Wednesday, February 07, 2007
What a wonderful day!
I checked my mail, and instead of just a newsletter for NYT, McKinsey and HDFC, I had three mails from three close friends.
One just got her article published in the ET Special Report SEction- "South gets Wise"(07.02.2007) about south Indians getting more experimental with food. An excellent article. Anjie: I am so happy!
Another said she may be considering coming to Singapore for her masters. I really really really(I could go on..) hope she does! Tommy I hope you get placed here. We'll be one happy family then:)
Swot: Fret not, The days of getting tutu'd will soon be over.
Anyway let me get down to the more Government conspiracies happening in my little lion city.
You must know, singapore is very particular about getting foreign talent. They were scared to death in the nineties when their Total factor productivity ws shown by Yound et al and later publicized by Krugman, to be negligible. From then on it's one way forward for Singapore. Borrow ideas. Bring in foreign technology and talent.
Now thats it's possible near the frontier (Solow Curve-nearing steady state), it's investing heavily in research.
But not only do they want foreigners to come in, they want them to come in young.
The hope is the pretty little city will grow on you and also that in the process, you'll find someone here and then marry and give birth to children. And help the Singapore economy grow.
It's not a bad plan. It's not a bad life. But probably not for me.
Of late however, I have noticed one of the means of the government to spread this message.
Cab drivers.
LAtely I've been going home very late. Afraid to walk across little india alone(shame on Indians-only palce in singapore I am afraid of) I take the cab.
It's funny how, each cab walla starts of with "you're indian?"-> "you're fair?"->"you look like chinese from far"-> "you come here to study?"->" after this what do you paln to do?"->"don't you like singapore?"->"Can, Can. work here. very nice place"-> "you look like you are twenty..so young"-> "you should stay here. Many men will like you"-> "then get married and live here. very nice place"...
In monetary policy we say, the best thing to do is to avoid the crises. Singapore the paradigm of that school of thought. In every sense. Hen hao!
I checked my mail, and instead of just a newsletter for NYT, McKinsey and HDFC, I had three mails from three close friends.
One just got her article published in the ET Special Report SEction- "South gets Wise"(07.02.2007) about south Indians getting more experimental with food. An excellent article. Anjie: I am so happy!
Another said she may be considering coming to Singapore for her masters. I really really really(I could go on..) hope she does! Tommy I hope you get placed here. We'll be one happy family then:)
Swot: Fret not, The days of getting tutu'd will soon be over.
Anyway let me get down to the more Government conspiracies happening in my little lion city.
You must know, singapore is very particular about getting foreign talent. They were scared to death in the nineties when their Total factor productivity ws shown by Yound et al and later publicized by Krugman, to be negligible. From then on it's one way forward for Singapore. Borrow ideas. Bring in foreign technology and talent.
Now thats it's possible near the frontier (Solow Curve-nearing steady state), it's investing heavily in research.
But not only do they want foreigners to come in, they want them to come in young.
The hope is the pretty little city will grow on you and also that in the process, you'll find someone here and then marry and give birth to children. And help the Singapore economy grow.
It's not a bad plan. It's not a bad life. But probably not for me.
Of late however, I have noticed one of the means of the government to spread this message.
Cab drivers.
LAtely I've been going home very late. Afraid to walk across little india alone(shame on Indians-only palce in singapore I am afraid of) I take the cab.
It's funny how, each cab walla starts of with "you're indian?"-> "you're fair?"->"you look like chinese from far"-> "you come here to study?"->" after this what do you paln to do?"->"don't you like singapore?"->"Can, Can. work here. very nice place"-> "you look like you are twenty..so young"-> "you should stay here. Many men will like you"-> "then get married and live here. very nice place"...
In monetary policy we say, the best thing to do is to avoid the crises. Singapore the paradigm of that school of thought. In every sense. Hen hao!
# posted by qq @ 5:49 PM 
