Archive for August, 2009

You have until 23.59 today…

choongyong.koh August 15th, 2009

… to vote for the essay you like in the Essay Writing Competition organised by the Workers’ Party Youth Wing as part of this year’s National Day Celebrations – “What is  your ideal Singapore?”. Vote for them before 16 August 2009 by clicking on the ‘like’ link to increase the score that the essay you favour gets. You can always ‘like’ more than 1 essay.

The essays are:

Entry #1 – Natasha Lai Huiling, 22
Entry #2 – Kevin Tan, 20
Entry #3 – Jasline Yeow Pui Yee, 30
Entry #4 – Huang Xinyuan, 15
Entry #5 – Crystal Ong Min Ning, 15
Entry #6 – Terence Lee, 23
Entry #7 – Khairulanwar Zani, 20
Entry #8 – Edward Lim, 22
Entry #9 – Maurice Woo, 20
Entry #10 – Elvin Ong, 24
Entry #11 – Foo Zhou Jie Aloysius, 19

Of course, if you happen to read them after 2359hrs tonight, you can still ‘like’ the essays, just that it will not contribute to the final score for the essays. :)

An ideal Singapore and wishes for the Nation

choongyong.koh August 9th, 2009

Do you have an ideal Singapore in mind, one place where you truly call home, no ifs no buts, no complains and nothing yuo need to tolerate, just somewhere that closely resembles your version of paradise? Ok, paradise is a mythical place and no where on Earth can truly claim to be the perfect paradise, but one can surely dream right?

Some young people penned down their vision of an ideal Singapore, and submitted their entries to an Essay Writing Competition organised by the Workers’ Party Youth Wing (WPYW).  The deadline for submission is today – 9 Aug, so you could spend part of today to write a short 500-word essay and stand to win Borders gift vouchers worth as much as $150.  Simply send the essay to essay@wp.sg, but of course you would want to read the Terms to Participants first.  Alternatively, you can also go to WPYW’s Facebook page to vote on essays that you like.

Of course, not everyone has a flair for writing, but I am sure everyone has a desire/want/wish for the kind of country they want.  Earlier this month, I started a hashtag (#ndp09wish) on Twitter to encourage people to condense these thoughts into the 140 characters of Twitter, and it is interesting to see the kinds of wishes people come up with.  I copied some more interesting ones below:

To bring it one step further later, I was thinking it would be interesting to be able to add a little Singapore Flag in my Twitter avatar, just to display my patriotism and started a Twibbon called Singapore Wish, and a new hashtag (#sgwish), and hope that the wishes for Singapore goes beyond today.  I view Singapore Wish as both our wishes for Singapore, and our aspirations for ourselves. Our hopes and dreams should not have a deadline. :)

To add the Singapore Flag in your Twitter avatar, click on the following image:

So, beyond the celebrations today, why not spend some time to pause and reflect on your dream for the country and your dream for yourself.