6/27/2013
Haze a convenient smoke bomb
For more than a week, Singapore was and still is covered by a thick layer of haze, or smoke. No one can see through the white smoke thrown over the island like a godsend. There was relief in many corners with attention drawn towards NEA, PSI, PM10, PM2.5 and N95. Everyone is grouching about how to get life back to normalcy, how to breathe in a little clean air, and how to blow the smoke away.
People were praying for rain as rain was seen as the only way out to wash away the haze. And I think they prayed too hard. Rain came but in hard form of hailstones. The lesson learnt, pray hard but not too hard. Ask for help but just the right dose. And I think the people learnt and we had a bout of real rain yesterday. The sky was clearer, a bit better.
So is it time to see through the haze and to grapple with the temporary forgotten problems of cleaning hawker centres, of unemployed PMEs, of overflowing foreigners, of internet regulations, and the many unsolved problems hanging in the haze? Let’s hope the haze does not return to throw smoke all over the problems again. Let’s put aside the N95 and forget about the PSI, if we can.
While I was typing this, the air is still looking a bit hazy.
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7 comments:
There are always going to be problems/ opportunities.
Thankfully there is also always going to be an abundance of alcohol and wild, filthy, totally meaningless, but nonetheless enjoyable SEX.
Sometimes it makes good sense to live in denial of the problems. Don't worry, problems are loyal -- they don't go away. So you can get high and bang away with abandon, with the security of knowing that your problems are safe -- they'll be waiting for you anytime you choose to deal with them.
I propose a toast to procrastination, and self indulgent enjoyment! Perhaps find some wisdom in the famous words of Alfred E Neuman ;-)
Make more money, lots of it, for yourself, and the problems will be solved. For yourself, that is.
So ministers, multi millionaires and billionaires have no problems in Singapore. Not the type of problems RB blog about lah.
/// I propose a toast to procrastination ///
Let me think about it.....
Maybe sinkaland is so sinful that God sent down some plagues. More to come if they do not repent.
the latest smoke bomb is the hello kitty doll crisis.
As the haze appears to have cleared, the next step for the PAP would be to propagandise their message that you have to get used to prolonged episodes of such haze in future. Problem solved for them going forward, same as floods and MRT breakdowns. The latter two issues are now more or less non issues today. Singaporeans have been told, warned, adviced and conjoled to accept the consequences.
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