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by Ah Lau » Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:12 pm
Dear Ah Pah,
>
> I am feeling very sad.
>
> Today in school, Zhong Guoren -
> my classmate from China - beat me again, in a
> maths test. That boy is an unstoppable genius
> machine. Last week, he beat me in sports too.
>
> If he were not here, I would have come in first
> and gotten a gold. But because the Government says
> we must welcome foreign talents to increase our
> population and to improve our economy, I got a
> bronze instead. This sucks. At first, we laughed
> because their English was not very good. Their maths
> and science were good, and their Chinese
> was excellent(but who cares about Chinese language, right?).
> But then, their English got better and now, they are
> kicking our backsides in this subject too.
>
> I think we should get the Government to do something
> about this. Why didn't you and mummy have more babies?
> I wouldn't mind having a brother or a sister to play
> with. I am an only child, and because you and Daddy
> are not making enough babies, we have to get people
> from other countries, people who make it hard for
> me to be number one in my class.
> I think you are very selfish to just have me, .
> I don't like to lose. I am used to being first
> in my class. And my school was very small too, like
> Singapore, so it was easy to be first.
>
> Now my school is bigger, and I have to fight harder
> to be first. Why can't we just compete with ourselves,
> among Singaporeans only (okay, and maybe Permanent Residents)?
> Why can't they have a new category for all the tests and CCAs?
> We could have a Best Local Maths Student category and a
> Best Local Sportsman category, then at least, if I don't win
> Best Maths Student, I can be Best Local Maths Student and
> feel better about myself. Just like my school is ranked one
> of the Top 20 Value-added Secondary Schools with a Special
> Assessment Award for Knitting CCA, I also want to be a top
> student. Maybe we need to have a new category like "Top 20
> Value-added Secondary Schools (Got China Students)".
>
> This is because our school has smart foreign students
> and should be ranked separately so that schools without
> smart foreign students won't feel so jealous. And, maybe,
> we should drop Literature as a subject too. I hate Literature,
> hard to score "A"s. In fact, we should have streams like
> EM1 (Local) and EM1 (China and Others). Let the smart China
> students have their own stream. I want to go to university
> when I grow up, especially the National University of Singapore
> (NUS), because our newspapers say that NUS is even better than
> Princeton and Cornell in the United States. But I hear there
> are many brilliant China students in NUS, too.
>
> I don't want to be having private tuition until I am 25 years old,
> just to keep up with my foreign classmates in the Uni. Or else,
> I will have no time to meet girls and then I will be forced to go
> to Vietnam and Kelantan to find a wife when I want to start a family.
> In fact, I am very upset with foreigners competing with us even in
> this area. All the girls I know say that when they finish studying
> and go to work, they want to marry ang mohs, because Singapore men
> are unromantic and do not want to know how to make a girl happy.
> So, the ang mohs are even stealing our women. I prefer to marry a
> Singapore girl, of course, but only if she knows how to cook and wash,
> and peel my prawns for me (like Mummy does). But nowadays, Singapore
> girls are so fierce, just because they study, and earn their own money.
>
> Maybe that is why in Chinatown, I saw this big Singapore Rooster, and
> it was sitting on eggs. I think the Singapore Hen left him to look
> after the eggs, because she had to work and do all the things an
> educated Hen does. I also worry I cannot find a job when I am older.
> My friend, Ah Hock, tells me his mother feels all these Chinese
> foreigners are stealing our jobs and our men (and the ang mohs are
> stealing our women). That is very scary, Ah Pah. You told me many
> China women are in Singapore only to do naughty things, like relieve
> old men of their Central Provident Fund money.
>
> Once an uncle wrote in the papers that we should catch those foreign
> women who are tall, have long hair and legs, and wear tight,
> revealing outfits in black or red and behave coquettishly. I think we
> should
> only accept foreign women who are short, have short hair and legs,
> and wear loose, covered-up outfits in white or blue, and behave like
> a man.
>
> Okay, Ah Pah, I have to go to my Chinese, maths and science tuition
> classes now. If I don't go, I won't be able to beat Guoren.
>
> Your son,
> Kia Soo
>
>
>
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