“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the
life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
Seize
the Day After Tomorrow
by MIKOspace
Returning to MIKOspace from a 2-month’s break on
business and other matters, I am glad to welcome many new readers as well as
the many loyal readers who continued faithfully to visit myBlog. Nearly 10,000
page views have been recorded since MIKOspace’s debut on 7
September 2014. Your support has been truly generous and I sincerely
appreciate your encouragement. The last 2
months’ restful and productive break from blogging also provided opportunities
to reflect on 2015 and beyond.
Our conversations
will continue over a wide and wider range of topics, I promise. Education continues to top my
first loves. The stealthy insidiousness of bogus
World Universities Ranking Standards would be engaged even more ferociously.
Singapore’s Global Brand of Authenticity and Integrity should never
be misused and abused to mask their lack of credibility, validity and
reliability. It is my belief that our
fine Universities should not participate in lending and associating Singapore’s
pristine and impeccable credentials to otherwise fraudulent and bogus
standards of dubious criteria as adjudged
by the United Nations and Eminent
Professors of Education and Higher Learning.
We owe it to our
Founding Generations to be a
Nation of Law, and never to cheapen our Reputation, painstakingly built
over the past 50 years, in any manner.
And on our 50th
birthday in 2015, the future course and fate of our Singapore will be put to
before the people in a likely General Election with a significant distinction.
The decisive vote to determine the fate of Singapore over the next decade and
into the mid-21st Century will rest with an electorate whose vast
majority are born after 1965. They would
remember little of the 3rd World Singapore at their birth, and have
enjoyed the rapid prosperity growth of Singapore over the past 40+ years. Fresher memories instead exist among
most younger and new electorate of the increasingly harder and difficult years
over the recent 25 years when over-crowding from immigration and migrant
workers compounded increasing living costs associated with food,
transportation, medical, private housing, vehicle ownership and education
together with decreased opportunities for universities admission and choice job
opportunities.
The Pioneer
Generation (borned 1949 and before) and Post-Pioneer Generation (borned after
1950) would bring to the 2015 General Elections the active aging issues of
retirement, mobility, geriatric care, medical and the release, and possible topping-up,
of CPF. Already some are making a
fuss over the CPF.
The social and national
issues that could impact the 2015 General Elections shall be monitored closely
by MIKOspace who would enjoin the
conversations to enhance the debate quality and factual truthfulness of the
discussions.
In 2014, Hong Kong
students startled the world with their failed sit-down (with mahjong) protests
presumably for more democracy. I expect
these protests to return in some other forms, despite of their lack of agenda,
problem definition, credible issues and glaring absence of possible solutions. Democracy
in 2014 – Hong Kong Chapter concluded that they therefore failed to garner
the popular support of the vast majority of HongKongers to their doomed cause.
Issues
of Tibet and the Dalai
Lama as well as Racial
Harmony and Malaysia’s
Racist Politics would continue to surface, and MIKOspace would continue to
assert the truth with pertinent facts and our usual persuasiveness, in our Panorama
– Singapore’s Battle for Merger.
Indeed, 2015 would
be much more exciting than 2014. Carpe Diem. We must be ready to seize the Day
after Tomorrow. And, as Joseph Cambell
puts it, “be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life
that is waiting for us”.
Thank you, one and all, for 2014.
Have a Great and Bountiful Life Ahead.
Share your Abundance, Respect the Environment and be
Compassionate to those who are sick, younger, weaker and older.
Love all, for Love conquers all things and circumstances.
4 comments:
Indeed, 2015 would be much more exciting than 2014.
MIkOspace and reposted by RB
How much more exciting will really depend on Sinkies, or rather the Sinkie opposition lah. It will not fall from the sky, tio bo?
If they are just like in 2014 or earlier, how exciting could that be, u tell me lah?
Sinkies are not only daft but also boring.
Welcome back, MIKOspace.
Will vote you Best Newbie Blogger for 2014.
Your posts are refreshing, especially with references and fact-checks.
Good model for democratic dialogue.
I think you and Redbean make best couple ... hehehe!
MIKO sounds very jap. Something that brings a bitter taste for me.
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