The Pride of Singaporean

Recently, there was a controversial topic of this 21 years old girl, who entered the Kpop Search, made a comment of her not proud to be a Singaporean. Which of course made a lot of people unhappy with her attitude. She then decided to make a vlog to justify her idealism.

She made several points that I actually agree with her. Of course, not totally.

She said that Singapore has no creative talents. But she did not specifically mentioned talents in showbiz. I agree. Singapore has no such showbiz material talents around. I do see people trying to rebut by saying famous singers from Singapore such Stefanie Sun, Tanya Chua, Kit Chan. But it has been so many years and Singapore can only manage to produce a few talents. Even star search programmes in Mediacorp, the programme that captured many Singaporeans attention was the Superstar. It actually has many singer talents such as Kelly Poon and Kelvin Tan. And they had many supporters during the time of the competition. However, after they emerged victorious, the light of fame just extinguished immediately. The albums they subsequently released did not managed to garner a lot of support at all.

So what is the difference of Kelly Poon and Stefanie Sun? One reason is the latter had support in Taiwan before she actually became famous in Singapore, while Kelly is solely made in Singapore. And the harsh truth is Singaporeans do not really support Singaporean Singers. And that is why I totally agree, if a Singaporean wants to be a singer, better venture outside.

I totally can feel the struggle when I was finding game company to enter. Because the market in Singapore is so bloody small. And many game makers in Singapore are really struggling to raise. Seriously, in this kind of creative industries, it is really better to venture outside Singapore. The country is still too young to support creative industry. I guess the government decided to focus on Math and Science, which probably is the best for this is small island to develop first.

Several rebuts followed to talk about Sports school and Arts school that emerged in the country a few years ago. However, these schools are still not enough to produce sports or creative talents at the current stage. But I would say that the country is slowly making its way, and I really hope more of these schools will emerge and eventually make a new name for Singapore.

Another point the young kid mentioned was Singaporeans are not happy people. Yes, I agree to that too.

Singaporeans are essentially keep complaining about their life, their jobs, the public transport... Haha. After visiting countries like Taiwan and Japan, I surely think something wrong with Singapore service industry. Because 19 out of 20 shops I have patronized just pissed me off. The attitude of the aunties, the foreign workers really can't deliver a good service. When they were busy serving many people, their mood will be greatly affected, and their tone will start to get a bit agitated. Perhaps they are just trying not to be hypocrite, and just want to be themselves. I do believe some Japanese and Taiwanese might be hypocritical, but they still made my day. I seriously think Singapore should consider giving free training to newbie who wants to be cashier or waiter. Giving a bright service to a customer might be able to keep them patronizing, but once a bad service is offered, you will be forever blacklisted.