what a wonderful strange world.

i sincerely believe that we are a contradicting society.
on one hand we are encouraged to speak up and be more opinionated on national issues but we don’t perhaps due to reprisals of sorts but when a certain celeb gets on our nerves we gets so fussed up and write in to all our national tabloids condemning her ‘action’. like as if what the celeb said had any impact or serious repercussions on our national economy .
we are really a weird bunch of people.

zoe tay @ the recent star awards.
yea I agree she was a raving lunatic at times going around sprouting all sort of wiseacre jokes, hugging her co stars like she just ‘won an award syndrome’. and ranting on pregnancy which is totally out of context from the award she was presenting but isn’t she after all just doing her job-ACTING. ….
and hey in any case, she is after all advocating the government’s call to reproduce. the lady’s doing her public service! we should give her a medal! but sadly the public got upset and took offence and do what they do best- complain. this is showbiz.
to begin with why are we even taking her seriously?

another recent headliner was about a top psle student choosing to go to a neighborhood school instead of an elite school. i don’t get it.

elite schools doesn’t denote automatic success and neighborhood school doesn’t denote failure. sadly in our education context, it is the exact reversal as mentioned.
students from both camps were fierce , internet forum, emails, letters-just to prove that they are right. i am a product of a neighborhood school and i turned out fine, i mean single digits for the O’s top student in the poly and now doing a double degree in law and commerce in university., am i any different from the ‘elite’ kids? we should function as a meritocratic society, and reward our students according to their hard work.
but yet again we also shouldn’t perceive kids from the ‘better’ schools as being arrogant and spoilt brats who think they are a class above the rest.

i personally feel that our society still has some way to go before we achieve equality in status between the neighborhood and elite divide.
i feel that the neighborhood kids do get shortchanged at times due to their background and employers perception. society also do grant a certain premium to kids from the elite schools but this is naturally understandable. we are only human to be biased.
i am extremely thankful that i am given a choice to pursue my undergrad studies locally or overseas, i chose the latter. not because i am rich or anything, my parents have to make a sacrifice to send me overseas, but i guess the greater good that will come of this would be priceless and enrich me as an individual and a citizen of sg.

its late and i need to rush to church now .
my first service @ sg expo-cant wait.