Can there ever be a Singapore Google, Air Asia, Pixar
January 27, 2010
IMHO the main problem is the current scholar system DISABLES, it does not ENABLE, that is to say it fails to elicit creativity and innovation. As it is like a giant vacuum cleaner that sucks up all the intellectual capital and bags them in fossilized government oligarchies; so the private sector is suffering from a form of intellectual anorexia; that is why providing these conditions persist, there can be no google, Microsoft , Air Asia or even Pixar in Singapore – as intellectual capital and entreprenuerialship are inextricably linked – they feed on each other and they will always play a preponderant role in the competitive advantage equation.

The Interspacing Mercantile Guild is located in the East Wing of the Free Internet Library Board in Liberation Square
Paradoxically, the only people IMHO who can reverse this travesty of human waste happens to be the same people who Philip Yeo once named and shamed with the complicity of our beloved rag and the blessing of some of our ministers (not all, as some did cite him for his stupidity) – ironically, when these “losers” were pushed out their comfort zones; those guys acquired core competencies that our kwai kwai scholars can never acquire even if they had 10 lifetimes – risk evaluation, managing opportunities & threats, opportunity cost, risk mitigation etc and they sharpened their skills against the best in a dog eat dog global budokan – so they are the real vanguards of Singapore IMHO; the kwai kwai variety are just free loaders – if you rely on them, they will take us straight down to hell.

Real World Control Center of the Mercantile Guild of the Brotherhood - location: Kuala Lumpur (recently relocated due to fake DDos attacks in Singapore)
The ronins or what we call the rubberband brigade may be a testy lot, frankly they even test my patience at times, but if you want to get things done; they have always delivered (from our experience with them at least): unfortunately the only one who can handle them in our fraternity is Darkness (and you all have to decide whether he is another psychopath?);as they are all mavericks so they remind a lot of those ace fighter pilots of lore –egoistic, boastful and darn right natural rebels without a cause. Personally, I don’t relish their company.
But the beauty is you don’t need many of them to return home; we just need to convince 5 or 6; as they hunt in packs, so when they return, so will their gang (kaki’s) – then and only then can you talk about a Singapore Google. Without these mavericks and the present human material that our scholar system has produced, it’s like commissioning Michelangelo to produce something great when you only have clay, you will just end up with a very nice Ikea flower pot – don’t expect a David, that is only possible if you have the right (human) material, like Palermo marble.

Nostromus Class Mineral Starcruiser - over 2,000 are operated by the IMG transporting 321 various types of virtual minerals
My point is we dont need to wait for another Bill Gates or Steve Jobs to grow up in 20 or 30 years; WE ALREADY HAVE THEM HERE TODAY!
Written by Singaporedaddy (The Internet Officer of the Brotherhood – sponsored by the Interspacing Mercantile Guild) – you will be able to find excerpts of this entry in the article “don’t just address the symptoms in education” at http://theonlinecitizen.com/
N.B DO BOOKMARK THIS SITE, IF SOME OF YOU CLAIM, YOU ARE MISSING OUT, BOOKMARK IT, THAT WAY WHEN WE DECIDE TO TAKE OFF SOMEWHERE ELSE, AT LEAST YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO CONT READING SOME OF OUR STUFF . BOOKMARK, IT AS WHEN THEY TAKE OFF, AS THEY DO, AT LEAST, YOU WILL HAVE A LINK, DO IT NOW!– ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO BOOKMARK THIS SITE IS THIS HAS HAPPENED RECENTLY – http://singaporedaily.net/2010/01/11/daily-sg-11-jan-2010/#comment-7611 , THE BP HAS BARRED ALL FUTURE ESSAYS TO BE POSTED BY THE SINGAPORE DAILY. I DID ASK BABY DARKNESS ABOUT THIS AND THIS IS WHAT HE HAD TO SAY, ” There are two ways to read, one is you let someone spoon feed you like a baby. The second is you choose what and how you want to eat. Remember, if your body is a temple. Your mind has to be the altar piece; it’s the linchpin that makes possible the grand idea of La Convivencia with you and your community, spirit, mind and perhaps 7 million other things– without this one thing, the power to choose, you are simply a cactus on a window sill!
So understand this little rich girl, there is reading and there is reading, there is a world of difference, if you dont even bother to argue with the belief, you are what you eat. Then you would have absolutely no problem understanding – why, you are most definitely without a shadow of doubt what you read and dont read.
You can certainly categorize what I write, but you have no right to judge ……that was what Singaporedaily did – a broad line has to be drawn, otherwise, dont be surprise, if someone decides its card blanche to give you and me the mushroom treatment, “feed you shit and keep you in the dark.” So this has nothing to do with Anime 3 and her rubberband brigade. I value her readership and support, but this is a bigger sphere we are dealing with here – so this is where I will draw the line…it will hurt…like that other fake site, Temasek review that kept faking doss attacks; but how could they let the real wolf out without first planting the idea in peoples mind, “if it can happen to me, it will also happen to you,” Think about it – they cried wolf – we helped, but this time, I am not going to stick my neck out for no one…its everyman for himself….I dont even care, if the whole house catches fire…call it tough love, but if you aren’t a hard man, then you shouldn’t be in the ring and that’s the only way to deal with people who cry wolf, its all here, the explanation
http://singaporedaily.net/2010/01/12/daily-sg-12-jan-2010/#comment-7618 – dont worry dotty, the readers will eventually pick up the scent…they always do, you just wait and see, dont ever sweat the small stuff, life is too short – Darkness 2010……”Missy Dotty