When the One isn’t the One for you #personal

Timing. It’s all about timing- well, it’s almost always about timing at the very least.

Even if the two of you were meant to get together by the graces of God, all of that would not matter if you showed up too early or too late (though it’s usually the former). Moments in time that you were not meant to bear witness to, never meant to be a part of and only should have learnt about it from their mouth and their mouth only. You will gain knowledge that will hold no sentimental and personal value for you have yet to build up the relationship.

Regret always follows- a desire to turn back the clock of time- a yearning for some sort of miracle to befall you such that you are able to abandon all your mistakes for what you intensely believe is a better place. You curse and curse at the heavens, at any entity deemed worthy. All this until you realize that it is all your own doing. You dug your own grave.

Disclaimer: What I am about to write must be considered only as my take on the scripture, nothing more, nothing less.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, ⁵it does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ^8aLove never fails.(1 Corinthians 12:4-8a NIV)

Love is Patient-> Stay and wait for the right time. Don’t try to force things.

Love is Kind-> Never do anything you will come to regret, something that will hurt the other person. For if you truly love the person the way you say it, you will never want anything bad to occur to them, even if you may think that your actions may result in the growth of your relationship.

Love does not Envy-> Content. You will be content with what you have if your feelings are genuine.

Love does not Boast-> It is not to say that you should stay silent and bottle up your feelings. (you don’t say) But rather, it means to not broadcast your emotions about them to everyone you see.

Love does not dishonour others-> Restrain your pride. Do not place yourself above another. Do not think that they do not know how you may feel about them. Never force them into a corner and strip away their dignity, their very right to choose what they want to do.

Love is not self-seeking-> Self-explanatory really. But if one wants to dig deep, confront the very reasons for your actions towards them. Not the reasons that you purport to have, but rather those underlying motivations that drive you to commit those thoughts into actions.

Love is not easily angered­-> When something they do that is honestly quite trivial spurns you towards anger, even if it surfaces itself as a pseudo-anger, you will know what this means.

Love keeps no record of wrong-> Past experiences you have had with them do not define your reaction to the current situation and the problems it presents you with.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth-> Hurt not them, if hurt must be inflicted, do it upon yourself.

Love always Protects-> Shield them from the harsh world and bear their burdens, but do so with great caution.

Love always Trusts-> Never lose faith in the one you love.

Love always Hopes-> For greater, better, more pleasant things have yet to come for you both.

Love always Perseveres->Storms may befall your relationships, but stick through thick and thin.

Love never fails.

Why must We fight? #politics

The year is 2015: as one nation we celebrate all that is Singaporean, from the smallest of things, our unique “language”, to the greatest, our monumental achievement in rising from the ashes of World War 2 and every tragedy that followed, never giving up, never relenting and always yearning to achieve even greater heights.

It is with this that I pose the question: “Why must we fight?” Why must we make an already complex and dynamic world even more strenuous to live within? Are we not all fighting for the same things?  Striving to protect those we love, to equip them with the knowledge needed to carve their own place in the world and to guide them wherever they go, be they in the furthest corners of the world. Why waste your time and effort and petty arguing over who is right, be it realistically or ethically speaking? One cannot possibly hope to survive in the 21^st century by merely calling the other’s bluff and not offering assistance of any kind, finding ways and means to beat the other into submission, to prove an innate sense of battle-weariness and seemingly ‘constant’ failure wrong? Should we not work together to correct each other’s pitfalls and show them a novel path towards fulfilling their goal? Why must we stand divided during our year of Jubilee? For Jubilee calls for us to celebrate, not sow dissent – to foster closer relations and never to create distance between ourselves.

Let us not look back and remember this era as the moment in time when everything we stood for was thrown away because of pettiness and the desire to prove one’s worth but rather as a turning point with which we strengthened our foundations for the battle that lay ahead.

Take heart fellow Singaporeans, let not dissent destroy us – instead, utilize that newfound passion and social justice to foment our very own Singaporean Revolution, a peaceful movement towards a better place.

Yours dearly,

C.Z.H.S.

Singapore’s fate and future is highly precarious. Do not be complacent…

Many people in Singapore tend to overlook the fact that we are indeed still a small country with little to no natural resources. Though the times have changed and we have advanced many light years since 1965, the same limiting factors force our government to make tough choices for the populace. One may be tempted to believe that the PAP is just evil as a whole and is anti-people, but the issue is, being pro-people or socialist in a country like Singapore, is a relatively unsustainable political ideal. We depend on our people, we depend on the knowledge which they provide and we depend on the creativity of the people to work ourselves out of problems. Were we to be ultra-socialist, the companies which provide Parliament with the capital and funding that it needs to run the country would doubt our long-term viability and bail. They would move their factories and SEA Headquarters overseas. As a consequence, we would the be unable to run the country well and societal chaos would ensue.

Therefore, this is why something that seems so “small” like the Little India Riot can cause a run on Singaporean Securities and hurt bushiness prospects.

So please, try to empathize with your Government, for their duty is not so cut and dry, it is not a simple choice between right and wrong, but rather a series of tough choices with limited options; furthermore, all such options seem rather tempting. Singaporeans, as we reach the precipice of societal change and upheaval, let us set a righteous path so as to create a better future for our country as a whole.