Eat, Food, Life

Eating together is sharing each other's soul- POE

how true that is (:
maybe that explains why i love food so much.
somehow, for me, food and friendships seem to go hand in hand.
i enjoy the process of eating and i definitely enjoy eating with people that i love. i feel that the whole process is a very relaxing one, for me at least.

read melissa's blog and she quoted on how the PM wanted pple to have kids and how all his campaigns are not working... and there are some things which i wanna say as well.

first things first birth rates unlike smoking is not something which you can deal with using nice fluffy campaigns/ propaganda or whatever that is just simply not the case. has it ever occured to the government why people refuse to have kids? i dont know about others but for me i absolutely REFUSE to place my kid in the same education that i am in it is really (as melissa put it ) a humongous and perhaps even pointless pressure cooker of singapore's education system.

i know that the process of succeeding in society aint easy, i know that it involves hard work BUT the education system in Singapore has evolved to such a point whereby its no longer even about learning. every single person is just being obsessed with the mad rat paper chase and crippled by the fear of failure as failing would very simply mean that you will not do well in society.

Please do not give me the airy fairy details about how we can suceed in life even if we fail in this pointless education system. how many sim wong hoo(s) and geroge quek(s) can we produce? if you honestly believe that there is a high chance of you suceeding without getting a decent education you would be very sadly mistaken and perhaps even self dillusional. you have a SLIM chance but not very MAJOR at that.

moreover some people who fail are not really less bright perhaps only less inclined in the memory work of books and more books. MAYBE they are just more suited for other areas which society just doesnt really give them recognition for. sometimes there are just too many social stigmas.somtimes i feel that the education is just like a funnel over our opened mouths, and they just keep pouring in water til there comes a point whereby you just burst and everything comes spilling out. so whether you suceed or not depends on how much "forced funnel water" you can drink.

the terrible education system aside lets talk about the fundamentals of learning. why do we learn? because of interest because we want to know more? sadly in singapore we learn because it is a pre-requisite for us to survive in society. so we place ourselves in situations whereby we are unsure (even after all that education) whether we are digging our own graves or heading towards our success. we have university graduates drinving cabs at one point and that doesnt say much does it?

so if this is case why in the world would i bring a KID into such a situation? call me practical or maybe materialistic but i would want to make sure that when i have a kid i will have to be rather well off to ensure that he/ she does not have to get caught up in this rat race that i am in. it will be a priviledge that i did not have but would like to have it extended to him... (: perhaps this is why there are falling birth rates and isngaporeans just dont wanna procreate anymore.

perhaps we are really a too fortuante lil' island that we have come to the point where we can fine tune so many things even our education system. perhaps, this fine tuning is actually a blessing i dont know.

i wish i could word this entry the way i really want. but hey with freedom comes repnsibilty no?