It's the weekend that most keen golfers will be looking for. The 2009 Masters at Augusta starts tomorrow.Though not playing that funny game anymore, we are keen followers of Tiger. This guy always delivers and provides great entertainment. Just last week he managed to crawl from 5 down to win the Bay Hill tournament. So much was the excitement that many major TV broadcasters in the States changed their prime time schedule to beam the drama unfolding live on TV.
The reason may be that people are always living in a dream. Things seem to be rosy and people just dare not change it even though there is definitely something wrong somewhere. As a result people becomes indecisive and reluctant to challenge. These are just a couple of examples. There are many things going badly wrong when you look around closely. At the end, we all ended up facing the consequences.
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hi, you know what, I am at pains trying to recall who exactly you are..but I really like your blogsite. How I wished to be in Holland. it looks beautiful.
Don't worry. If you are still curious ask Mr BR. I was 1978 intake. A while ago I wrote a couple of entries regarding the hostel.
http://paulaland-paulaland.blogspot.com/2008/08/tanglin-hill-reminiscence.html
http://paulaland-paulaland.blogspot.com/2008/08/akbs-book-launching.html
Old schoolboy network reunion in cyberspace! Hehehhe ;)
I dare challenge our legal expert and "Dirty Harry" enforcer that rising unemployment problem in Brunei is a dire consequence of rampant 'under the table' deals in getting lowest priced bids for contracts (hence foreign lowest salaried workers are big MUSTS!) but depriving locals of employment opportunities, my 2cents worth. :)
Anonymous...I won't go that far. Foreign workers is a global phenomenon. When standard of living rise, locals understandably are reluctant to take the menial and low skill jobs. In Malaysia, there are a million or so foreigners doing jobs that the locals don't want to do. But their services are required to fuel the economy. In UK, over a million Polish workers descended to the islands to do what the Brits don't want to do - build roads, do the dirty works and so on. It's every where. In US, millions of Mexicans cross the border every year are also doing the same thing. So what you see in Brunei is nothing strange. But what is required though is to build an economy and industry that could create the right employment for the locals. So definitely not just a housing scheme or other labour intensive constructions. That is also my 2cents worth - actually it's now worth 1cent with the current recession! Thanks for commenting.
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