1645 hrs August 4th 2005

Somebody tell me

is it just my imagination,

or there are really few

national flags hanging

this year?

Notice the uproar

on the Internet

over the NKF debacle.

Notice how furious

people get

when told 600k a year

is peanauts.

Notice people actually

asked who paid

for LKY's wife transport

from London.

The government

has its statistics,

I have my own.

About 9 in 10

Singaporean men

hate the government.

About 4 in 10

Singaporean women

hate the government.

About 1 in 5

Singaporeans I know

is unemployed,

or underemployed.

Many have given up trying.

Singaporean women

tend to love this country.

Number 1 airport

why don't you start

travelling a bit more?

Number 1 MRT

ditto above

In HK or Tokyo,

you don't have to wait 8 minutes

for the next train.

Clean and green,

ditto above,

we're absolutely filthy

compared to Seoul or Tokyo.

Safe and secure,

ditto above,

I feel safer in Batam.

This year is election year,

if they tell me they won

by 75% majority again,

I will know

that is mathematically

impossible