Yourself?

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
whatever you wish for you keep

Have faith in your dreams and some day
A rainbow will come shining through.
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true...
(a present from the mice from Cinderella)

About National Education:
I'm proud of the fact that Singapore managed to come such a long way, and how hardworking the pioneers were. Perhaps proud of the fact that Singapore can be so successful and all...but there are a lot of things that I'm not proud of either. Like the un-graciousness and close-minded views, or pigeon-toad in well kinda attitudes of some Singaporeans.

What heritage can we talk about....
Hrm... not much. All the Sang Nile Utama and Raffles stories that everyone of us have heard of perhaps. But I think that Singapore's beauty is in its diversity. The fact that we can have so many races of different heritage living together. Even though the different traditional cultures are eroding as we americanize or whatever you wanna call it, it's still something to be proud of that we can live harmoniously (or most of us anyway)
Heritage may be important in a country, for example the japs may be proud of their many wars and battles fought or the british may be proud of their long scandalous royal family lines, but I think that it is not essential in making one love one's country...

What do we actually own? Well, if I were to take the philosophical stance, I'd probably say that I don't own anything at all except myself =)
If you're talking about what does Singapore own...Singapore owns it's citizens perhaps?

What have we done that's unique? On a superficial level, I guess I'd say create a food wonderland and stuff like yu sheng and that mixed food salad thingey (argh, brain not working in the morning, can't even remember what it's called)
I think that our education system is rather unique ;) Though it was taken from many other countries and reformated, it still became unique in the end.
Sure, that article about Singapore not being able to win any nobel-prizes and everything...but what did they expect with a population of 4 million and such a young country? It takes time...

posted by Geraldine @ 11:24 am