F1 vs MidAutumn Festival

ah i realise i have been spamming my blog recently. maybe i just need an outlet to talk to. hahaha how pathetic does that sound. anyway next friday would be ba yue zhong qiu. the midautumn festival once again.

earlier this week, i was actually looking at all the F1 shows advertisement, and being spammed by emails and messages in facebook about all the F1 parties with extremely expensive covers and alot of hyped up nonsense and road closures and stuff like this. its not only this weekend. its like becoming a trend. more and more malls selling expensive designer stuff, greater pressure on living the good life, on having the branded and the best of everything. Even eating a nice decent meal has become pretty expensive! i felt quite worried, its like Singapore is moving towards being a very attas country. I wondered, if there will be a place left for the not so well to do Singaporeans say, ten years down the road.

I was randomly thinking about this on my way home [the long journey home from school] yesterday. If i were to choose to stay in singapore, get married and have kids, what kind of environment will my children be growing up in? A very stressful system where people only recognise you for the number of As you have in your cert and the amount of money you have in your bank? Where family time between myself and them would probably evolve around the to and fro trips we make to tuition centers and enrichments places? Would my children still celebrate these traditional festivals like the midautumn where the family gets together to light those paper 20c per piece lanterns and eat mooncakes - or would they rather stay at home and play with their WII or PSP?

I was really heartened as i went for a short loook at the festival celebrations in my estate just now. i saw like a group of 100 over children all happily carrying their lighted lanterns and going for a walk around the estate. But really, i wonder how long more can these traditions last.