This Anton Casey case... Yeah, it's obvious his remarks were disdainful and mindlessly stereotypical. But don't people think from this we've got a bigger issue idling within our laundry basket? Amy Cheong, Stephanie Koh and Anonymous - among other waves of social media - have already bashed aspects of Singapore. Indiscretion and uncharismatic tactics aside, kudos to those who dare hang our soiled linen out in a funhouse of patriotic drones.
I've taken nosedives in-between people and culture, both local and national, and the difference is like friggin’ water and booze. People here are caught in a loop of unhappiness; the complaints are always the same: "Foreigners", "fare hikes", "public transport", "education", "housing", "employment"... Having to go out sometimes can be a turn-off when Singaporeans on the streets pout like they've just gone through an ascetic vasectomy, castrated and impotent. That's probably why our night life seems brighter than our day.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
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Showing posts with label Singaporeans complain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singaporeans complain. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Complaint King
This post is regarding Singapore's news and how local events have been affecting us lately & tremendously. I hope this gets through to whoever seriously reads it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/polybus/petition.html
As indignant as I feel about this one-sided, narrow-minded policy, I cannot stress and rekindle how everyone has been holding a firm ground against it, because the policy-makers know it and understand us. It's rather useless to say any more since we're reiterating the same old, but explicitly valid arguments. I beseech the legislative parliament to do a better job passing bills. Redundant or not, it's the citizens who have to face the barrage of repercussions.
Some complaints WE advocate:
Equality - institutional equality, please! Is it an absolute to segregate the rights of the institutions? What did we do to deserve such an injustice on a silver platter? Why are there over ten thousand students rampaging their grievances through a petition? What ever happened to democracy?
Irony - am I using the wrong word or should it be hypocrisy? Public transport is an accessory of transportation, meant to impregnate a sense of convenient accessibility. The purpose of public transport is the rationale by which we take it, is it not? If this rationale is dissuaded by spiking prices and tardy timings,
http://www.petitiononline.com/polybus/petition.html
As indignant as I feel about this one-sided, narrow-minded policy, I cannot stress and rekindle how everyone has been holding a firm ground against it, because the policy-makers know it and understand us. It's rather useless to say any more since we're reiterating the same old, but explicitly valid arguments. I beseech the legislative parliament to do a better job passing bills. Redundant or not, it's the citizens who have to face the barrage of repercussions.
Some complaints WE advocate:
Equality - institutional equality, please! Is it an absolute to segregate the rights of the institutions? What did we do to deserve such an injustice on a silver platter? Why are there over ten thousand students rampaging their grievances through a petition? What ever happened to democracy?
Irony - am I using the wrong word or should it be hypocrisy? Public transport is an accessory of transportation, meant to impregnate a sense of convenient accessibility. The purpose of public transport is the rationale by which we take it, is it not? If this rationale is dissuaded by spiking prices and tardy timings,
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