SHE is an civil engineering diploma graduate from my country. But she earn money in this city state by doing non-engineering related works. Can you imagine what is she doing here. It's quite normal for people to work the jobs that are not related with their education background. Such kind of things really happen on third world countries whose government fail to create enough jobs for its graduates. I'm shocked to be told that the aforesaid woman is working as a maid in Singapore. It's for sure because the one who told me is ex-lecturer of her when she was studying in a local government technological college. I was frustrating to learn it but I can't change this scenario. My ex-lecturer friend asked me whether I want to know similar stories. I said NO as I don't want to hurt myself more than once. But enough is enough, one experience can make a person change attitude or even his/her ambition. At the end of the day, we have to be realistic so that we can move a right step to correct any default that can spoil our nation's image.
I'm also working in Singapore and recently I needed to go a QS Consultant's office to discuss my project's finalization matters. That office was located in a katong shopping mall. I was a bit early when I reach the mall and I need to wait PM who come from another meeting to join me. So I decided to go around the mall before PM arrive. I was surprisingly found that most of the shops from ground floors are maid agencies. This is first time I experience the maid agencies together at a place. There are several women who wear their agency's uniform and sitting side by side at their palour. It's obvious they are waiting for their potential employer to come in. I felt sad to see them like that and it really make me remember old history time that has slavery communities among rich and poor. We virtually thought those bitter time had gone by the civil revolution especially at the North America. Unfortunately it still alive in the form of domestic helper in the present world. I believe it will never disappear as long as there is a big gap between riches and poor.
By strolling around the ground floor area, I found one signboard which is suspended from a ceiling at a place. I was amazed and stop my foot and read it thoroughly. What's that?
"Myanmar Maid Specialist"
What a damn is it? It show the real situation of our country. Once upon a time, we are proud race among regional countries even in the world. Our country has produced world leader like UN Secretary U Thant as well as renowned national leader General Aung San. Our colonial time education was respected by regional countries. Our old universities produced quality graduate to serve our country. Within an ASEAN countries, we are the biggest country in term of continual land size. Beside it, we are likely the richest country who has vast natural resources. Then what make us up side down within a time frame of few decades? Where is our reputation as a golden land? Where is our proud to be a Burmese?
This agency even boasted in their advertisement that they have their own academy in Myanmar to train local women before they bring in. By doing so, they ensure their potential customer that they are providing quality maid. Nowadays Singapore market is facing shortage a domestic helpers because well trained maid from Indonesia and Philippine are going better paid countries like Hong Kong and Taiwan. So the maid agencies find alternative sources and they tip another poorer countries such as Cambodia & Myanmar. I am embarrassing to read frequent news of Myanmar maid related stories in the local papers. I don't want my country to become a country of labourer and maids. We are not low intelligent people. We are not a country who don't have natural resources and human resources to stand ourselves. We just dearly miss a good system to put our country back on a right track.
Hello, new president and MPs, are you all concern the situation of your graduates? Do you have any idea to improve our failed educational system? Please make it by default. Please invest most of our national income in raising our young generation's education. Because it's only way you can gradually mitigate the risk of having national burdens. The more less educated people, the less opportunities to become developing country. Eventually we are dead wrong and would be bullied by our neighbour countries. They'll take fully advantage of our weakness. They will take maximum resources for their little dollars. We will fail to assess properly if we are lacking well educated MPs or leaders. I don't want to show how to swim to a crocodile. You are deemed to have fully understand the situation more than any other body within our country. I know we can't build a nation over night. It will take time and we will have to patient. But for sure is late is better than never. So please move a right step day after day toward a developing nation. It'ld be necessary to pick a talented students and send them western universities with the aid of national scholarship. Wish you overcome all incoming unidentified troubles and problem with the sake of nation's development.
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