if i were to think of a creature that best describes Singaporeans.. i would have to say that it would be the earthworm..
since ive been on attachment to powergas this week, ive travelled all over Singapore to observe how the gas system works.. what struck me most was the extent of diggin everywhere by every tom dick and harry.. many people mistake that since everyone at a construction site by the roads is a banglah wearin a yellow hard hat, everyone comes from the same organisation.. thats so not true.. if ya observe the cones carefully, ya will see the logos of many different companies.. power gas, power grid, pub, hdb, lta blah blah blah.. to the extent that at one junction, there were workers and excavators from three different companies diggin at various parts of the junction!
why huh? why? why must we dig and dig and dig?.. even when we have no gold to dig for, we still must dig.. always causing stupid jams on the roads.. the best thing is that we Singaporeans like to dig, then fill it up again, dig then fill it up again.. just to find means and ways to spend government money to increase GDP and stimulate the economy.. this is called discetionary measures of the fiscal policy in econs (haha see! who says i dont pay attention in class)..
neway the thing is.. ive never seen a society who likes to dig so much before.. ask our neighbours.. who likes to dig as much as us?.. we should make diggin a national pastime.. "Dig Singapore!" how bout dat? a campaign to encourage singaporeans to embrace these senseless noisy diggin projects.. we shall all go to the grass patches beside the pavements down by our houses with a shovel and chunkol and dig and dig for nothin the whole day.. then we fill it up so we can dig for nothing again on the followin years diggin day..
considerin that singapore is sucha tiny island, we sure dig a lot.. no wonder our national hero is a contractor with yellow boots!