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Sunday, May 15, 2005
Sweeping statementZ..

On Sundays, I read The Sunday Times...
On page 11 of The Sunday Times dated May 15, 2005, sub-head: news...
Is an article about Philips Yeo: Chairman of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)

His statement that incurred a lot of wrath from Singapore men is, as follows:
"I don't want whining Singapore boys. They are not mature even though they have national service and are over 22 years old when they take up undergraduate studies. They give me so much trouble and waste our precious time. It would be better off giving more scholarships to foreign students and Singapore girls."

The above statement was made a week ago and was published in The New Paper.
Now, that would be what we call a sweeping statement(s).

He said that he is fed up of Singapore men who break government scholarship bond and thus deems them as immature. But the statement he made seems to disregard everything...It seems that he felt (in his opinion) that all Singapore guys who have signed up for government scholarship bond are immature. Or perhaps, every Singapore guy after NS is still immature until deem mature by him...I feel that he is making a very irresponsible statement here...He is a Singapore men too, isn't he? Well, I suppose he also had taken government scholarship bond before...Now, so (based on his statements) he is an immature guy...Is he not?

Not every Singapore guys who had taken government scholarship bond breaks it right?
So, how can he say such a statement then?? Doesn't he feel that he isn't doing justice to those keeping to the agreement/contract?

Now then, he said that Singapore girls don't break the government scholarship bond, not at all...I'm not very sure if that is true but even if it is true...Has he ever considered why they hadn't while guys did? Is it really because girls are more mature in thinking as he claims, or was(were) there other reasons?(I'm not suggesting girls are not mature...)

Hasn't it mystify Mr Philips Yeo that why female scholarship holders didn't break the agreement while some men did?? Perhaps he really should investigate.

Ms Chng ZhenZhi, an A*Star scholarship holder said in the article when interviewed...
"The local boys are OK until they enter national service. Once they enter NS, they complain a lot. I didn't know that guys could talk about the most minute things. Perhaps they're not used to the physical training or regimentation."

Now, Ms Chng..If you would just think for a minute..
Why do Singapore guys complain during the NS periods more often than before they were in NS...Imagine being in a camp for almost 7 days in a week..Doing all forms of muscle-aching exercise and when it comes to rest(sleep)...the muscle 'screams' at every tiny movements...Being in NS may be fun but not as fun as perhaps it was seemed to be..We, Singapore guys, build up 'brotherhood' in NS...So, of course when we are occasionally let out of camps, we would complain a little to our dear families n friends about the hardships we suffered in camps...After all, its the only thing we ever did all day long...Hang on..Including life without TV, family members afar...A breath-taking landscape...Something to unwind to...Heck, of course NS become our main topic when we chat...What do you expect? Fantasy/Science Fiction stories? Can't we even have a little complain then? Sometimes, we just aren't as 'strong' as girls think we are...and since few girls have been through hardships of NS...perhaps you really should give us the benefit of the doubt (on NS) and just let us complain a little more...while you sit still and listen...Will ya? Yes? Thank You...Alot..

Coming back to the point..
Even if the male scholarship holder breaks his agreement..
Had he consider their explanations before "sweepingly" say: "you are immature!... "
Well, I guess not...The issue is not whether they are mature anot...but rather, why they want to break the agreement? Isn't it so? Only if you had found out why they break their agreements then could you do something to reduce the number of "bond breakers". Right?

So, I suggest, instead of sitting by that table in your office coming up with more sweeping statement(s)..Why not do something about it? Sweeping statements isn't going to improve the situation any better than real action!!

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