Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Top 10 politicial videos for 2008...
1. Wil.i.am's Yes We Can video:
2. The American Promise:
3. Tina Fey as Sarah Palin "I Can See Russia From My House!"
Excerpt from ABC News in a skit of the VP debate in Sept..
2. The American Promise:
3. Tina Fey as Sarah Palin "I Can See Russia From My House!"
Excerpt from ABC News in a skit of the VP debate in Sept..
Top 10 politicial videos for 2008 (cont'd)
4. Obama Girl- I've Got A Crush On Obama
5. Barack Obama's 30 minutes infomercial: American Stories, American Solutions
The 30 minute prime time ad($3m in total) that most TV networks broadcasted- and which a major league sport allowed the game to be delayed for at most 30 minutes for it to be broadcast on the last weekend before Nov 4th.
6. Hillary Clinton's concession primary election Speech "18 million cracks in the ceiling"
One of Senator(and now soon-to-be Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton's finest speeches, and an inspiration to all women and men.
5. Barack Obama's 30 minutes infomercial: American Stories, American Solutions
The 30 minute prime time ad($3m in total) that most TV networks broadcasted- and which a major league sport allowed the game to be delayed for at most 30 minutes for it to be broadcast on the last weekend before Nov 4th.
6. Hillary Clinton's concession primary election Speech "18 million cracks in the ceiling"
One of Senator(and now soon-to-be Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton's finest speeches, and an inspiration to all women and men.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Top 10 Politicial Videos of 2007/2008
No.7: Sarah Palin as a Hockey Mum:
No.8 Barack Obama dancing in the Ellen DeGeneres show:
No. 9 Hillary Clinton's 3 a.m video in the primary season in Pennsylvania
No. 10 Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama
I will continue the countdown tomorrow with the other four...
No.8 Barack Obama dancing in the Ellen DeGeneres show:
No. 9 Hillary Clinton's 3 a.m video in the primary season in Pennsylvania
No. 10 Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama
I will continue the countdown tomorrow with the other four...
I was watching V for Vendetta a while back..and this part, reflected in this embed video..strikes a chord with me
I don't condone violence that the main character advocates though..but the context of the speech remains true.
Monday, December 22, 2008
I'm back home in Singapore..
And its time for eating, meeting up with old friends, and catching up. Also there would also some homework to be done, on a personal front and on a group front. There are many serious issues to be discussed, noted down, and debated upon, and as such, I look forward to such discussions.
Especially once the New Year is upon us.
For now, I just wanna wish everyone here, a Merry Xmas, and a Happy New Year! I will see you guys soon!
Especially once the New Year is upon us.
For now, I just wanna wish everyone here, a Merry Xmas, and a Happy New Year! I will see you guys soon!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
I'm returning to Singapore this sunday...
Yes, I am.
But as I am packing my bags I had thought about this for a long time. First I need to clear a few things up. One of them is that while I do love my family, my friends, and my relatives, I also do have mixed feelings of Singapore at the same time. Second, I think my loyalty to my country while has remained steadfast, is not translated to loyalty towards the ruling party- because I think the country is bigger than any political party.
Thirdly, while I also feel that the current ruling party has done a lot for my country of birth, I also feel that the PAP has been stuck in the past, mired too much in past glories and has not fully established a true vision for the future for its people.
Instead what it has increasingly relied on is to use fear to force people to vote for them, by means of financial pressure through hidden charges using acronyms, by means of politicising the construction of national infrastructure(using taxpayers money) to only those who have voted for them, and to put people who don't deserve to be there on merit on the management boards of every single government corporation, and in every single government department for political, ideological reasons.
And the result is that Singapore increasingly has put its future further on the edge of a spiral. I mean, when a country is completely politicised from one end to another, it weakens all aspects of the country as a whole as the fundamentals have been shaken to its core. When a ruling party starts thinking of its self-interests as the country's self-interests, then that's when the rot starts.
The escape of Mas Selamat was merely the beginning. The fact that Singapore is the first Asian country to slip into recession is merely just another blip that the pulse isn't right. Then there is the minibonds scandal. And then now with the future of the IR heavily in doubt(of even being able to open in time), as with the F1, Singapore isn't looking very rosy.
Isn't it time Singapore has a better alternative than this? That we can do better than to depend on a party that has been ruling for 50 years? In politics, which is pretty much corrupting in the first place?
Its time we know we can do much better.
I now know Singapore is not an utopia, and shouldn't be viewed as one. For once, its time we took off those rose-tinted specs and really see the goodness and the flaws of Singapore at the same time, and know always that Singapore is always in a work in progress and as such, when time changes, we know we must change. And change can only come from those who do not belong to the status quo, who thinks that if we can do the same things for the last 50 years, somehow we will get a different result.
It is time.
But as I am packing my bags I had thought about this for a long time. First I need to clear a few things up. One of them is that while I do love my family, my friends, and my relatives, I also do have mixed feelings of Singapore at the same time. Second, I think my loyalty to my country while has remained steadfast, is not translated to loyalty towards the ruling party- because I think the country is bigger than any political party.
Thirdly, while I also feel that the current ruling party has done a lot for my country of birth, I also feel that the PAP has been stuck in the past, mired too much in past glories and has not fully established a true vision for the future for its people.
Instead what it has increasingly relied on is to use fear to force people to vote for them, by means of financial pressure through hidden charges using acronyms, by means of politicising the construction of national infrastructure(using taxpayers money) to only those who have voted for them, and to put people who don't deserve to be there on merit on the management boards of every single government corporation, and in every single government department for political, ideological reasons.
And the result is that Singapore increasingly has put its future further on the edge of a spiral. I mean, when a country is completely politicised from one end to another, it weakens all aspects of the country as a whole as the fundamentals have been shaken to its core. When a ruling party starts thinking of its self-interests as the country's self-interests, then that's when the rot starts.
The escape of Mas Selamat was merely the beginning. The fact that Singapore is the first Asian country to slip into recession is merely just another blip that the pulse isn't right. Then there is the minibonds scandal. And then now with the future of the IR heavily in doubt(of even being able to open in time), as with the F1, Singapore isn't looking very rosy.
Isn't it time Singapore has a better alternative than this? That we can do better than to depend on a party that has been ruling for 50 years? In politics, which is pretty much corrupting in the first place?
Its time we know we can do much better.
I now know Singapore is not an utopia, and shouldn't be viewed as one. For once, its time we took off those rose-tinted specs and really see the goodness and the flaws of Singapore at the same time, and know always that Singapore is always in a work in progress and as such, when time changes, we know we must change. And change can only come from those who do not belong to the status quo, who thinks that if we can do the same things for the last 50 years, somehow we will get a different result.
It is time.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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