The View Outside...
I have always wanted to be on the ouside looking in to things, to be totally objective about things. But these years have taught me otherwise. Sometimes, being on the inside of things have gotten too much of me, as though I am involved in everything that happens around me and I take things too personally.It's time for me to start looking at the view outside again...
Bush won the US election for another 4 years in the White House. He is pro-war but pro-trade too. I don't disagree on his war on terror but is terror really his aim or a religion. To me that does not really matter as we are still very dependant on the US for growth and as along as things are stable enough for me to study in Singapore and work enough money to get outta here, that's okay for me. But the FTA is causing Singapore to make far too much concessions, in my opinion. We are reversing policies but with very "justified" reasons (anything that comes from the parliment are justified in Singapore, no one bothers too much with one party controlling the nation). The new Copyright Bill, Broadcast bill are going to greatly affect many Singaporeans, especially our standard of living, doesn't the government realise that the gap is growing bigger?
More CCTV will be installed throughout Singapore. Soon, I guess, all locks will be replaced by IRIS scanners or fingerprint access. All in the name of seurity? How about in thr future, everyone would be having a chip implanted into their body, so every movement is tracked and access is strictly restricted. Security? Absolutely! Night spots would be out of reach for under-18s, cinemas need not have people checking ICs, immigration can be automatic with no officers needed except to make arrests, etc etc. How perfect Singapore will be. So perfect that your every action will be watched. Every word you say will be recorded. Everything you do will be approved by the government.
I guess that too much ramblings already... Blogger has allowed retro-blogging so I have compiled all 2002 entries into the blog as well. Boring nowadays, I have re-done the 4M and LBSA websites. Do visit them if someone ever reads this blog. But this is my outlet and after all these rantings, the view outside tonight seems very peacful for my unit is going on block leave and no one will be bothering me on the phone everyday for the next 2 weeks or so...
