uneducated" and "uncouth"?? Come on people... It's time for a reality check.. They are not stealing our jobs... They are merely doing what we don't want to do... And what are we going to do without them... Will our flats build themselves?? Will our offices build themselves?? Would the rubbish you throw on the ground inconsiderately pick themselves up and go into the bins themselves?? Would the rubbish bins empty themselves?? NO!!!

So are they not doing something for us that we ourselves don't want to do?? They too are doing honourable jobs... They too deserve respect... Have you ever seen them working in the construction sites, climbing up and down, risking their lives to try to make our modern city what it has become... Instead of belittling these people, I think we should thank them instead... We often blame people of being elitist and feel that we are being looked down at... But are we also not looking down at these people at the same time thinking that we are more superior??

Just put ourselves in their shoes... How would we feel if we were discriminated against while risking our lives, working in a foreign country alone where we do not understand anything, just to make ends meet at home, and provide a better life for our families who are living in poverty... Then we are being treated like dirt... Or even worst, cheated of all our savings and stranded, having to live in overcrowded places that are unhygienic and being heavilyt in debt...

Therefore, I feel it's time we get down from our high horses and give these people the respect and thanks that they deserve...

Well, on this note, I shall leave you to ponder about this... haha... So see you guys next time... Bye... :)