National Day again....hmm....cldn't help but think, what does it mean to be a S'porean.
I thought about it but I cldn't seem to answer myself. Is it the food, is it singlish, (the insensitive Sars rap song), for that matter, the ppl, the air we breathe, the water (or newater) that we drink?
i feel that it is really impt that we ask ourselves this qn, cos if we dun, when there is trouble in S'pore one day, then will we stay and help, or will we run away?
To me, one of the only few reasons why I am staying is cos most of my friends are here. I feel a sense of belonging here, but I wonder is that reason enough for me to stay when S'pore gets into big trouble. I guess I can only know when that day comes.
I can honestly say that I dun feel a sense of pride when I sing the national anthem, never did, and it was really evident when I was JC that most of my peers felt the same way. What really struck me most was that all of them, including the trouble makers of the school, always sang the school song louder than the national anthem.
I look at how S'poreans behave and I tend to ask myself whether there will still be a S'pore 10 yr, or mabye even 20 yrs down the road. The majority of the ppl are, in my opinion, selfish and inconsiderate. One has just to take public transport to see my point. pregnant ladies and old folks have this strange ability to make ppl fall asleep on the bus or mrt; passengers boarding the MRT always move into the mrt before the passengers inside can alight, ppl always refuse to move to the back of the bus..
So what if S'pore is a clean and green city? So what if we have a number one airport? so what if our students are amongst the best in the world for maths, when most of the ppl here lack true compassion and love for others. We can make headlines by donating thousands and millions to other countries' less fortunate, but we can't even give a few cents to the poor lady selling tissue papers at the bus interchange.....
Ppl may say I paint a bleak picture. mabye, yes....but I just feel so sad when I see all these...so much to the point that to prevent myself from being sad, I have hardened my heart......
happy 38th birthday S'pore..... 
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