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:so i think the "bargain" we singaporeans have come to "accept" was not a worthwhile deal brokered under the very big brother styled governance we have had since the 60s. back in the 60s we were positively THRIVING with civil initiative and our cultural heritage was so vibrant! It was the age of mythic proportions! Of Conrad and the Exotic East, of romance in the Raffles hotel, of touring medicinal singing troupes and heartland fun houses like Gay World with her multi levels of performance venues featuring shanghai cabaret and indian folk dance. these days, anything cultural is only practised in school CCA, and then only a very distilled National Education policy version of it. and theatre groups operate under the menace of the ISA. | :so i think the "bargain" we singaporeans have come to "accept" was not a worthwhile deal brokered under the very big brother styled governance we have had since the 60s. back in the 60s we were positively THRIVING with civil initiative and our cultural heritage was so vibrant! It was the age of mythic proportions! Of Conrad and the Exotic East, of romance in the Raffles hotel, of touring medicinal singing troupes and heartland fun houses like Gay World with her multi levels of performance venues featuring shanghai cabaret and indian folk dance. these days, anything cultural is only practised in school CCA, and then only a very distilled National Education policy version of it. and theatre groups operate under the menace of the ISA. | ||
:Think about it. the future may have been bleak in the 60s, prompting a demand for the kind of authoritarian administration LKY and his regime offered. but in the 60s we were many people's idea of Instant Asia. Our cultural diversity was so much more compelling than any other city in Asia. We had Somerset Maugham and Agatha Christie clamouring to feature the kind of no holds barred exoticism our rampant streets offered. That formula today is exactly what draws so much fascination to the HK way of life. So spontaneous and spiritually moving. and its not about the more grime you have the more exotic you are. its about the human spirit and your city's capacity to express itself as it is. not under the ambit of policy drawn "image" masterplans. | :Think about it. the future may have been bleak in the 60s, prompting a demand for the kind of authoritarian administration LKY and his regime offered. but in the 60s we were many people's idea of Instant Asia. Our cultural diversity was so much more compelling than any other city in Asia. We had Somerset Maugham and Agatha Christie clamouring to feature the kind of no holds barred exoticism our rampant streets offered. That formula today is exactly what draws so much fascination to the HK way of life. So spontaneous and spiritually moving. and its not about the more grime you have the more exotic you are. its about the human spirit and your city's capacity to express itself as it is. not under the ambit of policy drawn "image" masterplans. | ||
::I do not know about Hongkong or it’s people, I do not know if they enjoy arts and culture more than fancy condos and winter clothes, in every sense of the words “human | ::I do not know about Hongkong or it’s people, I do not know if they enjoy arts and culture more than fancy condos and winter clothes, in every sense of the words “human spirit�? knows not boundaries or masterplan becoz unless the soul succumbs, the perception of S’pore and it’s people wld be indeed an aquarium of life contained in a bigger world. To look beyond what you have is a telling of a despaired heart that had died, …contrary to advocating the human spirit. | ||
::If you love S’pore too much, first it will break your heart, then it will break your soul, without these circumstances in the first place, no country would be born. | ::If you love S’pore too much, first it will break your heart, then it will break your soul, without these circumstances in the first place, no country would be born. | ||
::If you are born free then live free be it S’pore or not. S’pore…. it’s just a thot some choose to carry with them for a longer time, it’s a thot tht supersedes what others think, what others might say, it’s just a thot that one can make it a better place... even in defiance. | ::If you are born free then live free be it S’pore or not. S’pore…. it’s just a thot some choose to carry with them for a longer time, it’s a thot tht supersedes what others think, what others might say, it’s just a thot that one can make it a better place... even in defiance. | ||
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