It’s the last day of the year 2011, December 31st. Finally.

This is been quite a hellish year for me to be honest… Somehow the sound of a new year just sounds more promising… like better things and people to come into my life hopefully.

Will 2012 be the end of the world? Doesn’t really matter. Just gotta keep living the dream…

I have been so busy the past week that I haven’t had the time to upload all these amazing pictures from Nuffnang Awards 2011 ! Bloggers from all over the region were hosted at Mariott Putrajaya Malaysia to attend this awesome party. We were given a guided tour around Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, brought to Zouk to party the night away and another club. I had lots of fun during this trip and made some new friends and got reacquainted with some

Me with my BB Bernard <3

With Nadnut!

With my awesome friends and bloggers Noel Boyld, Peggy Heng, Clara Dblchin, Fidelis

With Peggy, Dweam (Valerie, Ms Singapore 2011) and Fidelis~

Got to really know Peggy better during this trip and she’s really awesome

With bernng and noel~

Drinking with Dblchin and others *omg nadnut is a crazy drinker*

Sorry all the pictures of different shapes and sizes! I’m stealing all these pictures from facebook and other blogs

With the recent price hikes in Singapore’s transport systems, more and more disgruntled Singaporeans are beginning to feel annoyed with what is happening in Singapore. Some may still defend Singapore’s system and policies, comparing it with neighboring countries such as Thailand and Malaysia, and try to convince themselves that Singapore’s transport system isn’t that bad even with all the problems we are facing.

Our transportation is getting from good to bad to horrible. To drive a car in Singapore, you got to apply for COE (Certificate of Entitlement) that costs as much as the car itself. COE is now fluctuating between $30000 and $60000. Taxi prices just rose again, having taxi ‘surcharge’ from 6pm to 10am the following day. So there’s only 8 hours of non-peak periods where you don’t have to pay for surcharge. The taxi companies might as well just add surcharge for the entire day! Now those who can’t afford to drive or take taxis, they have to resort to the MRT – which is failing too! There have been 3 break downs in the past few days! What is wrong with our transport system???

What has our failing transportation system got to do with foreigners and the government? Everything.

The reason why Singaporeans are unhappy with influx of foreigners here is because we are not given preferential treatment. Foreigners are given so much incentive to come to Singapore that us Singaporeans feel as though we’re marginalized and we are the sacrifice to ‘build’ Singapore. With more foreigners pouring into Singapore, I fail to see the immediate benefits of having so many foreign workers but the negative social and cultural corrosion is becoming more obvious.

Our trains are flooded with foreign workers, many of them hard laborers board the trains with a stench of unpleasant body odor. Trains need to keep up with the number of commuters so they increase their frequencies, but our MRTs have been breaking down and SMRT have no idea how to deal with angry and unhappy commuters. Crime rates are increasing, more people are committing suicide. Our birth rates are declining as this society has become so stressful that people have no mood or time to have sex. Inflation and cost of living keeps rising, but our salaries remain stagnant. Some people feel that it is easier to find a job in Singapore if you are a foreigner! I’m not sure if that is true, but I won’t be surprised. Singaporeans are too arrogant to take a job that pays $2000 a month? No, we are not too arrogant. How does someone earn $2000 a month support a family in Singapore when everything is so expensive now??

We are unhappy because we decided to make Singapore our home, our ancestors decided to make this our home. We shouldn’t have to bear the consequences of letting the flood gates open for foreigners by compromising our quality of transport, quality of service, unscrupulous hiring tactics, corroding our Singlish and Singaporeness - all in the name of building Singapore’s economy. Who are we building this economy up for? For them or for us? After building up a world class economy, if foreigners are allowed to enjoy it as much as Singaporeans, then what pride should we have to be a Singaporean? The problem isn’t foreigners, but foreigners that did not pledge their allegiance to Singapore like I did. If you want to stay here, be a citizen! Serve the nation! Learn bloody Singlish!

What the government can look into is setting penalties for Singapore PRs for forfeiting their application for citizenship. Singapore PRs gets almost similar benefits to Singaporean, but they can leave any time since they are holding other nationalities at the same time. What I’ve heard is that some Singapore PRs even buy HDBs, and when they earn enough in Singapore, they sell their HDBs for a profit and return to their home country to retire! How about increasing taxes on foreigners based on income? How about limiting number of houses and cars they are allowed to own in Singapore? How about making it more difficult for Singaporeans to get sacked or retrenched? Besides English tests, how about implementing oral examinations and hygiene lessons for foreign workers!

Perhaps my suggestions may come across as very Nationalistic, but if the government continues the way it does, can Singapore still make it? Let Singapore love us as we love Singapore. Let us feel that this country deserves for us to defend and protect.

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Her name was Extremeila, she was quite perculiar
Her eyes wide opened, examining the world
She was spoilt but not broken.

She met a boy, it didn’t matter his name
She examined his every move and being
Completely befuddled.

The boy loved her, oh he did
But Extremeila, being quite perculiar,
Was too easy to break.

The boy told her he loved her so
He would dig his eyes out should his eyes ever
Lusted for another

The boy told her he loved her so
He was willing to forsake his arms if they ever
Showed care towards another

The boy told her he loved her so much
He was going to pluck his heart out to prove that
He loves and loved no other

Extremeila, spoilt and perculiar, Meila
Thought she found her perfect boy
Without eyes, arms or a heart.
Perfection, Meila learnt, was to be broken.

Priss 14122011

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I wonder if this poem is too morbid…