I find some things horribly funny...Here rise...there risetaking the example of the cab fare rise.... News paper say taxi driver chin chamAnnouncement for the rise...People niam niam chum chum here....niam niam chum chum there...People give feedbacks...People wrote to the news paper forums giving suggestions on how to help...U see ar..... People write in here..write in there..voicing unhappiness.... Their responses are just being ignored one lors... You think the cab company will review their prices yet again because of all the negative responses they receive?(Let me laugh 1st... HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA)No...Sometimes i really wonder if the voices are ever heard... Here go up..there go up.. I read numerous feedbacks in the news papers.. but nothing is done... Really lahx.... the feedback wont serve a purpose to make them change their minds.. In the end, we just bite the bullet and move on lor.... Biggest losers still us lahx... Im not very affected by the cab fare rise.. i dont always take cab one.. But still..when theres a need for one ( eg. when im sick or when i need to go somewhere foreign to me on this island), i really wonder if i can afford it....Raise lahx.. i dont care lahx..... raise bus fare yet lousy service.... on monday morning..it was raining..tat !@#!@#$@#$#@$!@#!@# bus driver dropped us off away fromt he bus stop.. i got to school a little drenched... Cant he just wait a little while more for the other buses to move off? KNNAnd yes... just after i posted this blog... i chanced upon this news article..http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20071213-41009.htmlMinisters, top civil servants to get 4% to 21% in 2nd pay riseAbstracts:
SINGAPORE'S ministers and top civil servants will start the New Year with a pay increase, ranging from 4 per cent to 21 per cent.
This is the second phase of an increase that was decided on in April.
Under the revised salary package announced by the Public Service Division (PSD) on Thursday, ministers at the starting grade will take home $1.94 million next year - an increase of 21 per cent over this year's $1.6 million
With the pay revision, the annual salary for President SR Nathan will go up from $3.1 million this year to $3.87 million in 2008, the Prime Minister's from $3.09 million to $3.76 million, ministers and senior permanent secretaries, from $1.593 million to $1.94 million, entry superscale grade Admin officers, from $384,000 to $398,000 and MPs, from $216,300 to $225,000 (see tables below).
Their pay increases will come in the form of a higher monthly salary and a fatter performance bonus.
For instance, ministers at the entry grade of MR4 will get an average of 9 months performance bonus, on top of the GDP bonus, which can fall between 3 and 8 months, depending on econommic growth.
In a statement, the PSD said that this round of changes would bring MR4 salaries to 77 per cent of the private sector benchmarks, to which it is pegged. The April revisions had brought it to 73 per cent of the benchmark.
The benchmark is set at two-thirds of the median pay of the top 8 earners in banking, law, engineering and accountancy, as well as employees of multinational corporations and local manufacturers.
This was $2.2 million as of April but has been revised to $2.7 million when calculating next year's pay.
And soo.... just when theres sooo many complains about how the poor are suffering, the rise of bus fares & cab fares, the rise in food prices, how our pay havent rise for years, how expats are suffering because of the expensive rents, how couples cant get married becos hdb flats too ex and cant ballot for one and many more, they just raised their pay.... fwah...very good huh? Im beginning to feel disgusted after every word i read from the article..... And life is sad...
~*~Panda~*~
