LEAVING YESTERDAY
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Wenyao
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Sunday, May 1, 2011, 10:44:00 AM
Truths & Lies
Truths or lies? Or does it even matter? GE2011 is around the corner, and I get my first vote for Singapore. At Jurong GRC, PAP had walked over for the past 10 years. Suddenly this National Solidatary (I can't be bothered to find out the correct spelling) Party(NSP) jumps up and challenges PAP. Yes, I agree to a lot of issues that the opposition had raised. Some of them are real weaknesses of the PAP. But seriously, who doesn't make mistakes? Sometimes things had to be done this way. Some issues from the opposition: 1.) Why increase GST from 5% - 7%? Do your Maths please, before you even mention about this, I got an average of $500 per year from the government after the PAP adjusted the GST. Maths tells me that unless i spend more than $500 / 0.02, which is $25,000, from goods and services, I'm actually getting more returns from the 2% increment. 2.) Making Singaporeans priority over foreigners in the work force. This is utter bullshit in my humble opinion. Which country does this? Malaysia. And does that work? NO. You will see a lot of problems attaining to citizenship and ownership. And don't mention that with this priority, Singaporeans will get complacent and lower their efficiency in work. It might solve a lot of problems in the short run, increasing employment rate or what-so-ever. But it creates A TON more problems in the long run. 3.) Transparency in settling national issues. The Mas Selamat escape, loss of billions from the Temasek Holdings, and many others. No transparency? I personally don't care. As long as it is not threatening my life and my property, you can keep all the secrets to yourself. Mas Selamat escape, no accountability? What do you want them to do? Imprison the guards? Fire the MP? We need to give people a second chance. These are ACCIDENTS, which in turn means UNINTENTIONAL incidents, if the Minister really really let Mas Selamat run loose, Temasek Holdings really had too much money and lost billions on purpose, I swear I'll be concerned. But these are all unintentional matters, so do we still punish these people? I'd give them another chance. Many of the times, people live in such comfort that they don't really know that they are in bliss. Tell a girl she's pretty and she'd remember for a day, tell her she's ugly and I swear she will remember it for life. Simple analogy, same goes to a lot of the comfort that we Singaporeans have. We take peace and comfort for granted. Enough of politics I suppose. Haha, Royal Wedding. This is something I don't understand, damn it. HAHA. I didn't watch the wedding, but I read about it. Fairy tales state that princes must be handsome, young and 'perfect'. I know fairy tales don't exist, but I didn't know the difference is this HUGE. He is bald and fat! Just because he has royal blood, he enjoys limitless fortune and limelight. So tell me: Is life unfair? I suppose so, maybe I should contemplate suicide. Die and wait for next life, maybe I'll be a prince! :) p.s. am i thinking too much? Or something actually happened last night? I wish I am wrong, but at times, I wish I am right... |