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For someone who’s born in Hong Kong, raised in Singapore and then making a living in Hong Kong, it can be quite difficult to get him to answer where his home is. But for me, I guess it’s simple for me – both are my homes. Hong Kong is where my life started, but without those 15 years in Singapore, the me right now would not have happened. So matters concerning both Hong Kong and Singapore are my business no matter what. But today I want to talk about Singapore, partly because of this event.

I think the problem in Singapore is quite simple. It’s the incumbent PAP government that is not making sense. I mean, I would be the first to stand up and admit that I’m an immigrant, but does that mean that I’m for the government to receive more and more foreigners into the country? My answer is a straight-forward “no”. Some may say “Of course, you have gotten yourself a Singapore passport now so you can happily reject those people who come in” – let’s not even go there. I’m always happy if there are people who genuinely want to choose Singapore as their home, settle and build their families there. But there is always so much that the tiny island of Singapore can hold. When you have MRT breaking down, once-every-50-years floods happening once every couple of months, and all the other problems that come along with it, surely a government should be smart enough to realize something is wrong? Surely a government, with all its prided scholars at the helm, should realize that the country has not been equipped to support so many people?

Of course they may argue that things will improve, they will strengthen things and increase their loads. But these things take time, and why are they telling us things that will happen in the future when they can’t even solve the problems now? I understand that there is always a process in solving problems, and I can forgive them for not being to solve all problems immediately. But when you are not even trying to admit there are problems, that in my opinion is the biggest problem.

To me, all these years watching the PAP trying to run the country is almost becoming a joke. They invented the GRC so that people are forced to vote 5 or 6 people into the parliament at one go, and then after so many years thinking that this was an unbreakable fortress, Workers Party came in with 5 credible and impressive candidates and won a GRC – slapping PAP in the face. Then we had 2 by-elections, one in Hougang and one in Punggol East (which I can never understand why they don’t just call it Sengkang instead). PAP couldn’t win back in one, and then lost another one. Surely some smart people up there would have realized that the sentiments on the ground are leaning towards the Workers Party? Surely they should understand that people’s hearts have changed and they would not take the crap that the PAP is dishing at them? To put up such a white paper so shortly after an election loss proves that this PAP government just doesn’t learn. It simply has no idea what’s happening on the ground, and they just do not know what the people are thinking.

How can Singaporeans trust a government when it does not even understand what a “Singaporean” mean? I saw someone unfolding a placard labelled “Waiting for 2016” – PAP would do well to take that seriously, and no, the people don’t mean voting PAP back in the government again in 2016.