Saturday, July 08, 2006
so say we all
lalala, i've been reading Xiaxue and Mrbrown and i noticed that bloggers don't exactly have the best job in the world. Mrbrown had just been suspended from his column in the Today newspaper because he wrote
this article, and some press secretary dude had a problem with it and wrote a letter saying it's partisan. so Mrbrown did
this podcast. pretty smart i must say, but it still doesn't help anything, and now his income has decreased from the already low (i think) income which he receives. and to think he probably wrote that article to... i don't know, prove that the government is over-taxing. it's kinda ironic. and well, for Xiaxue, she's always getting critisized up, down, left, right and centre, always getting one of her sponsors to not sponsor her anymore and stuff.
not an easy job.
in Mrbrown's case, i guess he just think the government could inprove, like a hell lot. his podcasts are always making fun of what the government is doing and stuff, but nonetheless, he still loves Singapore which is quite obvious in his 'I am Singaporean' podcasts. unless he is being seriously sarcastic and just have no money to migrate, and thus force to love Singapore. which, come to think of it, is actually quite possible because i don't think Mrbrown is very well-off.
and Xiaxue just simply doesn't like those typical Singaporeans such as those loud talking, phelm spitting lao ahpeks who give a bad name to Singapore, and also people who hate Singapore. but she still really likes to live in Singapore by looking at her 'they hate Singapore' posts under 'the infamous' part on the right side of her blog.
and i think the most patriotic person i've ever
met is my senior, Denise. and i would really like to be patriotic to my country like
this dude but i honestly have no reason to like Singapore. all i like about it is that it's
safe
clean
quite modernised
and that's about it? i don't like the people (except my friends), but then again, i don't even like a lot of people from school. okay, honestly, i'm biased against normal girls cus they're soo... can i say Singaporean? there's a fine line between them and express girls but yeah, i guess there are quite a few girls from express which are somewhat like them and all. in other words, normal streamed girls are irritating, but irritating girls are not normal streamed. it doesn't really matter if you don't get it, i don't think i am talking rubbish but i think it might be kinda confusing. and also, i've heard a lot of tourists say that Singaporeans are nice. man, i could have laughed out loud right there and then. okay, maybe those people working at the esplanade and stuff and nice, but you hardly see any nice people in your everyday context. hardly any hawker stall holders are nice, NONE of the busdrivers are nice and it's a miracle if a taxi driver doesn't scold you for anything under the sun. and all this hullabaloo about 'gems', those hot pink thank you cards and what rubbish.
and i know i can't and probably never will appreciate the government because i don't feel as if i've benefitted anything from them. in fact, the more i think about it, the more i feel scared shit of the future. even now, we are already stressing so much about what we're going to do and all. fail maths, ITE also dowan you. fail english, ITE also dowan you. fail whatever, ITE also dowan you. that's scary. i hear those motivation stuff all the time, like "if you set your mind to it, you can succeed". i want to succeed but i don't really believe it because if you look at it, there are many VERY talented people and VERY smart people in the world but they end up doing what? some odd job or waitressing or something. my mother has this employee who went to some good school and studied in Australia and she's got a degree or bachelor in lalala, but now, she's struggling to juggle three jobs to support herself.
i know i was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, i used to cry over play doh and my mother would always say, "it's okay, don't need to cry. we can just buy more." i have no idea why i'm not a spoilt brat now. no, i am not one, surprise surprise. but yeah, people may go "aiya, why worry? parents rich mah". but someday, this money's going to be gone and then what am i going to do? but by the way, i don't plan on living on my parent's fortune at all, well, that is until i go out and work.
oh man, i think this post is kinda depressing, but i just wanted to show how much i don't really like the Singapore government. oh well, i guess this would probably the last of its kind cus i just realised that saying it all out is probably worse than keeping it to yourself, it kinda rubs it in i guess.
GONE SHOPPING, 7/08/2006 01:00:00 am
