It's been a few days since I blogged. I was busy with work. I was so busy with work for the last week that I only knew about the earthquake in Japan, like the late morning of Saturday when I glanced at the newspapers and saw it glaring back at me.
I once went through a stage of wondering what it will be like to be Japanese, or even to just live in Japan. Via all the japanese drama and anime that I love to watch, I have in a way cultivated a deep fascination with all things japanese, be it its culture, language, or food. However, when I went on the internet to watch those news snippets that I missed, my hair on my body stood up as never had I imagined the 'dream' country having such disaster. It never occurred to me how being Japanese or living in Japan, you have to face the terror of thinking that earthquakes or tremors of the earth is an everyday affair. As the days go by, more and more news of the disasters, be it natural like the earthquake and its aftershocks, the tsunami, or even the man-made one like the nuclear reactors exploding, showed the entire world how the japanese are currently exhibiting the highest sense of social responsibility. Can Singaporeans do the same thing? Like how they could queue up orderly to buy food, aware that there are currently food shortages, when Singaporeans queue impatiently, to buy a $1 Burger King burger?
Somehow, with all the hardselling of Civics and Moral Education, as well as National Education to our citizens, we are still as uncivilised as 3rd world countries. Japan has shown the world, what being a 1st-world country really should exhibit. Let us all hope that Japan survive this crisis.
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