Me. Myself & i

our PM said on his may day rally, people who migrate cos they think the grass is greener on the other side, will look back and regret...
seems like there's alot of pple leaving singapore, in hope of a betta future, a more condusive environment for children etc...

personally, i have never tot of migrating to other countries. firstly cos i dun have the means haha. secondly, i believe that there are still some good left in singapore worthy for me to stay, that outweighs the dislikes i have of singapore... but aft last week.. i tot probably i was wrong...

the reason why i neva tot of moving to other countries is because i had feeling for singapore. it is a place i grew up in, and still growing in. my love ones are here, i became who i am here, it has got most efficient pple ard, it is clean, has got good food. it's all de emotional stuff...

however the things that i dislike seems such a long list now... from the nan chiau high principal incident, made me realised that the system that we tot was good is crumbling from within. there is even talk about teachers not to scold student too harshly nowadays because too many children (i consider the teens nowadays as children becos of their imaturity) are commiting suicide...

so are we expecting the students to have self-discipline since they were babies, from parents who only spend less than 10 hours with the children each day?? even the most un-educated noes that without military force (including the police), the government cannot work, the laws in a country cannot function. so may i know how is a teacher suppose to work without at least the most basic punishments such as scolding and canning? i'm not suggesting canning for anything and everything that the students does wrong, but i trust the teachers to make that choice if i'm sending my children to sch for them to educated because i happen to believe in the long forgotten saying 'spare the rod and spoil the child'.

if it is strict rule abiding people that our education system needs and looking out for den i shld assume the interviews for teaching scholarship is asking the applicant to memorise a thick MOE rule book, and then test them at the interview on how much they can rem, taking in those that can memorise the most. why bother to ask pple what views they have of education, what they plan to do for the system and see if they have the leadership qualities. i see no relevance of the questions to the kind of pple they nid!

i tot during the FTA talk, there was talk about negative listing of rules, only say what is not suppose to be done, the rest by default can be done. why isn't this applied in most situations?

i believe that education is not jus about academic results. it is about teaching them self-discipline, what can be done and what ought not to be done. if parents are so worried that their children are bullied in sch by teachers, or teachers punishing their precious kids wrongly or too harshly. i suggest to these parents to teach their own children at home. i have seen cases of parents not being able to take their children in hand, if they still refuse to stop over protecting their children while they are in school, what is goin to become of these children?

it is understandable that under such high costs of living environment in singapore, most families need to have dual income. thus less time can be spent with their children. isn't this the reason why schools are keeping the students later and later jus in case they loiter ard too much and turn to bad company (as suggested by my GP teacher)? so if the children are spending more time in sch, with teachers and friends, shldn't we trust the teachers abit more if we nid them to teach our children values and discipline?

i have a fren who always tot that if one has to change the system, if one sees a flaw in a system, that change has to come from the top. thus one has to work to the top, and make the change. but lately, my fren and i found it to be untrue. when a system crumbles from within, no matter how much u feel for it, no matter how much u wish u could do something, there's no way to help. esp when u feel victimised by the same flaw. in the end, these pple either leave after being too disappointed by the system or simply go with the flow, "if you cant beat them, join them" isn't it? i mourn for the system, for losing capable pple everyday, for making these pple lose hearts, for showing all the others who dream of making changes to forget about it...

at this rate, growing is out of question, being stagnant would be lucky, goin backwards is most probably what's gonna happen to our country.

i hope and pray that our leaders are goin to wake up their idea, open their eyes. if they are not goin to do something to their system to stop these dynamic pple from leaving, i hope then, they live to see how the country crumbles.

i hope it occurs to our leaders that perhaps some people are not leaving because they feel the grass is greener on the other side... perhaps it's because they dun wish to see how their beloved country continues to disintegrate...


i still love singapore.
for being my homeland.
i still think there's hope... for now..
but there's only a limit to how much a person can do and hope for...