Is life too easy in Singapore? Have Singaporeans lost their curiosity?
That’s a stereotypical view. If they’ve lost their curiosity, they wouldn’t be striving so hard to get to university, to go to higher education institutes abroad, to learn higher skills. I’m (in July 2009) undergoing physiotherapy because I had a fall (from the stationary) bicycle. So I was stuck for one hour in physiotherapy and was talking to the physiotherapist. She’s upgrading herself. She’s done her training here and her next stage is to go to Australia and get a degree in physiotherapy. I asked if the hospital was sending her. She said no, she’s paying on her own. I asked if she will get a pay rise when she comes back? She said no, but her chances of promotion will be there. So you see, it’s not that they have lost the curiosity. And (this ambition is) affecting how they live. I mean, she was 32 years old and not married. I said she shouldn’t leave it till too late. She said she hadn’t found the right person. I (suggested she participate in the activities) of the Social Developme
