from the blog of atypical singaporean:

"It is no secret that most Singaporean Students are an apathetic lot.

A cursory read through the NTU students blogring, demostrate a hilarously obliviousness to the biggest earthquake in recent history. Some posts bemoan the lack of sleep, while others write the most inane details of their lives, while some, i don't know,read and draw your own conclusions, defy rational explantion. It is as if, to them,the disaster never happened.

if (i hope not) this blogring is a microsm of what university students in Singapore are, I feel really sad."

a cursory read through my own collection of blog links, and none so far have mentioned the tsunami. not even myself. is it really apathy?

1) don't know what to say
2) too much media coverage already. nobody likes to be a parrot.
3) better to do something than to say something
4) really can't be bothered.

of course, hopefully it's the 3 on top. the world of cyberspace is by no means a accurate representation of real life. even if they don't blog about it, it doesn't mean they don't care or aren't doing anything in real life.

then we realise how much real life and virtual life has overlapped. some people even go to the extent of assuming your virtual life is similar to your real life. which is not true most of the time.

i still do hold some hope for singaporean students. we're a stressed bunch of people. people expect us to be too many things at the same time, sometimes. it simply isn't human.

-gw-