Comments on: TOC writers’ National Day thoughts

By: Keh KIang no good lah

Keh KIang no good lah — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:49:45 +0000

8) wahtever on August 13th, 2008 12.35 pm

So what u think seh and what say you leh. Some ppl are drooling all over their shirt to get outside people leh – not only those keh kiang ppl who studied abroad.

By: wahtever

wahtever — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:35:38 +0000

walao leh u u think wad act seh ah dun think juz coz u study abroad can keh kiang HOR

By: Olivebranch

Olivebranch — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:58:23 +0000

You summed up exactly my feelings. Why? because this govt force me so.
Actually the other night, I had more pride as a Chinese watching the Olympics opening because it was awesome and the Chinese govt did not make it a propaganda show unlike our NDPs which I had stopped watching many years ago because I know it would be the same old propandanda crap year in and out.
Some may say National Day in about Singapore and PAP is well…
But you can’t help it if the govt always equate PAP as Singapore.
Just look at the coffers huge posters and billboards all over the island and you
get the idea.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:09:49 +0000

Me too. I can’t help feeling more excited with the Olympics than our NDP. The biggest problem, I feel is the make up of the new generation of Singaporean is very different now and this generation of PAP leaders are not embracing it.

We want to have a voice in how decisions are made… not another Show Time in parliament for our MPs to talk among themselves on national television.

I continue to worry about Singapore….

By: Beijing 0808

Beijing 0808 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:51 +0000

The newspaper reports that only half thinks that Singapore is good for the kids……
When parents think and act, the young are influenced…..

Sometimes I wonder why we work so hard….other than for economical survival, for what now when I too have no more feeling for National Day.

Increasingly Citizens’ voices are not meant to be heard anymore.

Moving on, it seems that my neighbourhood too no longer fly the Singapore flag.

Luckily there is the Beijing Games on now and it will drown out thoughts of President and Ministers’ salaries, FTs, Mas Selamat, Peanuts, etc for a while

By: Just one Singaporean

Just one Singaporean — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:42:33 +0000

Edmund Lam

You have nicely described our present situation. Singapore is too much intertwined with the PAP.

Singapore should be intertwined with every Singaporean. They are so successful in dominating every “sense of space” that a lot of people feel left out in the process. Of course, there will always be those who really benefit from the system.

Any level of participation for those not really included in the true sense has that uncomfortable pseudo effect.

By: hongjun

hongjun — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:33:32 +0000

National Day to me is
Got off day or not?

By: tunkudon

tunkudon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:12:58 +0000

totally feel the same .. no more i love my country (pap) no sense of belonging . more like pap birthday . tomorrow all the ghost will celebrate with you(pap)

By: Nifty Blogs - The Online Citizen « Safe In A Crazy World

Nifty Blogs - The Online Citizen « Safe In A Crazy World — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:43:46 +0000

[...] voice from what you get in mainstream press i.e The Straits Times. for example, today’s feature is about the lack of patriotism in some citizens even when preparations for the National Day parade [...]