Monday, August 21, 2006
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Just kinda involved, immersed, and kept myself up-to-date with National issues by tuning in to the National Rally moments ago.
The first portion was for the Malay and Chinese audience, lastly roughly 45 mins. Since they did away with the subtitles, there were translations broadcasted concurrently as our PM spoke. Confusing, Annoying and rather difficult to make sense.
So the PM encouraged, persuaded, and urged Singaporeans to go overseas to gain experience, but emphasize the need to maintain close links with them. We also need to welcome foreign talent, those who has drive and the passion to succeed. The lack of new births is a real concern, though we do not need to follow the suit of Madam Esah Mamat, a 49 yr old woman in Terengganu, Malaysia, who has 21 children. She can really bear children!
Besides announcing that there will be the new Citizenship and Population Unit to be set up under the PM’s Office, and some kind of an online portal of the Overseas Singaporean Unit to facilitate nation bonding, there was an absence, lack, little talk about new policies, plans or any kind of blueprint for the year ahead. However, I am really looking forward to whole country being “wired-up” in the near future.
Once again we hear success stories of Singaporeans, as well as PRs who have achieved excellence in their various fields. Although it is nice, great, clearly wonderful to hear that poly students are now highly sought after by universities overseas, as well as the probable scholarships to be in place soon for top poly graduates, it is encouraging for me to think about putting in more effort in my studies.
Another thing mentioned in PM Lee’s speech, which I thought was rather interesting, was about introducing languages such as Arabian, Bahasa Indonesia amongst others in our schools. Just a thought, we already have a problem communicating with our grandparents, since a lot of us have not been exposed to our native dialects, are we really capable of learning another language? The simplifying of the mother tongue syllabus in schools has sparked debate before, and now we want to introduce languages so as to target the Middle Eastern and Arab nations?
There were lighter moments, such as showing of the talking cock.com website, and also hints of the PM’s apparent unhappiness over Mr Brown’s comments about certain issues. So, the most enjoyable part of the rally for me were probably the art works of CHIJ girls, and did you seem to realize that PM Lee likes, tend to, has a habit of using 3 words to emphasize his points… …
Til I have time to blog then…bye (banglah work yet again my friends)
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24. (but acts 14)
Multi tasker / Multiple Personality.
Free Spirit.
Many preferences, Few dislikes.
One Weakness.
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