During the Holy week (march 18-22) my family and I went to this little red dot called Singapore. It was fun and totally amazing experience. It was my first time to visit singapore and I am very impressed how this small country is thriving culturally and economically. How can a small country with 4.5 million (estimated) population grow abundantly wealthy as a nation? And why can’t the Philippines which has more resources and more people be the same as Singapore?

Based on my personal observation, the reason why Singapore is doing so well is that people in their country strive to become the best they can be because the country as a whole wants to be number 1 at anything you can imagine. They have this underdog mentality and they go out proving to everyone in the world that even if they’re small they can do it. If we analyze how they market their country, the country’s tagline is “Uniquely Singapore”…nuff said. hahaha They strive to be unique and a very good example is the upcoming F1 race this coming september. It will be the First night race and they will be using the city streets as the race track. A big pat on the back to whoever thought of that idea because it has generated income for the country months before the actual event. All tickets are sold out and rooms at the hotels have doubled or even tripled their price for those dates. this year China has the olympics but guess what, Singapore made their own historical achievement as well. Singapore has proven that size doesn’t matter.

Singapore vs. Philippines

 F1 night race  vs. Manny Pacquiao’s victory - Singapore earned money thru tourism income; Philippines earned by taxing Pacman’s winnings (and charging ridiculous amounts in cinemas to watch the fight)

Night Safari vs. Manila Zoo – Singapore has more healthy animals ; Philippines has malnourished animals

Sentosa Island vs. Boracay – Developing into a consolidated hotel/park/casino - Too much litter for a small vacation spot 

Singapore’s MRT vs. Philippines MRT – very nice and well maintained ; we cut off electricity to our escalators and make people climb the escalators.

Sing Crime Rate vs. Philippine Crime rate – Singapore has very low crime rate ; Philippines has O% crime rate when Pacquiao has a fight (don’t you just wish manny can fight everyday.) hahaha

Im just making fun at the realities our country has on its plate. I still love this country and I believe that there is still a lot we can do to turn it around. Lets start doing something we can be proud of as a country and not just be proud of individual Filipinos who made it internationally. We should support our Filipino astists who made it big abroad but we shouldnt be hitching along their wave. Philippines as a country should makes its own waves.

I have a Challenge to all those who read this post:

tell me the 1 thing you think that the Philippines can be proud of in the last 20 yrs.

I’ll tell you what we shouldnt be proud of:

1.being named as  #1 in corruption in the region. (i know there are a lot of people who think that the survey’s parameters were not conclusive but the mere fact that the perception of foreign investors in the region thinks that the Philippines is #1 in corruption is telling factor that we are definitely doing something wrong)

2.selling off our islands hahaha if we are going to sell our islands we might as well sell to the koreans because i think we are already being invaded. we can trade part of luzon for very good koreanovelas hahahahaha

3. Senate competes with BOOM na BOOM and Star City as the best circus in town

4. ZTE deal – no wonder they think we are corrupt because we are. “moderate their greed” hahaha that’s one for the history books

5. Bb.Pilipinas fiasco. I blame the judges!!!! DO YOUR FREAKIN JOB!

6. AIRPORT- when will they open the “new” airport hahahaha still corruption in the air people.

7. We are now on our what 10th PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION? hahahaha

…the list goes on and on. the challenge is to post what you think the Philippines (as a country) did to make us all proud.

(you cant say produce OFWs)

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