we should be proud ... but not cocky .... we've got to realise
that whatever we've achieved can really be gone in a generation,
because our wealth has no real foundation, we've no natural
resources, and really, if you believe in the equality of human
beings, then our population is not any smarter than others, but the
only difference, is really, education, right ? .... whatever
we can provide for other people, others can as well.
looking at the lazy, undriven young workers fatumnette has under
her, who saunter in at 9, hates OT, doesn't check their work, falls
sick at least once a month ... and the over pampered,
insolent young kids nowadays, I'm frightened ... we've become
effette ....an aircon nation ... we bitch about how stressful
our life is, our education system, while within 7 hour's flight
radius from singapore, there are 1 billion other people hungry for
the opportunities that we have, because they'd rather have this
sort of stress, than to live in an attap hut with a mud floor
living on rice and salted fish ... fatumnette's indonesian brother
in-law, was telling us last weekend that one of their new maids
came from one of those fly-blown remote indonesian islands so poor
that they were eating the bark of certain trees for food (one of
those arid islands near papua I think, judging from the
features)... and she ate meat only a few times a year before coming
into their employ ...
I'm reminded of this chinese saying ... "fu bu guo san dai" ...
wealth doesn't last beyond three generations ....will the next
generation be up to the task of keeping us as prosperous as we are
now ? I'm not sure ...
ppl has gone soft.
contended
I think come to think of it, I've realised e meaning of
education has also been lost.
It's not too late to alter it.
