I have been told the difference between UAE and Kuwait is that UAE have a substantial population of its citizens investing in their country, developing it; whereas in Kuwait, due to the Gulf war, many of these capitally abled citizens had fled the country and only a few had returned.
The state of development in Kuwait is very much slower than UAE. UAE has been developed to draw in visitors and tourists, as one can see from its hotels, tourist attractions, public transport, even the beach front says alot. Kuwait is only talking about a tourism plan that hopes to be completed in 2008. At some parts where we stay, hubby often liked to say, you may break your neck while trying to walk on the pavement here. We don't even get a proper pavement.
This isn't a complaint entry really but rather it brings to mind some stuff I read back home. There have been lots of discussion back home about certain political issues and general unhappiness about freedom of speech and expression. It is alright to talk and complain about it I guess but what was disturbing was when I get comments from friends like "That's why, if I can, I will leave this place".
So if the abled leaves, leaving the unabled behind, what will become of our fate? Would it be one where we have a plan but we no longer have our own people supporting and making it happened? Where only foreigners find it an attractive place to seek a better life, where its own people finds it too unattractive to inhabit? There is no utopia out there, if there is, it would have been flooded with people by now. If Singaporeans are seen to be an unhappy lot, there's no use complaining about it or playing the blaming game. For a start, be happy yourself, find things to be happy about. If you find Singaporeans to be generally rude, then start with yourself to be courteous. You will be surprised how difficult it is for a rude person to continue to be rude to another who is persistently pleasant and courteous.
Perhaps some may say... it is easy for me to say as I am not in Singapore, I am one of those who left. Yet being out here makes I realised that I do wish to go back and we will. There isn't quite another place on this earth that's like Singapore.
The state of development in Kuwait is very much slower than UAE. UAE has been developed to draw in visitors and tourists, as one can see from its hotels, tourist attractions, public transport, even the beach front says alot. Kuwait is only talking about a tourism plan that hopes to be completed in 2008. At some parts where we stay, hubby often liked to say, you may break your neck while trying to walk on the pavement here. We don't even get a proper pavement.
This isn't a complaint entry really but rather it brings to mind some stuff I read back home. There have been lots of discussion back home about certain political issues and general unhappiness about freedom of speech and expression. It is alright to talk and complain about it I guess but what was disturbing was when I get comments from friends like "That's why, if I can, I will leave this place".
So if the abled leaves, leaving the unabled behind, what will become of our fate? Would it be one where we have a plan but we no longer have our own people supporting and making it happened? Where only foreigners find it an attractive place to seek a better life, where its own people finds it too unattractive to inhabit? There is no utopia out there, if there is, it would have been flooded with people by now. If Singaporeans are seen to be an unhappy lot, there's no use complaining about it or playing the blaming game. For a start, be happy yourself, find things to be happy about. If you find Singaporeans to be generally rude, then start with yourself to be courteous. You will be surprised how difficult it is for a rude person to continue to be rude to another who is persistently pleasant and courteous.
Perhaps some may say... it is easy for me to say as I am not in Singapore, I am one of those who left. Yet being out here makes I realised that I do wish to go back and we will. There isn't quite another place on this earth that's like Singapore.
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