A Singaporean's Pride

Recently I went to an investment workshop or rather it can be seen as a get to know WB better. The speaker is Robert Miles who is a renowned WB expert and as written a couple of WB books and all. He was quite a good speaker with his jokes and all. Well there is something that he spoke which I felt was quite significant, he was talking about 240 years of American History and that how it have always been quite uncertain and all. Then he spoke of how WB and CM and himself often acknowledge Singapore and how that we had achieved such rapid economical progress within a span of just 4 decades in our uber short island history. And just yesterday I was reading on ST forum about a comment made by a Singaporean that there have been 2 many negative bloggers in singapore already and that we should acknowledge the work of the present government and that they should like back off a little.

Well, to me I think that when I hear those words from robert's mouth, it does feels me with pride and that all of a sudden its good to be singaporean. Of course, one might discount it as pure lip service but it is truly amazing when one thinks back and 30 years ago, life aint like this and all...maybe being the Gen Y that we are now, we never truly experience the drastic change that the Gen X and the baby boomers undergo and hence in a way we might be more skeptical of the government here. Having said that, being negative is also good because it gives the present government a lot of critical feedback from the public unlike in the past, where public opinion was difficult to obtain or whatsoever. But of course, the negative comments must be back up with sufficient evidence and all. If not, one will be kenna 'shoot' down by M^2 recently. lolz