The Singaporean mindset of choosing financial security over all their dreams and ideals.

Poem by Betsy Tan.

Cartoon by My Sketchbook.

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7 Responses to “They sit and wait…”

  1. We retire with what ? Is our retirement guaranteed?

  2. Very nicely written.

    Isn’t it time for us to kick some butts?

  3. Donaldson Tan 7 November 2008

    I remember from NS time: we sit to wait, and we wait to sit.

  4. Lol. This reminds me of some pop song, Robbie Williams’s ‘Angels’ or something. Or wait. Come to think of it, maybe this was inspired by Beckett’s title play ‘Waiting for Godot’.

  5. victor @young generation@ 8 November 2008

    sad man…..really…
    hai…
    buying a flat costly so much…
    how young can affort…??
    our CPF money all spent to buy the flat..
    so u only can work work work lo…

    do life is just work..??
    no…

    hahas…1 class…don lie lolololol….lolpop..

  6. ” Is our retirement guaranteed?”
    The clowns don’t even guaranteed you while they are still alive, why would they guarantee you when they are dead ?

  7. Of course your `retirement’ is guaranteed. It’s guaranteed by God.

    No matter what happens……..we will all `retire’……..whether we want to or not.