Red Dot Walker: July 2013

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

SAF Rifle Pledge

I, hereby swear, before the flag, that I will be brave, honourable, discipline, vigilant, and I will take good care, of my rifle, AT ALL TIMES!

Sora's Singapore 1

Gardens By the Bay
Marina Bay Sands
Singapore Flyer
Merlion
Smurf House
Cable Car

Reference - Teachers' Pay

Public school teachers in Singapore are overworked and underpaid.

Reference - Third World Countries

Singapore has always pride its transformation from Third World to First. But in many ways, we are still in living in a Third World Country.

Reference - Tee

Tee represents the private tuition industry in Singapore.

Reference - Ms Lim

Ms Lim represents the dedicated teachers of Singapore.

Reference - Su Zhen

Su Zhen represents the children of Singapore.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Reference - NIE

NIE Logistics refers to NIE in Singapore. National Institute of Education, the national teacher training institute.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Reference - Glossary of Singlish terms

Glossary of Singlish terms

aiyo - for goodness sake
aiya - never mind
kiasu - afraid of losing out
pasa - business
lah - singlish slang to place emphasis, but no particular meaning by itself
meh - singlish slang in a question

Reference - Federation

Reference to Federation of Malaya. Singapore was never the part of the Federation. The author exercised poetic licence.

Reference - Mei

Mei represents children who cannot excel in the Singapore school system.

Reference - South Ocean

South Ocean = Nanyang

With reference to the top primary school in Singapore.

Reference - Hope

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies" - Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins) in Shawshank Redemption (written by Stephen King).

This ending of this story is about hope. A hope that the Singapore education system can improve.

Reference - Line One, Two, Three

Singapore's primary school streaming system in the early 2000s with names: EM1, EM2 and EM3. These names and differentiations have now evolved.

Reference - National Day

Singapore's National Day.

9th Aug 1965

Reference - Deputy Commissioner

Lianhe Zaobao's readers voted the word 色 as the word of the year to describe Singapore in 2012. For the non-Chinese readers, this word meant colour but it could also mean lust.

It won the popular vote as a result of the multiple sex scandals that happened in 2012 including

1. Cecilia Sue and Ng Boon Gay (Former CNB director)
2. Former SCDF commissioner Peter Lim
3. Speaker of Parliament: Michael Palmer
4. NUS law professor Tey in the sex-for-grades scandal
5. Fifty over men involved in underage paid sex with a 17-year-old prostitute.

This tongue-in-cheek reference used a Deputy Commissioner, but it must be stressed the Singapore Police Force was not involved in any sex scandal in 2012 per se although a police Sergeant is now currently under investigation for a violent double murder (in 2013).