More on Minilee's incredible NDRS last Sunday.
It’s good luck, it's good government, it's strong people. You look at the other countries which have reached this point after independence, after the war. The problems that have beset them, the existential angst they feel.
Look at Israel at this point in their history which is probably about 1990. The problems are almost insoluble for them but for us with prosperity, peace with our neighbours, with our people looking forward to a better future and when you have the parade, the same spirit, the same togetherness, that same conviction that we will do our best for Singapore.
Minilee's speechwriters and historians must be from Raffles Institution? They seem to have slept through the past 10 years of Singapore history, which has seen:
Queer poet Alfian Sa'at winning a literature prize for writing poems like "Singapore, you are not my country".
Hordes of post-Independence Singaporeans writing poems critical of the Merlion.
Catherine Lim getting slammed as "disrespectful of authority" by Mr Peanut Goh for pointing out the existence of a Great Affective Divide between the PAP and Singaporeans, and urged to start her own political party if she wanted to comment more on the Government.
Jack Neo and Raintree Pictures breaking local box-office records with films capitalising on issues like: Unemployment, Chinese-speaking heartlanders' fears of getting left behind, Gambling as a financial investment scheme by the poor, Life in the HDB underclass.
Young gay and lesbian Singaporeans exiled by their parents to Australia, out of sight and mind from relatives.
The government's continued anxiety over how Singlish is associated with Singapore causes Phua Chu Kang to take English lessons.
Complaints by Singaporeans for being treated as second-class citizens in their own country, worse off than "foreign talents" from UK, America, Australia, HK and China.
The author of Singapore's Elected President law, Thio Li-Ann, musing in the national paper that the office has become useless, ceremonial, and contrary to its original purpose.
The harassment of filmmaker Martyn See, by the police, for making a documentary on an opposition politician and sending it for film festivals abroad.
The increased unemployment and shrinking labour force participation rate, despite the "recovery".
Singapore's only adult cabinet minister, Tony Tan, ominously hinting that Singaporean workers are too expensive, compared to their counterparts in China and India.
The outrage of Singaporeans over the fraud of NKF and the government's blind support of the organisation.
(I plan to make each item linkable; unfortunately I can't recall or even find the articles that should exist... ie. I need your help)
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3 comments:
lol - amen. looking fw to the link for Alfian's poem. he is such a hero.
great sardonic post. (shame on you for bagging out but the elite boys' wankademia in sg, too, but that's secondary.)
garota, actually I do have a more direct post bagging the elite boys' wankademia, but we'll save that for a rainy day =D
One of the things I'll be telling my grandchildren is the fact that I went to school with him (ie Alfian).
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