Singapore touted itself to be thinking creatively

Yet is it?

What Singapore is famous for?

Lately its Formula 1 race event and its grand casino. But Bahrain and Monaco have come up first with their Formula 1 participation and Singapore is merely tailing and following them. Now the world is aware that Bahrainis are disaffected people. Their creativity didn’t help them a lasting reputation on the world map. Furthermore Macau is probably the bigger and better place to gamble your money away in Asia. How about tourism you might say. How about it when Thailand and Bali are far more interesting place to visit.

During my time studying there it was obvious that the Singapore government was trying big to cash in on the electronic industry and then on bio-mechanical and then on chemical industry. What have come of them? Today Singapore is not known for any either of them.

If there’s one thing that Singapore is kind of famous for is its health tourism but even this doesn’t necessarily credit Singapore health care rather it speaks of the bad health care system in her neighboring countries like Indonesia, Philippine and or Vietnam and Myanmar.

At the moment the number of disaffected Singaporeans are growing with the salvation to the elite being that they allow the new immigrants rights to vote to counter the native Singaporean population who are growing disillusioned with how their elite are running the country. The strategy of fear has ultimately backfired on its perpetrators. But always scheming, the elite now find themselves in a threatened situation and the possibility of losing a future election. To this I sincerely share Gopalan Nair view that the PAP is going to install their own men and women into opposition parties to produce manchurian candidates and solve the threat of increasing opposition seats in the short term. The only way that Singapore is going to have a change is by having the PAP losing by a landslide. Of course there’s a prerequisite to that that the election must be fair. Of course that’s like hoping the moon to land as Singapore has never been known as a democratic state.

All in all Singapore is stuck in reverse gear. It will not be anything great. Greatness doesn’t make fearfulness its home. Touting creativity? It seems more like desperation in reality.