Day Of Peace/Pumpkin Festival (Illinois)
2003-09-10 @ 9:06 p.m.

The clock's ticking and yet another day of my life was wasted today! There was no Biology lesson. Apparently, it was just for four people. My apologies to my class, I had no idea about anything. Then we found out that Mr Ong held a lesson because he thought we were coming back for Biology anyway! Never mind, at least I stoned for about 45 minutes in the library, where I picked up this book on chemistry, fascinating stuff. I'm definitely studying Chemistry at 'A' Levels, and maybe even beyond. By the way, who actually sees the point in coming back during this week anyway? Mrs Smith was right, the school should just allow us to stay at home and study. She told us that we should have given feedback to the school on this issue, but the fact is nobody would think of doing that, simply because it would be quite hard to imagine something like this being scrapped at the last minute. RI suffers from NUTS, No U-Turn Syndrome! That's some phrase coined by Sim Wong Hoo that I came across in my Social Studies file today. Not long after that, I happened to stumble across this article taken from the Workers' Party website, about stayers and quitters if I remember correctly. Anyway, that got me thinking about how the Singaporean government is quite inflexible in some respects. For example, take the issue of dual citizenship. Why aren't Singaporeans allowed to assume dual citizenship? The argument is that it weakens our sense of belonging, and since people is Singapore's only resource, we must keep them here. However, what's going to stop people from migrating once they're financially capable, or for the guys, once their reservist days are over? The sense of belonging present, or in this case absent, in the hearts of Singaporeans isn't something that can be affected by allowing them to hold dual citizenship. Of course, maybe I'm just a cynical 16-year-old "quitter" who dreams of getting off this island, but, honestly, can you blame me for that? After all, at the end of the day, it's what the government is indirectly influencing me to do through the kind of education I've been receiving. You don't show someone how attractive the world outside is, and then expect him not to dream of living in that world and to stay put...