Jessica's Blog

Hello!

Driving past the schools today seeing all the students and lil kindergerten kids running around in their red t shirts was really inspiring! Even caught several people decked out in red & white already! Everyone’s in a holiday mood to celebrate Singapore’s 44th birthday! (pity I didn’t manage to grabs some candid shots of those ppl)

I’m glad that a lot of Singaporeans are proud of their nationality. But we shouldn’t just be proud of Singapore and being a Singaporean only during National Day – we should be even more proud than usual!

It’s amazing how Singapore has progressed from a small fishing village to what it is today. I was talking to several tourists last week in Tioman and they were expressing to me how amazing Singapore was. The Finnish couple commented how convenient it was to go around Singapore and how beautiful it was to see all high rise buildings and a great city structure. Incomparison, Finland is mainly fields & low rise buildings, thus, they appreciate our city acrhitecture a lot more than us – since we’ve grown up with all thses buildings around us and are so used to seeing it. After having that conversation with them, it made me appreciate what we have back home. Our education, government & laws (even though we joke about having a lot of laws for everything) has all contributed to who and what we are today. It’s no easy feat!

We must all thank MM Lee for putting this lil’ red dot on the world map and make it such a recognised nation to the world!

That is why I’m inviting some friends over to my place on Sunday to recite the pledge together at 8.22pm (I’m sure all Singtel users received that sms) and watch our National Day Parade together!

So join in the fun & be a very proud Singaporean!

XOXO

Jessica