Son's And Daughter's Day/Chinese Valentine’s Day
2005-08-11 @ 8:38 p.m.

Have suddenly gone patriotic and downloaded the NDP songs starting from 1998. After listening to all of them, I still like this year's the best. A lot of people have slagged it, including the coterie at Mr Brown's blog and someone who wrote to the forum. The main gripe seems to be that it's an over-produced song, and is very difficult to sing. Well, the way I see it, it's no worse than the thrash that gets played on the radio these days, and someone's certainly listening to that. As for it being hard to sing, tough. Anyone can sing, but not everyone can sing well. Ironically, the reason why I like this year's song is because it contains no overt patriotic references. Not like that sappy song, Home. I want ear candy from my NDP songs, not some aural incarnation of National Education propaganda! Besides, Rui En's prettier than Kit Chan, if you want a really shallow reason to like this year's song better. Singaporeans are so hypocritical. One minute they bitch about the government, the next they insist on singing ridiculously patriotic songs. At least Where I Belong is classier than Home, which is just blatant propaganda. You can tell I really hate that song...

After the irrelevant paragraph above, we come to the slightly less pointless one. Had a little chat with Mr Purvis after school, who made me very happy by mentioning Christ's College as a possible choice if I'm applying to do English. Oh dear, now I really want to go to the UK. The US has become a backup plan if I don't get a scholarship, because we had some of his former students in class today, and some of the Ivy League universities will offer you financial aid if they want you in their institution. My future just turned a lot less dreary. Not that there's anything wrong with going to NUS, but I find it quite a horrifying prospect. The point of university, as Mr Purvis puts it, is to get away from your parents! I'm going off to do my Albee essay now, which I've actually thought out roughly in advance, so maybe I'll actually finish it tonight...