Sunday, March 05, 2006
Uniquely Singapore
So fast-paced is the society nowadays that people practically have little time to enjoy, sleep and rest well. On the train, you see people sleeping for what seems to be the first sleep for their day. On the bus, you see people trying very hard to not fall out of their seats or hit the glass window with their head with their eyes closed. On the expressway, you see people moving endlessly about, each unable to determine which is a better place for them to be at. In food centers, people hurriedly grab their bites and many have already mastered the skill of eating fast without choking to their own death.
Life of a typical Singaporean consists of nothing but work, work and more work. In this extremely stressful environment, even a cyborg will smoke and explode. Yet, many Singaporeans plodded on, as if they are nothing but a mere machine, instructions running in their head, following pre-defined schedules and routine loops, totally detached from each other and their own inner soul.
It is impossible to survive in such a society without being trained from young to do so. From young, your parents, slaves of today’s society, actively mold you to become the slave of the next. From young, you would be given tuitions after tuitions, as if tuitions are miracle drugs that can push a dumb ass of IQ70 to IQ140. Too much excessive drugs are bad; the same is with tuitions. When your results deteriorate due to excessive stress derived from needless tuitions, your parents’ unwavering answer is more tuition for you. Although such excessive tuitions serves no purpose in improving your academic results, it serves a very special purpose: preparing you for the stressful life when you grow up.
Many parents believe is diversity, to such an extend that they hope their child can grow up to be a pianist, violinist, swimmer, ballet dancer and god knows what else when he or she grow up. So parents start enrolling their children into all kinds of useless enrichment programs; piano lessons, which is suppose to increase your awareness of music by just pressing a few keys in a pre-defined sequence, swimming, which is suppose to improve your fitness so that you won’t fall this way and that while sitting, or rather sleeping on any public transport and many others. What results are the parents spending excessive money to produce more stress and fatigue for their children to get used to. Of course, this is a perfectly normal and effective way to prepare the children to become slaves.
When these next generation slaves grow up and have their own children, they will continue to go about programming and training their children to become the future generation’s slaves. This never ending cycle is what made Singapore so unique.
Uniquely Singapore.
Life of a typical Singaporean consists of nothing but work, work and more work. In this extremely stressful environment, even a cyborg will smoke and explode. Yet, many Singaporeans plodded on, as if they are nothing but a mere machine, instructions running in their head, following pre-defined schedules and routine loops, totally detached from each other and their own inner soul.
It is impossible to survive in such a society without being trained from young to do so. From young, your parents, slaves of today’s society, actively mold you to become the slave of the next. From young, you would be given tuitions after tuitions, as if tuitions are miracle drugs that can push a dumb ass of IQ70 to IQ140. Too much excessive drugs are bad; the same is with tuitions. When your results deteriorate due to excessive stress derived from needless tuitions, your parents’ unwavering answer is more tuition for you. Although such excessive tuitions serves no purpose in improving your academic results, it serves a very special purpose: preparing you for the stressful life when you grow up.
Many parents believe is diversity, to such an extend that they hope their child can grow up to be a pianist, violinist, swimmer, ballet dancer and god knows what else when he or she grow up. So parents start enrolling their children into all kinds of useless enrichment programs; piano lessons, which is suppose to increase your awareness of music by just pressing a few keys in a pre-defined sequence, swimming, which is suppose to improve your fitness so that you won’t fall this way and that while sitting, or rather sleeping on any public transport and many others. What results are the parents spending excessive money to produce more stress and fatigue for their children to get used to. Of course, this is a perfectly normal and effective way to prepare the children to become slaves.
When these next generation slaves grow up and have their own children, they will continue to go about programming and training their children to become the future generation’s slaves. This never ending cycle is what made Singapore so unique.
Uniquely Singapore.
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