The past few days have been partially insane. I have come to accept that being in SYINC requires a level of commitment that I have never anticpated, and part of me screams out , 'I never signed up for this'. Meanwhile, Shaun is relishing in all of these, and I'm glad for him in that way. At the same time, there are forces both internal and external that are driving all of us apart. But those things are more personal things and not meant to be shown here.
What I want to talk about are the crazy things that have gone on. Like, having to work on an executive summary in like 8 hours before the deadline. So we came up with something, which was rather... draining and amazing and exhilirating at the same time. So its fun in a way.
I want to talk about Interesthink, and it was a truly marvelous event. It was like being at TED, except its in a Singapore context. And it was truly amazing, for all the people there, and I had a sense of all the passion and excitement that is going on. The speakers were great, and the people were excellent. I kind of sort of need to learn to talk to people with greying hair. Otherwise it was all cool. Picked up a lot of contacts especially a namecard designer, so - hah!
I guess at the Interesthink it was a Shaun-show. Shaun was there making his usual pitches about the webmonster and Pangea Day. So it was all great. And it was inescapable to talk about SYINC, so inevitably, Bernise would come into the picture and everything would be just.. jamming.
So meanwhile, I was covering ground, seeding ideas for TED and for cradle-to-cradle design, get people excited about TED and to talk about how the ideas could be made relevant to Singapore, get people excited and thinking.
The other more memorable things was a filmmaker sharing his life story, and being stuck for 10mins with Leong Sze Hian, who said some rather powerful statements about the situation of Singapore, that eventually, something's gotta give, and then, that the young people will eventually have to do something about it all. So that kinda left an impression on me. And not to forget Grant Pereira and his hippy-antics and for all the things that he has done, about his friends who lost their passion and got 'bought' over by the government, who went on to settle down leaving him alone. So yeah.
And there were people out there who think they can't do anything because they don't know anything. I think its just plain laziness not to go out there and look at life out there in Singapore - which is what I'm trying to do right now. Issues are all over the place actually, and its not just a matter of even looking at the right places, no, its just BOTHERING TO LOOK WITH 2 EYES WIDE OPEN and LOOKING AT THE LIVES OTHERS ARE LIVING. Its just that simple. It takes a different kind of heart, a different pair of eyes and all. And a different pair of hands.
And cheers to Leong Sze Hian, who writes for all the Singaporeans who will be disenfranchised, who will have their future robbed of. Thanks! And keep on writing. And hope others will stand up in his place. I could always try. Haha.
The future. That's what I'm fighting for too.
Sunday 24 February 2008
Interesthink and more!
Thursday 14 February 2008
integrating technology into everyday life
I know this might sound as a crazy idea, but I imagine this is how technology might be integrated with our HDB life, for now. Of course ideas like these could always be broken down into smaller and smaller elements all the way to the individual, but hey, just try to stay with me for a while.
Technology thinking has mostly been centred around the individual, like how the individual can be empowered using devices, or how technology can be integrated into shirts and accessories and all. These are exciting no doubt, but I would like to think of something else.
I want to imagine the connected HDB flat and the connected HDB estate, or a connected residential estate, for that matter.
Its rather simple, actually. Its simply social networking brought down to a more physical reality. It means linking every homes to every other home, into a network. This network would allow people to communicate with each other like how they would for a normal networking website, instead now, you are communicating with people just next to you.
This is at the same time, breathtakingly stupid and breathtakingly smart. Its breathtaking stupid, because since all of us are together, why would we need these tools to stay connected? Well, the thing is, I think urban people stay online with distant people more than they stay in touch with the people next to them. So what my idea does, is simply putting people closer to each other in the digital sense. People say that living in HDB flats took away the whatever-kampung spirit. Well, here's my stupid solution. Wire up all the houses together, have a user interface simple enough that people will commit to using it to tell their neighbour what they are doing. Live IM in the HDB flats. Allow people to communicate to each other easily!
And still better. Connect all the flats to each other so people in adjacent blocks can be connected to each other. Wouldn't all these nurture better ties to each other?
And the thing is, it has to be simple, intuitive, and accessible. I'm sure this idea will be implemented sooner or later....
Its fun, isn't it?
Of course there are problems, the main one being, whether people are keen to do this or not? Will people be willing to IM each other? If people are willing to Twitter in the public, I don't see why not. This is going to cater to young people to share with each other their lives' experiences, this is going to cater to parents who want to discuss with each other about parenting and education, this is going to cater to suppliers of household stuff - so this is where money might come from. It could all work! theorectically.
hah.
motivations...
The basis for social change is HOPE and HOPE alone. That God gave us hope to believe, hoping in HIM, and similarly, in the hope that things can happen if we HOPE in it enough to do something about. The reason I'm doing what I'm doing is not really about enabling Singapore to move on to the next phase of the future or whatever. My deep desire is to give people the hope that they can do things for themselves, and they can do it to the best of themselves, that they should always be striving for that. And through this process, coming to know Christ - at least for me...
Social change is not just change for the sake of change. Social change, is again, the hope that there is something better out there, that we can work towards a better place to live in. This is the main driving force behind the people that do these, that we may not be Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi, but with enough dedication and a community, we might be able to achieve something that improves the lives of many. Another possible theme might even be: People Deserve Better! Or something like that.
We want to live in a place where people believe that they can do something more, something greater than themselves, something great in itself. But we aren't. And this gap between expectation and reality is really one of the core reasons why people find life in Singapore unsatisfying, always having half a mind to emigrate if not for the costs involve. So what if our friends and family are here? There's always Skype and Facebook to keep track. If not just fly back every now and then and spend some time together. Lots of people do that already. Or maybe it could be just the lack of guts. But whatever it is, I'm beginning to see myself not just as part of another social change project that promises nothing in terms of action, but just another dude trying to make living more bearable in Singapore...
Wednesday 13 February 2008
Morning thoughts
It just dawned upon me that good design is the product of aesthetics, with considerations to the human and social aspects, and that a good design product will also be ultimately linked to good science. aiyah. this is really just common sense.
Anyhow, was wondering if it'll be possible to adopt some of Google's office practises into the civil service. Would that be possible? Dreaming of slightly random things..
Mainly I keep thinking about ideas and concepts and how to make them real.
And more ideas. Imagine carrying a giant piece of a writng medium of any material - paper, canvas, whatever it might be, bring it to the street, give people markers and other writing materials, and just ask them to express themselves, their ideas, of if you want a theme, 'What do you think of Singapore?' have it at places of heavy pedestrian traffic, like Orchard Road or any other place, and then... just let people freely themselves! Especially schools! woohoo! So on that surface, people could write about their complains, their gripes, their thoughts, fears, or even what they think about the government and things like that...
Bet that'll beat the heck out of the Feedback Unit!
Tuesday 12 February 2008
education, inspiration and innovation
One of the things that has bothered me a lot in Singapore is our education. But before I go any further, I would like to say that even though our education is far from perfect, it actually is pretty good, having brought us to where we are today. Come to think of it, the criticisms that I'm making are actually applicable to the education system of many countries.
This is obvious, but for a start, there is a tension in most education system between the needs of the individual and the community. Its a resource allocation problem, I guess, that the education systems of all countries are such that resources are utilized to maximize the benefits to most kids - to use what the country has to improve the whole population of children rather than focus on a few bright sparks who might be einsteins. That's one the major tensions in most education systems.
In Singapore it's the same. The education system is such that it affords most people with the basic knowledge of the workings of the modern world. Unfortunately, Singapore now faces a potential 'Innovation Gap' with other countries. The strategic challenge that Singapore faces today is regarding innovation. It's about whether Singaporeans can innovate fast enough in the future, competing with people in the region, in Asia, in the world, as a whole.
The key to that question lies ultimately in our education system. Its about whether our education system can provide our future leaders with the skillsets required for the innovation race in the future and even today.
The recent changes made to our education system I hope, will be only a start. The changes in syllabus and curriculum are such that young people are educated of the various fields and since it is compulsory to study both the science and humanities, it will better equip our future leaders to deal with the complexities of the present and future.
I hope there will be more changes - changes that will better equip teachers as well for this innovation challenge. Without innovative teachers, all these talk about education inculcating innovation among our future leaders will be just that - talk. For the whole education system to work, it is obvious that we need innovative teachers as well.
In this post, I don't want to talk about just the syllabus, curriculum, teachers and students. The whole theme of this entry has been about innovation in education, about the 4 things mentioned above. But lately, I've realised that the education of innovation is not the school's responsibility alone. Ultimately, for innovation to thrive, you need people to begin the process of integrating innovation in their lives by themselves. The future leaders that I'm talking about - the kids still schooling today, they are going to come out of school and realise all of these things that they've missed about, about the world out there and all the synthesis that have been going on between different areas of knowledge, the connections that are being made, and the silent ongoing revolutions in technology, entertainment and design. And when they've realise just how much they've been missing out, they will ask themselves the same question, 'why didn't my education prepare me with all these?'
On the Internet, there are already amazing resources that can equip students with knowledge of all the latest happenings, about the going-ons at the forefront of innovation. An when they do find out about it, they will want to share with their friends, with their families. All we have here in Singapore are just pockets of people who are in the know about all these, and it's simply not enough. It has to begin somewhere, and I believe that it should happen in the schools. It should begin in the schools to tell kids about the existence of these things, and it should begin in the schools where they can share and discuss these things with their friends, and t should begin in the schools where they can explore some of these ideas... But for all these to happen, some tenets of our education here in Singapore will have to change.
Our education system is efficient. It is good at producing people who are prepared for the world of manufacturing and service industries. But as we are slowly finding out, it won't be enough in the present and future environment that will be innovation-centred. This is why ITEs are reinventing themselves, not just producing technically competent people, but people who are able to move up on the value ladder and begin to seriously innovate and produce new products or methodologies. And even our polys are rebranding themselves too, as potential hubs of innovation, and the same goes for our universities.
I think there is a need now to revise the way we look at our schools. Our schools are no longer factories producing cogs and gears for the giant machinery of our economy. We need to know look at our schools as Hubs of Innovation, not just as places where we teach thing and inculcate values and all.
Monday 11 February 2008
the chicken and egg question in singapore social change
The thing about Singaporeans is that they aren''t actually politically apathetic. There are a lot of people actually who are genuinely concerned about the state of the politics in Singapore, and they talk about it among themselves in their own private circles, half the time they celebrate the fact that CSJ exists, half the time they laugh at him for his antics, or shake their heads. Maybe its because of the legal actions, but people know that here in Singapore you can't challenge the PAP head on a la the revolutions of decades past. People think that for social change to seriously happen in SIngapore, there must be changes in the external environemnt before anything can happen. They mean that the PAP should relax the rules for political and social debate, even to the extent of degrading the ISA, they mean that some sort of change must happen in the attitude of the Singaporeans on this island, they mean that change must come from the outside - that the trigger for social change would not be from the people...
Well, but the fact is, social change IS for people, BY PEOPLE. Without people to to even begin to think about social change, there would be just, nothing. The fact is, for there to be substantial social change, for Singapore to have a participatory democracy or even a civil society, then Singaporeans themselves must step up to the fore and encourage others to do likewise. We live in an age where we have all become connectors - to people, to things, to causes. What we need now are initiators, people who can and will transform all our connectivity - all our FaceBooks, our gmails, into social causes. We already know, and already some have begun acting.
If we want to have genuine participatory democratic civil society, then I think we should start actling like we are one. Rules can always be changed.
No one, especially not the government, will tell us, 'eh, we can have a participatory society now, go talk politics leh'.
Start now...
Sunday 10 February 2008
Innovate, Innovate!
Statements like the following one have been made so many times that it seems cliched: that innovation is going to be the key to success in this century.
Innovation has to become part of the DNA of any society or country in order for that particular society or country to be economically successful in the long run. In order words, innovation has to be part of the education curriculum, so that every generation of children that has gone through schooling will be ready to innovate solutions...
I don't know how else to put it - innovation is something that can never be overemphasized, and the same regarding the urgency, right here in Singapore. Are we adapting fast enough? Are we nurturing innovation?
Which brings us to the entire issue of the patterns of innovation, the factors that nurture innovation and things like that. Are we adapting our society for innovation? I think these are some of the questions that are keeping policy-makers up at night. Well, at least I hope they bother to think of these things. Because I think that the challenge to innovate is one of the most important and urgent problems, and a long term one at that, that Singapore will have to face in order to become successful as a global city.
And innovation will be closely tied to our education, society and culture... how we adapt them for this century...
maybe we could adapt more Montessori philosophies into primary school education for a start...
an extension of 'Questions Never Answered' - the psyche of the NS to be
I thought about the content of Questions Never Answered, and I've come to realised how outdated I've become.
The generation of kids today haven't exactly watched Black Hawk Dawn or Saving Private Ryan. No for them, the images of war come in a far more visceral manner, and faster, and with greater interactivity. No, today, war for our younger kids mean Call of Duty 4, Company of Heroes, Gears of War, and other military-themed FPS games. They see the bullets, hear the gunfire, experience the chaos of war and battle, but all in a 32-inch flatscreen tv. War has become a game for them, but even the war that they experience is nothing compared to the actual circumstances of war. Game-war, is completely different from war as it is fought in physical reality. Real War is slower, infinitely times more messy - even though I haven't fought in a real war, but war from a console is definitely different from war as it is fought with real guns and bullets.
Ok. So we all know that console war is different from real war. So what's the deal? The point is that, from here on, there will be huge gulf between expectation and reality, and truth be told, not many people will accept it. Young men who have never had any real military experience save for the console would be in for a rude shock when they enter NS, and realise that military life isn't the point and shoot in the FPS games. And then, what you get - disillusionment, low morale...
For these young sheltered people... it will really mean something for them, who have already had high expectations of the military.
Friday 8 February 2008
writing project concretized
I'm beginning to have a clearer conception about this project that I want to do. It's about going around Singapore, and going to the places that we are familiar with, but I won't be writing about its history and heritage and all the usual stuff, but I want to write with an eye to the future, about its present and its future. So much has been written about their pasts that we might have forgotten to look at its future and its possibilities. Below are the places that I want to write about for this project...
-geylang
-chinatown
-civic district - clarke quay
-city hall, raffles place - CBD
-neighbourhood schools vs elite schools
-neighbourhoods - tampines, hougang, boon lay, my own
-places of worship - temples, churches, mosques...
-about the elderly, the youths, the kids, the working adults
-about tradition and the future
-about life as lived in Singapore
-about NS
-about the future of Singapore
-food culture
-shopping malls
-urban planning in general
-about education
-social equality
not sure what else, but that'll be all for now...
Past acaedmic projects
Anyhow, there is an emerging connectedness between myriad branches of academic disciplines. Research into brain science is converging with ethics - the processes that are going on in our brains everytime we make an ethical judgement. Research in networks has led to breakthroughs in economics, neuroscience, ecology, among others. The academic world is abuzz with interdisciplinary talk.
I only hope NUS might be an epicenter of such buzz in Singapore...
Thursday 7 February 2008
Twilight Industries
In our world today, I think this quote is true: Anything that isn’t digitised will eventually die out.
Well, obviously historians will be very much bothered by this. In their museums, they have relics from a time way before computers. So what gives me justification to say something like that?
Well, in our present day, especially in Singapore, there are whole varieties of cultural artefacts that will slowly become extinct, becoming only tourist exhibits, to be seen and no longer experienced. And today, these cultural artefacts are disappearing before our very eyes.
The reason that I’m talking about only Chinese cultural artefacts is because I’m most familiar with them. I’m talking about the Chinese temples, lion dances, getais, puppet shows, Chinese Operas, and other aspects of traditional Chinese art.
To just state generally what these things are, these are remnants of the culture that our immigrant forefathers brought with them as they came to Singapore. These things are essentially pieces of cultural China that they brought with them. You might be thinking, since these arts are still flourishing in China, why should we bother about preserving them in Singapore? That’s a rather good question, and I think that my attempt to answer them will be rather pitiful and fall far short of an actual justification.
Yes, these arts are still flourishing in China. That’s why performing troupes from China come down to Singapore regularly for some art performance or another. The reason that I want to highlight this little cultural nugget is because these artefacts of culture represent an immense treasure trove with which we could redefine Singapore’s identity.
I’m not an artist, nor am I a student of art history, which makes me rather unqualified to make statements like these. But I feel that the old parts of Singapore, both intangible and tangible, should be thrown away that easily just because of their age. We talk of our ‘Asian-ness’ so much that we hardly give attention to what it actually means. Redefining our traditions might be a place to start redefining ourselves.
We should start first and foremost, by going digital, make it available to everyone on the Internet. Set up communities who are dedicated to the preservation of these arts. Have a generation of art students interested in them and allow them to gradually redefine these arts with contemporary interpretation. Have national recognition for traditional arts and recreations. Better yet, suggest how these traditions can be revitalised today. Can we fuse them with Western ideals?
For those who didn’t know, Curse of the Golden Flower, yes – that movie with jay Chou and Gong-Li’s boobs – was actually a rehashing of a play written by a Chinese playwright written in 1934. The message is still the same, but the settings have changed, and made for a modern audience. We need more mishmash like that if traditional arts are going to have a foothold in our iPOD era.
Thats for something else. There are really just so much to be seen, felt, experienced in Singapore... Sphere: Related Content
Monday 4 February 2008
questions never answered
So here we were, young and fresh to the world still, having been sheltered from the outside world for almost 2 decades, and now the forces that be threw us all together on these island, all not knowing what lies ahead in our lives. The question still remains to be answered. Just what on earth were we doing on this Island?
Other fresh faces abound, some tired, some not caring the least, all of us only knowing that NS was just… something that had to be done. That if you were a Singaporean, that you needed to go through this NS in order to be properly called a Singaporean, especially a Singaporean man. So we were told, by our fathers, by our brothers, by our uncles, by our grandfathers who suffered untold suffering from the Japanese. And then a history lesson would follow about how small we were, how weak we are, that we need to own the land and the only to own what we you have is to protect it. Even after 2 years doing what seemed to be a little bit waste of my time, it somehow still triggers some pangs of patriotism. But then all of it just fades away after a night’s sleep.
Senior commanders would come and talk to us, about how we felt serving our nation. We are the Black Hawk Down generation, the Saving Private Ryan generation. I don’t a lot of us had watched films like, We were Soldiers by Mel Gibson about the Vietnam War… We had watched Jarhead, and we thought that Jarhead was the most realistic of films actually, because it represented what most of us felt and did during our time. We are trained to fight, but we never do. A taut string can’t stay taut for long. If a taut string remains taut long enough, it becomes slack and never taut again.
Feeling high on those images of war, it never occurred to us that people don’t become soldiers overnight, never occurred to us that it takes a special kind of person who is willing enough to take on the mental and physical punishment that soldierhood entails. Yet there we were, in the cinemas, taking it all in, as Eric Bana and Josh Hartnett went about their business in Mogadishu. Why didn’t we appreciate Jarhead more?
All of days there, in military camps or in the outfield, in the jungles, in the mud, never really quite answered our most burning questions in our hearts. Why NS? Why the commanders? Why here? Just what the heck am I doing here?
These questions were always with us, all the time. Yet, they were never really quite answered. In defence of this country? In defence for our family, for our loved ones? In defence for our way of life? Just what exactly was it we were defending?
‘In event of war, you will be here to protect the country and your loved ones’. That was the most common thing that we heard. Well, because you guys have been militarily trained, you guys will do really something useful here.
It makes sense for like 5 seconds, until you realise that in event of war, my parents would be trying to get on the ticket to Australia, China, Indonesia, Taiwan… anywhere but stay here. And once I know that they are safe, well, there’ll be nothing left for me to fight for but to scramble for that last transport to… anywhere but war zone.
What is Singapore to us? Is it anything at all? If what we have here can mean nothing, then NS would be for… nothing, ain’t it?
Why are we dissatisfied?
We are not satisfied simply because we can’t see beyond the lives that we live. We don’t have hope for our future in Singapore. It is not that we don’t have hope for the future of Singapore. Deep inside every one of us, we want to believe that things can be better, and that things WILL be better. Yet in all of us, there is still a longing that we can do something else, something greater than the things that we are doing today, something that will really define our existence in Singapore, as Singaporeans. And that is the key thing that is missing in this country.
We want our voice to matter, that as individual persons, we can make a difference – to belong to a community, for the happiness of the people around us in that community. We want to make our own meaning to our lives, not merely as economic machines constantly growing our GDP, but as real persons, not just as another face in a crowd, but as unique individuals, all of us. In other words, we want to be valued as persons, not as another cog in the Singapore machine. Until and unless we are valued as persons, the dissatisfaction will always remain, and Singaporeans, in their deepest of hearts, will always want to emigrate, and NS will always seem a waste of time.
While we serve National Service, are we serving for a machine, or are we really serving a Country of 4 million people?
Is this the country worth defending?
Saturday 2 February 2008
the sea change in social innovation
The landscape of social change in Singapore has had a sea change compared with a decade ago. Today, opportunities abound for young people fiery with passion wanting to turn their ideas into reality.
The bulk of our youths may still be apathetic, but like Alexander Pope says, ‘Hope springs eternal from the human breast’. It is in the passion found in the hearts of our youth today that Singapore will rest her future hopes upon.
I was born just before the 1990’s. I no longer know exactly which letter of the alphabet denotes my generation. I only know that there were the baby-boomers after the war, then there were the yuppies in the 70-80’s, and then, generation Y, which could be me, but I sincerely don’t give a heck. Whatever my generation was, heck, I’m starting to feel old already. That’s what technology makes you feel. Can’t exactly grok FaceBook and all, but I guess its just me.
I’m not sure about my peers. They seem to be always many steps ahead of me when it comes to embracing technology. I guess I must have been one of the last dinosaurs walking around with a Sony Discman before I swapped it for an iPOD touch. Hang on, what? My friends are now grabbing for the iPOD classic? WTH! Meanwhile, all of them seem to be busy, occupied on their PSPs and Nintendo DS while talking about the specs for their games on their computers that I’ve barely heard before. And guess what? All of them have profiles on FaceBook and they all have more friends than me!
So the conclusion is, the generation that I belonged, I believe, is the most technologically integrated generation. And the second is that, I might just be the most backward among my generation here, but that’s something else.
Meanwhile, what we have today are I believe, the greatest tools for social innovation on the planet, the aforementioned, FaceBook, the Internet, the connectivity that we have today is simply astounding. And this is the hope that I have.
Yes, Singaporeans, young or old, might still be caught in the old materialistic rat race of many generations past. And it is still with us, no doubt about it. Yet at the same time, people today are more connected to each other than we’ve ever been. And that’s something to be excited about. That means that people with passion will find it easier to get connected, get together and think up some social innovation for the community.
I talk to my friends a bit, and in actual fact, many of them are really concerned about Singapore, about the communities they live in. Some of them live in Opposition wards, and this somehow becomes an identity to them that hey, they didn’t want to vote for PAP in the last General Election. Others seem to have gotten a little tired of living here and strongly desire to emigrate – yet they still want to live in safe, secure environment that Singapore has. A lot of my friends do have passion, it’s just that they haven’t found an avenue to express it, or just don’t feel that there are outlets. The thing that bugs them most is that, well, no one will listen to me, so, why should I care?
What we have here today is a tension among those born in this connected times. Maybe the grass does look greener, maybe it is greener, and maybe it really isn’t, on the other side. We live in Singapore, and just maybe, we may have taken its many wonderful aspects for granted. It’s such a shame, really, that it took an expatriate leaving in an HDB to tell us, Singaporeans about the wonderful aspects of living in Singapore. When Notes from a Small Island came out, my first impression was, how come a local wasn’t writing it?
I might not quite speak for my generation – they are an amazing bunch, and eventually, a few of them will become ministers some twenty years down the road, but we are one of the first few generations where so much has been shaken. We are no longer so much in sync with our parents but we are still connected to them. As there are bonds that tie us to our families, there are also forces there are making us more estranged from them. Not every baby-boomer from post-WW2 knows how to use the Internet. Not every parent understands the struggles that our generation will have to face, yet some of these parents ask their children not to be involved in the issues of our time. So that’s one thing that might still be holding back my peers from acting boldly.
Here’s how a conversation might go…
Mother : So, what’s your job about?
Child : Its about social change in Singapore, mum.
Mother : WHAT! Why aren’t you getting a proper job at the bank? 4 years accountancy for what?!
Child : Mum, I’m doing accounts for this social change organisation
Mother : And how much are you earning?
Child : Oh, two thousand per month
Mother : What! And all your friends are earning 5k a month!?!
…
And so it goes…
We are all familiar with the above, and I think that it has happened so many times that we know, in our own way, how the scene above would look like for ourselves. Despite all of these, hope remains. At no other time in Singapore’s history has there been so much opportunities, so much potential for all the young people slowly taking up the reins of leadership in society.
And what are we going to do with it?
The clarion call for my generation will not go unanswered. Bet on it.
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The whole landscape of Singapore is changing, not just physically. Increasing, young Singaporeans are become quite discontent with the status quo. No, it is not that they are dissatisfied with the material state of things, but with the psychological state of things.
For the idealistic among us, I believe there is no better time than the present in Singapore to start figuring out ways to translate their ideas into action. What we’ll do now from here, I believe will make all the difference there is for the future of Singapore and her people.
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