National Day Rally

Every year since 44 years ago, the second Sunday after 9th of August is always unique for Singapore. The University Cultural Centre at NUS would be packed with people ever since 2001. All the TV channels have to sacrifice their programmes for this "national event". The entire Sunday evening would be extremely boring

All thanks to one man, our dear Prime Minister. There is only one group of people who will need to listen to his talking, the journalists. They are responsible for bringing us news on this annual "national event". We just read the papers to know what are the highlights of the talk

Seriously, when I was in secondary school, the principal asked how many people stayed up to watch LHL talk during the following Monday's assembly and only 3 hands raised up

Maybe there were more people who watched it but didn't feel like there's a need for everyone to know. Why wasn't there a need for everyone to know? It looks dumb. Why does it look dumb? Because that is displaying fake patriotism!

Every year, people hang flags outside their HDB flats. Some are "fortunate" to have RC (aka dogs) members visiting their houses to remind them and even provide free flags. Hanging your country's flag outside your house won't make you love your country more

Same goes to listening to your PM talk. I think that there are many other meaningful things that we can do during that evening. Anyway, we will forget what we have heard during the speech after a month or so. Might as well do something that will be beneficial in the future