Whatever happened to Singaporeans
Thursday, December 21st, 2006I have been totally disgusted with the behaviour of Singaporeans for sometime now! I mean, whatever happened to the clean and green campaign!!! I only remember seeing those when i was in primary school. Nowadays, the importance of the clean and green week is of no more! Yes, i’ve posters here and there scattered scarcely over the island. But thats not enough for our country i guess. Esp with Singaporeans! They need constant push by someone to make sure that their country is clean. How can we be talking about going global when we cant even handle our county’s environment and some other small issues. I know we r considered to be better then India or other neighbouring countries but still that should not be an excuse for us to be sitting down and waiting for the cleaners to pick up after our shit. I for one believe that its how we were brought up that displays our attitude towards our country. I was brought up in the strictest environment, Gracheaven. We were told each and everyday without fail how to keep ourselves clean and be responsible. I think if this is our own home, we would not want rubbish to be lying everywhere. I guess that some ppl are jus being very ignorant about thier surrounding. It starts from your own home and neighbourhood. Then, it can be brought to national level. Its not a matter of tourists or other nations to congratulate us for being clean!!! Not at all. We shoukd feel proud that we are clean and this is our home for us to be responsible. Everyone of us should stop reciting Our Singapore, Our Home and start practising it for once. I believe all Singaporeans, at least most of us are educated to know that littering is not a good thing. For me, even its my hubby littering, i would stop him and tell him off that that is wrong. I believe we’ll have the rights to stop others from littering Singapore. Cos this is our Home too. If everyone were to mind our own business, then whatever will happen to Singapore.
This is not the only issue that i face nowadays. There’s many more issues in Singapore thats making wanna feel so disgusted being a Singaporean. Esp the service sector… Haiz, if i wanna start, i wont end la. It’ll jus continue to many pages. But i feel that we Sinagporeans are not taking our stand as a citizen in this issues. I feel we lack the unity in more than one way.
I know we have achieved lots in these few years. But i think we have to slow down to see the smaller details and rectify the problems of that before it becomes big enough to pull us down together. i hope things will improve for the better.