So, there'll be no scenic bridge after all.
What was that all about?
Were our neighbours contemplating to grant us access of their airspace in the bridge negotiation? Were they seriously thinking of selling us sand? I thought they said NO and went ahead with the piling work for their side of the bridge anyway. And now we hear Pak Lah has ordered the bridge construction axed because the rakyat is against the use of Johor airspace by the SAF.
Oh well, let's give our neighbour face. The truth is always hard to swallow, is it not? News reports that Johor is a city of car-jackers drew lots of hues and cries from our neighbours who think we are trying to drive tourists away from the state (and they forget that we Singaporeans form the bulk of the tourists). Even our leader was asked to apologise for having said that car-jacking was rampant in Johor years ago. It's like saying, what is true and ugly, we don't want to hear. Hmmm... it reminds me of the Class 95 advert, in which the proud father chooses to listen to the "good comments" made by the tennis coach of his son, and shuts out the negative ones. Can't relay blame them Malaysians. Many of us are like that. We can't handle the truth. Because the truth hurts.
Truly, our neighbours have the propensity to leave our leaders looking perplexed with each of their whimsical move. This is not the first, and it won't be the last. The scenic bridge may never materialise. But perhaps our leaders and that of our neighbours' should build another bridge, a bridge to affirm our bilateral ties, and may peace pervail in this part of the earth.
Category: Musings
5 comments:
Isn't that normal for them? Just one of their many flip-flop decisions. And IMHO, the project is a flop right from the start.
Be very careful too, Chris. You are now touching on the very sensitive topic of bilateral relations. Watch what you say. In particular, accuracy is very important. For example, the advertisement you cited is about Gold 90 FM and NOT Class 95. Also, the right spelling of the word 'pervail' should be 'prevail', wahaha.
Is that right? I kept thinking it's class 95.
Aiyah... so I have a lot of typos... never mind that Victor. You know what I meant to write. LOL.
Where did you get that pic from? Very appropriate illustration.
Chun See, in case you haven't already known, do a search of images you want using Yahoo. You just have to choose the "Images" tab instead of the defaulted "Web" tab and you can find images on almost anything under the sun. ;))
Yes I know about that. Thanks
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