I couldn’t believe that I have posted some 7,000 articles in this blog over the years. When I started I wanted this blog to be a very provocative blog, teasing and tearing at the conventional thinking process, challenging the readers to look at things from different perspectives. I hope I have not failed in doing this. I just got screwed by several bloggers in TRE in my latest post on ‘Not owning a car is better quality living.’ What is apparent is that the readers read everything I said at face value, even with so many hints that it was not meant to be what it appeared to be. Only a few who have got used to my style and the innuendoes were able to see the subtle meanings and cynicisms from under the table. : )
The other major line of thought in this blog is that it is all about Singaporeans, about the interests of Singaporeans and the well being of this island. There is a Singaporean Spirit in us, among us, a string that weaved through the hearts of all Singaporeans as one people. It is there and still there, but flickering and may go off if we are not careful. I am not sure if the underlying mesage gets through, that readers can feel a greater sense of being Singaporeans, and feel responsible for this island and wanted to be and to do something no matter how small for this country.
As for the non Singaporeans, this blog may give them an idea of what being Singaporeans is all about, and the story of Singaporeans and how this island state is evolving, a continuous work in progress, or in regress.
The idea of national interest, country and people, have been in my vein, probably imbibed through the years when I was in uniform and then as a civil servant in Mindef. I was at one time even lecturing in the National Education Course. So this blog is kind of a continuation of what I was doing officially then and unofficially now, in educating Singaporeans about their country and what is happening to their country. Don’t let the Singaporean Spirit die. Don’t let anyone kill it. This is a constant banging at the consciousness and the subconscious, to kick the morose mind to a state of awareness and to take cognizance of what is happening. It is only when Singaporeans become more aware and politicised and understood what is happening around them would they stand up to play a more active role in the making of their country.
The affairs of the state, the well being of the country and its people, are not just the responsibility of a chosen few, the elected few. It is a matter that concerns every Singaporean, it is not just an economic matter, material well being, but a matter of the heart. Every Singaporean, a civilian, a civil servant, men and women in green or in blue or in civee, must always have the interests of the state and people uppermost in their minds, guiding their actions for the good of the nation and people. Only then can the people as citizens of this country continue to exist as one people and one nation. Anyone who loses this moral compass and strays, and compromises these principles for the wrong reasons would have to answer to his conscience and his children and grand children in times to come.
After writing so many articles over so many years, there is a big risk of going astray and walk down the wrong road like all human beans do. Every now and then it is nice to take stock and realign the compass to stay on the course. If our country ends up in the hands of foreigners and not our children, we are to be blamed.
I used to work in the little zoo in Tanglin and often have tea with the bird keepers in the bird park down the road. Those were quite some time back, Most of the bird keepers have retired, and so were the zoo keepers. I hope this blog will be able to bring more Singaporeans together to think and be like Singaporeans and not let the flame of nationhood be extinguished by the presence of too many foreigners and new citizens that may have different dreams from us.
Keep the Singaporean Spirit alive in each and every one of us.
~Only a few who have got used to my style and the innuendoes were able to see the subtle meanings and cynicisms from under the table. : )
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ReplyDeleteRB, I`ve always enjoyed your blog though I do not necessarily agree with everything you say or the way you put your views across. Are you waving your flag in case someone mistakes you for a "cancer cell to be destroyed" as GCT once described the opposition? Some highly imaginative people might just be able to twist what you wrote all these years to support that charge. Do you remember the one of the allegtions against Teo Soh Lung was that she was at a poetry reading session years before her arrest? And Tang Liang Hong`s participation at a government feedback session was used to tar him with the chauvinist brush. You can never be too careful.
ReplyDeleteI'm from the Pro Alien Party.
ReplyDeleteWe are not interested in building up a Singaporean identity.
We prefer faceless digits who will do as you are told.
The Singaporean identity is a threat to the Pro Alien Party.
Hopefully those days of Sinkie Talibans are over and the new Sinkies have better brains, better educated and know the basics of what is right and wrong.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at Punggol East, it is a good guide that the general population is highly sophisticated, well informed.
The bird keepers in the bird park are also more enlightened today than those days. There is a general awareness of what is good or bad for country and people. The blinkers have been removed.
Yes, sarcasm, parody, spoof and tongue-in-cheek stuff often are taken too literally by most Singaporean readers.
ReplyDeletelast time the days were good. sinkies takes things literally. now times are bad. so sinkies now know what is sarcasm parody, tongue-in-cheek, spoof. it is one way of dealing with the bad times. hopefully all this would lead to a change of govt.
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