Sunday, May 22, 2005
[9:58 PM]
i can't name her. i don't wanna get sued. that is all we singaporeans are good at. suing. how in the world are we gonna expect singaporeans to be more outspoken if we are not even allowed to speak our mind. criticsm is not as bad as it sounds like. yes a party might get hurt (emotionally, i expect) but it's all for his own good. and what's wrong with saying a certain organisation sucks if it really does? of course, there are certain boundaries that we need to be aware of. it's plain stupidity to be critisizing a company that pays for your education overseas. that is as bad as comdemning your very own parents who went through a lot of trouble raising you up. we gotta learn how to be grateful. and when you wanna critisize, please be aware of your language. vulgarity is obviously out of the question. although it is quite possible in other countries. remind yourself that you are a singaporean. we are not fully developed as a modern nation. i don't see anything wrong in perceiving singapore as a third world country. there's still a long way to go...
our vice principal might probably be reading this. did i mention anything bad about SA? no i didn't. but i seriously think we should be given freedom of expression. let us say what we gotta say. i know some people are just not responsible enough to not think before they say. but not all of us are like that. i can't help thinking they just wanna hide themselves from the truth. i dunno how to put it, but it's like you know it's the truth yet you don't wanna face it and keep on running away from it. you will get angry when someone brings it up and therefore you won't allow anyone to mention anything about it. sorta like being in denial. like mary of eugene o'neill's long day's journey into night (lit students will get what i mean). if we can't say anything about it, the least they could do is to allow us to blog about it. yes fine it's the WWW but it's not like we are taking it seriously. we are not asking them to pay for our dissatisfaction. we are merely expressing it. fair enough we do mean what we say or blog most of the time but so what. i just don't get it. i wanna go watch tv. i'm tired of numerous assignments and i dunno if i'm ready for tomorrow's practice. taa.