Sick Again III

Hmm.

Well, it's National Day for singaporeans, and I'm down with a headache and fever (on top of a mysterious sprained back)... some way to spend a day off from school... I still have to complete my part of a Comm Skills group-work and hopefully have time to work on my handphone model.

Thing is, I'm usually jaded when it comes to National Day because of all the cliched stuff which flies around in the air... you can see it in the newspapers (all the people who say how brilliant Singapore is, says that Singapore will forever be embedded in their lives)... and I'm just tired of watching the national day video.

You can say I'm perfectly non-patriotic because I simply find nothing to be patriotic about: the ever-rising transport fares, the NKF scandal, the PAP's perpetual political hold which then leads to Sitoh Yi Pin's picture being flashed outside St. John's home, which I pass by everyday due to the journey to and from Nanyang Poly. I mean these political candidates have a way to thinking that the people's hearts can be bought through their stomachs (the PAP's attempts at winning over the people in Potong Pasir from under the constituency of main opposition leader Chiam See Tong has culminated in a sort of gathering programme called Makan Fiesta) which is completely out of whack because I'm already irritated by the grinning visage of Sitoh Yi Pin topped with a chef's cap.

In any case, I'm more impressed with Chiam See Tong because he came around to my place last year to visit the residents in Sennett Estate in the middle of the afternoon, when the sun was shining to brightly and fiercely. Even more impressionable was the fact that he willingly asked us for our opinions on what should be done to improve the area and what we find dissatisfactory. That, to me is worth more than being exposed to lame PAP gimmickry.

Sigh... I think I'm feeling better already, but I'm still feeling wobbly mentally.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy