"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country." —Theodore RooseveltOriginally posted by quency:since they cant be botherd about singaporean, why should singaporeans be patriotic? actually they so call the quitters are actually the smarters.
just by looking at the number of mainland chinese here will give us a general idea.Originally posted by will4:It is funny the no of Sporean immigrating to other countries. The figure is not released for the public to know.
ISD likes to invite ppl wif frank n honest statements for a cup of kopi..Originally posted by mistyblue:Watching ChannelNewsAsia, where hong kong people rejected the governement proposal to have a GST of 5% with a peaceful protest. There was a street person who mentioned that the government has excess money in the treasury and should find better ways to solve problems than to keep taxing the people.
I wish only this kind of frank and honest statement is made in singapore.
Alas. Strong madate, Strong censorship and Strong propaganda.
Stop siding with them!!! You sugar daddy!Originally posted by dragg:there are mainland chinese whom are genuinely here to study or stay.
how i wish i have the money to be one.Originally posted by ditzy:Stop siding with them!!! You sugar daddy!![]()
NEVER suggest, however indirectly it may be, defiance to effect changes.Originally posted by BillyBong:Maybe our culture needs a face lift.
Maybe we should just stop sucking other people's dick.
Maybe we should speak the truth and face up to adversity, even if it means job security.
Or....
We could just remain the plain, dumb apathetic lemmings of this controlled society.
Very well...LEMMINGS it is!Originally posted by ShutterBug:NEVER suggest, however indirectly it may be, defiance to effect changes.
It would be altogether, BAD for us all.
Changes like these takes a lot of time and patience....
Yah..Originally posted by boredandsleepy:well i think the sg gov is not sucking up australia's dick as far as i'm concern.
they can heartlessly hang a young man caught for trafficking in SG instead of his own home land. and even made the family members of the trafficker come all the way to SG to get themselves humiliated by the SG press. Dispite of the ongoings pleas and request from the ozzie ambassy and even the ministers in ozzie, our gov still stood to their ground in hanging that poor man here. heartless bunch of ppl we have eh.
the problem here is i don't see china, malaysian or any other country's ppl in SG get hanged for the serious crimes they commit. Well, we are alrdy hated by the ozzies since that incident. so dun u ever think of migrating there in future![]()
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One or two Lemmings may not be of any significance.Originally posted by BillyBong:Very well...LEMMINGS it is!![]()
they scared later our RSAF jets 'accidentally' drop their bombs when flying past mah..Originally posted by ShutterBug:Yah..
Then why the heck you think our RSAF jets are now not allowed to fly over Johore Straits??
Ans: for being INFLEXIBLE.
ah...wat does it matter?Originally posted by ShutterBug:One or two Lemmings may not be of any significance.
But hundreds of thousands of Lemmings, can indeed burrow a very large hole.
Write, write.Originally posted by BillyBong:ah...wat does it matter?
We singaporeans bury our head in the sand, hoping the problem solves itself.
We allow ourselves to be bullied and jostled into submission. Maybe we do deserve this fate after all.
sigh...
The good news is, i'll keep writing to the papers to remind them of their promises, and other things...![]()