Hallelujah! Ok, I was chomping on my food like a glutton as usual then my mum told me not to leave any rice grains or my future wife will be pock-marked ( chinese drama..) plus the economy is bad.
The economy has always been bad, according to my mother. Then I said it’s ok what, enough for us to eat can already. Then she said I havent even work yet, what do I know?
ok, lets just see what I know here.
America decided to sneeze and the whole world’s economy is now covered in snot. TNCs closing down. 600 over starbucks company closed down due to the decreasing demand of coffee??
The turban-wrapped uncles has decided to export less oil to the whole world, hence the sky-rocketed prices of oil. Must be americans fault, go incur wrath in them for what!!!! Withdraw your guns, soldiers! Rice price soared due to increasing global demand and shrinking supply. Farmers expecting poor harvest lah, sigh let’s all eat hamburgers instead.
Sigh, maybe I should advise my china friends to go back and plant rice for us. Sounds like a good deal.
I fear for Singapore’s safety. Our only resources are our people and only people can sustain the economy but our youngsters are getting less and less patriotic nowadays, under the stockade of moral and social strictures.
we’re damn damn damn confined I tell you. Law of physics: “the more confined a particle is, the faster they will move!”
Make Singapore a better place through less oppression and more recognition. Yea, our economy is great. Our infrastructures are complete. We are clean and green, thanks to fines.
What happens to the social development then.
There are other benefits more highly valued, ya know. good and safe working conditions, freedom to choose jobs and livelihoods, freedom of movement and speech, sense of belonging, sense of purpose in life, freedom to showcase creativity.
Our media freedom is kinda bad. That’s why we cant produce Jane Austen, Shakespear and big-shot directors like Lee An. Jack Neo is the closest you can get.
Yea, cause labour is the only resource of singapore. We have to drive the economy anyhow. Have to be disciplined so that investors will be confident of investing in us. Have to import foreign talents to ensure a replenished labour pool of high quality skilled workers.
But these people are mercenaries ok. We can’t depend on them to be our pillar of economy! I say the first step is to cure the brain drain!
Our policies are damn contradicting sometimes. First its “stop giving birth at two” then it becomes “have three or more if you can afford it”. Yea, I know my social studies at the tip of my fingers.
Have you realised something? After flipping through the whole social studies textbook, it keeps mentioning about what diplomacy, sustaining development, social cohesion all is for the benefit of Singapore, cannot have social conflicts or investors will lose confidence, must upgrade ourselves to sustain the economy and yadda yadda.
Never mentioned anything about sustaining our happiness and self-esteem.
We must do this, cannot do this if not will what what what. I feel like a bonsai tree, constantly trimmed to fit someone else’s whim.
We’re like the kamikazesoldiers, born with a purpose and must die to fufill it.
Everything has become so technical and self-promoting. Like an artificial bell-jar or something.
Ok, I shouldn’t think like that. I should love my country, remember? Even if it doesn’t value you and love you for who you are. It’s for my own good. I should cry as crisis befall us and hug the Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles statue or something.
Is this entry inappropriate? Tell me if it is alright, I’ll take in down and apologise or something. I’ve made so many sweeping statemnts.
