Here's something you'd definitely wouldn't see in The Straits Times. Well, at least I can safely say that a Singapore Minister earns close to peanuts. 1 peanut=S$600,000 remember? These figures are all accurate or near accuracy and taken from the Asian Wall Street Journal.


Singapore Ministers' Basic Annual Salaries (without performance bouses)

Singapore President's Basic Salary: US$1,483,000 (SGD$2,373,100)
Singapore Prime Minister's Basic Salary: US$1,100,000 (SGD1,958,000)
Minister's Basic: US$655,530 to US$819,124 (SGD1,166,844 to SGD1,458,040) a year
Average Singaporean: US$26,000 (SGD43,104 or SGD3,592 per mo)
Source: Singapore Ministry of Manpower


USA
United States of AmericaPresident: US$200,000
Vice President: US$181,400
Cabinet Secretaries: US$157,000

UK
United Kingdom Prime Minister: US$170,556
Ministers: US$146,299

Down Under
Australia Prime Minister: US$137,060
Deputy Prime Minister: US$111,439
Treasurer: US$102,682

news from the red dot...

Warwick University Slaps Singapore
....with rejection!

Ranked no. 5 in good ol' jolly Britain. Warwick University has stuck their high-bridged noses at us and gave our little red dot a miss, citing a lack of 'academic freedom' here (though there's some element of truth here, even the Long John Silver advert seems more enticing). This gives red dot youths another reason to start weeping and cracking open their piggy banks in the hope that it will get them a decent degree elsewhere.

This should be a good guideline for foreign uni-s intending to set up their campus here:

• Critisism...of any sort is a strict no-no. if some new government policy pisses u off and makes you want to stuff a durian up someone's crack, then perhaps a trip to the country club, eg. american club, swiss club, british club etc for a bitichin' session over scones and earl grey tea might be of some help. But publishing a paper about it could land your ass in a grotty singapore jail cell, made famous by alumni members michael fay and nick leeson.

And after all, we do want to protect our young ones from the truth, ignorance is always bliss...right? they've been brought up to think that everything tthat has been done is for the good of them. now we don't want to pollute their minds, don't we?

• Protesting. Yes, i know you guys call it peace gatherings or some other euphemism. But, truth is 4 or more people holding up signboards demanding for better canteen food could send the 20 riot policemen (decked out in full battle gear) storming the compounds and locking up everyone they deem unruly. On the brightside, it might be a good chance for some physical interaction with the locals

• Books and Materials. That best-selling book criticizing a certain religion you've had and always wanted your students to use as reference material might just be on the banned list of publications here. This means less enriching lessons for the students and a shallower insight of the world.

Playboy magazine included...so don't expect any dirty magazines in the teacher's lounge.

Wow...my virginal post. My very first attempt at penetrating into the already consumeristeric blogging community.

While using my laptop to check my mail a few days back..it suddenly hit me that im seriously under utilising it...other than for watching dvds and downloaded episodes of Lost (legal, illegal?). I thought about it hard, real hard, what could i do with this piece of China made metal-cum-plastic

Gee, after blowing that much money and going through the hassle of configuring my router...is my laptop going to be doomed to a fate worse than buangkok mrt station?

Thus... www.littlereddot.blogspot.com was born!