vendredi, février 24, 2006 Is the integrity of my Singapore passport at stake? People: Agu Casmir/Itimi DicksonSalary: Agu Casmir S$032 000 (2006 sign-on fee - Indonesian club Persija Jakarta) S$120 000 (2005 FAS salary, which includes $50 000 sign on fee in Jan 2006) S$024 000 (2005 Tiger Cup win bonus) --------- S$176 000 --------- Salary: Itimi Dickson S$120 000 (2005 FAS salary, which includes $50 000 sign on fee in Jan 2006) S$024 000 (2005 Tiger Cup win bonus) --------- S$144 000 --------- Accommodation: subsidised by FAS Passport: Red, given under the auspices of the Singapore Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. Given that we love making people sign contracts and bonds and the ease in which NATIVE-BORN Singaporeans have been labelled "stayers" or "quitters", why weren't we more prudent with handing out these 60-page red-coloured books which fit so nicely in one's back jeans pocket? Why not bond them to Singapore for five years or more? Shouldn't the priviledge of having a Singaporean passport, one which we "young people" are accused so often of treating like dirt (the privilege, not the passport), be worth a lot more than what an Oxbridge/MIT/Stanford education can buy? I was there last year when we won the Tiger Cup. Was it fun? Yes. Was it rewarding? Yes. Is it worth risking my own ability to travel? Not bloody likely. You spend so much time building up this reputation for being a clean country (in more than one sense of the word), and yet we seem to be trading it in so cheaply. I don't think it's worth it. Perhaps it's time we went about this whole sports thing on our own steam - or at least, give the passport to people who DO really want it (Susilo, Lee etc.) Or maybe it's time to recognise our own limitations, and realise that we should play to our strengths, and do our best for the rest. Libellés : soccer [Is the integrity of my Singapore passport at stake?] |
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