3/15/2011
A Japanese lesson
By the time the last head is counted, there could be tens of thousands of Japanese dead after the one in a century 9 on the Richter scale earthquake. The flooding water that rushed to the shore and inland, flooding everything in sight was 10m high. Yet, the Japanese were calm, stoic, as if it was just part and parcel of living in Japan. No panic, no kpkb, no screaming and crocodile tears. They put up a brave front despite the destruction and loss of life.
Coming home to Singapore, you should look at the faces of the lucky Singaporeans who escaped death while holidaying in Japan or missing a connecting flight to America. There were grief, fear, and some were sobbing. What a frightening experience and a narrow escape from death.
Come nearer to Orchard Road, we had the once in 50 years flood of 2 feet deep water. What a disaster! What a comic disaster. It was just an afternoon monsoon rain that could help to clear the longkangs of the debris that needed a strong flushing. Boo, boo, boo, crying all round and blaming everyone and the govt for not preventing a flash flood caused by two hours of tropical rain.
Singaporeans must grow up, learn to take disasters in their stride. The two feet of flood in Orchard Road should be time for a little fun in the rain. Throw some soap powder into it and have a free foam party. Enjoy and have fun the next time when it floods. No need to kpkb on spilling a glass of water. Learn from the Japanese.
The next campaign for nation building, clap and have fun in Orchard Road when it floods. Enjoy the blessing of water from the sky. Take a bath or have a party. There are worst calamities than a little flood.
And for those who are hell bent to have a nuclear plant here, because no choice, too many people and oil too expensive, the Japanese lesson will help them build a better nuclear plant that will never fail. If the local super talents here are not good enough, the foreign talents will swarm here to say aye aye, they can build one for us and guarantee it will never fail. They will not live long enough to see it fail for sure. By then they would have taken the money and gone.
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Mr Chua, perhaps all the "cow-bei-cow-boo" at Orchard Road were from PR & FT. As Singaporeans would have gone through 10 years of brain washing in the education systems about national defense that they wun make so much noise.
So the root of the problem may be the immigration polices which did not ensure that new comers were integrated in a smooth way... Instant people are like instant Trees that can fall in the lightest of breeze!!!
About these foreign fellas here, it is amusing yet disgusting to find that even at food courts and shops, some of them, are behaving the "sombong" way like their local counterparts, disinterested and rude.
Hehe have fun in a flood, enjoy the company of fellow patients in the hospital. Have the company of colleagues of the opposite sex and spend some nights in hotels after work. Go casino when pay comes in or go Geylang and gayland at Chinatown.
Or
like many rogue rulers around the world behave, oppose me, swear at me, fuck or fight me for all you want. So long as I hold the power and have the money, you shall be under control.
Among the survivals and those in the construction and property businesses in Japan now, many are rejoicing.
Construction materials will now be in great demand and their prices can be increase to the maximun and so will be the finished product, the houses. Many Japanese will be happy that their cities will be less crowded. There will be less competition in everything and much shorter queue in whatever they have to line-up for.
To make short and SWEET, enjoy life in whatever situation, be positive, make use of all circumstances good and bad. There is no point worrying about much that have not happened. Life is short and it is absolutely wasteful to live worrying over everything near and far. Be stoic, practical and pragmatic, there are bound to be people to exploit every situation.
For the idealists, they are likely to live in miseries and die worrying.
Sorry for a mistake made in my earlier post. 'survivals' should be 'survivors', please pardon me.
anon 1053:
You are correct. Although it would be impolite to 'jump for joy' at a time of human tragedy, many Aust businesses are going to do very well from Japan's bad luck.
No doubt, savvy and opportunistic GIC & Temasek will figure out how to make a killing (oh, my an insensitive pun) from this crisis.
redbean, when the next natural disaster hits Hotel Singapore, I'll be at the Sabun Party frolicking with the Sabun Party Gals -- hopefully getting drunk and nasty with bevies of promiscuous (but still catholic) Pinoy chicks stranded in Singapore.
Mahbuhay!
Brave front? You must be joking. These are people famous for 'hara kiri' and 'kamikaze', so what is a little disaster to them.
They have leaders in Government and private sectors, who will calmly take their own lives when they make a mistake. Not like some who just push the blame to scapegoats lower down the chain.
Yeah we all need to learn more from the Japanese culture.. It's been an intriguing insight since I started learning Jap language at Learn Japanese In Singapore
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