woahhh I can't stand it anymore I must rant and I must complain!! xO
I have been visiting the Temasek Review website for a while now. I understand that the Straits Times is quite pro-government, so I thought Temasek Review might be a good medium to obtain reliable and unbiased information.
I puke blood totally. The way they talk about stuffs. Even though Blogger does not allow copy and pasting, I shall quote something from the TR and type it word for word to show how ____ (fill in your own word) they are. Okay, they are not TOTALLY ____, but they are ____ most of the time. By the way, ____ is not a compliment .__.
Firstly, HELLO HAVE YOU WATCHED NK'S ARIRANG FESTIVAL BEFORE? I do not remember, at least in this year's National Day Parade, performers marching around carrying portraits of the leaders and proclaiming how great and noble they are. I do not sense that the National Day Parade is a PAP propaganda. It is a parade in celebration of our country, our people and the Singapore spirit - how we have come together in times of difficulties since the Kampong days, how we look out for each other and strive hard towards common goals. It highlights the continuation of the Singapore Spirit, not the PAP spirit. Towards the end of the musical, we saw the little boy running around the stage waving the Singapore flag, not the PAP flag. And how is Singapore's rule like that of North Korea? North Korea is communist; people do not have the right to vote for their government. Singapore is democratic, we DO have the right to vote the current regime out if we really buay song! But the thing is 60.1% of the population is not buay song, unlike you! SO FREE GO WATCH THE ARIRANG FESTIVAL LA CRAP SO MUCHHH!!
Secondly, the fact that you do not care about having a National Day Parade, or rather, you feel NOTHING about National Day does not mean that it does not mean a thing to many other Singaporeans too. What is the significance of National Day? It is a day set aside for Singaporeans, as well as people who love Singapore, to celebrate its independence, to celebrate Singapore.
Which brings me to my next point. Singapore does not equate to its government. You can be unhappy about the current regime, but how, how can you not love our country? D: And how, can a person who does not love where he/she belongs maintain and run a website which can truly, bring to its readers truthful and objective information for the good of Singapore? If you are just feeling unhappy with the country, you will probably just publish bad (and probably biased) stuffs most of the time. Which, in my opinion, is what Temasek Review is doing. I don't see pleasant stuffs there; All I see are complains, 80% of which are so irrational they are blood-puking-inducing.
Btw, even though that quote is taken from "Opinions", I assume that the editors of Temasek Review wrote it since the above quote is not in bold.
I understand that the Temasek Review exposes the discontentment Singaporeans have, like inflation, certain policies, and the influx of foreigners (be it foreign workers or foreign talents) especially. It is good to know what problems fellow Singaporeans are facing. However, I think they (both the editors and the readers) are a little overboard in the things they say, and are emotional most of the time they sound like naggy and whiny Juliet's nurses. People can even blame foreign talents for technical glitches in DBS ATM machines. (http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/08/06/dbs-atm-upgrade-glitch-causes-cash-to-be-dispensed-only-after-10-seconds/) They are so awesome in twisting stuffs they should consider being scriptwriters for Korean dramas.
Really, Temasek Review, what's your purpose? Uniting Singaporeans? Haha. Laugh til my teeth drop guang guang to the max -.-ll
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Just gulped down about half a litre of water ranting about the Temasek Review. Roar.
I'm sorry if you really like the Temasek Review, but I do hope that despite having differing opinions of that website, we can still be friends! :DDD
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