Fragments from Monday
They say that showing up everyday at the site of one's creativity is good enough. It's been only two days since i made a vow to keep this page updated. For those who do tune into it it it's going to be a bit more than just about the family and kids and the sutras learnt along the way. It will become more rambling now, and i make apologies. I will also have weirder photos, although you could say that they are weird enough. As you can see from the banner above, it's sort of moved up a gear. I'm also experimenting with gadgets and stuff on the site. So it will change every now and then. I might start putting newsfeeds on it. I think it might become my very own homepage.
Last night, i was about to go to sleep, when i suddenly thought of a friend - i can't remember which one, sorry! - and then i thought of Lee Kuan Yew - honestly, i can't remember which friend it was. I say that because Lee Kuan Yew is not an immediate association which i make with my friends, although you could argue that i had enough of them in the civil service and therefore it would be perfectly natural. And i thought of how much i didn't like him very much. Actually that's a lie. I thought of how much i detested him. What had LKY done to me to make me detest him so much. Isn't that incredibly stupid, imagine hating LKY? People don't understand what it was like back then. Then there was still the possibility of another world. Although it has to be said that with the collapse of this latest incarnation of capitalism, there could still be another world, whether we liked it or not, but in Singapore, only one vision and one alone prevailed - that of LKY.
My dad loved the PAP and still does. He is a tremendous party supporter and has enormous respect and gratitude for the work done by the 'party' to get Singapore where it is now. And where exactly is that? To be perfectly frank, i have been really really really NICE about how i feel about Singapore. And that's because i've realised that the rest of the world is so utterly screwed as well. Still two wrongs don't make a right - but i digress. Singapore. What was wrong with it?
Then or now?
OK, then. I only encountered Singapore from one place until i was 18 when i left - and that was the education system. I was born in 1970 and by the time i was 8, they introduced the first streaming exams for primary three. I don't know if they still do that now - but they do their gifted exams that that age. If you do well in IQ tests, you get to go into the gifted stream. Back then at the age of eight, you were told if you were divided into three classes. I'm doing this from memory - so i may well be wrong. But we were never divided up in my school anyway. We were put into Class A and B, but it was fairly mixed. I think it was anyway.
Last night, i was about to go to sleep, when i suddenly thought of a friend - i can't remember which one, sorry! - and then i thought of Lee Kuan Yew - honestly, i can't remember which friend it was. I say that because Lee Kuan Yew is not an immediate association which i make with my friends, although you could argue that i had enough of them in the civil service and therefore it would be perfectly natural. And i thought of how much i didn't like him very much. Actually that's a lie. I thought of how much i detested him. What had LKY done to me to make me detest him so much. Isn't that incredibly stupid, imagine hating LKY? People don't understand what it was like back then. Then there was still the possibility of another world. Although it has to be said that with the collapse of this latest incarnation of capitalism, there could still be another world, whether we liked it or not, but in Singapore, only one vision and one alone prevailed - that of LKY.
My dad loved the PAP and still does. He is a tremendous party supporter and has enormous respect and gratitude for the work done by the 'party' to get Singapore where it is now. And where exactly is that? To be perfectly frank, i have been really really really NICE about how i feel about Singapore. And that's because i've realised that the rest of the world is so utterly screwed as well. Still two wrongs don't make a right - but i digress. Singapore. What was wrong with it?
Then or now?
OK, then. I only encountered Singapore from one place until i was 18 when i left - and that was the education system. I was born in 1970 and by the time i was 8, they introduced the first streaming exams for primary three. I don't know if they still do that now - but they do their gifted exams that that age. If you do well in IQ tests, you get to go into the gifted stream. Back then at the age of eight, you were told if you were divided into three classes. I'm doing this from memory - so i may well be wrong. But we were never divided up in my school anyway. We were put into Class A and B, but it was fairly mixed. I think it was anyway.
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