Thursday, January 01, 2009
end of 2008
2008 had been a turning point in my life. Many incidents and events altered my perspective towards life. It had been a whirlwind year, where one had the feeling that it was just yesterday when you were training so hard for basketball, pouring through books for your exams.
One year has elapsed since i was jailed, and there is still one more year to go before i will be released. I had been thinking why do i hate this sentence all Singaporean males have to serve, and had another revelation towards it. That the one factor that induces people to be jailed willingly is the desire to protect their loved ones from external hostilities. The warden stressed that we should be kept on our toes in the event that a black swan occurs, that this tiny little prison which maintains good diplomatic ties with everyone is being attacked. What can this inmate who they deem weak and sickly and not allowed to partake in any physical training be of any help to defend the prison? He is being kept there to show the other inmates that the prison is being fair to everybody, that everybody has to serve their time, including weak and sick ones. He is being made an example, a bad one.
Ok, enough of prisons. We all know that our friendly neighbourhood watchdog in blues cant even keep a man with a slight limp in his left leg from prison breaking. The government announced that they would bring forward this year's budget to 22th Jan. Their effort to come up with something for the ongoing recession must be applauded. But why 22th Jan? Why not leave it to sometime in February like the previous years? I feel that it is strategic of the government to bring forward the budget. This would show that the government is concerned about the well being of its people, and doing all it can to help them tide over the tough times. But why don't they choose to have one ASAP(like coming up with one over the weekends) so that the effects of the recession can be mitigated. It would be Stalin-like to demand them to come up with something in a few weeks. Our civil servants used to the slow pace of work in the government would definitely gather at Hong Lim park grumbling about the sudden corporate work pace. Any cowboy, maverick, heroic style of bill drafted in an astonishingly short period of time(like our counterparts across the pacific) would be deemed "Ad-Hoc" and not achieve its purpose of trying to reassure the mass.
iduntellu at 10:13 PM