Well-wish for Singapore on National Day 2008

Tuesday, 5th of August 2008

There was a contest on Radio FM883 where contestant can sms in their well-wishes to Singapore and get a chance to win the National Day Fun Pack.

I decided to send in my very sincere words of hope for the country and almost immediately after sending the text, the deejay called and informed me that I had won the fun pack. I was thrilled that I won but in the end I did not collect my fun pack as the collection was quite troublesome (The gift can only be collected on Mon-Fri 12-2pm at CMPB). I wished they could have mailed me the gift... What a waste.

Anyway, here's what I wrote:

I wish Singapore will have more promising young leaders whom will continue the legacy of our present leaders while improving on the political & educational system.

The words are what I really hope for Singapore to achieve.

I love Singapore and thank Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and other leaders for what they did for Singapore.

One great vision is implementing English as First Language in our education system. I am most grateful that majority of Singaporeans are at least bilingual in English and our mother tongue. Even many of our aunties and uncles from older generation know simple English. Contracts require an English Version to be valid. World meetings, communications, online web informations etc are mostly English-centered. It has been proven how important and useful English is to our daily life.

I thank our leaders for having the foresight to build Singapore into a very developed Country with racial harmony as one of the most important criteria. The National Pledge says it all:

We, the citizens of Singapore, pledge ourselves as one united people, regardless of race, language or religion,to build a democratic society based on justice and equality, so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and progress for our nation.

Singapore's governing methods are not without its fault. There are still unhappiness and complaint from the people. But to be fair to Singapore, which country have the perfect sets of governing rules and 100% contented citizens? If there really exist such a country, everyone in the world would be fighting to get citizenship to it, including myself.

I hope that education in Singapore can be tweaked in order to inject what is lacking in present leadership into our future generations.

In my personal opinion, loopholes in our education system are the results of our society's problems like the lack of courtesy & compassion, over reliance etc. If I were given a chance to propose a way to improve the education system, I would suggest a set of rules in teaching methods that incorporates psychology. Only understanding the science of mind and behaviour of our children can we nurture their mindset and make efficient improvement to our society.

End of my National Day 'Speech' for Year 2008. Once again, I LOVE SINGAPORE!!!