People who hate the country they were born and bred in make me sick.

Like Singaporeans who hate Singapore. Their reasons are so shallow most times.

They think that the Singapore Government is too authoritarian or totalitarian. They have limited options, limited freedom. The people here suck too much for them. The lack of freedom of speech or the controlled manner in which the news is reported here is crap to them. BEing politically-restrained is so much to handle, they can't take it.

Think about this in context, please. You wanna move to another Asian country? Sure, one that doesn't provide the same level of security or stability as Singapore. You wanna move to an ang moh country? Ditto the reasons above, or feeling like a second-class citizen, or just basically constantly having that underlying feeling that you're alone - a minority race in a country that you weren't brought up in.

Sure, this country has its flaws. But compared to other countries? We're doing pretty damn well. And if you don't like the people here, well, shit. Go like some other country's people then and suck their cocks, because we sure as hell don't want you here either you fucking cocksuckers.

I really cannot be bothered to go into a lengthy tirade about why Singapore is 'better' or 'worse' than other countries. But if you hate Singapore, you lack the very fundamental basics of a thing called tolerance. You're fickle, and you can't appreciate what you've got. You're the kid who was fed the silver spoon and now you want a golden spoon and an army of feeders along with it. You disgust me.

I had an invite to join this group on facebook: Singapore Sucks! and it's what got me going. I declined the invite, naturally, and also resisted the urge to delete the person from my list of 'friends'. (Actually maybe I should just delete this person, I don't care very much for him anyway.)

But it's nice to know that there're still people standing up for this tiny country of ours. On that group's wall, people were heartily defending Singapore.. with legitimate reasons, and not so much "YOU SUCK COS YOU THINK SINGAPORE SUCKS!" It's nice to know the rigid level of education the government has plied on us has come to SOME use.

And even then, there're still people out there who can't spell, or write, or think for shit. So if you wanna blame the government for a very unhappy childhood, go ahead and continue being illiterate, or unhappy, or demoralized, because this country simply taught you that life isn't all peaches and cream, baby.