The homeland with no identity

I don't think I am alone in feeling this way, that Singapore is starting to become overcrowded. During peak hours, on weekends, the mountain loads of people just drives me crazy. That probably explain why I refuse to go to town areas on weekends. In any case, Singapore is so boring that the only place people can go to is shopping malls. The fact that more and more shopping malls are built all over Singapore, with many new ones on the way proves the point. When there is demand, they build. The scenery of Singapore is about skyscrapers and malls of different shapes and sizes, something which I called as 'architecture'. Another reason I hate to go out on weekends -- throngs of foreigners in every corner of Singapore. I hate public transport because I am faced with rude people. The PCK adverts don't work at all, the commuters are still barbaric.They still don't let people come out of trains before going in, they still don't give up reserved seats to people who need them, they still don't shift into the middle of cabins. People who drive don't get the last laugh too, because people who drive displayed equally bad behaviour. The wreckless taxi drivers, the ah beng road bullies, the racer-wannabes, the lousy female drivers. What more with the exorbitant COE and car prices, never-ending ERP charges, ever increasing motor insurance premiums, it just doesn't make economic sense to get a car unless you are a salesperson who needs to see clients. Service level in Singapore is not improving, because the highly-educated Singaporeans refuse to take those jobs, and that leaves the service industry in the hands of foreigners who just may not give the shit if the service level is of 'G.E.M.' quality.

Singapore's multi-racial society used to be a 'Singapore flavour', but the way I see it now -- we have no more 'flavours or cultures' that we can label as our own. Singapore has become a place for foreigners to earn money and leave (for expatriates), for foreigners to earn enough to build lands and houses and return home (the bangalas), for rich foreigners to send their kids here for the 'bilingual and quality education' (the chinese nationals), for our neighbours to earn salaries with better currency exchange rate (the Malaysians), the list goes on...

Meanwhile, the rest of us continue to live here and grumble about anything that we are buay song with by posting to Stomp. Ask us what we are buay song with on current issues, welfare, environmental issues etc, we would not give a heck.

Singapore is really a not bad place to live in despite all the above. Just where is the peace and serenity that I need?