Work kinda has its toll on you when 1) You're bored and you've got 'Bored' written all across your face by crayons in different colours and 2) Your eyes hurt and you squint every time you take a glance at the computer placed in front of you.
Just sitting here and thinking back on the past two months which I productively spent here at Mediacorp Radio (don't know if that's the case now :D) have changed by views on the issues close to the hearts of Singaporeans.
And working in a newsroom promotes a cheeky attitude of indifference and skepticism towards the policies of our beloved government, also known as, "The Lee Foundation".
The conclusion of the recent IMF World Bank meeting only made me wonder what good was done to the nation having seized the opportunity to host the convention.
I simply thought it kinda made the PAP look like a bunch colonial lap dogs hoping to receive a pat on the pat for a job well done!
Hurr..job well done my balls. It was downright selfish in my opinion. Of AALLLLLLLL the money that was spent and invested into the meeting to turn Raffles City into the second botanic gardens (which include a 10million SGD partnership with BMW Asia to chauffeur the delegates in luxury), wouldn't one agree with me that even a fragment, a miniscule substantial amount of that money could've have ben used to feed the poor; to improve the health of the sick and to aid the needy?
Even that partnership with BMW alone flaunted more money than the President's Star Charity could ever muster!
So where will all the flowers go now? Will they remain embedded in tainted soil where money needs to be pumped in to hire garderners just to maintain them? If so, wouldn't that prove to be a white elephant?
Or would they remove every single blossomed stalk to let wilt in some random rubbish bin? And even if they talked about giving them away, I would not want to have anything to do with it.
So many things could have happened. Security was stepped up, yes. But with the tightened checks came massive traffic jams and I thought about this for a while and saw it's flaw.. Even if youuuuu, the gaahhhhmennn had checkpoints put up and areas cordoned off, people would still have died should a bomb have gone off in the middle of traffic.
Just like the traffic, time was placed at a standstill. Would they (your elite police forces) have been able to tell which vehicle was laced with death? How highly effective the measures were.
I wouldn't believe for a second if Paul Wolfowitz or Rodrigo di Rato said that we did a good job. These men have turned the job of lying with a smile into a profession. And I wouldn't bank my hopes on them saying anything nice about our government behind Mr Lee's back soon.
Should my blog get closed down or I get hauled up for questioning anytime soon, you guys should know why.
I-N-S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y.
I would be labelled as a 'political insurgent stirring up turmoil' among the people.
"Disturbing the peace" as Mr. Lee would say.
Hey, at least that would put me on the same level as Mr. Brown, wouldn't it?
But jokes aside, if I do get my ass landed in hot oil because of this post, it would only prove me right in saying that no one in the goverment can come to terms with facing the music and telling it to you in the face, saying, 'I admit it was my mistake.'
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
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