Basket.

What kind of school admin makes a CCA work like slaves for them, then try its damned best to close down the selfsame CCA? A Singaporean one, of course. Not that this kind of behaviour is unexpected, but they have really gone overboard. A bunch of lousy ingrates, that is all they are. Making students work like dogs and not showing the least bit of appreciation. Spare me all the fucking bullshit about "The school would be nothing without the students"; they certainly don't seem to do as they say. "MOE is not run by cold-blooded bureaucrats"? Fuck you.

This is contemptible behaviour, and the thing is it is so typical about Singapore. Every institution here with some power over such-and-such a group of people behaves in scuh a cynical and self-interested manner. Singapore, the capitalist paradise, reflected in the state of its society. We have material progress and well-being, so what? that is not all that matters. The youth get criticised all the time, and no one ever looks in a mirror to see how hypocritical they are. We actually get all the shit, and not only no word of thanks for doing what we do, but barbs charging that we are irresponsible, lazy, lack drive and are self-centred. If irony was a disease Singapore would be a wasteland.

No, seriously, this goes all the way to the top. The government privatised its public transport providers. Have you heard anything for stupid? Public transport provided by private firms. But that is not the main thing. The main thing is that fees have been rising, and will rise again later this year. I find that ridiculous. Transitlink posted a fat profit of something like S$300 million last year and it is still going to raise fees? And why is the NEL so damned expensive? Because they decided to forgo a cheaper human-controlled system and instead gun for the title of "world's first underground heavy rail transit system". To top it all off, their little show of extravagance is more unreliable and inefficient than a human-operated one. Who suffers in the end? The millions of Singaporeans who must take it everyday, and end up paying more for a less efficient and reliable service.

So we end up having a profit-maximising monopoly to provide public transport. That is just... words fail me. The government is supposed to look out for the welfare of the people. It is not doing so by placing so many commuters in the grip of a private company which it knows will try to get rich, and richer, at any expense. Why are they not doing anything to keep transport fees low? Ok yes, no crutch mentality and all that nonsense, but this is taking it too far. There should not be so many fare increases, and the government should control public transport instead of placing it in the hands of profit-maximising public firms who will seek every opportunity to increase their profits at the expense of the poor ordinary Singaporean commuter who has no choice but to take trains and buses to go to work every day.

The government has taken capitalism too far. It has to stop the contemptible behaviour of those associated with it before it can even begin to lament the fall in moral standards and blame it on the youth (not that it does not already do that on a regular basis, sadly). I don't think being utterly ungrateful and showing a complete lack of appreciation for what others do for you is very moral, eh? Even governments have to admit they are wrong sometimes.