Happy National Day!

It's 9 August 2009. Singapore is celebrating its 44th Birthday.

Singapore found its independence on 9 August 1965, and has come a long way since then to arrive at all it is in the world, a cosmopolitan city.

We changed from a fishing town to be a city renowned for one of the best service industry in the world with the likes of PSA, SIA and service industry...

Yet all these did not come for free... Our forefathers have worked hard together as one nation, one people and one Singapore to come to this point today... Nothing comes for free...

So, are you feeling that you have a part to contribute to safeguard and protect this prosperity and peace, so that it can continue to be passed on to many future generations to come?

I'm kind of affected by some comments people leave on my Facebook wall whereby I've heard negative comments from young pupils about why Singapore is not that good... There is a sense of resentment here for the way Singapore is. For some reasons or another, they are unhappy at certain things Singapore is portraying...

Honestly, if you ask me, there are no perfect country in the world... Like it or not, every country has its own problems, own strengths as well as weaknesses... You can go on searching for greener pastures, but you can come to find none...

At the end of the day, you still have to ask yourself this question: " What is important to you? What are you looking for?"

For me, I would want a safe, and clean country to live in. Never mind the hot and humid weather, never mind that I do not see beautiful sceneries, never mind that I experience rude and horrible drivers on the road... If anyone wants to be negative, everything he or she says will be negative comments only... I choose to be positive... Being born in Malaysia, my family chose to come to Singapore in search for a good education system, and equal opportunities to advance in our career. We seek that security and peace we thought Singapore would have and would be a better choice as compared to where I was born in...

We never regretted that choice made.

Today, I am proud to say Singapore is my home, where I belong.... It is in Singapore that I have found my identity because as much as I can travel to beautiful and fun countries, Singapore is where I received my education, where I found my beloved family and friends...

I can be anywhere in the world in future, but eventually, Singapore is where I will return to... It's a choice of seeing the goodness in something, to be appreciative, rather than to complain about everything in the world...

To me, Singapore is more than good enough for me.

What about you?