reflections on my train of thought :)
this blog of mine has been really dusty.*blows wind and wipes it off*
i have a roller coaster ride of my life.
but i didnt come back here to archive it here.
I just come back - cos i feel it is necessary to reflect on the quality of our thoughts and the materials we read.
okay, i 'fess up. i have been STUDYING for my UNDERSTANDING SINGAPORE SOCIETY quiz, in like, 9 hours later.
and my brain is overloaded with info.
it is heavy information.
on how singapore come to independence, the factors etc.
i was so overwhelmed that i switched off and checked out laptop coolers for my HOT macbook pro.
and i surfed some familiar blogs
and i realised:
i am no longer content with just mere thoughts.
i am now into questioning fundamentals.
idealistic ideas are just paper.
how can we bring actions into the future.
its pretty much like
what are the problems in singapore now
what are the good policies
the bad and how we move on from here.
can our generation truly take the baton from our predecessors?
we are the green-house generation.
we lived in great peace, no lack and all levels of material comfort
we have never really fought. really.
just studying about LKY, Toh Chin Chye, BG Lee etc - all these great leaders of Singapore, made me admire their drive.
and reading shallow readings of academic scholar of Michael Barr's treatment in addressing LKY disturbed me. i was so tempted to close the document, BUT i perserved - to read the entire LKY readings and - it totally opened my mind to why PAP did some things they did.
I used to hold a skeptical view on "foreign talents" and felt that way when i saw LKY's "a population of 3 million cannot toss up enough talents for a globalised workforce"
until i read it till the end.
and now i realised - Oh, so this is why.
BUT
i have my comments as well. because as much as this policy made sense to me - there was not enough social safeguard in my opinion and experience.
to give a peek: is it any wonder why Singapore is having an issue with bond-breakers? Why do THEY wanna BREAK their bonds in the first place?
because they feel second-rated.
and as of right now, as i plow through the thick stack of notes and readings, i have yet to find any academic writings or reflections addressing this.
when i do, i hope i wont be disappointed. But again, a paradigm shift that opened my eyes to the wisdom and quirks of our modern Singapore father - LKY.
and truly, I do think LKY and PAP were really - more than smart. They are really blessed and lucky that whatever decisions, research, advisors (from UN techical assistance) all pointed them to a sound direction. And they are even luckier that it even worked - given Singapore's limitation of no natural resource and little food and water self-sufficiency.
but i am really thankful most - that LKY did the right thing to engage MNCs for Singapore's manufacturing industry - so different from the much favoured importation substituition of most decolonised states of that time.
It is one thing to be make a good decisions. It is another to be brave enough to bear it through - when it is unheard of.
I wonder will our local young have this tenacity and foresight and instinct.
the issue of Singapore's brain-drain.
is it any wonder?
it is a product of the Modernisation in Singapore.
China does not seem to face it.
WHY?
is it because of China's huge population mass?
or is there something fundamentally wrong in the Singapore culture and system
and it is beginning to manifest it's results in my generation?
will the PAP be able to act in time, to counter political apathy and draw enough talents to sustain a good government for the next generation?
can the PAP do it again?
posted by colourpencils. @ 1:53 PM
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