Elevator Music?

Being a cynic and jaded is like a fashion that won't go out time among the youngsters.In the manner patiotsm ofcourse.

Lets see how we develop our outer cynics shall we?

At Kindergarden:
We struggle to learn our pldege and national anthem.We sing as ludly as we can in words we don't know the meaning to ending up instead like whole hall of jambled monkeys:)(trust me on this, i have heard them sing)

At Primary 1-3
We get the meanings finally drummed into us.We sing with gusto then and say the pledge even louder.Although not always in sycn with the music and the prefect saying the pledge.We take pleasure in beating our upper primary sisters in the loudness in our singing.

At Primary 4-6
Suddenly singing the national anthemn is tiring.We rather keep our heads bowed down thank you very much. A few brave souls continue with their solo.Others,in a breezy whispers.

Sec 1-4
Its official.Its not cool to sing the national anthem anymore.Someone turn off our voice boxes during asssembly please!

There you have it.Its just funny how one december holiday can change so much in us

Never mind that we may never throw away this outfit of cynism.

We can always wear red and white on the day where patriotism is allowed.

I remind you if you wear a national day t-shirt from giordano during weekends or say dreamily that " oh,i just love Singapore so so so much." at any other time.

Behavious like that is highly frowned upon.

So on national day is the one day we get to wave our national day flag proudly and wear red and white and sing all our cheesy partiotic songs which sound good on that day.

(This is one day,another exception is if Singapore gets into the World Cup finals...BUT we will see about that in the erm...distant future.)

Hey,it beats me.But national day always seem to drum some spirit on its own.maybe its because our handsome ministers' heads banner posted on every streetlight or the flags hanging on every window.

Singapore on its own,the culture,the music,the globalsation,the racial harmony,low crime rate,misconception from foreigners that we are in China,the food,the weather,the HDB flats,the customer service,the uncles and aunties,the over-pressurising schools,the tuitions,the ah lians and ah bengs,THE SINGLISH(which really people should stop trying to squash)

Yeah i agree.

I Singapore too

you can quote me on that.Today.

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