Police-Free Morning.. almost..

Finally the ordeal is over, no more police hanging around and staring at us like we've done something wrong; no more silly traffic police trying to tell us that we should not cross the road coz people got hurt. Well almost..

Today is the first after a long while since I've stepped out of the train station and see no police in sight.. Zero.

Citylink was clear too, no police at every single pillar.

Marina was clear, hardly any people around except for some models rehearsing for the Saudi Arabia thingy.

It's only at the entrance of PanPac where I saw one single police standing guard. I guess not all the IMF pple have left town.

But it's a good sign, finally things are getting back to normal. The shops in the suntec area must be thanking god right now for finally their sales can get back to normal, oh, so must the taxi drivers..

I really think this whole IMF is a flop, right from the start till the end. Except for our own papers, I don't think we had much positive feedback. I think, if the govt could just allocate half of the money and let my PR team handle this event, we will be able to be a much better job. After all, my PR team are professionals.

Now, I complain a lot about the government and singapore politics in general. And no, I do not have solutions, I only have displeasure, but at least I voice out my thoughts, at least I show my displeasure and not take it as it is. I do not think that complaining about singapore politics is a bad thing, at least it shows that I care, and that I think.

I do not take things as it is, so what if my voice is only heard by one and the "gods" in the upper echelons will never hear me?? At least one person understands the indignities I felt. I will not sit down and let the government walk all over me, it's not right. I'm not the most righteous person when I see something so fundamentally wrong, I have to say something.

So I will continue with my criticism, I will continue with my complains, if I can think of solutions, I will voice out, but if not, why do we pay LHL 70k a month?! Coming up with policies and solutions is his problem, not mine.

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Almost on the same track.. The issue of children. My buddies know that I only like children when they are quiet, once they start to cry or make noise, I will give them that disgusted face. Now don't come telling me that things will be different when the child is their own, that's bullshit, if a person don't like something, they will never like it, so why force them to??

Now this issue is almost on the same track coz I do not see a future for my children in Singapore. Nope. Just look at the screwed-up education system, just look at the tons of work that children as young as 4 years old have to do. Where's their childhood? Singapore is only good for it's security, other than that, I really do not see any other merits for raising my child here.

I rather have my child grow up in places like Australia, places with natural beauty and a slower pace of life. I'm already stuck in the rat race, I do not want my children to suffer the same fate. Just look at me and the average Singaporean, do we have dreams? Do we have ambitions? No, all we want is to find a good job and that's it. A life without dreams, it's one of the saddest things in life.

Maybe I will grow to like children, maybe I will find an environment suitable to raise kids, but in the meantime, I shall just have my doggies :)

<<singapore>>

Imposters at IMF!

I’m surprised I can’t find anything on it. It was such a big hoo-ha at the airport yesterday and it's still probably buzzing in the right circles. Haven heard about it?? Hey, it’s all about clearance :p

There’s imposters pretending to be IMF delegates and they even come with the official passes!! *amazing* But what’s puzzles me is the question “why?” Why would these people want to pretend to be delegates? To enjoy the well-known cuisine that Singapore will dish out? Or the police’s paranoid is something real? Is the threat real??

But if that reasoning is true? Then why can’t I find anything on it? Stale news? Shouldn’t they report it as it’s really good PR for the police force, the police managed to crack down these imposters the moment they step into our grounds, isn’t that something to be proud of??

*ponders*

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Well business seems to be picking up, just a little. The area is not as deserted as yesterday but the crowd is still thin. I must say, Bakerzin is smart, they chose this time to renovate, best time to cut loss.

The one thing I'm pretty angry about the detour and extra ERP charges, I don't mind the extra time, but extra ERP charges jus coz I need to detour?? I have to go through ERP gantries twice just to get from orchard to suntec, how ridiculous is that?

<<imf>><<singapore>>

Lo the hypocrisy

Seen the sunflowers lining the streets? When do sunflowers grow native in Singapore? Then have you seen the rows and rows of chrysanthemums? It's like chinese new year, except for chinese new year, the government would never bother to line the streets with flowers like so.

No, we will only get to see flowers coz our government is bending over to impress the delegates. To put it in a nasty way, it's like bending over and asking them to screw us in the arse, that's how it feels like. It's one thing to line the street with scrubs and maybe flowering plants like ixora, all these are commonly seen around the nation, but to put up sunflowers, plants that will only last for two weeks?! The point being?? It's such a waste of time and money.

Instead of spending such money to impress the delegates, shouldn't they spend the money on more worthy cause like allowing street protests? Of course there's a possibility of riots, but that's up to the police to manage. The government is banning protests because of the inept police, that's the feeling they give me. If the police force is as good as they make them out to be, then why not allow protests and peaceful marches? It's because the police is not confident of their abilities and thus putting a blanket ban on all protests.

Oh, that is of course based on the assumption that pappy is open enough to allow protest, which we all know that they are not.

Hypocrites.

Asking us to smile at the delegates. Think about this, exactly how many people know what the World Bank does? Lend money to countries and then?? That's why I find so puzzling about the whole 4 million smiles campaign, they ask us to smile and they don't bother to tell us who these people are. They seriously expect us to smile at perfect strangers who we have no idea what they are about? How would we know that they are not screwing with our arse while we are smiling at them??

All these does not make sense.

And this whole thing is a fucking pain in the arse, Ah Dear have to be on shift duty and so he will not be meeting me for the next two weeks. See why I'm so irritated by this whole thing??

Don't tell me about the extra income and etc, don't they know that shops around the suntec around will be suffering from decrease in sales for the whole IMF period? It's not the first time that we have such conference and it will not be the first time something like that happens. I can already see the decline in business, Breadtalk at CityLink is actually empty this morning, when it's usually packed with people on a normal morning.

To end it all, pappies are nothing but H.Y.P.O.C.R.I.T.E.S. and they are trying to make us like them. Fuck them all, I shall not frown at the delegates, they are not the ones who are the hypocrites, I shall just pretend that they are not there.

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