Sunday, June 24, 2007

Singapore - no longer my home

Used to be proud of my homeland Singapore for being the busiest port in the world when still a little kid in Primary School. We were small but the nation was united, I thought then.

Came the PSLE and GCE "O" Level and began to feel sick of the place.
We are human and not goods, why were we been labelled clever and not so bright for life according to exam result that each paper takes less than 3 hour to sit?
Not being exam smart is not a crime; getting a perfect 5 points does not make one an Elite.

Getting in University, getting sick of the place.
Getting myself in 5 digits debt for the study loan, even before I start to work.
Bad timing to get out of school when its the economic down turn.
Why blame others when I could dun go to the University?
All thanks to the brainwashing done to our parents that having a degree is a passport to good life.

We are still small but are we still united when:
The elite and rich continues to rise to the top.
The poor and uneducated contimues to sink to the bottom.
The in-between feels the stretch when the top continues to rise and the bottom continues to sink.

Our pledge "...We are one united nation", are we still united?
Don't see that coming among the foreigner talents, the PR and the citizens.
Come a economic crunch, the foreginer talents and PR can still retreat back to their homeland, the rich can just migrate to greener pasture but where can the other citizens head to, except the MRT track?

Singapore is becoming the little red dot "Pig Farm".
The top said "Give Birth" and we will give you some goodies, and the birth rate increased the next year.
The top said "We need to pay ourself good money to retain talent", and all the civil servants got good pay rise.
The top said "We think we have to rise out retirement age again", and we are waiting for it to be affirmed in the near future.
I don't want to be one of the farm animals who are supposed only to work and work in this farm, without any questions asked. I'm fighting for my freedom to get out from the farm.

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