ATs and ABNNs. So many of them in Singapore. So many that I don't have to explain what the acronyms mean.
Morning trips to school on the trains are never so comfortable anymore. Faces among us on streets do not look so familiar anymore. The once ubiquitious Singlish do not sound so common anymore. Char Kway Tiaos do not taste so local anymore.
Here's a big WELCOME to all our ALL-SO-FAVOURITE ATs and ABNNs!
I don't hate them, I'm just hating how things are becoming. I hate their guts for coming to my Sunny Island in search for a living. I hate my country's leadermen even more, I hate them for allowing these foreign 'talents' to take up land space and fight with us locals for oxygen.
Singapore IS a part of China, don't you all know? The amount of ATs there are here makes me feel like a minority in my own homeland. I feel as though I'm on an exchange in some University of Ah Tiong in Boon Lay.
Singapore could be a part of India too, don't you know? From Changi Airport to Expo, from Tanah Merah to Simei, from Bedok, Eunos, Paya Lebar and Aljunied, Bugis station and beyond even to Chinese Garden, our MRTs are all filled with them carrying their luggages and their entire clans and villages migrated directly from slumdog millionaires.
No, I'm not being racist here. I'm a freaking Asian and a freaking Chinese myself. I'm proud of my heritage, my roots and my nationality. My NATIONALITY.
But this influx of ATs and ABNNs is becoming absurd. Leadermen say we need them cos' no one wants to take up jobs like being construction workers, cleaners and low-paying jobs. YAH RIGHT! We have so many houses to build is it? At the end of the day we're just building more houses for foreigners we call EXPATS anyway. And cleaners are still old aunties and uncles who are equally annoyed by the extra piles of mess made these newcomers who aren't quite sure that Singapore isn't China or India where they have the ground for dustbins and spittoons.
Stop giving them scholarships already, your local kids are finding it harder and harder to get into local universities as competition is so high. I don't understand how they can even pass English proficiency tests when they can't even hold a proper face-to-face conversation with us locals. Electronic dictionaries are their gods, not you, MOE.
What advantages are they bringing in when all they do is jumping off buildings with their innocent children when they find it hard to adapt to this lifestyle in Singapore? If it is THIS stressful to live in Singapore, I would have jumped down from the Swissotel over and over already.
Eh seriously la my leadermen, GE is coming and you guys are coming up with all sorts of ways to get our votes. Let me give you a sure win idea k, give voting rights to ATs and ABNNS lah, you sure win hands down cos there're SO MANY of them. You don't need a tsunami to drown Singapore. One spit from each of them will drown the Merlion too.
Sometime somewhere I heard that companies managing construction workers can no longer provide them with transportation *gasp in horror*. Notice how those lorries filled with ABNNs are now no longer in sight on our roads? Wow, now the roads feel clean and safe. Sure, at the jeopardy of cleaniness and safety on the trains, of course. Cutting down of transportation cost ah? Why are the construction workers taking the trains now instead? Aren't they supposed to be ferried around on buses or lorries to construction sites?! I don't understand. Nothing was said or addressed about this. I feel like an idiot having to wake up 3 hours earlier to go to school just because trains are sardine-packed every morning and I have to beat the peak and peak-pre-peak hours.
'Too close for comfort' is an understatement. I often smell the hair of the guy standing in front of me while feeling the chills of somebody breathing down my neck from behind.
Is it so expensive for SMRT to just get another train to ferry people in the morning? Waiting time of 4 minutes in the morning is just too long and the human crowd germinates and grows within the first minute of wait.
This is a vicious cycle. Why not you smarty-pants leadermen ferry those poor construction workers who have to squeeze in the trains with snorbish Singaporeans like me in your own cars? You'll feel how it feels to be us, fellow countrymen whose only means of transportation is the MRT.
Again, I have no personal grudges with the ATs and ABNNs, I am good friends with some of them too. But when things get out of control, something has to be done. And I'm pretty sure that either you, our leadermen, are too busy with GE to look into this, or just fooling yourselves that our population of 5 million people is really the result of your baby bonus strategies.
BLEH.
