Ballardian

Don't say I didn't follow Time magazine.Recently I got so fascinated by JG Ballard's anti-modern novels that I decided to get his books after I finished all the John Grisham series(not including his newest,which actually ain't fiction).Empire of the Sun is so fascinating,especially about Shanghai in WWII and the Japs(again) I think I'm scouting the libraries again for his books

That brings us to the next story.yesterday too I was reading the news to see that an MP's daughter is in hot soup for childish rants,and to top it off about the 'elitist' hctibafonos she was a student with an RJ Humans Scholarship and how 'childish' can it be???

"mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl (ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.

i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is the complement.

sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.

derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?

if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.

then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?

i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper. these shitbags don't want anything without "manager" and a name card."

moc.topsgolb.golbtaikiew morf detpada (sdrawkcab lru denmad eht daer)
ten.taikiew (ereh emas)

Now being so addicted to Ballardian literature,I must have been risking my copyright law shit.But then this exposes a big problem between the Top 40(I must been delusionary,but I think having them being quite separate teenage years do have an impact) and the rest on the ground and even foreigners in general.such nationalist convictions,though misguided does have a point as we have to contend with globalisation,but I think we really have to prove detractors wrong by our actions instead of whining all the time,which I worry for the younger generation...for they are proficient at such a thing.

Straying from my main point now,somehow the Top 5 has become a byword for elitism and the Next 5 being the Second World (communist or not maybe it didn't matter).sad to say elitism has also encompassed a dystopic world where everything was expected to be almost perfect,an insulated atmosphere where it seemed they were bred in the greenhouse like the Japanese melons in Paragon(those that cost so much they are X^2 or even anyother indice the price of a normal melon).not that they don't understand,but I think they really need to see how things are practically were instead of theorising about what's happening(don't you say theories can be contradictory)

oh yeah I doubt the TV 5 is a prank anymore...haha