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Things I love about Singapore!!! Singlish
Bitched on: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Time: 8/21/2007 07:33:00 PM
Suddenly feeling very patriotic.
In the spirit of the Republic's National Day, allow me to blog about what I love about Singapore.
Singlish. Where did it come from? What's its influence? Whatever it is, Singlish sets us locals apart from the foreigners, expats or sin chiaos (newcomers). Be proud of it, we are only 42 years of age and we have our own accent (some see it as our own hybrid of the English language).
So what if the foreigner doesn't understand us? Do they care that we have a hard time understanding their American or Australian or British accents?
And I simply love the fact that Singlish gets its sentence structure and wide vocabulary from our many native Asian languages. Chapalang...
See? One word can explain so much. That's Singlish for you.
Bitched on: Monday, May 14, 2007 Time: 5/14/2007 09:47:00 PM
Its funny how news you've heard from hearsay make their way into the newspapers a few days later.
Like the one about that durian shop and their seemingly unscrupulous tactics to sell expensive durians. I too received an e-mail forwarded from Ms Doris Tey warning her friends and friends of friends about the Chin Yong Fruits Trading in Sims Avenue. She had complained about the seller who opened three durians without checking with them the cost and instead placed them on the table urging them to try and subsequently ingest while all the time, avoiding to answer her and her friends. The bill? A whopping $140.
Just for durians? Come on...
How about that Hwa Chong Institution guy who had punched the bus driver over some really stupid misunderstanding? I've heard the news on the night itself (I have my sources... I can't name the source cause the person would kill me... again).
In fact, there was actually more to it that they didn't report. It was reported that 'he was crying as he was on the handphone with his Dad' and 'he seemed remorseful' and 'apologetic'.
Remorseful? From what I had heard, he was more concerned about his 'reputation'. He was repeatedly exclaiming that this would be on his record and ruin his chances of getting a scholarship. Yes! He was more concerned about his scholarship!!!
Apologetic? He was cursing and swearing to his father on the phone (he even used the F word). Yes. He was telling his Dad to come down to clear the issue out but his Daddy had refused and hence the swearing...
Bitched on: Saturday, May 12, 2007 Time: 5/12/2007 11:46:00 PM
Two Singaporean Army servicemen were killed in Taiwan when a fighter jet crashed at a military base in Hukou on Friday.
3rd Sergeant Isz Sazli Sapari, a 19-year-old SAF personnel, was accorded a full military funeral at the Pusara Abadi Cemetery in Lim Chu Kang today.
Arrangements are underway to transport the remains of the other deceased, Private Fan Yao Jin back to Singapore on Sunday. He too will be accorded a full military funeral.
Two of the nine servicemen injured in the Taiwanese fighter jet crash at a military base in Hukou on Friday are back in Singapore. Both suffered second and third degree burns up to 50% of their body.
This Blogger says: Rest in peace, brothers. Notice that in every news report, they choose to use the word 'remains' instead of the usual 'bodies'.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he would leave office on June 27 after a decade in power.
This Blogger says: Isn't Tony Blair the name of Bush's dog?
Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang shocked the ruling party with his resignation Saturday less than a week after he lost the primary for the 2008 presidential election.
This Blogger says: Is it the trend nowadays to resign suddenly?
YouTube.com is banned in Thailand not once but twice.
Thailand has blocked YouTube for a second time, due to a video mocking King Bhumibol Adulyadej. According to Reuters, Thailand’s Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom had YouTube blocked after their requests to Google to have the clip taken down were ignored.
The first time YouTube was blocked in Thailand was possibly for showing related to clips from a CNN interview that features Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Thaksin.
The clip is not only “offensive” to Thailand’s monarchy, but has been criticized by several Buddhists as well, because of the clip’s showing a pair of women’s feet (the lowest part of the body) above the head (the highest part of the body).
Criticizing royalty in Thailand is a crime punishable by up to 15 years in jail.
This Blogger says: I'm not going to show the offensive video here. I still want to go Thailand for holidays you know.
Paris Hilton has been jailed for 45 days
In March 2007, the Los Angeles City's Attorney's Office claimed that Hilton violated the terms of her DUI (Driving Under Influence) probation by speeding without her headlights on, driving with a suspended license, and failing to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program.
On May 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in a correctional facility for violating her probation, and she is required to begin her jail term by June 5, 2007 or risk a doubling of her sentence.
This Blogger says: Her sister Nicky has started a chain of boutique hotels, maybe Paris should start her own chain of boutique prisons. Hilton Prisons. That's hot.
PS: Can't wait for the new season of Simple Life. Nicole Ritchie and her have patched up and are currently shooting another season: A Simple Prison Life.
Singapore A-list Mediacorp actor Christopher Lee was sentenced to a month's jail
He was also disqualified from driving for three years and fined $4,500 for DUI and hit-and-run. He had hit a motorcycle which was in front of his car. The rider and his pillion rider fell. Lee drove off and stopped some distance away. Instead of helping them, he got into his car and drove off.
This Blogger says: Jail that coward's arse. And what's $4,500 to that overpaid talentless chicken?
Bitched on: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Time: 12/20/2006 02:42:00 PM
Feeling sick today. Sigh... damn weather. Finally saw the sun today. It was raining cats and dogs (and pigs and cows and chickens and the entire animal kingdom) yesterday.
It was probably the 2nd most rainiest day in Singapore (ever recorded!!). I saw in the news (fine... I happened to watch it just at the moment I turned on the TV) that it rained more yesterday than the average rainfall for the month of December last year!!!
Unbelievable...
Or maybe I got the facts all wrong. I wasn't really paying attention (its a wonder how I do well in school...).
Many areas in Singapore were flooded (up to waist deep even). Something is seriously screwed up with the weather nowadays.
Plus I was nearly killed by the flood yesterday on my way to gym!!! (gasp!!!)
Ermm... Actually I was trying to avoid an ankle-deep puddle by the side a T-junction. Instead of just stepping of the kerb (where the puddle was), I tried jumping over the puddle. And this car which was turning out from the right took too small a turn, nearly knocking me down in the process. Ass...
I can just imagine today's headlines if that happened: Boy killed by flood Boy killed avoiding puddle.
Here's how bad the floods are at some places. This one is at Thompson Road (I think) where my mum likes to shop for her potted flowers (which will always end up flowerless and eventually 'leaveless' for sure...)
Plus, its so damn cold. I now walk around my house wearing socks (damn icy marble floor!!).
Last words: Unemployed and bored during the holidays. My life sucks... So, what a guy like me to do to get a life?
Simple, get a second life. I have been playing this game called Second Life. You all should try it.
I got my sisters addicted to it. My first sis is now a lesbian erotic dancer and my second sis is a shopaholic 'escort'. As for me, I'm a 1.9metre-tall-blonde-struggling-reporter (search for me- Ezan Nakamura). You can change your appearance to anything you want. You can wear anything you want. You can choose to work or if you are like my sisters, flirt to get money (easier for girls to play this game).
You can do anything you want (even fly!!!). Its really cool. So look for me and I can take you shopping for clothes (some are free, most are not) and clubbing. Or visit zoos and museums. Strip clubs and nudist beach (real graphic mature stuff).
Best online game since erm... I don't really play online games...
Plus, its free. Or you can also choose to pay (via credit cards) to get a premium account which lets you start with L$1000 and subsequently you get more money monthly.
Which is not really necessary, cause if 'you' have tops with plunging necklines and huge knockers (like my sisters' characters), 'men' will pay for everything.
Bitched on: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Time: 11/21/2006 12:42:00 AM
She has this huge mole on her face too!
I just can't get enough of all this elitist bull shit. Found another blog of a self proclaimed elitist (he said so himself).
"I am elitist. I believe those in the elite circles (no inverted commas) are better than those outside, not because they are naturally smarter, but generally because those who are there made it there on something, and they do deserve some recognition, more so than the general populace. So don't complain that the elite schools get more money etc. They actually deserve it."
This coming from a 17 or 16-years-old Raffles JC student.
"I get really annoyed when people go "Wah you from RJ ah. Must be damn smart lor" etc. When in actual fact we're really no different from the rest of you people. Except maybe for the fact that we do use our brains for something more useful. It's the mentality however, that people have about us, which we eventually accept for ourselves. So don't blame us for being elitist."
God.
He sounds like he has 'seen the world', doesn't he (for a 16-year-old)?
What a shame.
And he would be one those MPs or some CEOs or even your boss one day (touch wood).
Bitched on: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Time: 11/15/2006 05:51:00 PM
Crap, its Wednesday again. I hate Wednesdays. Not because it doesn't have good TV shows ('cept Project Runway maybe); but because it has the worst show ever in the history of Channel 5 - "On the Finer Side".
The show really irks me like crazy. I mean, who wants to watch people (freaking rich people) splurge money like water? Bloody elitists, swimming in their parents' money; speaking in faux accents, working in their family company as undeserving CEOs or living in homes bigger than orphanages.
Might as well have an episode dedicated to how this people wipe their arses with thousand dollar bills in the loo. Argh!!!!
I'm not jealous or anything (God, its obvious I am), I just don't need to be reminded that I'm not as... 'privileged'! I want to swim in a pool of money (not figuratively but literally like Mr Scrouge McDuck) and I want to wipe my arse with money too!
Stupid Dick Lee. Please lah, if he wasn't born into that family, would he be enjoying his life like that? And Denise dear, you should go for 'mouth' reduction (if there is such a thing). Dumb ass show. They should really can it. Or better yet, show it after a TV show like My Life Story, Extraordinary People or some other shows showing underprivileged people in need of some charity help or people who work their arse off to get where they are now.
Now that would be a slap to all the rich folks' over-Botoxed faces.
Anyway, that's off my chest; here's what I really wanted to blog about. That case about that elitist brat 'berating' a middle class working Singaporean. Here's the summary:
"A teenage blogger has found herself in the soup after comments she made in her online journal were criticised by many Internet users for being insensitive and elitist.
Raffles Junior College student Wee Shu Min, a daughter of MP Wee Siew Kim, sparked a heated debate on the Internet when she derided another blogger, Mr Derek Wee, for his views on the anxieties of Singapore workers.
Miss Wee, a second-year student on RJC's Humanities Scholarship Programme, has since shut down her blog and apologised for her comments, though not directly to Mr Derek Wee.
Mr Wee, 35, a Singaporean who works for a multinational corporation, had written in his blog on Oct 12 that he was concerned about competition from foreign talent and the lack of job opportunities for older workers here.
He urged the Government to understand Singaporeans' plight.
Last Thursday, Miss Wee responded to him on her blog, calling him old and unmotivated and said he was overly reliant on the Government."
Aiyoh, what has Singapore produced? Whiny working-class Singaporeans and on the other scale, elitist scumbags?
So this is what she actually wrote on her (now-closed down) blog:
Thursday, October 19, 2006
mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl(ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.
i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is the complement.
sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.
derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?
if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.
then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?
i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper.
these ****bags don't want anything without "manager" and a name card.
please, get out of my elite uncaring face.
posted at 12:08 PM
And here's her public apology:
i apologise if i have distressed you with my tendency to rant. while i will not dispute some of the points you make in response to what i have written, i would like to bring to your attention the fact that the post in question was never meant to be a cogent response to the specific points raised in derek wee's article. it is, quite obviously, a rant in the heat of the moment. in addition, i don't believe that my blog has the wide readership of derek wee's, or even your own, and my intention was more to vent my own frustrations than public denouncement.
i'd also like to clarify my use of the word "elite". while i understand how misinterpretation may have arose, i intended to use it in irony, as a label that people assume i enjoy, and not one that i take particular pleasure in.
finally, i admit that i was harsher than i should have been, although the the crux of my belief in self-improvement and self-determination has not changed. once again, i apologise if my words have unintentionally offended you - i was under the rather naive impression that nobody reads my blog.
Too little to late for apologies. What's written has been written.
He might be a 'leech to the government', but you my dear, are a leech to your father. All the luxuries you have right now, are not yours. You didn't deserve it. You didn't work your arse off for it. You will inherit it from your dad (and your dad probably inherited it from his dad). Your future will be bright I'm sure, but not because you earned it, you inherited it.
I come from a 'middle class' family. My dad (and I have not one ounce of shame in me) is a blue collared worker. My mum is a housewife. Both of them are wonderful parents who have produced exceptional children (ehem..). My parents are, in your words, 'middle class undereducated' folks. Am I ashamed? Hell no. Its my Dad's humble paycheck that brought my sisters and I through school. You probably won't understand having an overpaid MP father.
As for me; I have worked my way up from a humble neighbourhood school to where I am now, university: Architecture, NUS mind you. I've never had any extra tuition like you privileged rich kids. My parents didn't help me with my studies cause they were not highly educated. I had to depend on myself, not even on my two now-successful sisters. I never had piano lessons or violin lessons or what have you. But I strived in my school's Drama and dance and choir. I learnt Art (drawing, painting) on my own and I am now bloody good at it.
My parents worked hard. And so did I.
I am articulate and confident. I have always been a leader in school and the Army; I am currently a committee member in my architecture society.
My friends think I come from a rich family or live in some landed property. But I don't.
Heck, what they think. Makes me prouder to say I am here not because of my parents' money but because of my own brains and natural talents.
And I am not ashamed to say that I aspire to be rich and successful, an 'elite' (like how you defined it) or a 'yuppie' even. Cause I want to break out of this 'middle class' circle. But yet, I will remember my humble beginnings when I do.
Like you've said, 'the world is about winners and losers'.
When I do make it, I will be the winner and you, my elite brat, will be the loser. Now please, get out of my working class (and soon to be an 'elite') uncaring face.
Latest Update: Some smart dude made this on Youtube with the computer game Sims. Kinda summed up the whole story.
Things I love about Singapore!!! Singlish
Bitched on: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Time: 8/21/2007 07:33:00 PM
Suddenly feeling very patriotic.
In the spirit of the Republic's National Day, allow me to blog about what I love about Singapore.
Singlish. Where did it come from? What's its influence? Whatever it is, Singlish sets us locals apart from the foreigners, expats or sin chiaos (newcomers). Be proud of it, we are only 42 years of age and we have our own accent (some see it as our own hybrid of the English language).
So what if the foreigner doesn't understand us? Do they care that we have a hard time understanding their American or Australian or British accents?
And I simply love the fact that Singlish gets its sentence structure and wide vocabulary from our many native Asian languages. Chapalang...
See? One word can explain so much. That's Singlish for you.
Bitched on: Monday, May 14, 2007 Time: 5/14/2007 09:47:00 PM
Its funny how news you've heard from hearsay make their way into the newspapers a few days later.
Like the one about that durian shop and their seemingly unscrupulous tactics to sell expensive durians. I too received an e-mail forwarded from Ms Doris Tey warning her friends and friends of friends about the Chin Yong Fruits Trading in Sims Avenue. She had complained about the seller who opened three durians without checking with them the cost and instead placed them on the table urging them to try and subsequently ingest while all the time, avoiding to answer her and her friends. The bill? A whopping $140.
Just for durians? Come on...
How about that Hwa Chong Institution guy who had punched the bus driver over some really stupid misunderstanding? I've heard the news on the night itself (I have my sources... I can't name the source cause the person would kill me... again).
In fact, there was actually more to it that they didn't report. It was reported that 'he was crying as he was on the handphone with his Dad' and 'he seemed remorseful' and 'apologetic'.
Remorseful? From what I had heard, he was more concerned about his 'reputation'. He was repeatedly exclaiming that this would be on his record and ruin his chances of getting a scholarship. Yes! He was more concerned about his scholarship!!!
Apologetic? He was cursing and swearing to his father on the phone (he even used the F word). Yes. He was telling his Dad to come down to clear the issue out but his Daddy had refused and hence the swearing...
Bitched on: Saturday, May 12, 2007 Time: 5/12/2007 11:46:00 PM
Two Singaporean Army servicemen were killed in Taiwan when a fighter jet crashed at a military base in Hukou on Friday.
3rd Sergeant Isz Sazli Sapari, a 19-year-old SAF personnel, was accorded a full military funeral at the Pusara Abadi Cemetery in Lim Chu Kang today.
Arrangements are underway to transport the remains of the other deceased, Private Fan Yao Jin back to Singapore on Sunday. He too will be accorded a full military funeral.
Two of the nine servicemen injured in the Taiwanese fighter jet crash at a military base in Hukou on Friday are back in Singapore. Both suffered second and third degree burns up to 50% of their body.
This Blogger says: Rest in peace, brothers. Notice that in every news report, they choose to use the word 'remains' instead of the usual 'bodies'.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he would leave office on June 27 after a decade in power.
This Blogger says: Isn't Tony Blair the name of Bush's dog?
Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang shocked the ruling party with his resignation Saturday less than a week after he lost the primary for the 2008 presidential election.
This Blogger says: Is it the trend nowadays to resign suddenly?
YouTube.com is banned in Thailand not once but twice.
Thailand has blocked YouTube for a second time, due to a video mocking King Bhumibol Adulyadej. According to Reuters, Thailand’s Communications Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom had YouTube blocked after their requests to Google to have the clip taken down were ignored.
The first time YouTube was blocked in Thailand was possibly for showing related to clips from a CNN interview that features Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Thaksin.
The clip is not only “offensive” to Thailand’s monarchy, but has been criticized by several Buddhists as well, because of the clip’s showing a pair of women’s feet (the lowest part of the body) above the head (the highest part of the body).
Criticizing royalty in Thailand is a crime punishable by up to 15 years in jail.
This Blogger says: I'm not going to show the offensive video here. I still want to go Thailand for holidays you know.
Paris Hilton has been jailed for 45 days
In March 2007, the Los Angeles City's Attorney's Office claimed that Hilton violated the terms of her DUI (Driving Under Influence) probation by speeding without her headlights on, driving with a suspended license, and failing to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program.
On May 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in a correctional facility for violating her probation, and she is required to begin her jail term by June 5, 2007 or risk a doubling of her sentence.
This Blogger says: Her sister Nicky has started a chain of boutique hotels, maybe Paris should start her own chain of boutique prisons. Hilton Prisons. That's hot.
PS: Can't wait for the new season of Simple Life. Nicole Ritchie and her have patched up and are currently shooting another season: A Simple Prison Life.
Singapore A-list Mediacorp actor Christopher Lee was sentenced to a month's jail
He was also disqualified from driving for three years and fined $4,500 for DUI and hit-and-run. He had hit a motorcycle which was in front of his car. The rider and his pillion rider fell. Lee drove off and stopped some distance away. Instead of helping them, he got into his car and drove off.
This Blogger says: Jail that coward's arse. And what's $4,500 to that overpaid talentless chicken?
Bitched on: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Time: 12/20/2006 02:42:00 PM
Feeling sick today. Sigh... damn weather. Finally saw the sun today. It was raining cats and dogs (and pigs and cows and chickens and the entire animal kingdom) yesterday.
It was probably the 2nd most rainiest day in Singapore (ever recorded!!). I saw in the news (fine... I happened to watch it just at the moment I turned on the TV) that it rained more yesterday than the average rainfall for the month of December last year!!!
Unbelievable...
Or maybe I got the facts all wrong. I wasn't really paying attention (its a wonder how I do well in school...).
Many areas in Singapore were flooded (up to waist deep even). Something is seriously screwed up with the weather nowadays.
Plus I was nearly killed by the flood yesterday on my way to gym!!! (gasp!!!)
Ermm... Actually I was trying to avoid an ankle-deep puddle by the side a T-junction. Instead of just stepping of the kerb (where the puddle was), I tried jumping over the puddle. And this car which was turning out from the right took too small a turn, nearly knocking me down in the process. Ass...
I can just imagine today's headlines if that happened: Boy killed by flood Boy killed avoiding puddle.
Here's how bad the floods are at some places. This one is at Thompson Road (I think) where my mum likes to shop for her potted flowers (which will always end up flowerless and eventually 'leaveless' for sure...)
Plus, its so damn cold. I now walk around my house wearing socks (damn icy marble floor!!).
Last words: Unemployed and bored during the holidays. My life sucks... So, what a guy like me to do to get a life?
Simple, get a second life. I have been playing this game called Second Life. You all should try it.
I got my sisters addicted to it. My first sis is now a lesbian erotic dancer and my second sis is a shopaholic 'escort'. As for me, I'm a 1.9metre-tall-blonde-struggling-reporter (search for me- Ezan Nakamura). You can change your appearance to anything you want. You can wear anything you want. You can choose to work or if you are like my sisters, flirt to get money (easier for girls to play this game).
You can do anything you want (even fly!!!). Its really cool. So look for me and I can take you shopping for clothes (some are free, most are not) and clubbing. Or visit zoos and museums. Strip clubs and nudist beach (real graphic mature stuff).
Best online game since erm... I don't really play online games...
Plus, its free. Or you can also choose to pay (via credit cards) to get a premium account which lets you start with L$1000 and subsequently you get more money monthly.
Which is not really necessary, cause if 'you' have tops with plunging necklines and huge knockers (like my sisters' characters), 'men' will pay for everything.
Bitched on: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Time: 11/21/2006 12:42:00 AM
She has this huge mole on her face too!
I just can't get enough of all this elitist bull shit. Found another blog of a self proclaimed elitist (he said so himself).
"I am elitist. I believe those in the elite circles (no inverted commas) are better than those outside, not because they are naturally smarter, but generally because those who are there made it there on something, and they do deserve some recognition, more so than the general populace. So don't complain that the elite schools get more money etc. They actually deserve it."
This coming from a 17 or 16-years-old Raffles JC student.
"I get really annoyed when people go "Wah you from RJ ah. Must be damn smart lor" etc. When in actual fact we're really no different from the rest of you people. Except maybe for the fact that we do use our brains for something more useful. It's the mentality however, that people have about us, which we eventually accept for ourselves. So don't blame us for being elitist."
God.
He sounds like he has 'seen the world', doesn't he (for a 16-year-old)?
What a shame.
And he would be one those MPs or some CEOs or even your boss one day (touch wood).
Bitched on: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Time: 11/15/2006 05:51:00 PM
Crap, its Wednesday again. I hate Wednesdays. Not because it doesn't have good TV shows ('cept Project Runway maybe); but because it has the worst show ever in the history of Channel 5 - "On the Finer Side".
The show really irks me like crazy. I mean, who wants to watch people (freaking rich people) splurge money like water? Bloody elitists, swimming in their parents' money; speaking in faux accents, working in their family company as undeserving CEOs or living in homes bigger than orphanages.
Might as well have an episode dedicated to how this people wipe their arses with thousand dollar bills in the loo. Argh!!!!
I'm not jealous or anything (God, its obvious I am), I just don't need to be reminded that I'm not as... 'privileged'! I want to swim in a pool of money (not figuratively but literally like Mr Scrouge McDuck) and I want to wipe my arse with money too!
Stupid Dick Lee. Please lah, if he wasn't born into that family, would he be enjoying his life like that? And Denise dear, you should go for 'mouth' reduction (if there is such a thing). Dumb ass show. They should really can it. Or better yet, show it after a TV show like My Life Story, Extraordinary People or some other shows showing underprivileged people in need of some charity help or people who work their arse off to get where they are now.
Now that would be a slap to all the rich folks' over-Botoxed faces.
Anyway, that's off my chest; here's what I really wanted to blog about. That case about that elitist brat 'berating' a middle class working Singaporean. Here's the summary:
"A teenage blogger has found herself in the soup after comments she made in her online journal were criticised by many Internet users for being insensitive and elitist.
Raffles Junior College student Wee Shu Min, a daughter of MP Wee Siew Kim, sparked a heated debate on the Internet when she derided another blogger, Mr Derek Wee, for his views on the anxieties of Singapore workers.
Miss Wee, a second-year student on RJC's Humanities Scholarship Programme, has since shut down her blog and apologised for her comments, though not directly to Mr Derek Wee.
Mr Wee, 35, a Singaporean who works for a multinational corporation, had written in his blog on Oct 12 that he was concerned about competition from foreign talent and the lack of job opportunities for older workers here.
He urged the Government to understand Singaporeans' plight.
Last Thursday, Miss Wee responded to him on her blog, calling him old and unmotivated and said he was overly reliant on the Government."
Aiyoh, what has Singapore produced? Whiny working-class Singaporeans and on the other scale, elitist scumbags?
So this is what she actually wrote on her (now-closed down) blog:
Thursday, October 19, 2006
mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl(ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.
i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is the complement.
sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.
derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?
if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.
then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?
i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper.
these ****bags don't want anything without "manager" and a name card.
please, get out of my elite uncaring face.
posted at 12:08 PM
And here's her public apology:
i apologise if i have distressed you with my tendency to rant. while i will not dispute some of the points you make in response to what i have written, i would like to bring to your attention the fact that the post in question was never meant to be a cogent response to the specific points raised in derek wee's article. it is, quite obviously, a rant in the heat of the moment. in addition, i don't believe that my blog has the wide readership of derek wee's, or even your own, and my intention was more to vent my own frustrations than public denouncement.
i'd also like to clarify my use of the word "elite". while i understand how misinterpretation may have arose, i intended to use it in irony, as a label that people assume i enjoy, and not one that i take particular pleasure in.
finally, i admit that i was harsher than i should have been, although the the crux of my belief in self-improvement and self-determination has not changed. once again, i apologise if my words have unintentionally offended you - i was under the rather naive impression that nobody reads my blog.
Too little to late for apologies. What's written has been written.
He might be a 'leech to the government', but you my dear, are a leech to your father. All the luxuries you have right now, are not yours. You didn't deserve it. You didn't work your arse off for it. You will inherit it from your dad (and your dad probably inherited it from his dad). Your future will be bright I'm sure, but not because you earned it, you inherited it.
I come from a 'middle class' family. My dad (and I have not one ounce of shame in me) is a blue collared worker. My mum is a housewife. Both of them are wonderful parents who have produced exceptional children (ehem..). My parents are, in your words, 'middle class undereducated' folks. Am I ashamed? Hell no. Its my Dad's humble paycheck that brought my sisters and I through school. You probably won't understand having an overpaid MP father.
As for me; I have worked my way up from a humble neighbourhood school to where I am now, university: Architecture, NUS mind you. I've never had any extra tuition like you privileged rich kids. My parents didn't help me with my studies cause they were not highly educated. I had to depend on myself, not even on my two now-successful sisters. I never had piano lessons or violin lessons or what have you. But I strived in my school's Drama and dance and choir. I learnt Art (drawing, painting) on my own and I am now bloody good at it.
My parents worked hard. And so did I.
I am articulate and confident. I have always been a leader in school and the Army; I am currently a committee member in my architecture society.
My friends think I come from a rich family or live in some landed property. But I don't.
Heck, what they think. Makes me prouder to say I am here not because of my parents' money but because of my own brains and natural talents.
And I am not ashamed to say that I aspire to be rich and successful, an 'elite' (like how you defined it) or a 'yuppie' even. Cause I want to break out of this 'middle class' circle. But yet, I will remember my humble beginnings when I do.
Like you've said, 'the world is about winners and losers'.
When I do make it, I will be the winner and you, my elite brat, will be the loser. Now please, get out of my working class (and soon to be an 'elite') uncaring face.
Latest Update: Some smart dude made this on Youtube with the computer game Sims. Kinda summed up the whole story.
She has this huge mole on her face too!
