ကၽြန္မရဲ.ခ်စ္လွစြာေသာေဖေဖသို.

ကၽြန္မရဲ. အေဖကို အညာရြာေလးမွာ သာမာန္မိဘႏွစ္ပါးကေမြးဖြားခဲ.ပါတယ္။ ၿပည္ အ.ထ.က (၅) မွာပညာသင္ၾကားခဲ.ၿပီး ၿပည္သူ.ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရး၀န္ၾကီး႒ာနမွာ အစိုးရ၀န္ထမ္းၿဖစ္လာခဲ.တယ္။ ကၽြန္မအေမနဲ. လက္ဆက္ၿပီးေတာ. မတ္လ ၁၃ရက္ ၁၉၈၄ ခုႏွစ္မွာ သမီးဦး ကၽြန္မကို ၿမို.နယ္ၿပည္သူ.ေဆးရံုမွာေမြးဖြားခဲ.တယ္။ သားလိုခ်င္တဲ.အေဖက ကၽြန္မကိုေမြးေမြးခ်င္းမွာ သိပ္မေၾကနပ္ခဲ.ဖူးတဲ.ေလ။ ဒါေပမယ္. အေဖက ကၽြန္မကို သိပ္ခ်စ္ခဲ.တယ္။ သူခ်စ္တာကို မသိေအာင္လဲေနခဲ.တယ္။ ဘာလို.လဲဆိုေတာ. ခ်စ္တာသိရင္ ေရာင္.တက္မွာဆိုးလို.တဲ.ေလ။ အေဖ လၹက္ရည္ဆိုင္သြားရင္ အၿမဲတမ္းေခၚသြားၿပီး စားခ်င္တာေတြ ၀ယ္ေကၽြးေလ.ရွိတယ္။ ပုခံုးေပၚကိုတင္ၿပီး အၿမဲတမ္းလမ္းေလွ်ာက္.ေလ.ရွိတယ္။ ကၽြန္မက ဗိုက္ေအာင္.တတ္ေတာ. ကၽြန္မငိုရင္ ေနလို.ထိုင္လို.မရ ၿဖစ္ေနတတ္တယ္ေလ။ ေဖၾကီးက သူ.ဘ၀မွာ ရွိတဲ.ေမွ်ာ္လင္.ခ်က္ေတြအကုန္လံုးကို ကၽြန္မေပၚကို ပံုအပ္ထားတယ္လို.ေၿပာခဲ.ဘူးတယ္။ ကၽြန္မငယ္ငယ္ကတည္းက တၿခားညီအမေတြကို ကစားခ်င္တိုင္းမကစားခဲ.ရဘူး။ အခ်ိန္ဇယားနဲ. ပဲေနခဲ.ရတယ္။ ကစားခ်ိန္မွာကစား၊ အိပ္၊ ေရခ်ိဴး၊ စားက်က္ ဒါေတြနဲ.ပဲ ကုန္ဆံုးခဲ.ရတယ္။ တစ္ခုခုမွားရင္ အၾကီးၿဖစ္တဲ. ကၽြန္မကပဲ အဆူခံခဲ.ရတယ္။ အဲဒါ အက်င္.ပါသြားေတာ. မိဘကဆူရင္ မွားမွားမွန္မွန္ အၿမဲတမ္းၿငိမ္ခံခဲ.တယ္လို. ေနာင္တစ္ခ်ိန္မွာ အေဖက ကၽြန္မကို ခ်ီးက်ဴးခဲ.တယ္။ ကၽြန္မက စာေတာ္တယ္လို.ေက်ာင္းမွာနံမည္ၾကီးၿပီး အဆင္.မပါေတာ. အေဖက ကၽြန္မစာေတာ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို မယံုၾကည္ခဲ.ဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ္ ၁၀ တန္းေအာင္ၿပီး ကၽြန္မ ဂိုက္လုပ္တဲ.အခါမွာေတာ. ကၽြန္မေဖက ကၽြန္မဘက္က အၿပည္.အ၀ရံုၾကည္ခဲ.တယ္။ ကၽြန္မက အေဖကို ခ်စ္ေၾကာက္ရိုေသခဲ.တယ္။ ဘာလို.လဲဆိုေတာ. ကၽြန္မေဖက အင္မတန္မွ စည္းကမ္းၾကီးၿပီး ေစ.စပ္ေသခ်ာတဲ.သူၿဖစ္တယ္၊ ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ရႊင္ေနတတ္ၿပီး အေပါင္းအသင္းေပါမ်ားတဲ.သူလဲၿဖစ္တယ္။ ကၽြန္မတကၠသိုလ္တက္ၿပီးေက်ာင္းၿပီးေတာ. အလုပ္၀င္ဖို.ၿပင္တဲ.အခါမွာ ကၽြန္မအေဖက စကားတစ္ခြန္းမွာဘူးတယ္၊ သမီးရဲ. ဘ၀မွာ ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းစရာေတြအမ်ားၾကီးရွိတဲ.အတြက္ေၾကာင္. အလုပ္ကို ေငြေၾကးအတြက္မလုပ္ပါနဲ. လုပ္ငန္းအေတြ.အၾကံုရဖို.အတြက္သာလုပ္ပါလို. မွာဘူးတယ္။ အဲဒီစကားတစ္ခြန္းက ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးကိုထိေရာက္ပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္မအရမ္းအလုပ္ၾကိုးစားခဲ.တယ္။ အဲဒါေၾကာင္.လဲ ငယ္ငယ္နဲ. လုပ္ငန္းအေတြ.အၾကံုေတြရခဲ.တယ္။ အလုပ္နဲ.ပဲ အခ်ိန္ၿပည္.ေနခဲ.တယ္။ ဒီလိုနဲ. Master ၿပီးေတာ. စကၤာပူမွာကၽြန္မ အလုပ္လာလုပ္ခဲ.တယ္။ ၂ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ေတာ. အိမ္ကိုအလည္ၿပန္ခဲ.တယ္။ အိမ္ကိုအလည္ၿပန္တဲ.အခါမွာေတာ.အေဖက လံုး၀တစ္ၿခားတစ္ေယာက္ၿဖစ္ေနခဲ.ၿပီေလ။ အသက္ေတြၾကီးသြားၿပီေလ။ ၿပီးေတာ. သူ.ရဲ.ရင္ထဲမွာ ရွိတဲ. သမီးတစ္ေယာက္အေပၚခ်စ္တဲ. အခ်စ္ေတြကို ၿပသတတ္လာတယ္။ ကၽြန္မစားခ်င္တဲ. မနက္စာတိုင္းကို ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ လိုက္၀ယ္ေကၽြးခဲ.တယ္ေလ။ အမွတ္အရဆံုးကေတာ. ကၽြန္မ အေဖက အလွအပၿပင္တာမၾကိဳက္ဘူးေလ၊ အခုေတာ. ဘာမွမေၿပာေတာ.ဘူး။ ၿပီးေတာ. ကၽြန္မအတြက္အၿမဲပဲ ဂုဏ္ယူေနခဲ.တယ္ေလ။ ကၽြန္မေလ ကၽြန္မအေဖရဲ.ခံစားခ်က္ကိုသိရတဲ.အခါမွာေတာ. ကၽြန္မ တာ၀န္ေက်ပါတယ္လို. ခံစားရတယ္။ ကၽြန္မအေဖၿဖစ္ေစခ်င္တဲ.status တစ္ခုမွာ ကၽြန္မေရာက္ေနခဲ.လို.ပါပဲ။ ကၽြန္မကိုဒီလို အသိညာဏ္ေတြရွိလာေအာင္ ၿပဳစုၿပိဳးေထာင္ခဲ.တဲ. ကၽြန္မအေဖကို ဒီစာနဲ. ဂါ၀ရၿပဳလိုက္ပါတယ္။

THE THINGS THAT I FIND OUT IN SINGAPORE REAGRDING ABOUT LABOUR

I came to Singapore in November’2008. Within two months, I need to hunt the job. After one month later, I got the job already. In my first job, I don’t know about general workers. I had to do office job only. So I no need to deal with workers and other employment issues. I just do accounting and financial issues only. In 2009, I change my employer. My new employer is the sub-contractor of Keppel Singmarine Pte LTd. My new position is Accounts Executive and Administration. So I have to manage accounting, financial and labor issues. When I start to handle about things related to workers, I get more knowledge about foreign workers how they have to stay and work in Singapore. That is not only Myanmar, also Bangladeshi, Indian and China. The people outside from Singapore are the foreign workers. All of foreign workers want to work and save the money for their family by working here. But they are not educated persons. So they have to find out agents or direct employers and need to pay agent money. They pay a lot of money to work in Singapore. For my knowledge, Bangladeshi and Indian have to pay minimum S$ 2,000.00. (Singapore Dollar Two Thousand). The fees depend on the experience. If they have experience, they no need to pay too much. If the employer is good, they can get the good housing and good job. Otherwise, they cannot get good things. There was one case in Singapore in July’2010: the workers stayed and live in Containers and had the shower from drain near Mosafa. Because the employer wants to save money and never provide proper housing. As per Singapore Ministry of Manpower rules and regulation, if the employers recruit general workers (WP), they need to supply Dormitory (The housing for workers) and insurance matters. But the housing cost and foreign workers levy is too high. For Work Permit holders (WP), the employers need to pay S$160.00 per person per month. There are some changes for the levy rate depends on the Industry. My company is in Marine Industry so that we have to pay S$160.00. Sometimes the companies don’t have money and they cannot pay workers’ salary. But the family from the home county doesn’t know about this and they have to pay debt which they took from others with interest for the agent fees. And some family spends a lot of money on gambling (၂လံုးထီ၊ ၃လံုး ခ်ဲ ၊ ေဘာလံုး). That is not good for the family leader. Because he worked in other country and never spend extra and save for the family but the family is so proud and never think for this person. Because they don’t know about how he worked in Singapore. My company never recruits Myanmar. Bangladeshi, Indian and China are also foreigner so that I can translate my feeling as Myanmar. The reason why I write this letter is to share my feeling about foreign workers in Singapore. I am not writer so I don’t know how to write in proper way. But I try to manage to show my feeling. Thanks for reading this letter.

Zinmar (31/07/2010) Saturady