English Essay

It started out pretty harmless, just two questions posed by my sister who barged into my room (thankfully my hands are on my laptop), one of which I will not mention cause it is on the long moldy topic of "kiasuism" in the society. So passe. Cheah.

Her teacher had given her these two topics to think about and write down the various arguements that the issues evoked. I thought ok, I had done this umpteen times myself and so I agreed to take a look at what she had came up. Then she handed me a piece of paper with an interesting topic in the middle. It was a typical mindmap kind of thing with arrows and bubbles and squares.

In the middle typed, "IMF Annual Meeting in the Island of '4 Million Smiles'. Why the red carpet treatment?"

Believe it or not, the image of Suntec Convention Centre, reinforced with its metal girdles and fences, came into mind. Impenetrable fortress, guarded by police and soldiers round the clock to protect the interests of the foreign delegates. See, I have to be politically correct in my selection of words (Nowadays, words can get you behind bars. No, not Mars bars.). Then I looked at the question again, "Why the red carpet treatment?"

I came up with a few reasons off hand, which I then spend 10 minutes explaining to her (even bringing in China who is hosting the Olympics 2008). Another word crept into mind, a Malay word commonly used during National Service which starts with "W". I would not elaborate.

Naturally, one tidies up the house when you are playing host to a lot of people at your house, I told my sis. When it's all over, the host can then heave a sigh of relief and start the whole process of cleaning up the mess.

For Singapore, we have secured, cleaned, mopped, painted, scrubbed, arranged, lined up, prepared, fussed, secured again, fussed again to welcome the arrival of the foreign delegates. I think we are pretty good hosts already. Agreed? (P.S. You could protest if you disagree.)

Mr Black is a current undergraduate who resides in Singapore. This blog is a non-whimsical reflection of his life and the society in which he lives in at large.

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