Prince George’s Salad

Ingredients :

3 Pieces of Mini Romaine Leaves

1 Tablespoon of Thousand Island Dressings

1/2 Tablespoon of Mayonnaise (Optional)

1 Piece of Pear

1 Egg

Parmesan Cheese (Optional)

Water

Direction :

Boil the water along with the egg for 8 minutes. While you are waiting for the egg you can start to peel off the Pear’s skin and cut into dice-sized slices. Wash the Mini Romaine leaves, dry it and then chops it based on your preferences. Mix together the leaves and pear into your bowl and add your Thousand Island dressing (add also the Mayonnaise if you like it). Stir all together patiently until all the components firmly mixed each other.

By the time you have finished with the vegetables, your egg will be done and can be taken from your pan. Put your egg into normal water for 3 minutes and you can peel the egg’s skin off when you can handle the heat. Cut the eggs into 6 slices and put it on the salad in your bowl. Add Parmesan cheese if you like. Your salad is ready. Bon Appetite!

John Legend-P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)

Let's go to the park
I wanna kiss you underneath the stars
Maybe we'll go too far
We just don't care,
We just don't care,
We just don't care.

You know I love you when you're loving me
Sometimes it's better when it's publicly
I'm not ashamed, I don't care who sees
Us hugging & kissing our love exhibition all

We'll rendezvous out on the fire escape
I'd like to set off an alarm today
The love emergency don't make me wait
Just follow I'll lead you, I urgently need you

Let's go to the park
I wanna kiss you underneath the stars
Maybe we'll go too far
We just don't care
We just don't care
We just don't care

Let's make love,
Let's go somewhere they might discover us
Let's get lost in lust
We just don't care,
We just don't care,
We just don't care.

I see you closing down the restaurant
Let's sneak and do it when your boss is gone
Everybody's leaving we'll have some fun
Or maybe it's wrong but you're turning me on.

Ooh, we'll take a visit to your Mama's house
Creep to the bedroom while your Mama's out
Maybe she'll hear it when we scream and shout
And we'll keep it rocking until she comes knocking

Let's go to the park
I wanna kiss you underneath the stars
Maybe we'll go too far
We just don't care,
We just don't care,
We just don't care..

Let's make love,
Let's go somewhere they might discover us.
Let's get lost in lust
We just don't care,
We just don't care,
We just don't care.

If we keep up on this fooling around
We'll be the talk of the town
I'll tell the world I'm in love any time
Let's open up the blinds 'cause we really don't mind

Ooh I don't care about the propriety
Let's break the rules and ignore society
Maybe our neighbors like to spy, it's true
So what if they watch when we do what we do

Oh, let's go to the park
I wanna kiss you underneath the stars
Maybe we'll go too far
We just don't care,
We just don't care,
We just don't care...

Let's make love, let's go somewhere they might discover us...

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Enough for the rendezvous..I've got it already. Fairy of Princess of the Mountain knows me better than anyone else..hahaha...

Oh la la...another day has gone..

04.00 am

In Tito's room, still working on my paper and entertain myself with Southpark.

08.00 am

Going back to PGP and having my breakfast.

10.00 am

Going to NUS Field court for football match with Pakistan people.

03.00 pm

Going to Orchard and meet my whole grandparents. I guess it's going to be another endless conversation with my grandfather.

09.00 pm

Not going back to NUS, i'll sleep in the apartement with the others.

11.47 pm

Still wake up and make fun of my auntie.

Foreign Labour Issue in Singapore

Friday, March 23, 2007

" Is our Government's fervent bid to attract and retain foreign talent at the expense of quality?"

A Singaporean post that question in a letter that was printed in local newspaper. The letter was a response of a Government policy that seems allowing more foreign "medium-skilled workers" to come and work in Singapore. He worried that if more the so-called medium-skilled workers coming to Singapore and work here, the chances of a domestic labour to be employed are getting less. I feel sorry for his fear or anger, so i decide to calm him down by giving some brief overview of Singapore Labour policy, especially regarding the foreign workers issue.

For a foreign people who want to work in Singapore, they must be granted a "pass". This pass entitled them to work in Singapore in a certain period of time. This pass is issued by Singapore Government on behalf the request of the respective employer. So, if a company in Singapore wants to hire a bright-cute-funny-intelligent Indonesian fresh graduated worker, they have to request a Pass for their respective employee. This medium-skilled workers falls into S Pass holders category in Singapore's Foreign Workers Classifications. Quoted from Singapore Ministry of Manpower official websites, here is some general informations about S-Pass holders:


"The S Pass is for foreigners who earn a monthly basic salary of at least $1,800. S Pass applicants will be assessed on a points system, taking into account multiple criteria including salary, education qualifications, skills, job type and work experience.", and the criteria are:

1. Salary - refers to a minimum basic salary of $1,800.

2. Qualification - generally refer to degree or diploma level educational qualifications. Technical qualifications can be considered and are, very broadly, courses that train the applicant to be a qualified technician or specialist in their chosen field. This should be obtained after at least 1 year of full-time study.

3. Job type - generally refers to professional, specialist or technician level jobs; and

4. Years of Work Experience - generally refers to the number of relevant years of work experience that the applicant has for in the job being applied for.

Work Permit holders who wish to apply for an S Pass must ensure that they meet the above requirement. In addition, the S Pass is given by Singapore government to respective employer by using a quota. A maximum amount of S Pass can be given to an employer is 10 % of total employees working in their company.

So, based on official policy stated on an official website, we can conclude that Singaporeans "medium-skilled" workers are the remaining 90 % of the total workers in a respective company. It is 9 times higher than the foreign workers. If it is the reality then what is the problem? Those Singaporean concerns about the seemingly endless influx of foreign medium-skilled workers into Singapore labour market and hence tighten the competition, regardless the imposition of 10% quota of S-Pass holders. Then one should ask, what cause that influx of this kind of labour into Singapore labour market?

Say hello to wage differences.

Based on UNCTAD database on unit labour cost and manufacturing in 1998, a monthly wage of Singapore worker is 4.5 times higher than in Malaysia, 5.7 times higher than in Philippines and 10.6 times higher than Indonesia. Recent data from Singapore Ministry on Manpower also reveals that during the year 2000 to 2005, medium house-hold class income has increased with a rate of 1.2 % - 2.4 % annually and this increase is likely to widen the disparity of income in Southeast Asia nations because Singapore is the only country with the least effect of Asian financial crisis back in 1998, while many others countries in Southeast Asia have not recovered yet from its fall.

Singapore government is a pool of very talented person. They must have already known this fact, thus they implement a strict labour market regulations in order to manage its labour market. They know that such a wide wage gap between Singapore and its neighbour countries is not likely to be closer in the following year and the only way to manage the influx of labour to Singapore is by imposing a strict labour restrictions, such as a quota for S-Pass holders and many others regulations. But even it is Singapore government, they can have a leakage in its policy also. He reported that not all companies are following the rules in restricting labour market, either they try to hire foreign labour more than 10 %, or they accept foreign labour market with a monthly wage below S$1,800 and drives down local wages as well. Well, if that is the problem then the solution does not lies in economics anymore, even if economics can explain what is the reason behind this fact. Economist, you are out of the game.

Law authority, you can play your cad right now.

New Looks New Spirits

I decorate this blog in searching for a simple yet elegant blogs.

Just enjoy this new looks

I Smell Something Wrong

Newly-appointed CEO of Indonesian BULOG State Owned Enterprise, Mustafa Abubakar, stated that he will import rice as less as he could do to ensure rice avalibility in Indonesia. He gave reason that, naturally, rice importing activities is needed when Indonesia farmer can't meet up with rice demand from Indonesian people (in layman terms, there is not enough rice in Indonesia) so any activities to boost the rice production will be worth-tried before importing rice from abroad.

Hmm..i smell something wrong here..

Osh!!!

Everything seems changing..
Everybody seems running..and

I'm still dreaming.