Thursday, August 20, 2009
wow I love LKY~

I just came home less than 5mins.
Im still in my black skinny jeans and my green tshirt. (a.k.a by Yongmei, the Milo tshirt)
socks still firmly stuck to my heels.
cuffling still unbuttoned.

my com was on.
it was on yahoo's homepageee.
and something (or someone) reali caught my attention.

it was LKY~


on the headlines, it says
"MM Lee: Malays have special status here"


and being a 'faulty' malay that I am,
of course, without a freakin doubt,
I was so darn curious.

I mean,
HOW CAN I NOT?

Im like a dog without a leash!
Im like ink refill without the pen itself!
Im like a skydiver without a parachute, and a faulty reserved parachute!

In short, Im a lost, useless malay, heading towards certain death.

and wow, suddenly I see our beloved MM Lee defending the malays.

ok, cut the crap,
I wasnt overjoyed or wat. serious.
jus hyper curious.


but wat he did reali made me love him!
(although he's super mysterious and all~)
or to me, at least.

Headlines => "MM weighs in on race debate"
Sub head=> "MM Lee Kuan Yew fiercely rebuts an NMP's notion of racial equality in Parliament."


if you wanna read the article, => http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20090819/tap-858-govt-accountable-actions-worked-231650b.html

=D

He said: "We expressly stated in our Constitution, a duty on behalf of the government, not to treat everyone as equal. It’s not reality, it’s not practical. It will lead to grave and irreparable damage if we work on that principle. So, this was an aspiration.


I only understand about 3/4 of that though I think I reali got an idea what he's trying to say.

"Our Constitution spells out the duties of the government to treat minorities and Malays with extra care"
-LKY!


Im like wow.
Isn't that gonna create a heated debate?

But well, if you reali think about it,
HEY HE'S RIGHT!


and I especially like this:
"And I thought to myself, ’perhaps I should bring this House back to earth’, and tell us and remind all what’s our starting point, what is our base and if we don’t recognise where we started from and these are our foundations, we’ll fail."

what he said,
its reali very true.

I mean, from a peanut,
we advanced so much.
ok, me, a super insignificant youth (some might say)
could never have grasp the foundations of our motherland
but yet explicitly trying to arrogantly speak his mind.

well hey,
I'm a Singaporean.
And if I don't take notice or even give a slightest care of what we were made of,
I guess our historical arts can never be forever tattooed under our skins.

so yeah,
I dun reali care if I sound "smartass-ish"
It have to start somewhere eh?

so I guess with the number of foreign people here in Singapore, (like 1 out of 4/5 people apparently,)
I hope they aren't jus here thinking
they can jus sleep anywhere around our possession of the Earth
without knowing (or realising) how far we've come.

OR WHAT EXACTLY SINGAPORE ONCE WAS, AT A POINT OF TIME
(which I meant it to be a long, long, long time ago)
*(when we were just a super small fishing village)
**(when everything was still super peaceful)
***(when my people ruled the land)

lets all listen (or actively listen) to what dearest LKY
said and DO NOT forget wat this country was, originally.

which of coz, relates back to me,
being a culturally & traditionally out-of-sync malay boy.
but I guess being this far from what I truly am creates an invisible barrier.
between myself and what I was (or wat I shd be)
Probabli, I can never revert myself back culturally. (Cross Cultural Studies, oh the irony)


and I'm stuck being someone I shdnt be.


even someone thats not from my people is doing good to us.
so what does that make me?
a hypocrite?
or someone that just wants to breakout and be different?


funny how it all links back to wat Jimmy said before.
People have high uncertainty avoidance (omg, cross cultural studies again)
afraid to be different.
routines, schedules, routines, schedules.
uniqueness is alien.


and an attempt to make a difference negatively affects the environment.
OUR environment.
the environment that laughs 'make a difference' while screaming 'dun make me laugh' at the same time.

so I guess its settled.
I knw myself pretty well now.
Im not the boy who screamed "What am i?!?!" anymore.
(or atleast not so much now)


Im gonna leave it at that,
knowing my love for the country is still unshattered
and my ideals and perception searching for the leakage to solve the cultural faults in myself.
Hoping one day, I will truly understand what I am. (which I just contradicted =D)

♥/LiterallyTom/6:04 PM