In less than 2 hours, I'll be turning 19. These days, it doesnt matter. What matters is hanging out with my friends and family tomorrow =)

Newsroombar ! Tomorrow. Let's rock MS tomorrow night.





Go Shawty.. It's yo birthday
We're gonna party like It's yo birthday...

People people, check this blog out :

http://studentssketchpad.blogspot.com/


Great ideas, excellent view points coming from a Singaporean student ( at least I think he is ! from TCHS ? )


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Chinese is the language spoken by at least one-sixth of our world's population. The Chinese are the majority in Singapore. A least 50% ( I say this because I know this, but I've forgotten the exact percentage ) of the people here are Chinese. I am Chinese. Chi-nese. C-H-I-N-E-S-E. Yet, I am an utter failure, at being a Chinese. What is the problem, then ? I don't speak it fluently as I should. I don't understand my culture completely, as I must. I used to hate studying the language. Believe me, and I know you all do, when I say I'm not alone, and many other Chink boys and girls like me share the same sentiment. We are the new generation of Chinese boys and girls who, though having every single physical and cultural trait of being a Chinese, can't speak Chinese.

Truly ashamed, am I to even blog about this...

Why did it even happen ? It just doesnt happen like this because the American culture came sweeping all over our little island just like that.

One of the conclusions I've come to goes back a couple of decades, during the climax of the communist threat in the 60s. Communism originated from Russia, then spread its way to China, and then gradually to the Malayan Peninsula. Naturally, the Chinese were the ones most receptive to marxism, since most of the families were in China, and there were bound to be a couple that were in contact with the communists. Hence, our language came to be seen as the medium language of the communists here in Singapore, and the then-Malaya.

I'm fortunate enough to have an English-educated father and a Chinese-educated Mother ( dun ask me how they ended up together ! I wouldnt know at all.... even if I tried to understand =p ) I guess, in that sense, I've gained the best of both worlds. I got to hear about what the Chinese community was like in my folks' days. Mommy told me of how school boys in Nanyang University ( yes, it was called Nanyang University before somehow becoming Nanyang Technological University ) used to climb onto higher ground just to give speeches on Communism, before their friends would drag them down. My dad never saw that happening. Guess Raffles Institution was, and still is, truly an English school....

That seemed incoherent in the whole picture, but my point is, Chinese came to be seen as the language of the communists, and ultimately became The Communists. Now.. the PAP's main concern was to eradicate this threat, as it was one of the main reasons why the British were at first reluctant to grant us full independence in the 50s. Since Communism was equated to the Chinese and hence the Chinese language, somehow the language was gradually discouraged ? I have no concrete evidence to support this outrageous claim, though It is the conclusion I have come to.

I wouldn't speak ill of our government and country, as I am some what of a patriot these days, but somehow our forefathers seemed to discourage Chinese and promote English ( this, maybe to encourage the English-speaking caucasians to set up their industries and businesses here ? ) in the past. These days, there's the Campaign to speak Good Mandarin, but you have to agree it's a bit pathetic. And personally, the introduction of Han Yu Ping Yin into our children's education is ludicrous. I agree with my mother : Han Yu Ping Yin's only for the ang mohs and non-Chinese.




I dont know.. it's all so screwed up. Will the next generation of politicians be as capable as our forefathers ? MM Lee Kuan Yew has retired, SM Goh Chok Tong's.. well.. Senior Minister, Dr Tony Tan's recently retired, Mr Teo Chee Hiean looks so much older, and I dont even have to mention Dr Goh Kheng Swee. Dude's like, 95 close to a 100 ! I won't even go into how they did so much for our national within 30 decades and that blablablablabla. We all know how intelligent they all are. They're history. Let us worry what's next, like bringing the Chinese language up again, and making sure our current generation produces the next batch of leaders who are equally or even more capable than the current ones.

testing. testing. one. two. three.

How utterly annoying, that, I tried blogging entries the last few times, but some how blogger screws up.

Oh gee, it's another sunday night, and tomorrow's another monday, again.. how utterly siansational. I spend every single week looking forward to something. this week.. it's gotta be Momo on thursday and the game on saturday against SP. Finally, I get to play rugby again. It's kinda cool to play side-by-side with the NDU guys.. thank God for 'em..

Arrr.. I always forget what I wanna blog about. But that's okay, with the boredom that piles up from monday through all the way to friday, I'm sure something new'll crop up in that ever-growing space inside of my head..






And where's my knightress in shining garments to emancipate me from all this crap