What Bryanlim has posted.. has struck something in me.. for I realize that SG ppl have been competing against one another since they are born.
I don't know if it is the intention of the pappies.. but it has become such a thing.
I remember once, when I was in Primary school.. and I wasn't sure if the science homework was to be due on Friday.. so I called my classmate. To my shock.. I could hear his mother telling him quite softly (but obviously not soft enough for I heard) "tell him you don't know. hang up quick.. say you are busy.. or going out..".
I was so pissed, i told him, "tell your mother not to worry la.. I won't call you ever again.. "
Truth of the matter was.. he could not beat me in science in the class.. and since his parents also knew.. it was how they got him to "compete" with me.
I never forgot that incident.. and I asked my parents why adults did such things. To my utter disappointment, they told me that it will get worse when I enter adulthood and start working.
From what I have heard, it's worse now.. pre-school .. even before kindergarten.. kids are told.. taught.. and even forced to compete against each other.. no wonder kids in SG are so stressed.. they can't even enjoy their childhood.. no wonder they hate each other.. and won't help one another.. and also feel so indifferent towards what goes on in SG's society.
If they continue to make SG ppl compete like this at such a young age.. we will only see more and more of the younger SG ppl feel less and less.. more and more numb to everything around them. Success.. or academic results.. should not be encouraged to be like this.
We have lost the way to true happiness. and no wonder we keep "attacking" one another.. go at each other.. and thus, allow the foreigners.. and also pappies.. to pick us off. little by little. We ought to take a hard look at why we drive our kids to such a state.
I fear competition like this, has bred a nation of worse than kiasu and kiasi ppl.. they have become unfeeling.. unapologetic. and may in the deteriorate to worse conditions that I can't even imagine.
I don't know if it is the intention of the pappies.. but it has become such a thing.
I remember once, when I was in Primary school.. and I wasn't sure if the science homework was to be due on Friday.. so I called my classmate. To my shock.. I could hear his mother telling him quite softly (but obviously not soft enough for I heard) "tell him you don't know. hang up quick.. say you are busy.. or going out..".
I was so pissed, i told him, "tell your mother not to worry la.. I won't call you ever again.. "
Truth of the matter was.. he could not beat me in science in the class.. and since his parents also knew.. it was how they got him to "compete" with me.
I never forgot that incident.. and I asked my parents why adults did such things. To my utter disappointment, they told me that it will get worse when I enter adulthood and start working.
From what I have heard, it's worse now.. pre-school .. even before kindergarten.. kids are told.. taught.. and even forced to compete against each other.. no wonder kids in SG are so stressed.. they can't even enjoy their childhood.. no wonder they hate each other.. and won't help one another.. and also feel so indifferent towards what goes on in SG's society.
If they continue to make SG ppl compete like this at such a young age.. we will only see more and more of the younger SG ppl feel less and less.. more and more numb to everything around them. Success.. or academic results.. should not be encouraged to be like this.
We have lost the way to true happiness. and no wonder we keep "attacking" one another.. go at each other.. and thus, allow the foreigners.. and also pappies.. to pick us off. little by little. We ought to take a hard look at why we drive our kids to such a state.
I fear competition like this, has bred a nation of worse than kiasu and kiasi ppl.. they have become unfeeling.. unapologetic. and may in the deteriorate to worse conditions that I can't even imagine.
