Epeepshow’s Weblog

We are men without Roots.

We go where the wind blows and where the wind blows we go.

Welcome to the Little Red Dot known as Singapore!!!

Easy comes, easy goes as the saying goes……. With an active population of around 4 million, the country looks like it is a striving community that has grown from a kampung into one of the world’s richest nations and we will have to thank the Imperial Family for their grace and righteous rule. Not bad for a small Malay fishing Village that some Sumatran Prince stumbled on and decided to build his empire on while he was on a hunting trip.

About six hundred years later, the Kingdom has changed hands and the decreed Dragon family have descended from the Heavens to guide us to greater glory…… but why, oh why are the local inhabitants fleeing the port? A free one at that……..

Definition of Port: A facility for recieving ships and transfering cargo.  A “port of call” is an intermediate stop, for example to collect supplies or fuel. In other words, people come and go. It is a pit stop so nobody ever stays for long. They come in, get what they need ( in modern context, it is no longer about spices,coffee and rubber any more.) and than off they go again. It is all about the financial gains that can be made from the country. Why do you think the Expats are here in the first place? Definitely not for the love of local cuisine and the ever so wet and humid weather.

The local system has also breed a new generation of lalangs. A breed with next to little opinion, very little guts to speak out against authority and quits when they have the chance and go where the winds of opportunity blows them. 

When a soldier is fighting a war and his Sergant calls him a deserter…. do you think he will have the mood to win the battle? Most will just turn around and put a few bullets into his soon to be limb body. Statistics do show that in a War, you are more likely to be killed in ” Friendly Fire” . Of the 62 American soldiers killed in action, one report claims that 10 may have died as a result of friendly fire.

With the prices of fuel,food,GST,ERP gantries even on the rise……. can you blame anyone if they decide to just throw in the towel and go somewhere where the living standards are not as high and have a simpler life? Quality of life is not about the number of cars you own or the size of your house….. it is about how you lead your life.

Coming up next: Over-worked, Under-Sexed !