Does the world have an Iron Man to save it from North Korea?
April has been a month filled with much suspense on the national papers in every country. What will they do? What are they planning to do? Will their attack spell the end of Girls Generation and all the oppa handsome actors and not forgetting the gangnam 'shake your bon bon' oppa?
However, it all seems to have quieten down. Not sure what the joker from the North is planning. Not even sure at all if their self scripted, self directed and self action drama is useful for their own people. I was guessing if North wanted to send a strong message to the world, it is either to launch a super warhead that could terminate half of USA or big enough to sink a notable city, which would likely to be Singapore.
Well, of course, more unpredictable things have happened. Besides Arsenal traitor RVP finally winning a title with arch rivals Man Utd, it is even stranger that Arsenal will have to do a lap of honour since Arsenal is the team they next play after the title win at Aston Villa. Full 100% mockery of the situation at Arsenal that players leave to win things elsewhere.
April has come on quickly. Just as the month approaches May and will also soon hit the half-year mark as well, another notable thing happened in Singapore.The War Memorial at City Hall was vandalised with this word: A crossed out Democracy.
While many citizens may have their beef with the local government and certain policies such as high prices of flats, transport woes, it isn't as if the government is sitting on the fat cow. As much as I have voiced out about how certain things can improve, it is notable that the government has been trying hard to win the citizens over and has been going places where they have never been. Engaging citizens in live shows on how to improve the nation forward, giving trial of free transport for early commuters. While there is still a lot to work on, I believe changes don't just come at the whisper of 1 word. We must accept that our government is no Aladdin and there is no magic lamp. Every piece of thing that we have now is due to the hard work of early forefathers. We must accept that no matter how we look, the Singapore of today cannot be compared to the one in the flourishing 80s. Terrain of the economy , inside and outside of it are all different. As a city becomes densely populated, inflation is bound to come in. We must advocate the best polices ever, but never to forget our roots and values.
As such, while i was browsing through the comments posted on the article link by Channelnewsasia, I was appalled to find out 1 certain netizen who seeemd to feel it was okay to deface the memorial. He talked about the rights of gays and on more for his selfish means. The one thing which we can use to gauge the speed of change in the world today is this: Gays over in some countries have the right to get married even. Even as you speak bad of gays in the local community media, you risk the chance of getting flamed. I just don't see it any way how it can be right. Nature has deemed like poles of the magnetic field to always repel. How a person can be homosexual is really down to the beliefs and choices of the individual. Your parents don't teach you that you can marry the same sex since you are a child, that I am very sure of. We went through the right education being taught in school and received the right values about rights and wrongs about this topic. So, selfish excuses won't work at all.
It was already bad enough to see an honoured war memorial being defaced. Adding on some stupid comments such as the one above who use it to spear head his gay rights and others such as' big deal' , i feel these people are utterly useless in my view.
Let me ask you something. Have you ever stopped and paused to think that the very step you are standing now used to be a flat piece of land where your forefathers fought to the very death with our perpetrators during the world war? Where dirty people spat into the grounds stand the very same land which others' blood has soaked in just for our land to be free.People who left their familes behind just to join the war so that other families including theirs will be free. Think about it. When people can't even think deep and have some respect for the honoured dead, what use of the person could he render to the country in need? This person will run first and say'big deal, I don't care'
Oh yes, on a side note. April has also been such a hot month that you have to pray you don't have diarrhoea as you will realise you are not only losing water at the bottom end, you are also facing water loss from the extreme heat facing Singapore for this month. Maybe it is good training for us before we go and visit Pornsak Sukhumvit soon.