btw, glad you decided to drop the r.

Guiness Book of Records again? *roll eyes*
We are already the unofficial guiness book of records holder for “the nation with the most number of stupid senseless mass orgy events in the world”..

Alot of senseless records that can only be forgotten in a second and I only remember a lot of clowns trying to participate to break the records.

Can you clowns try to break some records that people will come to remember you for like saving the most number of endangered species (and no.. you clowns are not one of them..there are plenty around..sorry)…. Or nation providing the most donations/assistance to the charitable organisations who need your help.

In the Name of Lord UDeep and of Singapore Polytechnic, WE WILL RISE TO MAKE THIS SUCCESSFUL! Let’s make this FAIR so everyone is happy!

For Singapore Poly! FTW!

you’re actually quite right in the ‘mass complaing part’.

before the internet age…………. we all thought we were loonies, complaining to ourselves.

with the advent of the internet age,………..we found out that we are not loonies because everyone else is also complaing.

what we have now is freedom and with it comes mass complaining!

maybe we are trying to get into the guiness book of records?

“We need to start nurturing no-comment singaporeans to learn to opinionate starting with small issues like …..”

There is no need for nurturing Singaporeans to be opinionated.
Singaporeans are well known for having a comment for everything under the sun.

Just asked any foreigners who stayed here long enough and they will tell you Singaporeans like to COMPLAIN.

But now..it becomes WORSE.. they are starting to complain in mass. Before, they were complaining to themselves at home or with friends.

We need to start nurturing no-comment singaporeans to learn to opinionate starting with small issues like

1. bus fares
2. safety of foods imported into singapore.
3. ERP
4. Salary & Foreign influx
5. Traffic light timings and effect on congestion

once they learn that in life, every human is different and unique and has different views, they would grow to understand why people can have a reason to disagree. That even loving couples can disagree on issues. They need to learn that discussions lead to better solutions and understanding. That Questioning is the key to discovering and understanding more.

I agree that we need to do the small things to wake this nation of apathetic people up. For all you know, we may be mistaken that apathy is the cause of their slumber.

Since the ST has already labeled us a ‘Petition Nation’ then so be it. If by drawing up petitions is the way to wake the people up, so be it. The end result is going to be very positive in this sense.

It might also be good, because the Govt cannot then ignore us. There is nothing wrong or dirty with petitions. It is peaceful, civilised and most of all it brings across the case of the people to the govt of the day.

So, let’s get on with more petitions that covers every issues that affects us. Let’s get more students involve too. This will ensure a brighter future for Singapore.

Philipines used it.
TW used it.
MY used it.
USA used it.

I’ve already forward the petition to my frenz though whether they support or not, i do not noe.

PS: I’m not saying the above method is wrong, i just feel tat we should try and ulitize the technology to maximise the efforts.

+U

I feel that the real problem is APATHY. We need to start from things like voicing up and opinionating on small things before people would opinionate on bigger things.

Many issues affect us Directly. This I fear many are oblivious to the point where they do not believe strong enough that they need to talk about it with all the tertiary student stakeholders.

I would hope to see more activities where students can opinionate their views openly. We can start with smaller issues so that its less ‘political’.

Suggestion:
1. Why wait 15 minutes for a short distance trip to the nearby MRT and pay for it when you can cycle? Is this productive? Is it productive to commuters when buses ply a big round to collect revenue ? How should cycling system be improved? What are your views on cyclists using the pedestrian path and how this affects pedestrains and their safety. Are there enough cycle ‘parking lots’? Why Paris can do it so well?