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Racism in Singapore
Oct 17th
After reading a blog entry by a Malay guy called Ridzwan (I presume that is his name, going by the name of his URL), I must say that racism in Singapore is something that is still very much alive, although in appearance, everything looks nice and well.
I am not sure why some Singaporeans, especially the Chinese Singaporeans, take such a negative view towards fellow Singaporeans of another race. I speak from experience. I graduated from The Chinese High School, a school where you almost have no students from other races. I went on to Hwa Chong Junior College, where the situation is slightly better, but not much. I do notice that many of my friends who have been through 6 years of education in both Chinese dominated schools are somewhat racist.
I must say that the kind of racism I’ve seen is not the extreme kind (by that I mean actual and negative physical action against someone of another race). More often, it’s an extremely strong opinion about a race having certain characteristics and making unsavoury or even derogatory remarks.
Despite 6 years of schooling in institutions where there were few students of other races, I somehow didn’t turn out racist by any measure. I don’t know why, but I just think that it’s not right to make certain conclusions about people based on their race. While it is true that people of a certain race have slightly different habits and customs, it does not make them any less a human being.
It’s just plain unfair to think of certain races as inherently being more lazy, more unpatriotic, more prone to causing social problems etc. It’s always easier to demonise others because that makes self-reflection unnecessary. By casting others as the problem, we escape from having to consider whether we are problematic. Face it, for whatever labels that are cast on non-chinese Singaporeans, I bet to my last dollar that you will find many Chinese Singaporeans that fit the label exactly. Before Chinese Singaporeans think badly of other races in Singapore, they ought to make sure that they have the moral authority to do so.
I had the benefit of being in the minority when I went to the UK for 3 weeks in 2004. When I was there, I truly understand how it feels to be in the minority. You are always conscious of yourself because you look different from most people around you. It gave me an invaluable lesson. I think that most Chinese Singaporeans should go spend some time in a place where they are the minority and see how it feels. Nothing teaches better than actual experience.
Of course, that’s not a feasible option for everyone. I don’t think that having Racial Harmony Day is a feasible option either. What can one day of celebrations do? What is really necessary is for people of different races to come together for an extended period of time. Understanding is not forged in a matter days. It takes years. And, it better start from young. As the saying goes, old habits die hard.
Perhaps the first step in the right direction is to dismantle the SAP school system. The SAP schools focus on teaching excellence in Chinese, and students are usually Chinese. How can we reduce racism if we have such schools? I came from one such school, and I see for myself that such schools, more often than not, produce students that harbour some form of racism. And, it doesn’t help that most of these schools are academically strong institutions that attract smart students. This means that their graduates are likely to be future leaders of society, and I am not comfortable with these future leaders harbouring some form of racist ideas.
I think I’ve stirred a hornet’s nest by suggesting the dismantling of the system that I went through. I have to admit that there are exceptions, and not every graduate from an SAP school is racist. However, the odds of producing a somewhat racist person is higher in an SAP school. By the same token, I think that muslim schools (called madrasahs if I am not mistaken) should also be looked at. These schools should be confined to strictly teaching religion, and learning other subjects should be done in government schools. If we want to tackle the problem of racism and maintain racial harmony, we really need to take the necessary steps, even if they might not please certain groups of people.
Recommended animation: Naruto
Oct 15th
I’m no animation guru, having started on them only like less than 2 years ago. Therefore, my recommendations tend to be pretty recent releases.
I still remember the first animation I watched was Naruto. The storyline was great. There are two main characters, Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke. Naruto is kind of like an outcast because he’s considered a jinx by the village he lives in. The story goes that a terrible beast (called Kyuubi, which is a 9 tailed fox) attacked the village and the leader of the Konoha village (a highly skilled ninja called the Hokage) gave his life to stop the beast. The Kyuubi wasn’t killed though. It was sealed away inside Naruto’s body. He was a baby at that time.
The villagers therefore had a negative impression of Naruto and associated him with the Kyuubi. Therefore, Naturo is constantly fighting to get recognition and acceptance by the villagers. Therefore, he joined the Ninja training academy and aspired to become a future Hokage, thinking that it will bring him the recognition he has always been looking for.
Sasuke on the other hand is from the famous Uchiha clan in the village. The Uchiha clan is a clan of one of the most skillful ninja in the Konoha village, and they are held in high regard. Unfortunately for Sasuke, his elder brother Itachi massacred the entire Uchiha clan, leaving only Sasuke. Sasuke joined the Ninja academy to train for revenge against his elder brother.
Everywhere Sasuke goes, because of his background, he’s quite well-regarded. This is in stark contrast to Naruto. And, the two dudes ended up being together in a team. Sasuke initially looked at Naruto with disdain, while Naruto is constantly tries to gain recognition from Sasuke that he’s not worthless. There’s a third person in the team, Haruno Sakura, who Naruto likes but unfortunately, she likes Sasuke instead.
So, the team went through various trials under the leadership of a top ninja, Hatake Kakashi. The friendship blossomed between the three of them. Unfortunately, a big bad guy called Orochimaru decides to wreck havoc on the Konoha village. Orochimaru took fancy to Uchiha Sasuke’s unique ability called the Sharingan. It is a special ability that only those of the Uchiha bloodline has. After wrecking Konoha, Orochimaru left and Sasuke decides to leave Konoha to join Orochimaru because of the promise of power by Orochimaru, which will enable Sasuke to take revenge on his elder brother.
So, the story continues about how Naruto tries to rescue his friend Sasuke, who has fallen into the darkness in his pursuit of revenge. Naruto met many obstacles but relentlessly pursued for the sake of friendship. It’s this friendship theme that I found so appealing in this animation. If you are the kind of person who is willing to go to great lengths for your friends, it’s an animation that you should watch.
She’s the one
Oct 11th
As I am writing this, I am listening to Robbie William’s song, “She’s the one”.
This post is inspired by one post on a blog I read on a regular basis. Kitana wrote a treatise (ok, that was exaggerating) on the concept of “The One”. I have been asked about this issue countless times because people never fail to look amazed when I tell them that I’ve been attached for five, six, and now my seventh year. The look of amazement grows into disbelief upon further probing and I reveal that she’s my first girlfriend, and I’m her first boyfriend, and we’re engaged. It might probably qualify as a modern day fairtytale, at least from their outside perspective.
What people don’t see is the amount of work that the both of us has put in to keep the relationship alive. Throw the notion that all it takes is love to sustain a relationship out of the window right now. That is bullshit. Sure, you need love and romance to spice up a relationship, but what really keeps the flame going is much more than love. I can offer five buzzwords to keep a relationship alive: commitment, responsibility, compromise, understanding and perserverance.
I have lost count of all the fights, spats and unhappiness throughout our seven years together. I too have lost count of the sweet and up-on-cloud-nine times. It was easy during the happy times, but it was tough as hell during some of the darker times. There were times when I felt like giving up. It would have been so easy to. However, I didn’t, because of a promise. A promise that we’ll never break up, no matter what.
Some of you must be thinking, “Is this guy nuts?” I don’t blame you. This is not a promise that is easily made, and it’s even harder to hold on to. We made this promise when we got together, and this promise embodies the five buzzwords I mentioned earlier: commitment, responsibility, compromise, understanding and peserverance. Without these five words, it’s going to be hard to keep the promise.
By now, it should be rather clear that I do not believe in fate. I don’t believe that there is a predestined “The One” out there. What makes a person “The One” is a function of how much effort the partner puts into the relationship. Even if you manage to find a person who seems to complement you perfectly, do you honestly think that from that point on, there’s no need to work for the relationship anymore? A relationship is analogous to a job: you can have the perfect job that matches your interest, professional training, remuneration and working environment but, if you don’t put in enough effort into your job, it’s only a matter of time before you lose it.
Therefore, my advice is quite simply, take the effort to make it work. Breaking up in my opinion is the most cowardly way out of a relationship (unless it’s due to serious matters, such as spousal abuse, infidelity etc) because it’s just so convenient to put the blame on something or someone else and then walk away. The poverb goes that a rolling stone gathers no moss. If you want to achieve something, you need to stay put and try your best to see it through. My experience is that there is always an alternative solution to a breakup, but unfortunately, it’s not as easy to execute compared to parting ways.
It is a cliché that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but the underlying assumption is not wrong. Men and women are so different in traits that they both might well deserve to be classified as two different species altogether. That however doesn’t mean that both cannot be in a fulfilling relationship together. Precisely because both are so different that one’s strength is usually the other’s weakness. I’m usually bad at taking care of myself (I think I’m not so bad compared to other guys, but I can’t beat my fianceé) and I have tons of bad habits that look very unglamorous. She is always fussing around these issues and I appreciate it. On the other hand, I’m very forward looking and like to plan for the future, such as when to get married, when to hold the wedding dinner, when to buy a house, when to have kids, and of course, how to fund all these things. We do talk things over together, but I take the lead in such matters.
I think that Singaporeans, especially young Singaporeans, need to recognise that a relationship is not about you or about your partner. The correct answer is both. No matter how different two people are in terms of traits, if you want to make it work, it’ll work. Back in the old days when marriages were still arranged, why is it that people can stay together although they never had the opportunity to know each other well enough before marrying? The answer is quite simply because they didn’t have a choice. There is no way in hell to get a divorce because the social pressure on a divorcee is almost unbearable.
Unfortunately in the current day and age, breaking up has become a normal part of life, rather than an anomaly. If two people truly desire to have a lasting relationship, better do it like how they did it a hundred years ago: make the choice of breaking up not a choice at all. Of course, skeptics are probably going to question me at this point about how fair it is to the two people; it might not be the most suited partnership. What if someone better comes along? Wouldn’t it be a loss of opportunity for something better?
To that, my only response is simply, “How do you know if the next person that comes along is indeed better?” There is an inherent assumption that there will be someone better. What if the next person is worse than what you have now? I bet you will kick yourself silly to realise that you have actually given up something better. To me, I think it is more productive to focus my energies only making the person I have now the best I ever had. There must be something that I initially saw in her to make me want to love her and devote myself to her and therefore, shouldn’t I concentrate on doing that, instead of constantly wondering what better option might appear?
It’s all a matter of what you want in life. If you are in a relationship now, whether you are facing problems or not, take the time to sit down and think what is it that you want in life. What is it that you want people to remember you for? What do you want the speech at your funeral about your life to sound like? For me, the choice has been made 7 years ago. Above all, I want to be remembered as a man to devoted himself to only one woman in this only life of his.
P.S. How’s your stomach, hunny? I hope that it’s gotten better.
I got a sign up through my Hostmonster affiliate link!
Oct 10th
I was quite surprised to receive an email from my webhosting provider, Hostmonster, that started like this:
“Congratulations! You’ve just received $65.00.”
It led to to wonder how on earth did that come about. It then dawned on me that most likely, someone clicked on the affiliate link that I provided after reading about my personal review about Hostmonster, which I wrote a couple of weeks back. So, I went to check my affiliate account and confirmed it.
I’m glad that someone read the review and found it to be useful. Webhosting is a competitive service, and trust me, because it is so competitive, it gives a huge headache on how to pick a good one. I’ve read on some personal blogs complaining about companies where support is non-existent, many days of downtime, or even billing the customer for extras that were not part of the deal.
And, it doesn’t really help that most of the reviews published online are basically a rephrase of the information on the company’s website. Authentic user reviews are really hard to find not just because of this, but also it might also be hard to distinguish whether the person posting the review is an affiliate without being an actual customer (Yes, you can sign up to be an affiliate and yet not have an actual hosting account with the webhosting company. I found out when I signed up to be an affiliate, thinking that it will be linked to my account but it’s not).
Therefore, I decided to write a review based on my own experience as an actual user of Hostmonster. And yes, it can be verified that I am hosting with them by simply doing a whois search and checking that the nameservers of my domain name actually point to their servers.
While it’s nice to receive that little credit, that’s secondary. What’s really great for me is that I wrote something that someone found useful. If you’re intending on hosting with Hostmonster, don’t forget to read my initial review! I’ll be following up with a review in 3 – 6 months time to assess their reliability. As of now, what I wrote in my initial review still stands, and I’m a happy customer!
The reality of passing IPPT
Oct 8th
I have exactly one more month to my IPPT (for the uninitiated, it means Individual Physical Proficiency Test. All opernationally ready soldiers of the Singapore Armed Forces must take this test annually.) It’s my first test since I turned operationally ready 3 years ago (if you are wondering why it took 3 years, it’s because the old Mindef portal didn’t have my records and I couldn’t sign up for IPPT 
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The damn haze pushed back plans for my IPPT training. When I saw clear skies (and air) today, I was quite thrilled. I finally can train for the IPPT. Well, before I know how much to train, I need to know the level of my physical fitness. So I decided to test myself.
I figured that I should be able to pass even though I have not been exercising regularly. I usually walk around the campus rather than take bus, and NUS campus is formidable terrain. Perhaps the only thing that might trip me up is the chin up part, since the only hand exercise I do is hammering away at the keys on the keyboard.
Well, my prediction was not too far off. I managed 12:45 for the 2.4km run and 4 chin-ups (well, I could have pushed it to 5, but I was afraid of straining my unfit muscles and taking myself out of action for a week or two is unthinkable when I only have 30 days left for training).
Here’s the table of the scores I need to pass the IPPT (adapted from http://www.ns.sg):
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Looks like with a little bit more training, passing is not a problem. So, I should set my sights a little higher. I think getting the $100 incentive should be within reach after 30 days of training, but I’m actually more interested in the $200 silver award incentive. No, I’m not considering even thinking of trying for the gold award. Gone are the days where 15 chin ups, 16km runs and more than 60 situps a minute were the norm for me.
I need to shave another 65 seconds off my 2.4km run and double the number of chin ups I can manage now in 30 days. I better get my butt down to training. That $200 would be nice money for my fianceé’s January Bangkok shopping.
Why do I watch animation?
Oct 8th
I was asked this question in an interview by a NM2220 student earlier this week. In fact, I never really thought about it until she asked me. It didn’t take long for me to realise why.
After a mental run-through of all the animation that I have watched, I saw a common pattern emerging. Most of them deal with themes that resonate very strongly with me. Examples of themes I strongly identify with include justice, friendships and fighting for loved ones. Almost all the animation I watch has a certain combination of the three themes.
I guess watching the animation renews my energy for doing what I do. It’s tough being a journalist, chasing stories for the sake of fulfilling your duty to the public. You need a source to renew your beliefs once in a while. I guess animation does it for me. And, it’s a welcome distraction too.
PM Lee calls for responsible journalism
Oct 7th
The news report from Channel NewsAsia came at an unbelievably opportune time. My previous post discussed the ideals underpinning the Observer, and I had a talk with a Pakistani journalist who is on the run from his own country because he advocated freedom of expression. I had plenty of thoughts about journalism today.
I know many journalists, especially those from liberal democracies, are going to be up in arms about PM Lee’s take on journalism. However, if we let our heads cool, what PM Lee said isn’t wrong.
Journalism should be a responsible profession. People depend on journalists for fair and accurate information. Therefore, journalists must take care to ensure that what they report according to established journalistic conventions. The journalist must always remember that his/her word will be taken seriously by many people, therefore, the facts must be right.
However, with regards to PM Lee’s comment on the media improving lives without being aggressive, I have some concerns. The biggest concern I have is the notion of aggressiveness. What exactly is aggressiveness? Is there some common standard by which aggressiveness can be judged? Is there a universally accepted definition of agressiveness? I certainly hope that PM can define exactly what constitutes being aggressive.
As for improving lives, once again, PM Lee did not elaborate on what is the meaning of improving lives. There are many ways in which lives can be improved. For me, even at the lowest level of definition, improvement of lives can still be divided into material and non-material improvement. Therefore, what exactly did PM Lee refer to when he talked about improving lives?
My own interpretation of what PM Lee said is that journalists should not be overly critical, and being critical offers no improvement because there is no suggestion on how things can be done better. To me, his words sound like a paraphrase of what the government advocates about expression of opinion in Singapore: you can say all you want but you have to offer a better alternative.
As I mentioned earlier, at the lowest level of definition, improvement of lives can be either material or non-material. It is true that being critical offers no improvement of lives at a material level. However, being critical offers intellectual improvement. These days, our education system encourages students to be creative. In my opinion, before you can be creative, you have to be critical. If you do not know how to criticise, you do not know how to find fault. If you do not know how to find fault, you won’t know that there are problems. And if you do not know there’s a problem, you won’t seek solutions. How can we ask our students be creative and come up with new ideas and solutions if they can’t even identify problems in the first place?
In my opinion, journalism is about bringing in diversity of ideas. People need to be able to access different views and opinions in order to make a more informed decision. There’s a maxim that goes like this: if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. In the absence of alternative views, we are very likely to accept the current view, even though it might not be the right view (of course, what is the right view is another question altogether, but I’ll leave that discussion for the future).
If Singapore is to remain competitive and stay ahead of the competition, we need a culture of being critical. When we criticise, we bring out alternative and new ideas. This can only benefit us. The only foreseeable problem is whether people can accept criticisms. If a person is unable to accept criticism, then of course, things may turn ugly. The other choice is to snuff out criticisms.
However, can we really afford to do that? In an increasingly globalised world, we are facing competitors from every corner of the planet. We can snuff out criticisms within, but we cannot snuff that out from our competitors. If our competitors can be critical and handle it maturely, then we are in a losing position.
Therefore, we should be a culture of not being afraid to criticise. People or organisations should not have to fear reprisal for being critical. In Singapore, I feel that the first reaction to criticism is that of antithesis or subversion. Why can’t criticism be viewed as well-intentioned advice? There is a chinese saying, å¿ è¨€é€†è€³åˆ©äºŽè¡ŒÂ (translated: well intentioned advice is usually unpleasant to the ear but it’s beneficial to conduct or action).
What better way is there to introduce a critical culture than through the media?
Chasing dreams and ideals
Oct 6th
I was pleasantly surprised to read Dharmendra Yadav’s latest blog entry this morning. I never expected him to be reading my blog!
After reading his post, my first reaction was, “There’s another person who appreciates what we (at the Campus Observer) are doing!” It might seem a little silly to be so happy, but it’s another welcome shower to our parched hearts and spirits.
All of us at the Observer are in it voluntarily. We gain nothing from the reporting we do. There are no ECA points to be gained, and no mention in our university records. We don’t want to be linked to any organisation because we want to chase our dream of operating a press that is editorially independent.
I thought that the Observer could bring a refreshing change to NUS. My observation of many student publications in NUS is that they are mainly magazines or PR publications. A proper student paper was clearly lacking. In my idealistic mind, I dreamed of students being awakened from the slumber of apathy and ignorance because of the Observer.
However, reality proved contrary to my expectations. In fact, after so many weeks since our inception, I’ve come to realise that many undergraduates, the supposedly intellectual and cultural elite of our society, do not appreciate the value of a free press.
We experienced haranguing, denial of entry, complaint letters to university authorities, suspicions, accusations and broken friendships. These were not what I expected. I still do not understand why are some students so afraid of us. All we do is to see, observe, ask for opinions and then report them as it is. If there is anything that we wrote wrongly, write in and tell us. Why are students not mature enough to do that, choosing instead to privately complain and, I assume, to try and get the authorities to crush our existence? Is this the level of maturity that our students have?
I was just talking to my executive editor over MSN last night. He remarked to me how tired the entire team is. I couldn’t agree more. I’m tired too. Bloody tired, if I may be frank. A chinese saying probably sums up the reason why I’m so tired: å¯¹ç‰›å¼¹ç´ (translation: to play the zither for a cow. Meaning: to do something for someone who doesn’t appreciate it). However, somehow, when I feel really down and out, there’s always a wind of relief. It just makes my day to see a person appreciating the dreams and ideals that all of us at the Observer are chasing.
On a more realistic note, I don’t know how long this little experiment in free press will last. The pragmatic Singaporean side of me keeps reminding me that I am in Singapore, and the history of the press in Singapore is unforgiving. Well, I shall just keep doing what I have to do as a student journalist. I don’t think that anything worse can happen to me compared to the guest speaker who will be speaking to my class later. He had his press burned down and was subsequently exiled from his country. He has a home that he cannot return to, and he gave that up for his ideals.
I think young Singaporeans can do with a little more idealism.
GV Vivocity opening this Saturday!
Oct 6th
Golden Village Vivocity will open its doors to the public this Saturday! I was privileged to be invited to its press conference yesterday as a reporter of The Campus Observer.
Initially, I wasn’t too keen on going because I’m not exactly a movie person. However, since neither the executive or the other managing editor was free, I decided to go. I wasn’t too sure what to expect, but by the end of the press conference, I was convinced that it was worth my time.
The new GV Vivocity has 3 distinct features that makes it different from other cineplexes in Singapore, and that includes existing GV cineplexes too. According to the GV managing director, the GVmax theatre has the one of the biggest screen in the world. It is the length of two SBS double deck buses, and by my estimate, the height is two double deck buses tall too. That’s HUGE. Actually, the size doesn’t exactly hit you until you actually watch a movie. I watched 4 trailers and the effect of the mega huge screen was great! I would recommend sitting around the centre rows though. If you’re sitting in front, it might be a problem trying to see everything.
The second feature is the Cinema Europa. According to GV’s MD again, it’s the first cinema in Singapore to show award winning films, arthouse movies, Asian and local productions, as well as classics. Think of it as a film festival that runs everyday. The best part is that, students pay only $8 instead of the usual $10 price. And, the seats are a class above the normal seats. Think of the usual cinema seats as the economy class, and this one would be the business class. There are actually small tables between seats for you to put all your food. This way, you’re not only restricted to popcorns!
Lastly, there are 3 Gold Class cinemas. These are the first class cinemas of GV. The seats are reclining seats (yes you did not read that wrongly; I tried it myself), and it has tables like Cinema Europa. Best of all, there’s a small little button that you can press, and one of the Gold Class ushers will come in discreetly to take your order. You can order anything on the menu from the private lounge outside the Gold Class cinema and the food will be brought in to you. Of course, it doesn’t come cheap though. It’s $25 Monday to Thursday and $30 on the other days.
GV Vivocity will be opening its doors this Saturday, Oct. 7, to the public. There’ll be free tours so if you are free, just drop by and experience the GVmax, Cinema Europa and Gold Class for yourself.
Alright, enough talk. Here are the pictures that I took during the press conference.
The entrance (1st level)
Inside the cinema (level 2)
Another shot of the inside
The normal cinema (the GVmax looks like this, just that it’s a whole lot bigger)
Cinema Europa seats with mini-tables
Gold Class entrace (there’s actually someone to open the door!)
The private lounge in the Gold Class
The foyer just before the theatre entrance
The plush seats in the Gold Class
The reclining chair with legrest
Notice the button between the 2 numbers. It’s for you to call the usher anytime for an order.
Post-65 MPs actually have a group blog
Oct 4th
Check it out man, the post-65 Members of Parliament have started their own group blog. Check out the screenshot below:
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You can check them out by clicking here
I don’t mean to be skeptical about this, but this looks awfully manufactured. It really gives me the vibes that some Young PAP member thought that it’ll be a wonderful PR effort to have a blog. While I give credit for PAP’s effort in keeping up with times, I am skeptical of the entire thing.
While I do not have a bias against group blogs, I still prefer blogs to be personal. Robert Scoble, who is widely regarded as the world’s first corporate blogger (he was a Microsoft employee) was so hugely popular because he wrote as an individual, not as an employee of Microsoft. To me, a blog is the online persona of an individual. The reason why I enjoy reading blogs is because I by reading them, I get an idea of what this person is and what he stands for. This p65 group blog outrightly failed in appealing to me in this regard.
What is worse is that of the 5 blog postings I read, only two postings, one by Christopher De Souza and the other by Baey Yam Keng, remotely look like a blog post. The other 3 read like a replay of the same message in the news media that the PAP has been pushing out lately: we want to engage young people, we want your feedback, stand up and make yourselves heard.
I realise that I am starting to sound cynical, but the timing is seriously bad. It now looks to me like it’s a coordinated PR effort that culminated in the launch of the p65 blog. Oh yes, this is the first blog that I see that had a countdown timer to the launch of the blog. It just seems so manufactured!
Oh well, I shall withhold any further judgement for now. I shall see monitor the p65 blog for a while and see if the hype lives up to its promise. Don’t be mistaken, I’m not a PAP hater (this is not a disclaimer against any possible repercussions against me. I stand by all my opinions, whether they are nice or otherwise). I’ve worked with an MP and interacted with some ministers and at the personal level, they are wonderful people. However, when they put on the PAP hat, their personality gets discarded because they have to toe the party line.
If the post-65 MPs are interested in reaching out to the young, my suggestion is this: stop all these publicity. I am already numb to all the messages that the media constantly churns out about how the Government wants to engage the young. I certainly hope that the Straits Times will not make this front page news. It’s just going to turn me off even more. I hope that all of them will exude their own individuality, daring to voice their own opinions, and not rephrasing the official party line. If they want young people to stand up and voice their opinions, theyshould lead by example. After all, these 12 MPs are our leaders, are they not?
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