“But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel?”
have not been back in this space for ages. supposed the last time i blogged was 6 months ago? it's always nice to revisit such old blogs and reread the stuffs that i have written. everytime i do that, it brings me back to that place and that particular timing, and all the memories that swarmed back... nostalgia.
toronto has been a soul-searching experience. rag has been life changing. year 4 sem 1 has been exciting. the last holidays has been earth-shaking. and year 4 sem 2 has been... painful. i've found love and lost love. but you know, it does not rain forever. when the storm clears, the sun's gonna shine with a really beautiful rainbow :) still love you dumbdumb, you know i can't change the way how my heart feels, no matter how much i willed it to be. have faith <3
something i picked up from lessons today: schwartzchild radius is an imaginary radius where anything, once within that area, will never be able to escape from the fate of being sucked into the centre, otherwise known as the black hole.
we all have our own schwartzchild radius, don't we? the thing/place/whatever that you will never be able to run away from. we never really forget, we just learn to adapt.
toronto has been good so far. despite having been here for only 2 days, i felt like i'm actually beginning love this place. the sucker in me misses home initially, but i think as the days passed, the place grew more and more on me. i was sitting in a random cafe along the streets this morning, popped in because the weather was freezing my face but the cafe turns out to be a really cosy place where i could jus sit in for the day with a nice book and a sweet brew of coffee. even as i combed the streets of downtown today, it was quite an experience since u can call this the first time i'm being out alone in another country altogether. eaton centre was bustling with plenty of shops and people, there're even people dancing along the streets! roamed down to harbourfront, which was a nice quiet place with yachts and boats along the lakeside. and it looks beautiful even with the rain, imagine if the weather was kinder! headed over to a friend's apartment for dinner and wii/karaoke, it's always nice to make new friends when u're out and about. especially when we are from different countries! all in all, freezing weather, cosy apartment and homecooked dinner with tonnes of laughter made my day!
a sidenote, the cold weather here makes me think about things more. i could sit around in the wee hours of the day and get lost in my own train of thoughts. sounds a lil melodramatic haha but i guess that's how i am sometimes. i always appreciate such moments because it makes me feel stronger each time, and it builds me up for every pitfall that was to come along the way. i wouldnt say i'm better off this way, or that i'm extremely happy, but i guess life's about coming to terms with reality. keith's words rang in my ears every once in awhile, reminding me that happiness is not granted, and that i mite end up with nothing or everything at the end of the day, so it's better to stay rooted to the ground and quit having fairytale dreams. i'm curious as to what life maps out for me, definitely. i still yearn for happiness, definitely. but i don't really dare to dream again, you can say i'm afraid of falling but yeah that's the idea. but i'll still hold my head high, brace myself up when it's bad and celebrate when it's good. one of the reasons how come i love mickey so much, because i envied how he has minnie by his side for the past 80 plus years. i guess this trip gave me too much food for thought. time to sleep!
Owl City - Fireflies
Breakeven - The Script (Jayesslee cover)
i love this song!
i'm sick of mugging! there shall be no more of two papers on the same day, i hate to be unprepared for one while i'm trying to save myself for the other. i still got two more webcasts *faints* and mom's watching her show so i can only wait until she's done.
enough of the elections updates, i'm in fact starting to get a lil annoyed since newsfeed/twitter are flooded with election updates and comments. i'm sorry that i'm quite pro-PAP, so the mean comments that i see here and there are biting into me even though i'm trying to be more "on the fence" when i read them. enough about all the crossfires for all the parties, opposition or not. stop mentioning first world parliament, and get down to cracking your brains about what you can give the people first. if you're not able to provide solid solutions for the ward you are fighting for, there wouldnt be a parliament to begin with. elections are not about your pride. it's not about voting for you so that you can get into the parliament and as what one candidate said: "band together to tell the driver to turn left if they want to turn right" and "slap him if he sleeps". it's about us, it's about the exact people whom you have been rallying to vote for you. and i'll definitely slap you if you are just "all talk and no action".
it's jus upsetting, this whole elections. and now i see my notes, even more upsetting.
"HELLO EVERYPARTY TANKS for bothering to read this note. In the spirit of speaking dialects and shouting one-liners in Malay just to act yi ge grassroots, I shall try to keep my language simple. There may be some points that I mention that may seem clearly one-sided, but that's deliberately done, you know, just to have an alternative voice heard; an Opposition to the ruling consensus on the Opposition on the net. I must also make clear that I am not advocating for any party here - this is definitely not one of those "Us versus Them", lame 'WHY I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR XXXX PARTY" notes floating around. If anything, it is best if EVERYBODY considers EVERYPARTY before voting - sometimes the loudest, most popular parties suck the most (like Countdown Parties). This point is for the retarded few, those loudest and most extreme about their anti-PAP views and how they suck and should be brought down at all costs. When people look for flaws, all they see are flaws. Opposition parties pick up these flaws and coat them with honeyed words, AKA candy flaws. Beautiful curvaceous legs are a good thing to look at, but sometimes all people see are the holes in between. Our country's growth has truly been phenomenal - let's for now put aside those arguments about the equality of distribution of this GDP - we, this small dot, have a GDP that surpasses some jealous neighboring giants - TRULY an ASIA outperformer. Now some see the holes in this - "AHA stop being lame. It is universally known that income inequality is yi ge bad in SG. What's the point of high GDP?" Now, equality is a term more complex than Katong Shopping Complex. A pregnant woman who gets the priority seat? A populist protestor trying to win applause from the rest of the tired, standing commuters can shout (with Malay one-liners) that the woman may need the seat more based on her physical needs, but what about mental needs? "I am stressed when I am standing on the train - some guy in the crowd is max volume on his Angry Birds, and the guy behind me keeps pushing and saying excuse me when I myself want to get out also"; or , "Whose money was used to build this train? OUR MONEY. Your unborn son doesn't pay tax, so please give priority to taxpayers, for the sake of equality". The key point here is equality is an Utopian concept - and Utopia is an online game involving dragons, elves and farming. Given the constraint of finite time and finite money and finite manpower, we have to PRIORITISE. Pinker's Trilemma: that a society cannot be simultaneously fair, free and equal. If it is fair, individuals who work harder will accumulate more wealth; if it is free, parents will leave the bulk of their inheritance to their children; but then it will not be equal, as people will begin life with different fortunes. So - populist cries for taxing the rich and giving to the poor - do you think that is meritocratic? What about chronic gamblers and bums who suddenly get welfare allowances just because for being in the lower income bracket? Is that equal? Income inequality is a sad fact of life - we can allieviate it, but not remove it. People comparing extents of freedom of speech between Singapore and US should be more "equal", and also apply the comparison to income inequality - have you ever seen beggars grovelling at Raffles Place Station? I have seen them grovelling a couple steps away from Tiffany & Co. at Wall Street. What about the foreigner gang rape occuring here right now? Perhaps Nicole Seah should take her passport and leave the train and visit more developed countries. The influx of foreigners is everywhere. Globalisation has been happening since millenia ago and is only happening faster and more inexorably. There are probably more Chinese per square foot in Toronto's Eaton Centre than Tanglin Mall. It does indeed take time to adapt - we can ease this process by laughing at loud tiongs and making Leticia jokes at nearly every fast food joint counter - or be xenophobic to the point of Russians attacking random foreigners (youtube if interested) all because Russians are unemployed and the bloody Indians in Russia must be the cause of that. Please bear in mind that all our ancestors were immigrants - if Raffles was some populist nationlistic jerk Raffles Place would have been a country and not a MRT station. Isolationist protests exclaiming how the government is allowing the free market and Adam Smith to gang rape poor private shop owners and family stores are lame. Let's protect the kampongs in 18th century Singapura by sinking Sang Nila Utama's and Raffles's ships then. When China was super isolationist, people complained about the protectionist, stifling governance. When it opened its doors to the world and income inequality came in, they turned around and criticised the deluge of free market forces. A more accurate extension of the popular maid analogy would be that we are all palace dwellers hiring a platoon of maids from the same maid agency - they were trained by the same trainer and follow the same rules, but amongst them, abilities at managing the palace differ - from passionate workers to those who splurge their pay on Spate Kade bags and marry old rich Roti Prata stall owners with lots of strings and teh to tarik. When your dog runs away, do you blame the entire team and strive to sack them and burn the entire agency down and hire a new team of Japanese maids in kinky uniforms who happen to shout Malay one-liners and speak GrassRootian language? Some people on the Internet seem to want to do so. Ability comes from the candidate, and not the party. Failure in one candiate does not apply across the board; the same applies for stellar candidates. Be wary of the empty can rolling around and waking up the neighborhood but containing nothing when finally picked up; it is not a question of whether to have a co driver or not, but whether the co driver will make the driving better in the first place; opposing for the sake of opposing is bringing out the posing in opposing. Using funny analogies does not mean one can manage an entire country. Speaking GrassRootian language gives not much indication one can manage an entire country. Having a glib tongue does not show one can manage an entire country. Hounding nonstop on flaws and mistakes but not giving constructive solutions does not equal to good management of a country. But decades of stability and growth does give a pretty good, though not complete, indication that one can indeed manage a country. Yes, nobody is perfect - by phonetic extension, noparty is perfect. But not perfect does not mean not good. Not good does not mean other party good. Also, yes, having an alternate voice is important - but that's assuming that voice is making sense in the first place. Yes, I feel that ministerial income is lofty to the max- but bringing good leaders down in an attempt to bring salaries down is pure Down's Syndrome. So, after all these, what party am I going to vote for? Maybe PAP, maybe some opposition party, but there is no need to announce it like others."
(Y)
political jadedness
i hate to see how ugly this election has turned out to be. What started as a bid to instill healthy changes in the governing body of Singapore has become a petty catfight towards the end of the day.
The purpose of having opposing voices is to create that fine line of balance so that both the government and the population could fare well and grow as a nation. The opposition parties started out with the notion of "speaking for the people", "let your voices be made known to them" etc, but how did it became so disappointing in the end? Even after nomination has been filed, all you are capable to do is just to flame the fires and fuel the unhappiness so that you could use it to your advantage? where is the fair play that we are all expecting? Apart from the team of 5 from WP contesting for Aljunied GRC, i'm sorry to say that i have no respect for the rest of the opposing teams.
saying " despite their attempts to tempt you over the years" is not going to help you. Election campaigns are not used as baits to lure people to vote for you. This is for the good of the nation. You garnered enough votes to be the few opposing voices in parliament for the last 20 years because your people supported you, but i don't see it as a case of "your voters are not tempted by the contestants every 5 years". They voted for you because they trusted you. Temptation shouldnt even come into play here. Do give the voters as well as you yourself some level of respect?
saying "if the elections dept do not release their explanations within the nxt 1 hour, there might not be a need for elections at all" does not help either. Now that nominations has been said and done, you are requested to give a short 1 min speech to encourage your voters and to declare the start of all the campaigning efforts. Instead of all these, what i heard was a whole 1 min of how you feel unjustified about the fact that your objection was overruled and how you are gonna demand for justice to be served IN FRONT OF ALL THE SUPPORTERS, both PAP and non-PAP? i dun think that was a gracious act. What i feel was an act to fuel the flames and stir up this sense of hostility among the supporters. Fair play dude, i'm quite sure you're old enough to comprehend that? i don't think it makes you look any nicer now that you're eagerly trying to see your opponents get disqualified. no matter how much disdain you have for your opponents, keep it among yourselves. you don't have to make everyone as agitated as you are so as to stir up any sense of negativity against your opponents.
and saying things like voting them in to see a better parliament/brand new tomorrow instead of just PAP isnt gracious either. we, or at least me, are looking out for possible candidates who can represent us in the government to create progress in the nation, not to see you get into the government so that it's not all white. If you are trying to win over voters, i dun find this kind of statements particularly enticing. yes we need changes, but the intentions of the elections is not to upset the current governing body so that you can get in! and if you're marketing yourself like this, i think it's warped. Shouldnt all these be for the people instead?
I dun like how people are taking this chance to bring down PAP just because they find it unfair. There are flaws, but which government doesnt have flaws? To be frank, we owe a major part of the progress of Singapore over the last few decades to them. If not for them, would we even be standing here today? What i want to say is, we shouldnt forget what they have done for us all these years. I think it says a lot, and it's sad to see how people are against them despite them bringing us forward as a nation thus far. We are often too micro-focusing on details like "how come the government is all from the same party", "how unfair this and that" etc, but this is not the point in question here. There has also been cases where the government could have done better, and i definitely welcome worthy opposition parties like WP to instill healthy changes in the parliamentary body. but please, don't make things so ugly when the GE is supposed to be of a good notion. Be as gracious as the team of 5 contesting for Aljunied GRC when you're up against your opponent for a good fight. By fanning the displeasure of people against the ruling party jus isnt what i expected and definitely not what we would want to see. Do give yourself due respect before commanding that from your voters. Voters have their own judging criteria to stand by and it's definitely not yours to say what's what. Think carefully before we start to judge and eventually vote.
GLEE - Regionals "Get It Right" Full Performance
i'm bored, so i'm here (something which i have not done in awhile). i cant seem to concentrate, jumping between different modules which is quite a waste of time actually. i guess that's the result of too many things running through the puny brain of mine, so much so that i lost one precious nite of sleep haha. it's at this point in time where i really wished i had a brother/sister, someone to talk/listen/laugh to so that i dun feel so lonely? hahaha quarter life crisis, i have so much to say but it gets harder and harder to express myself these days.
"Take every chance you get. Because honestly no matter where you end up, or who you end up with, it always ends up the way it should be. Your mistakes are what makes you the person you are today. You learn and grow with each choice. Make everything you do worth it. Live your life as if there won’t be any tomorrow. Say how you feel, always be you, and be okay with it."
"Everyone is so caught up in their own heartache, they never stop to realize that other people feel things, too. We’re all so convinced that “nobody knows how I feel,” we don’t open our eyes wide enough. Overlooking the people that could help us, we go on with our lives, living in self-created prisons, prisons within our own minds."
i need to rant. SERIOUSLY marketing sux that's so much freaking work to do. and it's not helping that my stupid body refuses to pick up. i miss being all well and able to rush until the wee hours of the nite. now i'm either bogged down by my headache or flatulence. i cant get any work done at all :( AHHHH upset. now my head feels like it's gonna crack soon. helppppppppppppp.
i question the validity of your statement. like seriously.
"words are like water. once you pour water away, you can never take it back; likewise for words, once you said them, you can never take them back"
school's a chore, life's a bore. all i wanna do now is to grit my teeth tight, endure for one more year and graduate.
leave this place for somewhere faraway where sparkling starlights take my breath away
"they say the pain is excruciating, and it feels like someone just drove a stake right through your heart. the initial impact eventually dies off, but the pain that lingers behind, the other kind of pain, is the one that will never budge no matter how much you try to keep it away."
hmm two weeks of school jus flew by and i'm, sad to say, still in the holiday mooood. haven been touching my books, everytime i see all the notes i zonked out. so i start to meddle with my com which pretty much meant the wasting of yet another day. plus CNY is so near all i can think about is my angbao money.
so far, year 3 sem 2 has been nothing short of boring. although i enjoy doing preparations during pharm law lab because it's really like COOKING, but that's about it all! haha speaking of cooking, we made love letters, pineapple tarts and cookies over the wkend! wonderful CNY tradition that we stick by every year, i'm glad for all the family love i have.
i paused for ten mins, thinking of what to write. and i realised i've got nothing much to say. perhaps i've too much to say but i cannot seem to pen them down. maybe i should close down this space sooon.
have not been back in this space for ages. supposed the last time i blogged was 6 months ago? it's always nice to revisit such old blogs and reread the stuffs that i have written. everytime i do that, it brings me back to that place and that particular timing, and all the memories that swarmed back... nostalgia.
toronto has been a soul-searching experience. rag has been life changing. year 4 sem 1 has been exciting. the last holidays has been earth-shaking. and year 4 sem 2 has been... painful. i've found love and lost love. but you know, it does not rain forever. when the storm clears, the sun's gonna shine with a really beautiful rainbow :) still love you dumbdumb, you know i can't change the way how my heart feels, no matter how much i willed it to be. have faith <3
something i picked up from lessons today: schwartzchild radius is an imaginary radius where anything, once within that area, will never be able to escape from the fate of being sucked into the centre, otherwise known as the black hole.
we all have our own schwartzchild radius, don't we? the thing/place/whatever that you will never be able to run away from. we never really forget, we just learn to adapt.
toronto has been good so far. despite having been here for only 2 days, i felt like i'm actually beginning love this place. the sucker in me misses home initially, but i think as the days passed, the place grew more and more on me. i was sitting in a random cafe along the streets this morning, popped in because the weather was freezing my face but the cafe turns out to be a really cosy place where i could jus sit in for the day with a nice book and a sweet brew of coffee. even as i combed the streets of downtown today, it was quite an experience since u can call this the first time i'm being out alone in another country altogether. eaton centre was bustling with plenty of shops and people, there're even people dancing along the streets! roamed down to harbourfront, which was a nice quiet place with yachts and boats along the lakeside. and it looks beautiful even with the rain, imagine if the weather was kinder! headed over to a friend's apartment for dinner and wii/karaoke, it's always nice to make new friends when u're out and about. especially when we are from different countries! all in all, freezing weather, cosy apartment and homecooked dinner with tonnes of laughter made my day!
a sidenote, the cold weather here makes me think about things more. i could sit around in the wee hours of the day and get lost in my own train of thoughts. sounds a lil melodramatic haha but i guess that's how i am sometimes. i always appreciate such moments because it makes me feel stronger each time, and it builds me up for every pitfall that was to come along the way. i wouldnt say i'm better off this way, or that i'm extremely happy, but i guess life's about coming to terms with reality. keith's words rang in my ears every once in awhile, reminding me that happiness is not granted, and that i mite end up with nothing or everything at the end of the day, so it's better to stay rooted to the ground and quit having fairytale dreams. i'm curious as to what life maps out for me, definitely. i still yearn for happiness, definitely. but i don't really dare to dream again, you can say i'm afraid of falling but yeah that's the idea. but i'll still hold my head high, brace myself up when it's bad and celebrate when it's good. one of the reasons how come i love mickey so much, because i envied how he has minnie by his side for the past 80 plus years. i guess this trip gave me too much food for thought. time to sleep!
Owl City - Fireflies
Breakeven - The Script (Jayesslee cover)
i love this song!
i'm sick of mugging! there shall be no more of two papers on the same day, i hate to be unprepared for one while i'm trying to save myself for the other. i still got two more webcasts *faints* and mom's watching her show so i can only wait until she's done.
enough of the elections updates, i'm in fact starting to get a lil annoyed since newsfeed/twitter are flooded with election updates and comments. i'm sorry that i'm quite pro-PAP, so the mean comments that i see here and there are biting into me even though i'm trying to be more "on the fence" when i read them. enough about all the crossfires for all the parties, opposition or not. stop mentioning first world parliament, and get down to cracking your brains about what you can give the people first. if you're not able to provide solid solutions for the ward you are fighting for, there wouldnt be a parliament to begin with. elections are not about your pride. it's not about voting for you so that you can get into the parliament and as what one candidate said: "band together to tell the driver to turn left if they want to turn right" and "slap him if he sleeps". it's about us, it's about the exact people whom you have been rallying to vote for you. and i'll definitely slap you if you are just "all talk and no action".
it's jus upsetting, this whole elections. and now i see my notes, even more upsetting.
"HELLO EVERYPARTY TANKS for bothering to read this note. In the spirit of speaking dialects and shouting one-liners in Malay just to act yi ge grassroots, I shall try to keep my language simple. There may be some points that I mention that may seem clearly one-sided, but that's deliberately done, you know, just to have an alternative voice heard; an Opposition to the ruling consensus on the Opposition on the net. I must also make clear that I am not advocating for any party here - this is definitely not one of those "Us versus Them", lame 'WHY I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR XXXX PARTY" notes floating around. If anything, it is best if EVERYBODY considers EVERYPARTY before voting - sometimes the loudest, most popular parties suck the most (like Countdown Parties). This point is for the retarded few, those loudest and most extreme about their anti-PAP views and how they suck and should be brought down at all costs. When people look for flaws, all they see are flaws. Opposition parties pick up these flaws and coat them with honeyed words, AKA candy flaws. Beautiful curvaceous legs are a good thing to look at, but sometimes all people see are the holes in between. Our country's growth has truly been phenomenal - let's for now put aside those arguments about the equality of distribution of this GDP - we, this small dot, have a GDP that surpasses some jealous neighboring giants - TRULY an ASIA outperformer. Now some see the holes in this - "AHA stop being lame. It is universally known that income inequality is yi ge bad in SG. What's the point of high GDP?" Now, equality is a term more complex than Katong Shopping Complex. A pregnant woman who gets the priority seat? A populist protestor trying to win applause from the rest of the tired, standing commuters can shout (with Malay one-liners) that the woman may need the seat more based on her physical needs, but what about mental needs? "I am stressed when I am standing on the train - some guy in the crowd is max volume on his Angry Birds, and the guy behind me keeps pushing and saying excuse me when I myself want to get out also"; or , "Whose money was used to build this train? OUR MONEY. Your unborn son doesn't pay tax, so please give priority to taxpayers, for the sake of equality". The key point here is equality is an Utopian concept - and Utopia is an online game involving dragons, elves and farming. Given the constraint of finite time and finite money and finite manpower, we have to PRIORITISE. Pinker's Trilemma: that a society cannot be simultaneously fair, free and equal. If it is fair, individuals who work harder will accumulate more wealth; if it is free, parents will leave the bulk of their inheritance to their children; but then it will not be equal, as people will begin life with different fortunes. So - populist cries for taxing the rich and giving to the poor - do you think that is meritocratic? What about chronic gamblers and bums who suddenly get welfare allowances just because for being in the lower income bracket? Is that equal? Income inequality is a sad fact of life - we can allieviate it, but not remove it. People comparing extents of freedom of speech between Singapore and US should be more "equal", and also apply the comparison to income inequality - have you ever seen beggars grovelling at Raffles Place Station? I have seen them grovelling a couple steps away from Tiffany & Co. at Wall Street. What about the foreigner gang rape occuring here right now? Perhaps Nicole Seah should take her passport and leave the train and visit more developed countries. The influx of foreigners is everywhere. Globalisation has been happening since millenia ago and is only happening faster and more inexorably. There are probably more Chinese per square foot in Toronto's Eaton Centre than Tanglin Mall. It does indeed take time to adapt - we can ease this process by laughing at loud tiongs and making Leticia jokes at nearly every fast food joint counter - or be xenophobic to the point of Russians attacking random foreigners (youtube if interested) all because Russians are unemployed and the bloody Indians in Russia must be the cause of that. Please bear in mind that all our ancestors were immigrants - if Raffles was some populist nationlistic jerk Raffles Place would have been a country and not a MRT station. Isolationist protests exclaiming how the government is allowing the free market and Adam Smith to gang rape poor private shop owners and family stores are lame. Let's protect the kampongs in 18th century Singapura by sinking Sang Nila Utama's and Raffles's ships then. When China was super isolationist, people complained about the protectionist, stifling governance. When it opened its doors to the world and income inequality came in, they turned around and criticised the deluge of free market forces. A more accurate extension of the popular maid analogy would be that we are all palace dwellers hiring a platoon of maids from the same maid agency - they were trained by the same trainer and follow the same rules, but amongst them, abilities at managing the palace differ - from passionate workers to those who splurge their pay on Spate Kade bags and marry old rich Roti Prata stall owners with lots of strings and teh to tarik. When your dog runs away, do you blame the entire team and strive to sack them and burn the entire agency down and hire a new team of Japanese maids in kinky uniforms who happen to shout Malay one-liners and speak GrassRootian language? Some people on the Internet seem to want to do so. Ability comes from the candidate, and not the party. Failure in one candiate does not apply across the board; the same applies for stellar candidates. Be wary of the empty can rolling around and waking up the neighborhood but containing nothing when finally picked up; it is not a question of whether to have a co driver or not, but whether the co driver will make the driving better in the first place; opposing for the sake of opposing is bringing out the posing in opposing. Using funny analogies does not mean one can manage an entire country. Speaking GrassRootian language gives not much indication one can manage an entire country. Having a glib tongue does not show one can manage an entire country. Hounding nonstop on flaws and mistakes but not giving constructive solutions does not equal to good management of a country. But decades of stability and growth does give a pretty good, though not complete, indication that one can indeed manage a country. Yes, nobody is perfect - by phonetic extension, noparty is perfect. But not perfect does not mean not good. Not good does not mean other party good. Also, yes, having an alternate voice is important - but that's assuming that voice is making sense in the first place. Yes, I feel that ministerial income is lofty to the max- but bringing good leaders down in an attempt to bring salaries down is pure Down's Syndrome. So, after all these, what party am I going to vote for? Maybe PAP, maybe some opposition party, but there is no need to announce it like others."
(Y)
political jadedness
i hate to see how ugly this election has turned out to be. What started as a bid to instill healthy changes in the governing body of Singapore has become a petty catfight towards the end of the day.
The purpose of having opposing voices is to create that fine line of balance so that both the government and the population could fare well and grow as a nation. The opposition parties started out with the notion of "speaking for the people", "let your voices be made known to them" etc, but how did it became so disappointing in the end? Even after nomination has been filed, all you are capable to do is just to flame the fires and fuel the unhappiness so that you could use it to your advantage? where is the fair play that we are all expecting? Apart from the team of 5 from WP contesting for Aljunied GRC, i'm sorry to say that i have no respect for the rest of the opposing teams.
saying " despite their attempts to tempt you over the years" is not going to help you. Election campaigns are not used as baits to lure people to vote for you. This is for the good of the nation. You garnered enough votes to be the few opposing voices in parliament for the last 20 years because your people supported you, but i don't see it as a case of "your voters are not tempted by the contestants every 5 years". They voted for you because they trusted you. Temptation shouldnt even come into play here. Do give the voters as well as you yourself some level of respect?
saying "if the elections dept do not release their explanations within the nxt 1 hour, there might not be a need for elections at all" does not help either. Now that nominations has been said and done, you are requested to give a short 1 min speech to encourage your voters and to declare the start of all the campaigning efforts. Instead of all these, what i heard was a whole 1 min of how you feel unjustified about the fact that your objection was overruled and how you are gonna demand for justice to be served IN FRONT OF ALL THE SUPPORTERS, both PAP and non-PAP? i dun think that was a gracious act. What i feel was an act to fuel the flames and stir up this sense of hostility among the supporters. Fair play dude, i'm quite sure you're old enough to comprehend that? i don't think it makes you look any nicer now that you're eagerly trying to see your opponents get disqualified. no matter how much disdain you have for your opponents, keep it among yourselves. you don't have to make everyone as agitated as you are so as to stir up any sense of negativity against your opponents.
and saying things like voting them in to see a better parliament/brand new tomorrow instead of just PAP isnt gracious either. we, or at least me, are looking out for possible candidates who can represent us in the government to create progress in the nation, not to see you get into the government so that it's not all white. If you are trying to win over voters, i dun find this kind of statements particularly enticing. yes we need changes, but the intentions of the elections is not to upset the current governing body so that you can get in! and if you're marketing yourself like this, i think it's warped. Shouldnt all these be for the people instead?
I dun like how people are taking this chance to bring down PAP just because they find it unfair. There are flaws, but which government doesnt have flaws? To be frank, we owe a major part of the progress of Singapore over the last few decades to them. If not for them, would we even be standing here today? What i want to say is, we shouldnt forget what they have done for us all these years. I think it says a lot, and it's sad to see how people are against them despite them bringing us forward as a nation thus far. We are often too micro-focusing on details like "how come the government is all from the same party", "how unfair this and that" etc, but this is not the point in question here. There has also been cases where the government could have done better, and i definitely welcome worthy opposition parties like WP to instill healthy changes in the parliamentary body. but please, don't make things so ugly when the GE is supposed to be of a good notion. Be as gracious as the team of 5 contesting for Aljunied GRC when you're up against your opponent for a good fight. By fanning the displeasure of people against the ruling party jus isnt what i expected and definitely not what we would want to see. Do give yourself due respect before commanding that from your voters. Voters have their own judging criteria to stand by and it's definitely not yours to say what's what. Think carefully before we start to judge and eventually vote.
GLEE - Regionals "Get It Right" Full Performance
i'm bored, so i'm here (something which i have not done in awhile). i cant seem to concentrate, jumping between different modules which is quite a waste of time actually. i guess that's the result of too many things running through the puny brain of mine, so much so that i lost one precious nite of sleep haha. it's at this point in time where i really wished i had a brother/sister, someone to talk/listen/laugh to so that i dun feel so lonely? hahaha quarter life crisis, i have so much to say but it gets harder and harder to express myself these days.
"Take every chance you get. Because honestly no matter where you end up, or who you end up with, it always ends up the way it should be. Your mistakes are what makes you the person you are today. You learn and grow with each choice. Make everything you do worth it. Live your life as if there won’t be any tomorrow. Say how you feel, always be you, and be okay with it."
"Everyone is so caught up in their own heartache, they never stop to realize that other people feel things, too. We’re all so convinced that “nobody knows how I feel,” we don’t open our eyes wide enough. Overlooking the people that could help us, we go on with our lives, living in self-created prisons, prisons within our own minds."
i need to rant. SERIOUSLY marketing sux that's so much freaking work to do. and it's not helping that my stupid body refuses to pick up. i miss being all well and able to rush until the wee hours of the nite. now i'm either bogged down by my headache or flatulence. i cant get any work done at all :( AHHHH upset. now my head feels like it's gonna crack soon. helppppppppppppp.
i question the validity of your statement. like seriously.
"words are like water. once you pour water away, you can never take it back; likewise for words, once you said them, you can never take them back"
school's a chore, life's a bore. all i wanna do now is to grit my teeth tight, endure for one more year and graduate.
leave this place for somewhere faraway where sparkling starlights take my breath away
"they say the pain is excruciating, and it feels like someone just drove a stake right through your heart. the initial impact eventually dies off, but the pain that lingers behind, the other kind of pain, is the one that will never budge no matter how much you try to keep it away."
hmm two weeks of school jus flew by and i'm, sad to say, still in the holiday mooood. haven been touching my books, everytime i see all the notes i zonked out. so i start to meddle with my com which pretty much meant the wasting of yet another day. plus CNY is so near all i can think about is my angbao money.
so far, year 3 sem 2 has been nothing short of boring. although i enjoy doing preparations during pharm law lab because it's really like COOKING, but that's about it all! haha speaking of cooking, we made love letters, pineapple tarts and cookies over the wkend! wonderful CNY tradition that we stick by every year, i'm glad for all the family love i have.
i paused for ten mins, thinking of what to write. and i realised i've got nothing much to say. perhaps i've too much to say but i cannot seem to pen them down. maybe i should close down this space sooon.
