Monday, January 29, 2007
Apprehension
A long long time ago, the government in my very tiny island home of Singapore sent out invitations to foreign talents around the world to sail across the 7 seas or fly across the friendly skies to this small island to work and hopefully settle down. Suddenly the already existent people from many countries like China, Philipines, Thailand, UK, Australia, US, Africa, India, Indonesia, Middle Earth started to be noticed by curious locals called Singaporeans. They started to take spaces in our MRTs, shopping centres and kopitiams sipping our teh tariks and our kopi O and eating our laksa and pratas. Apprehension filled the air when the consciousness take over. Who are these people? Will they take our jobs? Do they even know that roti John is a dish and not an English man who likes to eat roti (bread)?
A long long time later, apprehension persists. Competition filled the air. The once peaceful locals are suddenly too expensive, too old, too lazy or too incapable to be hired. Hire someone from the certain countries and they could be cheaper and are willing to work 24 hours a day. If you want credibility,
hire someone from some other countries who are more expensive, tend to work lesser and most probably will get all the credit even though their ideas are yours in the first place and they don't really know what in the samhill is happening.
3 months ago, an email floated by my computer in the serenity of my proud and untidy cubicle. A client of ours is looking for 2 Engineers to deploy in Australia (herein referred to as Oz for ease of typing) from my company to support their project. I laughed the deployment off and briefly mentioned it to my CO (refers to someone to celebrate Valentine's day with. Sometimes known as "Commanding One" due to her power to command) . My CO advised me to take up the assignment as this is a good opportunity.
Apprehension.
A long long time later, apprehension persists. Competition filled the air. The once peaceful locals are suddenly too expensive, too old, too lazy or too incapable to be hired. Hire someone from the certain countries and they could be cheaper and are willing to work 24 hours a day. If you want credibility,
hire someone from some other countries who are more expensive, tend to work lesser and most probably will get all the credit even though their ideas are yours in the first place and they don't really know what in the samhill is happening.
3 months ago, an email floated by my computer in the serenity of my proud and untidy cubicle. A client of ours is looking for 2 Engineers to deploy in Australia (herein referred to as Oz for ease of typing) from my company to support their project. I laughed the deployment off and briefly mentioned it to my CO (refers to someone to celebrate Valentine's day with. Sometimes known as "Commanding One" due to her power to command) . My CO advised me to take up the assignment as this is a good opportunity.
Apprehension.
