Personnal views of the National Day Rally 07

It has been classified as the "most important speech of the year" by Channel News Asia. The National Day Rally by Prime Minister Lee. What about Budget speech leh?

I missed that rally live on TV. But i got the important points from it.

Seems like mostly good news to most Singaporeans. The most important is that there's a 1% increase in interest rate for the CPF of Singaporeans. Finally, an increase that's in favour of us, instead of just GST and public transport fares. But only to the first $20,000 bucks or $60,000 bucks in all the CPF accounts combined.

That works out to an increase of $200 every year.

And unless you are freaking rich, you have to work long, till 67, before you can retire. That does not really bother me now. That road is still too long for me to see ahead. What i want now is to become freaking rich and can retire as and when i like.

However, if i slipped and fell in pursue of my dream of being freaking rich, at least i know there's a new re-employment law that will ensure that i get a job, no matter how low paying and how bad the working condition is.

Housing subsidies have increase for low income families.... Unless i am planning to get married, what about housing subsidies for singles? I still have to wait till 35, get a little bit of subsidy from the goverment to buy a 3 room flat, that cost $120,000. How am i going to raise all those money? I cannot expect the $200 increase in CPF yearly to bear the weight of $120,000 right?

That means i still don't have a place i call "home", till i reach 35. Or till i drop the (wedding) bomb on all my friends. But that's quite distinct.

Human Transplant Act has been changed to include Muslims on the list, unless they opted out. I am not sure about the religious issue on this, but i am happy to know that, if i got kidney failure, the chances of a suitable transplant for me will be higher.

And Education gets a boost if Singapore set up a fourth University. And that only further proves my point that you take a stone and throw into the crowd at a busy street during lunch hour, chances are that you hit a degree holder or higher, and along with it, comes with a law suit for assult.

That's what happen when you gets a good educated citizens in a country. Lawsuits are getting too common. The phase "Wait for my lawyer's letter" is becoming too common. Look at the Stomp! website. That trend is already there, when stompers post someone doing somethings, the normal comments by visitors is to contact the relevent authories to get legal action.

Maybe i should quit my job and study law now. Law will be the next big thing after life science.