Home is ...

Thanks to Dick (Lee) and Kit Chan, we have this amazing song which we listen year after year during the NDP.  And this year, we actually have a new version where we have 20 odd Singaporean singers standing up for Singapore and coming together as one united people and bring us the song "home".



I am sure we've all catch this on tv but it's still a good share. Either way check out thisiscom.sg for the full 6 mins version. Although this video looks very much like one of my favorite song "手牵手“ I must say that it is still a very good work. I like yanzi's voice, joi's as well and I think the remaster was awesome especially with Shiek's rap.


The video - it's for sars anyway. FYI.

Anyway it's not the first of it's kind. Remember 明天会更好 ?  No?  请看VCR !



Yup, that's almost 25 yrs ago for you. If you notice, the first line is actually by the same singer - 蔡琴 .

Anyway, the song or MV aside, I notice that the artist in the "home" video was ask to write and draw something. From their response I am guessing the question is "what is home" ?

So home is...

A place you know you belong?

A place you want to be at the end of the day?

A place your rest?

I do not know about you people out there cause I mean I read a lot of unhappy tweets about our gahment day in day out but I felt that I am still very proud to be a Singaporean. I know we have some policies here and there which might not sounds like something as a person of a nation you might like directly but if you ask me as a bigger picture I felt that we are doing quite good. A nation less than a 100 years and we are top of many? I am not trying to be pro gahment here but I am saying that looking on the bright side there are a lot of things which I like about being here at "home" . My passport can bring me around the world without problems, we can hold can and celebrate Valentine's day, if you go around PDA-ing you will not be caught by police (the very most by stomper), we do not have nude beaches but at least we have Sentosa and bikini babes, we have expensive cars and ERP but at least your car will still be there and not stolen, we might not have too many a choice of places to visit but we can visit any where we want at any time without the worry of being mug or rape or kidnapped and best of all I am typing on this blog in English thanks to our education. I can't imagine speaking Malay everywhere I go and see Malay sign boards.

I might not like Singapore's weather, not the conservative nature of the "auntie and uncles", no nude beaches (did I mention that already?), lack of NBA coverage, no local porn magazine and TV channel and too much ERP but I think there are too much I owe the nation for who I am today.

Well, fine, before this sounds like an advertorial or NDP post I should just end with my answer.

Home:  A place where I am proud to say where I am from and where I will be.

What's home to you?