Daily SG: 22 Jan 2009
Tan Yong Soon can cook, Charles Chong tells us lesser mortals to f#*k off
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Just Stupid
- Cavalierio: Discordant note – Pax Singaporeana
- Sam’s thoughts: Sacrebleu! Singapore is classed
- The Singapore Enquirer: MP Charles Chong’s reply to blogger draws more flak from online community
- Kaffein-nated: Get out of my ‘greater mortal’ face!
- The Secret Political Blog: I am a Lesser Mortal!
- The Void Deck: Elitism Rawkz! (My lesser mortal ass)
President Barak Hussien Obama Inauguration
- Feed Me To The Fish: There is none so blind as he who refuses to see
- Just Stuff: Obama, The Singaporean Dream and Beyond
- Singabloodypore: Obama to receive Singapore plea
The Association of Bloggers
- The Lycan Times: Current Affairs: Association of Bloggers Singapore
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Square Room
- a blog day’s work: A new association of, or for, bloggers
- Holly Jean: The Association Of Bloggers. What’s In It For ME?
- Jialat.com: Sorry, Association Of What?
Strangers No More in a Strange Land
- nofearSingapore: Singapore faces the abyss and what I can do about it!
- EastStop: When the underlying assumptions are wrong…
- Mr Wang Says So: 300,000 Job Losses is a Scary Thought
- Diary of A Lesser Mortal: Singapore’s 2009 GDP forecast -2% to -5%
Singapore Budget 2009
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Hope over fear, Singapore!
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Budget 2009, a foreword
- Singapore Alternatives: Budget for Crisis of Confidence
Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Singapore Law Society: A Crippled Tiger?
High Notes and Minibombs
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Make a donation, if you have received adequate compensation
Parliament 12 Nov 2007
- Workers’ Party: Increasing In cost Of Living, CPF (Amendment) Bill
Have you ever wondered why we must serve
- Almost Infamous: In Defense of Defense
Daily Discourse
- TOC: Religious harmony in Singapore – a façade?
Life, the universe and everything
- Aussie Pete: Nudity Makes Top New Stories
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Did your blood boil when you read the papers?
http://informationreadbyme.blogspot.com/2009/01/government-can-do-little-maybe-078.html
Regards
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Some really major things have happened recently. Not only we are now right in the midst of a long and very painful economic turmoil (300,000 jobs lost?! Blimey!), there’s a new bloke occupying the Oval Office now with millions upon millions of people hoping that this one man can change their lives forever.
Just a few words about this bloke – whom I agree with many others that he is one charismatic chap, only time will tell if he can deliver. I sincerely hope that all of these expectations placed on him – stemming from the general optimism surrounding his appointment – will not end in tears. What worries me is how things have degenerated so much that almost everyone and his dog is hoping that one man alone can solve the world’s problems (conversely, it takes one man to create more problems than the world can solve).
At the same time, we have an interesting thing developing, which is indicative of how a congenial community that started way back (about the time when the dastardly-thrown-all-about-now word “blog” was merely mistaken for yet another IT term) has become a distant memory. Semantics aside, it sickens me how humans criticise for the sake of it or just because “the big boys (or bullies) do it and therefore, so I shall”.
Above it all, the immaturity of it all simply adds to the fodder of the powers-that-be about how everything must be controlled lest it spirals into a bigger monster. Instead of addressing fears about how the impending financial tsunamis (note the “s”) will hit us, we have mud-slinging matches over something that some group of people started (note: it’s not like their little gig is absolutely useful during these trying times either).
In a separate development, we have some people up in arms over how some bloke decides to tell everyone and his dog how he spends money. The issue is blown into epic proportions just because some people decide that a certain national rag is the sum total of their source of news. It makes us sound smaller than this wee island that we live in already, when thousands of miles away, we have families who receive unsolicited calls on their phones at home, warning them about the arrival of a bomb at their neighbour’s.
This should put all that nitpicking over the ending of the Little Nonya into perspective, shouldn’t it?
Well, apparently no.
As though, all of this is not enough, we have an outcry of how someone made a terrible mistake in his choice of words (or rather, word). Don’t we have more serious business to deal with than to whinge over someone’s slip of tongue or that some ending of a drama blockbuster has cheated people of the time they spent following all 30-odd episodes? This is especially when we’ll soon be flooded with pink slips. Shouldn’t there be more discourse or even worry over how the official forecast for the year puts us into the negative? If this is not worrying, I cannot imagine what else is.
We should take ourselves less seriously, seriously. The last time when the world felt the full force of a major downturn, a major world war had to happen to haul itself out of it. Why are Governments around the world so concerned about the economic situation, especially the big red country north of Southeast Asia? What would millions of unemployed people do when they have too much time on their hands, knowing full well that whinging will bring nowhere closer to solving their problems? [Remember the rather curious incident when citizens of this said country gathered outside one of our government offices?]
With a major festival just around the corner, I appeal to the minds of the many out there to think about the three Chinese New Years in our island nation’s history when rice (not abalone, sharks fin or fish maw) was the luxury item on tables of many families’ reunion dinner.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I disagree that it has been blown out of proportion. If this was an uncle at the coffeeshop, or a self made millionaire private entrpreneur who had mocked the general public, I would declare him a snob and let it slide. He made his own money, he is rich and he is an asshole. BUT these people are public servants. They are getting rich from tax payers money, yours and my money, and the old auntie picking up trash at the foodcourt, its her money too. I am not asking much, just a bit of humility and gratefulness that the people made them rich.
If they think that its beneath them, they can jolly well quit the public sector and duke it out with everyone else in the private sector.
Yes there are much more important matters to tackle during this time. But fuck if I’m going to let them get away with thinking they are of a CLASS above ordinary citizens.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
*correction
humility and GRATITUTE*