チェイサーの夢

15 more minutes to the coming of the Rat year and everyone is busy with last minute cleaning, packing, tidying up the house or standing at Chinatown to feel the spirit of Chinese Lunar New Year. Looking back at the previous posts, I realised I have not been able to fully enjoy Chinese New Year for the past 3 years. Given that University start somewhere mid of February, I either have to go back before Chinese New Year eve or on the first day of New Year eve. Finally, I am able to enjoy the spirit of chinese and in my very homeland.

I do have to comment that Chinese Year has changed so much. This year there wasn't much stalls stepup for Chinese Year. I was pretty much shocked and of course disappointed. I learnt that this was due to an unfortunate event where two children was being burn alive and the reason they couldn't escape was due to the stallers owners who tried to expand out their store and end up trapping their escape route.

Although, there weren't much stores setup for Chinese New Year but the routine is pretty much the same. After a hard work of cleaning up the house, it was steamboat with the family. Then clean upmore or watch the TV until like midnight. It just feels so comfortable where you see so much aisan culture and especially the chinese TV part. Oh look at the time now: Happy Chinese New Year 2008.

I guess I will stop here and go out to wish my parent a Happy New Year first.

It's been close to 3 day since I landed at Singapore. The feeling of returning back home is really full of mixed emotion and feelings. I recalled watching the whole of Singapore's nightview on the plane and telling Yunyen omg look it is so bright and beautiful. It is so different from Perth. After the plane docked, we walked out and see for ourself the infamous Terminal 3 airport. It is huge !? I reckon it is at least 2 times the size of Terminal 2. After all the small details, I was sitting at a taxi on my way home. It was close to 10pm and there are still people everywhere. Gosh, I just feel so excited seeing so many people. It's feels like hongkong now.

For the past few days, I have been to Bugis, Sim Lim and Tampines Mall. The though of sitting down in a coffee bean and talking with all my friends was just simply bliss. I seen so much changes in them and learnt more change in Singapore. To put it simple in words, I guess after all I am a Singaporean. So returning back to Singapore was just so nice of a change from Perth.

*Note: What I have written here is a sensitive topic. Please, stop and close the window if you think you cannot compromise with what I have written.


The idea of writing this topic dawn upon me while I was surfing the internet. I’m not sure if anyone noticed that there seems to be getting more websites that contain indecent pictures or videos (otherwise also known as porn to some). Some might disagree with me since porn has been around and growing since the start of internet. It is shocking true that the porn industry is growing by the years. However, I am not going to touch and debate about it. Those pictures that I was referring to are often girls or ladies who goes clubbing and do all form of crazy acts. For example, there was this post I happened to come across which has pictures of girls doing bar top dancing. The next few pictures showed them actually stripping naked and either it could be their friends or it might be the crowd who used their hands to cover these girls’ specific “body parts” for them. Has clubbing gone really that wild in the Asian countries? This is what our future generation is going to become? I can understand that everyone seeks to have fun in their own way. However, is this really the kind of fun that we wish our future generation to have?

Well, either my mindset has turn “old” or seriously parents out there need to do something about the new generation culture. I’m pretty sure that some will tell me off by saying I am “out of fashion” or I can’t understand what is going on with their generation and there is a gap between our ways of thinking. Well, I cannot deny the fact that we are brought up in a very different setting and that the demands and ways of thinking vary with generations too. However, this doesn’t support the fact that anyone would love their children to go out have fun and stripped naked. Or any parents would love their children, for the sake of love, just have causal sex with their boyfriend and took tons of their sex photos and post all over the internet. All these events that I have written above are all real life events that have happen in Taiwan and have been reported in the new.

I urge all parents to reconsider their parenting methods. Some might think “Nah, it’s alright. My children are gold and these events happen on in other countries not in mine.” This is a very wrong mentally. These incidents are happening in ASIAN countries now. This means that due to modernisation and exposure to America concept, more Asians are accepting this is kind of lifestyle is a norm. Parents seriously should try to educate their children in a right manner and not allowing these forms of behaviour and attitude to further develop.