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2005-08-09 @ 11:15 p.m.

First the obligatory wish: Happy 40th Birthday Singapore! Now I can proceed to gripe. Why do the songs they sing never change? I'm sure I really want to be singing Chan Mali Chan year after bloody year. Why can't we sing some of the recent National Day songs? Like Tanya Chua's Where I Belong, which admittedly isn't so recent. Or one of the Stefanie Sun ones, which is still better than being subjected to ethnic children's songs. I think this year's song is quite palatable, tacky lyrics aside. Radio-friendly material, and having Taufik doing a duet certainly helps. Was it just me, or did Rui En look really nervous during her performance? Probably terrified of falling off the elevated platform. (Now that would be a misstep!) Enough about National Day, which I'm sure I will miss more if I end up overseas. Have been reading some T.S. Eliot, and I understand very little of it, aside from the Christian bent of his later poems, as Eliot became an Anglican in 1927. Have decided that when I read English in university, I will study Eliot if I have the chance to do so. Bubble tea demonstrates the principle of competition is good, more competition is better, and also shows the erosion of supernormal profit, but I'm sure you knew all that already.