I would say that I quite much enjoy reading Rockson’s blog cause it’s uniquely Singapore! He just expresses himself the usual Singaporean way, raving and ranting about everything Singapore. Blog on man!
I’m probably writing this in my own perspective. He did mention about the bad stuff, and that’s where I’m looking at. Been doing some searching after reading his blog and started to think. Yes it’s true the rich are getting richer in Singapore and no one want to do anything about it. The rich have so much why do they not give some to the poor. If you’re a owner of a large company, get the company involved, go out do social work as part of the job package, spend that man hours and get people involved in the community do the work and spend the money for the community. It should be charity and for the people, not to setup some NPO so that some guy can have a $600,000 pay and golden taps.
In Singapore we are known not to open our mouths, if you open and then say the wrong thing you get jailed or visit the police station and have a cup of tea. Even when we come onto the Internet we get criticized and judged even though it’s a community of free speech. I think that’s very wrong, at the end of the day when we go out we dare not speak up, dare not communicate with people then all the Western people would have the upper hand as they tend to be more eloquent in their speech. The Chinese have a saying “Kill one to warn the thousands” it’s exactly what we are doing, now I do not really dare to raise my views on the Internet anymore. The Buangkok and Blogging incident are fine examples although I have to agree the blogging thing was overboard, but how about the Buangkok protest.
The white elephant!
I guess the reason for the Buangkok arrest was to Nip the problem before it starts getting out of hand, one incident may also spark many to follow suit and start to make protests, we do not want riots do we? But how can this situation be handled? I understand the LTA stand point of making profits and because of the way of our work system, merit and all it makes people want to strive harder. It’s not wrong but the harder people work the more they expect and that’s when all humanity start to degenerate from the depths of the soul and we become just soldiers, yes soldiers, unknowingly. Stop and watch as you exit the MRT during peak hour. We like soldiers falling in for duty and see us travel up the escalator very much like a platoon going to war with themselves. To stive harder, get bigger bonus and heck care about others. If higher managment in LTA were more passionate about the people they will open Buangkok even if it costs them millions in operations and make a loss. The other stations would cover for it, but why make a loss and earn less which would result in a smaller bonus?
Singapore is a fine place to live, we got a lot of reserves in the bank, prices of things are going up, we pay more and contribute to the reserves. When the world comes to an end all the reserves will just sit in some bank vault. We are a safe nation of “workers” who only work, our manufacturing process is conservative and out of fashion. We provide functionality but in this modern society everything is about fashion. Just my 2 cents for my sunny island, go figure.
