Am running extremely packed days lately... busy busy busy... lab reports, essays, websites, DBs, email correspondence, meetings, and chuck in doses of revision and note-writing and tidying up my room (it's deteriorating into no-man's land) and I admit, some online chatting as well. And a few odd hours in the bar (hey, couldn't help it! was on duty on Tues and today was Charl's turn).
LSE's M'sian and S'pore Society Night on Fri. To write an account of the 'drama' involved would be to step onto a frozen pond. Just a few words... humour in skits that hint at politically-sensitive issues, however subtle, or however light-hearted it was meant to be, can end up in less-than-favourable situations. They should've known better. The freedom that we students are enjoying, away from our governments ("Big Brother is watching"), can be a dangerous thing...
Am keeping a close eye on the drama of the Taiwanese elections. Somehow, having a friend who's Taiwanese... makes you 'feel' more for them. I've been chatting with Ali... she's a Sydeysider, but nevertheless still a true Taiwanese at heart.
[Ali]: the funny thing is
[Ali]: if you are not concerned about these issues
[Ali]: is seems that you can live happily
[Ali]: but once you start looking at these things
[Ali]: it seems that the world will end tomorrow
[Ali]: the whole division is so great
[Ali]: i mean.....being a singaporean.....
[Ali]: you probably don't really understand the whole thing bewteen the chinese and taiwanese
[Ali]: like...some people just really can't stand them
[Ali]: like truly despise them
[Ali]: something you can't really explain
It's all too true... and perhaps... perhaps it's also a message to us S'poreans - and the citizens of other stable sovereign states - not to take the stability and peace of our own nation for granted. Perhaps... I should be also less critical.
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