KICK! HIT! GOAL!!!.

What I never understood is why our neighbours, despite their advantage in resources, cannot even be on par with Singapore. The worse thing is that instead of aspiring to reach a comparable economic status with Singapore, our neighbours are trying to drag Singapore down. Malaysia has been threatening to turn off the water taps to Singapore since independence. Now Indonesia, seeing that Singapore is probably going to prosper further with the integrated resorts, decided to screw our building plans by halting the supply of sand.

Even Thailand has decided to join in the Singapore bashing party. The Shin Corp saga technically isn’t Singapore’s fault. At the point in time that the deal was inked, it passed the various Thai regulatory bodies. If there were any discrepancies, the problem laid with the Thai regulatory bodies for approving, so what’s the beef with Singapore? Why blame Singapore for buying Shin Corp when the deal could not have gone through without approval from Thai authorities?

I think that Singapore is, in the words of Ridzwan, a feisty minority. We have been defying the odds, and when the minority proves capable of defying the odds in this region, the everyone else will not be happy. Just look at how discriminatory the policies are in Malaysia. Despite the Chinese proving to be capable, instead of amending their policies to harness the abilities of their minority population, they continue the official discrimination against the Chinese, depriving some of the smartest Malaysian Chinese opportunities to develop to their fullest potential.

I am not surprised at the recent acts of our neighbouring countries as they have a historical preference to react negatively to a fiesty minority instead of positively. They would do so much better to feel ashamed that they are not anywhere close to Singapore despite their advantage in resources rather than to feel envious that Singapore is so successful.

-aaron

How true is that, is he wrongly accusing our neighbours?

.][-Splattered my blood on
3:45 PM