One of their commentator's words is truly awakening. Those with conscience will fully understand this below:
“This isn't about politics people. This is about who we are. And
there is no justifying the actions of those who slam the foreigners for
all the little mistakes they make. Just with the comments made here, you
have people trying to justify their actions, essentially saying "It's
the government's fault that I'm doing this".
But no, I do not believe that is right. Blame the government all you wish, hate on them all you want, but do not use it to justify the hateful mindset against foreigners that do not deserve it."
Now I recalled having read one or two articles from 'The Talking Rubbish' website (You know, I know). I have taken a screenshot below for your reference.
A Mr. Jack Russel, (Do he exists? Don't know) could have asked to speak with Singtel's Branch Manager on duty to make a complaint that their staffs who are at the counter is unable to communicate with him in English language. He could have made his stand clear to the branch manager that those who are in customer services are required to have English proficiency, both in written & spoken. In Singapore, having proficiency in English language is a must as we have other races who are not able to understand Chinese language at all.
Singtel's branch manager would then take note of the non-English speaking staffs and write in to Singtel's HR Dept to refer these PRC staffs for training courses. Their PRC staffs could enroll in English course to learn the language & upgrade themselves to serve customers better. All could be dissolved plain and simple.
Their PRC staffs did nothing wrong to Mr. Jack Russel. They just can't speak English. One can wonder why Mr. Jack Russel choose to write in to 'The Talking Rubbish' and his intention for doing this. As soon the article got posted on the Facebook, I found several 'xenophobes' there. Not surprising, 'The Talking Rubbish' is well known site for its anti-foreigner sentiments. The source of xenophobia is there. It is affirmative.
Now you may see the screen shot below.
Good night folks,
Little Fish.
Every cloud has a silver lining meaning
ReplyDeleteEvery bad situation has some great aspect to it. This adage is usually said as an encouragement to a man who is overwhelmed by some trouble and is unable to perceive any positive way forward.
ohn Milton authored the expression 'silver lining' in Comus: A Mask Displayed at Ludlow Castle, 1634
I see ye noticeably, and now accept
That he, the Preeminent Great, to whom all things sick
Are yet as slavish officers of vengeance,
Would send a glistering guardian, if require were
To keep my life and respect unassailed.
Was I misled, or did a sable cloud
Turn forward her silver lining on the night?
I didn't blunder; there does a sable cloud
Turn forward her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted woods.
'Clouds' and 'silver linings' were alluded to regularly in literature from that point onward, usually refering to Milton and much of the time alluding to them as Milton's clouds. It isn't until the days of the elevating language of Victoria's England that we start to hear the proverbial shape that we are presently familiar with - 'every cloud has a silver lining'. The principal event that is unequivocally communicating that thought comes in The Dublin Magazine, Volume 1, 1840, in a survey of the novel Marian; or, a Youthful Maid's Fortunes, by Mrs S. Hall, which was distributed in 1840:
As Katty Macane has it, "there's a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens in the event that we could just observe it."
'There's a silver lining to every cloud' was the shape that the maxim was usually communicated in the Victorian era. The at present utilized 'every cloud has a silver lining' appeared, in another literary audit, in 1849. The New month to month beauty assemblée, Volume 31 incorporate what implied to be a quotation from Mrs Hall's book - "Every cloud has a silver lining", however which didn't in fact appear in Marian, which just replicated Milton's original content.