STOMP also known as Straits Times Online Mobile Print, is a well-known phenomenon in Singapore and a widely used platform for news readers to communicate their thoughts about the public perception of certain matters.
Well, so what's my point here?
I do wonder at times if STOMP has been a place to 'flame' people's actions or to make these actions known to the public to know about. Certainly, at the way things are going at now... I do wonder the purpose of STOMP. In the initial stage, when I saw STOMP, I thought it was a platform where youths and young adults can gather to discuss useful matters about Singapore's culture and activities...
However, recently, there are photos emerging reports after reports on the negative ethnics of certain people. And in the end, these small cases riles splinter groups to munch on the matter. And who are the losers? I feel that the losers are those who had their photo taken by SINGAPOREANS. Either the people got fired or having to face disciplinary actions from the companies...
I mean ... isn't there a more discreet platform to inform the right organization of the unethical behaviour of their staff instead of 'flaming' them? Or informing the school of the student's behaviour instead of the newspaper? Or does people get the joy of blowing the whistle so publicly?
After all, Singapore is suppose to be a Global City and a graceful one... but the way that some of those 'black sheep' are acting... perhaps like what Minister Mentor Lee mentioned, that Singapore can't achieve the level of gracefulness, respect and harmony among each other.
Have you ever wonder when do people bond together irregardless of their race, language or even religion? Thus far, the only situation that I can think of, for such things to happen, is during the case of natural disasters. Whenever a natural disaster strikes, regardless of which country that suffers, people from all walks of life would contribute and help one another.
Can the World be such a place without the need of suffering, but for peace only?
Who knows? Perhaps, some idealist were right... the World maybe destroyed, not by natural catastrophe, but by Humans themselves...
Well, so what's my point here?
I do wonder at times if STOMP has been a place to 'flame' people's actions or to make these actions known to the public to know about. Certainly, at the way things are going at now... I do wonder the purpose of STOMP. In the initial stage, when I saw STOMP, I thought it was a platform where youths and young adults can gather to discuss useful matters about Singapore's culture and activities...
However, recently, there are photos emerging reports after reports on the negative ethnics of certain people. And in the end, these small cases riles splinter groups to munch on the matter. And who are the losers? I feel that the losers are those who had their photo taken by SINGAPOREANS. Either the people got fired or having to face disciplinary actions from the companies...
I mean ... isn't there a more discreet platform to inform the right organization of the unethical behaviour of their staff instead of 'flaming' them? Or informing the school of the student's behaviour instead of the newspaper? Or does people get the joy of blowing the whistle so publicly?
After all, Singapore is suppose to be a Global City and a graceful one... but the way that some of those 'black sheep' are acting... perhaps like what Minister Mentor Lee mentioned, that Singapore can't achieve the level of gracefulness, respect and harmony among each other.
Have you ever wonder when do people bond together irregardless of their race, language or even religion? Thus far, the only situation that I can think of, for such things to happen, is during the case of natural disasters. Whenever a natural disaster strikes, regardless of which country that suffers, people from all walks of life would contribute and help one another.
Can the World be such a place without the need of suffering, but for peace only?
Who knows? Perhaps, some idealist were right... the World maybe destroyed, not by natural catastrophe, but by Humans themselves...
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