Red Dot Walker

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Reference - South Ocean

South Ocean = Nanyang

With reference to the top primary school in Singapore.

"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).