Travel Stories. Dubai - Jan 1, 2012 Winchester Hotel
12.08 am
Many young adults in a free world of abundance like
Singapore, live in a virtual world of the smart phone
texting and connecting with friends day to day. No
responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood.
How to pretty themselves? How to look cools? There
seems to be a trend in Singapore's young adults from
the middle and upper class to go for Laser Surgery of
two eyes.
It is cool. Their peers do it and they desire it. A
5-hour eye test free of charge. They are sold on the
benefits and want to book immediately.
Go for cosmetic eye surgery since other young adults
in the middle class go for it. Side effects like dry
eyes that need eye drops daily after laser operation
and corneal damage affecting beauty and vision due to
a possible mis-positioning or inadvertent mistake by
the sophisticated eye laser machines or machine
operator are ignored. Such side effects will not
happen to them. How about long-term effects on vision
loss. Well, the young adults are invincible. They are
not 30 years old. Why think longer than 1 year later?
They are not aware of the other young adults who have
adverse effects after the cosmetic eye surgery as they
don't want to know. They think high tech eye laser
machines are perfect and will not damage their cornea.
$4,000 is the price. So what?
In
Europe now, I read that 40,000 breast implants which
leak and may cause cancer are worrying so many women
who had gone for breast cosmetic surgery. The standard
of care was not there as manufacturers of breast
implants use poor quality material. Who suffers daily
worrying about the implants rupturing and causing
cancer? How many celebrities with botched cosmetic
surgeries have these young adults research? There is a
website devoted to such cases but why bother to read
them?
The
years rush by. Time flies. Those young adults who
acquire specialised relevant skills after graduation,
works hard and is honest, get the good jobs globally
as they are useful and indispensable to the employer.
Most of the old guards or senior citizens will never
be able to compete in this global world for jobs
needing more than a degree from the University and
work experience. There is a need for specialised
relevant technical experience in many high-paying jobs
globally.
Many
Singaporean young adults are blessed growing up in
abundance in a Singapore, free of wars, natural
disasters and crime from the 1950s - 2012 and are
unprepared for the shocks of the real world. There are
many hungry young adults in Eastern Europe and China
who value time and money, and not cosmetic surgery to
pretty themselves. They know the importance of hard
work (not working 5 days a week, at 9-5 am) to succeed
in life. Singaporean parents try to shelter their
young ones from hard work and long hours, thinking
that the world owes them a living. Or the Government
will provide.
Many young Singaporeans don't bother to learn how to
read the financial statements but will punt or accept
a friend's advice to invest in some schemes which
appear to be Pansy schemes. For example, buying a gold
bar and paying for 20% below market price and getting
regular returns above average. Sounds too good to be
true and seems to me to be another version of Madoff's
US$50 billion ponzi scheme on a small scale.
2012 appears to be another recession caused by the
Euro crisis but how many young Singaporean adults can
discuss in depth what is the Euro crisis and how it
will impact their parents' livelihood, their own job
prospects and their country's economy.
TOA
PAYOH VETS
