Changes

So much change has been in the offing. The school curriculum is to be shortened; lucky for those kids (going into my grumbling old man mode). Chinese is to be simplified; lucky for those ACS boys. Yup on the education front, it seems a lot has been relaxed by the new PM. But I don't see how just learning oral aspects of Chinese will lead to better Chinese standards all around. I hated Chinese while I was in secondary school, but looking back it was all the drilling that made me a better Chinese speaker. Are we going to have a generation of students who can read only and not write (Chinese-ROM)? So how come we don't have the same option for Malay and Tamil? Strange indeed.

On the upside, rules for public speaking have been relaxed. Which means maybe we can organise a big powwow and decide on the work that needs to be done to fix Singapore. But we must be careful that this is not a "hundred flowers" speech, which will soon turn into a round of purges.

And of course our own Brainwash Times has to have an article showing that not all young people are skeptical.

In the international arena, PM Lee warned Taiwan not to monkey around when it comes to China. Finally, we've stated our position on the trouble makers. Seriously, just go back to China. We don't need a war.

So with all the hurrah from the Zombie Times, I feel we need a little view from the other side of the tracks.

So the future sounds good, but we've got to see if it's all lip service, or if it truly is a change for the better.