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So, I believe everyone has heard of this latest miserable excuse of an attempt by the ruling party to connect with an increasingly distant and surly younger generation.

Do I need to say it? It's an abject failure, as expected. But putting aside all else, it is quite simply a mind-numbingly boring read. Also I would expect the bright young things slated to take our rising republic on to a glorious blinding future to be able to write in better English.

Let us, for instance, take the first paragraph of the latest post:

"I drove pass the old “Nee Soon” village at Upper Thomson Road the other day on my way to a grassroots event in Canberra. The old Post Office buiding is the remaining structure left at the junction of Mandai road and Upper Thomson Road. It stood there in solitude amidst new residential developments. Memories of the old village with a busy market and the cinema by the market emerged and I can’t help to wonder whether are we developing too fast and demolishing our past too fast."

Look! It's a cure for insomnia. Honestly, where the fuck is the flow? It's just one sentence after another. Describing his childhood experiences. And memories. I can't help to wonder who taught him how to write. Who taught him such unbelievably lousy English.

See how amazingly annoying it is?

Well, it does ot get much better, and I will not sully my webspace by quoting more from that vapid, wholly mediocre, entirely unremarkable piece. Completely lacking style, substance and even the minimum requirement of decent, correct English, it is not something my ideal leader would write.

Of course, his compatriots are equally incapable of expressing themselves in ways that might actually arouse a modicum of interest in readers. Every single entry is something of what we would call in Chinese "liu shui zhang" - a toneless description of one's life from dawn to dusk without variety or colour. Their pitiful attempts to be reflective from time to time only serve to make things worse, due to their utter lack of talent and complete absence of any flair in their writing. Important lesson any good writer must learn, which they manifestly did not: DO NOT FUCKING USE METAPHORS IF YOU CAN'T MAKE ANY GOOD ONES.

Again, here the government assumes that this world functions by magic. Oh look, we are losing the support of the young! Really, well, what's hot among them these days - blogs, of course! Let us begin a blog and ask some of our younger members who are still of an entirely different generation and lack any writing talent whatsoever to update this BLOG and I'm sure the youngsters will love it! Well, sounds like a great idea to me, I mean once we start this BLOG it's going to run like sorcery and get them all on our side.

Look, I wish life was that simple. It is a very Singaporean blog in a few respects though: 1) The english and 2) Most Singaporeans really can't write.

So good work PAP!