I learn with amusement, the unusual information on A*Star scholar, Dr Eng Kai Er, difficult her employer. In case you discover her identify acquainted, she was the A*Star scholar who streaked bare alongside Holland Village again in 2009. Now, she determined to fund an arts scholarship along with her personal pay to make an announcement on her being pressured to work in a job which she has no ardour for.
At first, I wished to be sympathetic, however once I acquired a extra full image from this Straits Instances report, I’ve no sympathy for Dr Eng in any respect.
Right here’s why:
1. Dr Eng has a alternative to interrupt her bond and pay again her tuition charges. Let me publish a really blunt comparability – not all Singaporean guys get pleasure from serving NS. We don’t actually have a alternative. If Dr Eng actually hates her job a lot, she ought to simply break her bond and cease whining.
2. Dr Eng took TWO scholarships from A*Star. She spent three years learning as an undergraduate at Britain’s prestigious Cambridge College earlier than returning to Singapore to do a one-year analysis stint at A*Star in 2006. On the finish of that, she took up a second scholarship to check for a PhD in an infection biology at Swedish medical college Karolinska Institute. She accomplished this on the finish of 2012 and now works in an A*Star analysis institute learning infectious ailments. If she didn’t like science, why did she take the second scholarship? Granted she could also be solely 18 when she took the primary scholarship and may partly be forgiven for her youthful folly, however at 22? Why do a PhD in an infection biology if you don’t like science?
3. Dr Eng disadvantaged others who’re extra deserving by taking on the scholarships within the first place.
4. Dr Eng wasted loads of taxpayers’ cash. A*Star is answerable to the federal government of Singapore on how they spend our cash. Again to level 1, Dr Eng ought to simply break the bond and pay again her tuition charges if she is so sad.
5. Dr Eng is being extraordinarily self-centered. Many people are in jobs which might not be that enjoyable both, however we all know we’d like to take action to earn a dwelling. Dr Eng needs a free abroad PhD training, solely do what she like for a dwelling and kick up a fuss when she don’t get what she needs. Develop up and cease being a child.
6. Dr Eng can pursue the humanities in her free time whereas holding on to her scientist job. If she actually love the humanities a lot, I’m certain she will be able to discover a approach to stability it along with her work. In any other case, she simply need to endure for just a few extra years and he or she shall be free.
7. Judging from the sarcastic manner she wrote her tumblr weblog, one tends to kind the impression that Dr Eng is not going to be treating her work critically at A*Star and can simply wither away her time there. She belittled her personal scientific achievements. As a scientist with a PhD from the world’s prime universities, she is smarter than so many people, however a lot extra irresponsible too.
I do know there are some who’re praising her for being courageous to protest in what she believes in and to encourage others to comply with their desires. Nevertheless, I imagine that she has a alternative now(she will be able to break the bond and pay again) and he or she made a alternative then when she signed with A*Star. As such, her actions are extraordinarily immature and unbecoming.
Sorry, however I believe Dr Eng Kai Er don’t deserve any sympathy in any respect.
I’ve extra respect for bond breakers than Dr Eng. At the least they’ve the braveness to withstand the implications of their decisions. Dr Eng, on the opposite finish, needs to have her cake and eat it.
