PM Goh:
What does being a chicken mean? Does it mean that if the chicken
does not get to cross the road it will feel less than part of the
coop? No. That must not be so. We are all chickens here and we must
work together as chickens. We must want to stay in the coop, not
because the coop provides us shelter, but because we are all
chickens. Understand our chicken history to know that we have come
to far from those bad days when we were just running around like
unruly kampung chickens and not being hot housed as
well-disciplined and efficient battery hens. We have to make
sacrifices, but at the same time we support each other. So that if
we ask you to give up the idea of crossing the road, you will
understand that it is for the good of the coop. Only together as a
coop can we stay cohesive.
Lim Boon Heng:
As a working chicken you must understand that crossing roads is not
for you. It is meant for the professional chickens. These chickens
are far and few in between and will require even corn on the other
side of the road to cross our roads because they can cross roads
anywhere in the world they choose. So for the greater good of the
coop, please understand that crossing roads is not meant for you.
And while you're at it can you please take a wage freeze?
BG Yeo:
This is because the chicken is sensitive to the multi-racial nature
of its society and although it understands each culture is
different, it also realizes that it must live within society. So it
compromises. It finds some values -- a little from the Chinese, a
little from the Indians, something from the Malays -- something
uniquely Singaporean, and eventually it gathers the energy, the
wider vision, the impetus to cross the road.
SM Lee:
(1996)
This is Asia. As young chickens, chase the rainbow and cross the
roads here. Opportunities abound. You might get run down by cars in
the process of crossing these roads, especially those in Myanmar,
but it doesn't matter. For ten thousand who get run down one might
reach it across -- and at the end of that rainbow -- there will be
your dream. So it baffles me when they tell me that they want to
cross other roads, elsewhere, because it is here that road crossing
should be done.
BG Lee:
The chicken is a liar, a twister and a prevaricator and not only
should he be run down, but he should also be defeathered, boiled
and skinned-alive as an example for all other chickens to see and
that will teach them a lesson in road crossing and typo errors.