Its flag is derivative from its neighbors: the white and red from Indonesia, the Crescent-and-Star from Malaysia. Singapore’s flag also has no name (Sang Merah Putih, and Jelur Gemilah for Indonesia and Malaysia respectively). *sarcasm again*

I think we are appealed to unite as a “nation” when it suits the Powers for us to be, i.e. when we are in active revolt against rule, and to be as passive a “city” when the term is convenient, i.e. when we appeal to the rights of Citizenship and demand civil / political rights that we are supposed to have under rule.

All those who have gone through NS, remember the oath you were forced to swear and sign on pain of imprisonment? The one that includes the clause “I swear to be loyal to the PRESIDENT? (my emphasis)” Bingo. I do not serve the interest of my COUNTRY ( / city ). I serve its chief executive. And if I disobey an order from the Power, my commanding officer is fully licensed to have me shot.

If you are concerned with the collapse of the USD, then buy gold, silver, rhodium or platinum. As simple as that.

You forget we are Uniquely Singapore. Therefore, our SPH more interested in negative foreigner news like natural disaster, death, violent riot & protest in other countries. In other word, foreign News that make Singaporean feel good and fortunate how lucky they are to be Singaporean at the expense of other countries. Otherwise how can MIW and PAP can continue to be arrogant, hoodwinking the nation and command astronomical salary ?

Fearless freedom,
within the beautiful blue sky,
as the beautiful birds soar
and freely fly.
Could there be crooked crocodiles
or ruthless birds of prey
beneath and on the surface
of the calm waters and space?

Don’t forget,
this is uniquely Singapore!
Men-in-White and Wolves-in-White
are similarly everywhere,
every time.
Are our calm and peace,
progress and prosperity real?

Everyone loves calm, peace,
justice, freedom and happiness.
But with MIWs in power grip
greedier and tighter,
more callous, more heinous,
more ruthless by the day,
Will commoners’ contentment
be real, a dream or nightmare?

If after so many years past,
and our national pledge is nothing
but just an aspiration,
a bombshell hurl’d by the Father
like suicide terrorists,
upon the mesmerized masses,
unaware of the lurking danger,
wherefore is our inspiration?

If after 50 years of nation-building,
the Little Red Dot is anything
but still not a nation,
another bombshell cast
again by none other than the Father
upon subservient souls,
oblivious of their lives and limbs,
what for we sing the national anthem
and do national service?

If after existing 50 years,
for all intents and purposes,
as an independent country
and the whole wide world knows,
Singapore is but only a mere city,
not a country, albeit
a city of possibilities,
a garden city or coming sin city,
a third bombshell cast
also with all intents and purposes,
by another respected man of law,
a long-time incumbent,
a later legacy of the British Empire,
where then is our country?

What are we living for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we defending?
What will we by dying for?

What then is our nationality?
Where then is our country?
Where then is our home?
Where do we belong?

By ‘Green Peas’
8 November, 2009.
Singapore.

Get over it, there are bigger issues at hand, such as the collapse of the American Dollar.

Majullah Singapura, may a hundred “bunga-bunga” bloom, eh?

The Pariah, http://www.singaporeenbloc.blogspot.com

Wholeheartedly agree what you had said.

Whatever topics, there’s different in opinions. Between the lines your stated City State… & your final lines “Lastly, our Modern Singapore is a City State and our only place we called Our Home, not Our House as you put it in one of your article”

For the sake of discussions how do we refine “City” & “State”?

Luckily we are all fated being Singaporeans, otherwise we are Malaysians if we are not kicked out in 9 Aug 65. Then Singapore became the City and a State of Malaysia. Thumbs up to all the old guards who had delivered what were promised in the mid & late 60s. Earlier HDB housing consist mostly one room rented flats & 3 rooms flat for sale, in fact it was leased.

Your are absolutely correct to say “Our Home not Our house” as there are not freehold, yet many are still paying monthly installments till one’s last breaths. Similarly it will tore down like those rented flats by the next generation. Are we ordinary Singaporeans working for our next generations like our late parents did for us? Or are the current government did for their next generations after the lease expire? Let’s guess.

Cheers
Ordinary Overseas Singaporeans

“Re-merger is possible should unprecedented economic woes confront S’pore but this will be on terms largely set by Malaysia.”

Hi K Das, Reading through your [#39] Really nice thought of yours, keep it up my fellow ageing Singaporean.

My personal opinion, it impossible for any merger, we should be too proud of our S$ dollars. Secondly ask any Singaporeans how secure one feels after passing the causeway? Then what about overall corruptions? Malaysian RM still not trade able over most foreign banks counters.

Dear Mr. Minister Shanmugam. Let us be Singaporean, the little red dot, Republic of Singapore, a Nation not a city. A city is part of a country, part of a nation, is anyone trying to say Singapore is part of another country?

Cheers to our Singaporean’s Nation!

Ordinary Overseas Singaporean

Am appreciate you have touch of our nation history. I like to share my little thoughts too.

LKY & party joined Malaysia mainly due to possible uncontrollable communist movements upon given self rules from the British, a safer place with Malaysia allowing Tengku to deal with the communist as Malaysia armies were fighting against them in the Northern Jungles.

Similarly Tengku do have his motives, wanted to rules Singapore due to her location. However 13 cornered stars were a lousy one. After merger, if I’m not wrong there’s election in 1963 where UMNO set up it branches in Singapore trying to outdo PAP. Or even try to take control of governing Singapore but failed.
Visionary LKY did the same after UMNO came, his teams entered into Malaysia setting up PAP branches. If not wrong, campaigns against MCA who was licking UMNO bosses.

The next reactions were racial clashes in Singapore which many believed to this day was part of UMNO political plans. Not publicized, at the first clashes many Chinese died, after days it was the other way round. You just can’t beat the gangsters those days once they teamed up.

Cheers
Ordinary Overseas Singaporean

Kindly do allow me to quote you wrong to your above.

Baby boom after the end of WW2 including the 50s & early 60s. LKY was alarmed by the increase of population to coup with our fragile young nation at that time after being kicked out from Malaysia. To control the growths he implemented population control program to stop at 2 per family provided one can effort more children. One of their police went wrong probably following China concept stopping at 1.

Those days, Chinese families not only stop at 2 but mostly 1, but the other races kept on producing. I think these policies chanced asking for more babies now!

Cheers
Ordinary Overseas Singaporean

What army do we have, they are all just bodyguards by forced just to protect those MIW to stay in power, something similar to the Junta these days.

We used to pledge our lives to our masters so that we can have a good future but now we are told that its not a pledge but only an aspiration. So, our good future may not be, afterall. Our cage used to be our country but now its only a cage.

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate your position on the need to avoid confusion. Regards to all at TOC.