What a cursed Chinese New Year, I'm back at home so early for the first time in my 15 year old life.
Things has gone way down the drain as I have already expected, this time making Leon refusing to converse in fun, laughter, peace and joy with his sister. What a disgrace.
As a way of keeping his own eloquence and peace he shall refrain from verbally abusing his low intelligence yet irritating family member otherwise known as my sister, despite of she doing it to her own brother, words like, well, you should know, spitting out of her foul mouth.
I cannot help but to say that this tradition (the visiting house thing for Chinese New Year) is going to vanish in our generation as people get intrigued over the usage of gadgets and electronic devices to even give a damn about traditions.
And who's the main culprit? Technology.
Technological advancements has indeed boosted the living standards of mankind to a higher level but in the context of morals, people has fell. The overwhelming usage of gadgets has caused people to be cold to one another - a fact that you see in your daily life, people listening to their MP3 player even though they are sitting beside a friend, friends taking up one seat by themselves on public buses etc etc.
Now don't flame me by saying "Not everyone is like that!".
I fully agree that one shan't judge a whole group of people just by observing the behaviour of one of them.
Back to the point.
The government of Singapore has been pretty concerned over the fact that teens are becoming more and more badly behaved and it aroused the interests of freelance writers to write articles about these teens, trying to find a cause behind all this.
Don't look elsewhere. The answer is here.
Families are the foundation of society.
With more and more usage of technological advancements, family members begin to grow colder to one another which slowly and gradually lead to a somehow or rather broken family. Broken families lead to broken societies.
The government tried to solve this by implementing 5-day work week.
Sorry my friend, most people use the weekend to cover up for the very stressful activities that are happening in the weekdays - for example in the context of a student like me: relieving myself of stress with entertainment like computer games (don't think sick, okay!).
Tell me lah, where got time to even interact with the family in this tightly-packed society of Singapore where the government pushes everyone to strive for economic growth?
Everything money, money, money.
Talking about this, talk about that, all sum up to money.
Education - why are we studying so hard?
For money. With education, we qualify for a better job that pays more. With more money, we have a higher standard of living, and this is due to having better technology, which also leads to the disintegration of society as I have already mentioned above.
Why does this world always seem to have war here and there?
For more money. For better standards of living.
Countries expanding their territories in order to gain more resources.
And what this results in?
Another group of people suffering as a result of these expansions, people with hurt and anger in their hearts, and they emerged as vengeful people - the birth of terrorists.
Bomb here bomb there, it's an endless vicious cycle of revenge and killings.
All for the sake of -> money -> more technology -> higher standards of living.
If we want world peace and people living in harmony and peace, looks like we have to look at the root of why people are killing each other, which is the standard of living for people.
Only when everyone has the same high standard of living will there be world peace, but that's just impossible.
Oh well, till that is being achieved, Leon would have to learn to put up with his sister.
Till then, I pray.
Reply to tags:
MELSON - Empty vessels :) We both know them very well don't we? Anyway, Tuesday set ah! We go each house for an hour, ngek ngek ngek.
EILEEN - That time he scold me just touching his tool okay! As if his tools made of gold like that. Tsk. And okay set I want Banana Squash with chocolate toppings every day because you owe me 800 bucks (and still accumulating for each molestation!) And alamak, of course beautiful, or else how to be pretty boy, you tell me?!
RINA - Ah Na, I can't really be bothered about my family, really. And wow Mr Tan life so sad ah, nothing else to talk about, have to talk about his wife every lesson?! Tsk. CE lessons not for him to talk about his wife. Like that I also can teach CE, every week talk about ME. And I give you hong bao 10+ years later okay? :D
ARIEL - That sounds damn wrong LOL! Yeah and I'm not in a self-despair-wrist-cutting-head-banging-mood either, in fact, I'm pretty proud at my anger management without hurling vulgarities at my dad :D I still owe you coconuts!
WANZHUO - Okay set! I better bring along a stool in case of emergency :P Anyway, did you go for eye enlargement surgery? I know why liao, big eyes can see the ball alignment better right?
HUI MIN - It's a very common case in Singapore anyway so it doesn't matter!
RACHEL - HEHE. Happy chinese new year to you too! I bet your reunion dinner got claypot rice!
BOON MAY - Worst! Like that you cannot balance on your heels then your gonna fall all your way to Boon Lay.
CHEE YANG - HOI! Gong xi fa chai to you, even though you already got alot of "chai" already :D Want to eat Siew Mai mou? :)
SHAUN - BROTHER! It's a matter of perspective my friend, but no offence though :D Can go your house bai nian or not? (don't go Malaysia ah!)
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