Just now i bought a Sunday Times to check out the classifieds to try my luck to find a job opening in it.

And the first article i saw on the headline was "Singapore is 'happiest place in Asia'".

Nice article during this time when elections are not so far away.

Whether this really qualifies as a headline or not is very questionable in the midst of other more important things concerning the world and bigger countries unlike this oh so awesome little red dot Singapore.

Well, of course "happiest" or not, it's subjective, and the person who said that it is the happiest place here is an American author. How long did this American author stay here anyway? 2 trips each 4 weeks, 1 year apart between the 2 trips. He said he had relied on data on 3 surveys and had spoken to many known people including, well, LKY, social scientists, politicians, comedians etc.
Fair enough. But as if he can get the complete picture in just 2 months.

Lots of interesting points here.

What correlate with happiness on a worldwide scale are tolerance, status equality, security, trust, access to recreation and financial security..... Unemployment is low, home ownership is high.

Wait wait wait. Most singaporeans do not own homes. HDBs are leased from the government for 99 years. Besides housing prices are high now. You'd need to pay for 30 whole years with a double income husband and wife to completely pay off the housing debt.


Status equality, unemployment and the rest? Nah. 1. Look at Singapore's Gini coefficient. 2. Look at what the politicians (and some elites) are paying themselves. 3. Trust? yeah loh trust the propaganda and the foreigners. 4. My complaint points won't stop at point 4.




Okay Asia's pretty small. So if compared to others here then okay loh. Ultimately it is an opinion (not an established proven fact) of a US correspondent in Washington with reference to a US author, and this opinion somehow gets into the front page and headlines.








A side note, what i want is not a single party dominance ruling in singapore. I want productive and intelligent debate in parliament consisting of many parties.

So please do not say Singapore will fall without the Pro-Alien Party. (Besides, our own forefathers, not only PAP, are the ones who had built Singapore to this day)

Don't forget a government can actually have not just one party you know.






One more thing. Opposition parties and political websites do in fact have solutions instead of only complaining like i do here.








Okok i think i'll stop here. I kinda got rusty in expository writing after the A levels ended.

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Currently hooked on classical Touhou music arranges from TAMusic. Seriously, they are awesome.


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Listens mostly to Touhou doujin music

(Because the creator of Touhou (ZUN) is damn talented, his BGM for the game series are godly, including the game series he made itself, and hence many dedicated groups of musicians do arranges of his original BGM)

("Arranges" are one level higher than "covers")


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