From young, my parents have been staunch supporters of the PAP, joining CC activities, helping out with the catering for grassroots, volunteering to teach etc etc etc.
They even once had "advance notice" of 2 months from the RC that an Minister was coming to visit our home and had it renovated just to welcome him...
I live in a world of "PAP is the best", but my journey has been very different.
I used to trust the PAP blindly, but slowly turned when I started to see more and more China Chinese in Singapore.
Even experienced a time when one of those people shouted loudly at my Dad and curse my Mum every time they walk past the neighbourhood kopi tiam just because of one incident when they asked their table to be cleaned so that my mum could eat in halal. My Dad and Mum are frail, both cannot see very well, and Mum's legs does not have the strength like she had before when she used to stand for hours in the kitchen to make huge pots of catered food that she would then stack and push them to the RC in a trolley.
It stuck with me that should this go on, soon the whole island will be filled with these people who have no respect for the community and understanding we all Singaporeans grew up in, Chinese, Malay or Indian, we learn to respect each other's culture. But now, these people come in thinking that the other races in Singapore very easy to bully.
So for me, what ever it takes to stop this tide of idiots coming in to ruin the fabric of our society, I will do it, even if that means making my parents to vote non-PAP at the ballot box.
That's the least I can do in 2016 before I settle overseas and hopefully bring them with me to a more comfortable life.
They even once had "advance notice" of 2 months from the RC that an Minister was coming to visit our home and had it renovated just to welcome him...
I live in a world of "PAP is the best", but my journey has been very different.
I used to trust the PAP blindly, but slowly turned when I started to see more and more China Chinese in Singapore.
Even experienced a time when one of those people shouted loudly at my Dad and curse my Mum every time they walk past the neighbourhood kopi tiam just because of one incident when they asked their table to be cleaned so that my mum could eat in halal. My Dad and Mum are frail, both cannot see very well, and Mum's legs does not have the strength like she had before when she used to stand for hours in the kitchen to make huge pots of catered food that she would then stack and push them to the RC in a trolley.
It stuck with me that should this go on, soon the whole island will be filled with these people who have no respect for the community and understanding we all Singaporeans grew up in, Chinese, Malay or Indian, we learn to respect each other's culture. But now, these people come in thinking that the other races in Singapore very easy to bully.
So for me, what ever it takes to stop this tide of idiots coming in to ruin the fabric of our society, I will do it, even if that means making my parents to vote non-PAP at the ballot box.
That's the least I can do in 2016 before I settle overseas and hopefully bring them with me to a more comfortable life.
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