You know all those issues that were the hot topics during the General Election Sg 2011 ?
Stuff like rising food price?
Unaffordable health care ...
Flooding problem ...
ya .. and all those ...
Guess what ...
I don't care !
Really ...
Firstly, my logic is that if one fine day, 1 plate of chicken rice cost $25, I'll stop tutoring and start selling chicken rice instead !
If not, then I bo bian must go jungle to kill my own chicken lo.
Secondly, if health-care really cost so much here then I'll start my MLM business selling legal healthcare product lo. Everyday eat vitamin A, B, C, D, E and F. Like that also can earn money.
Thirdly, if Orchard Road tio flood again, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THEIR PRODUCT PRICES WILL DROP IN THEIR "CLEARANCE SALE" !?!?!?
Have your seen Flash run before ?
Yup. He got his inspiration when he saw me sprinting to Vivocity during the Great Singapore Sale.
Anyway, all nonsense aside.
The real reason why I didn't give much consideration to such matters... yet ... is simply because I've never had the experience of encountering such problems before.
Look, food price wise. From day 1 when I was pushed through my mum's womb, I was duly fed from day to night.
Until now, even when I'm financially independent, the food prices outside still doesn't daunt me that much.
I'm not those crazy retards who spent a million bucks on good food. I'm very easily contented. Just get me to any hawker center and you'll see me rushing off to the "choose-choose" stall. Cheap, nice and colorful.
Health care wise, I'm still blessed with good health and I've only ever run into situations where I have to pay 20 bucks for 1 bloody measly MC when i wanna escape from some classes or tests. So, even if my grievances tends towards health care costs, I can't exactly go to an MP and demand for cheaper MC. I think that will be very stupid.
Flood-wise, read above. The PURE JOY I'll feel during the post-flood sale fills my soul with so much positivism that I can't really put them down in words.
But do take note that I'm not saying that I'll never ever feel the hardship of paying my food and heath care prices through my nose one day in the future.
I know I will.
I'm just saying that right now, those stuff are not the top of my priority lists. If ever I'm given the chance to vote, then I'll be truly interested in the 'hot topics' that inundate all the facebook posts and during the rallies.
Once again, I'm not putting those hot topics down. I'm just saying that at this point of my life, there are other much pressing concerns.
I'll explain to you what issues I'm truly interested in.
Firstly, you know all those issues about foreign talents and workers coming in ?
Originally, I didn't give 2 hoots about it at all.
I'm mean I'm all for Singapore's culture diversity !
Come on right in all you people of different tongues !
Let me hear you speak your own languages !
Now I can learn to scold my friends in foreign languages and tell them that they look like princess or princes while I chuckle in my own dark corner !
Hyeah !
I'm cool about it.
I meant i was cool about it.
I was cool about it ...
UNTIL I REALIZED SOMETHING...
I REALIZED THAT THEY ARE TAKING UP ALL MY POTENTIAL TUITION JOBS !
My anger makes Hulk look like this instead compared to me:
Yes ! That's how infuriated i am !
I remembered last time when i was searching through all the online tuition forums for more tuition lobangs, it's such a breeze.
I even had the liberty to choose the location, the rate, the timing, the length of tuition, the gender, their pet's food, their mum's hairstyle, their dad's occupation ....
NOW ALL I CAN CHOOSE IS WHETHER I'M WILLING TO ACCEPT TEACHING IN WOODLANDS OR JURONG WEST ! IF DON'T WANT, NVM GOT OTHER TUTORS !
You know why ?
Because out-of-the-blue, thousands of highly educated foreigners have been flooding into our country.
Out of such thousands, hundreds of them flooded into our tuition forum.
The hundreds of foreigners who came in have 1 common goal.
WHICH IS TO CHIONG FOR ALL THE TUITION LOBANGS !!
"2 hours 7 dollars for Sec 4 student ? Can no problem !"
"Teach at Jurong even if i live in Pasir Ris ? Can no problem !"
"Teach piano grade 99 for 10 buck/hr ? Sure It'll be my pleasure !"
"Teach juggling ? Definitely, I learnt that in my own country !"
What the feces !!!!
The situation has gotten so out of hand that local tutors have to step up and work doubly or even triply hard !
Poor little young local talented tutor like me, living in Tpy, have to offer to teach at Jurong East ! Yes. I'm so desperate that I've got to travel half an island away to teach.
Travelling takes up 1 hr minimal.
And insult to injury, during the bus journey itself, I have to, yes, squeeze with other non-local people.
I must once again add that, I'm fine with foreigners coming into Singapore. I'm totally cool.
I'll even wave to you if I know you personally.
In fact, some of my closest friends are foreigners.
Yeah !
That's how cool I am with foreigners.
But you know what's not cool ?
It's when you come in and screw up the entire market for private tutors !
When you come and offer to do the same thing for half the freaking price.
When you come and offer to teach Sec 4 at 15 bucks per hour, that's when I become the hulk incarnate.
So please. Don't take it too personal.
Go and revise your tutor rate.
Add 5 bucks more to your own expected rates. It's fine. Don't worry.
You will still be in hot demand.
Don't hurry.
Give us some chance.
Show some mercy.
We'll still be your friends.
We promise.
Pinky promise ?
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