Lets go on strike, shall we?

In the wake of the anti-jap protests in Korea and China, I begin to wonder why we can't ever have something like this in Singapore. I mean ,this is an issue that has alot to do with us.. the time of our grandparents, on the very soil that we live on, work on and play on everyday, but yet, we simply choose to remove ourselves from this issue altogether.

If a protest like that ever happens here, I must be in a dream.

Ask a Singaporean to go on strike, and he/she will start wondering whether their leave will be approved or whether its worth wasting those days of leave, that can be used on holidaying at the end of the year.

Another considerable worry would be whether their rice bowl would be broken, coz they might go to jail for protesting and get fired in the process.

Or as I was telling SH... you'll eventually get banned from going to NTUC or Cheers, chased out of their HDB flats, not even allowed to sleep in national parks or void decks. You can't take the public transport.. and the only cabs you are allowed on are transcab and the other privately owned ones. The only handphone provider you can have would be M1 and you can't even apply to any internet provider because even pacific internet makes use of singnet's servers.

Scary thought isn't it?
How do you survive then? Work for an MNC, shop at cold storage or carrefour and rent a room at hotel 81 maybe?

But then who goes to hotel 81, unless you wanna sleep like a baby there or watch soccer =P.

Well, the case is, we are so obedient and law abiding that any government in the world would love to rule us. We do not create trouble, we are busy maintaining our own ricebowls, we make some noise once in a while (yup, we squeak but we don't even bark loud enough), and we like to think that we have made our own views known (just like the remote ulu kalimantan speakers corner that helps reinforce such beliefs).

The public transport costs have gone up, we have complained, we have been shocked, but have we done anything more than that?

The debates on the casino are on and once again we have expressed disapproval, we have shaken our heads non stop, but have we done anything more than that?

I admit, I am a well-trained scardy cat singaporean myself because if you'll ask me to walk out onto the streets alone to protest, I wouldn't do it.

I'm even afraid to get arrested for blogging about such stuff hahah.. but then if one day, who knows.... some day, a protest can be staged for a good purpose, like the anti-jap one that seeks out the truth of world war II to be made known to the generations of japanese, past-present-and future... if one day, there are enough pple willing to fight for this cause with me, I would do it.

But then again, all of us are just waiting for that someone to initiate something like that...
So, when will the day come when singaporeans walk out onto the streets speaking aloud what they want the society or the world to be like?

Will that day even come?