i guess many of your may have notice and often groused/lamented/whined/complained about the influx of foreign workers/talents/expats into our shores. One thing i noticed(it;s been some time), that the number of mainlain chinese workers/talents/expats/students are swelling up, evident from the number of times u can spot them everywhere.
U can spot so many mainland chinese kids/students hanging out at orchard, doin the great Singapore past-time, same as that of Singapore young punks. It;s increasingly difficult to spot them cos their sense of dressing of those young ones are getting better by leaps and bounds, until they speak. Try ordering your food from anywhere, high-chance that the employees in that place is probably mainland Chinese too. well i do not know about your company, but they are everywhere in mine.
So thus, there had been a recent increase in the numbers of complains in local papers, internet forums and so on. Well, being a true-blue Singaporean, i would also like to whine and complain about this issue, not onli about the mainland chinese but also about the other foreign workers/talents/expats. Issues like the local Singaporeans are being marginalised, feelings of being the new minority, perks of a permanent resident being the same if not better than citizens, increase in crime rates and so on were discussed. Some issues could be agreed upon while others are just plain scepticism or just pure racism from the whiners' part.
But among all these, i also thought that all these influx of foreigners had already happened before, during our grandparents time. Take note that we are just the 2nd (or issit 3rd) generation of chinese immigrants from the great exodus of chinese from the mainland during our grandparents time. They flocked from their hometown to practically everywhere else in the world searching for a better life. And i believed Singapore welcomed them with open arms that time, same as now. So i say, this is the 2nd coming. I am not sure what the locals in Singapore thought about these hardworking immigrants at that time, but i am sure they felt more welcomed than what they feel now. But who are we to complain and whine when they are the ones who are willing to take up any jobs to make ends meet? They will be more grateful just by clearing our dirty utensils after us (as long as they have a job), while we just give our ass a pat when we got up from our meals. There's so much more "undesirable" jobs that these foreigners worked as, which are typically frowned upon to a "great and almighty" Singaporean. And since these jobs are needed to have a "perfectly functional" society and system, someone's got to do it, and since us Singaporeans do not want to do it ourselves, let's just say it's fair that if other people are willing to do it, they shall get the pass into Singapore and take up the jobs. So i say, we should embrace these ppl who works selflessly to create a working society for us. Look at how those early immigrants from the past who had helped to mould singapore to what she is today, of course we should not discredit the vast forsight of our great leaders lah........
Maybe this is another way for the government to make "better" use of the limited manpower resources in this small little island. What do u think? The government spent so much on us to study, of course it's for us to contribute "more" to the society rite? I doubt they will want to waste your "talents" on some mundane jobs. heh...
Well another reason that i deduced(my own point of view) from the influx of chinese are that we are trying to keep Chinese as the majority in Singapore. We all know that chinese singapore women cant really give birth to much babies nowadays.. maybe it;s something they eat? too much pork? Or the chinese singapore men and women are so busy with working for a better Singapore and contributing to the society that they hardly have the energy to devout themselves to the best enjoyment in life, which is to procreate (no actually, the orgasm is the best part, not the procreation, haha). So having more chinese immigrants is good, the immigrant women came, fall in love with easily conned singapore men and get married. So you got another chinese in the population for the price of 1. Add to that, the china 1 child policy, i am sure the women will love to breed excessively and have more little dragon ladies and boys if given the chance. Win Win situation lor. So you can get more chinese into the population for the price of 1!!! Furthermore, they are willing to take up any jobs that we have difficulty in finding the "great and almighty" Singaporeans to fill up. Very cheap investment for the Government i say. Anyway, these are just my own deductions, dun sue me ok?
An ending note, are we a tolerant society with many races or are we a society that lives in racial harmony? There's a big difference in the above question. There could be many tolerant racists living in a tolerant society. In a society that have racial harmony, i think the number of racists are kept at the minimum. The former society will probably works like a ticking time-bomb, setting itself off somehow, sometime, somewhat, all you need is just a big issue that ignites the pent-up feelings of the people. But then, many years ago, i always thought we are a society that thrives in racial harmony (that's what the national pledge told us to do). Now maybe i am getting old and senile, sceptical and low self-confident, i started to think that we are digressing to the latter society.
i love taking shots of tall tall buildings with me standing at the foot of the place.. maybe i am so used to looking up at things, if u get what i mean.. 
Crazy 
My first meal in japan. 
After the seeds are planted, these 
Oh, my favourite Hoegarden.. Simply cant resist ordering it in any place where i can find it. But, must be draft ones, bottled ones are crap.
