noobcarbuyer 5th Gear May 7, 2020 Share May 7, 2020 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/celebrate-20000-days-of-spores-independence-while-at-home Celebrate 20,000 days of S'pore's independence while at home - ST "To commemorate 20,000 days since Singapore's independence on May 12 and to encourage people to stay home, Geylang Serai Community Club has launched a #SG20K initiative, the People's Association (PA) said on its Facebook page last Friday. The initiative encourages people to take a photo of themselves in red or white with the Singapore flag and upload the photo to their Instagram account with the #SG20K hashtag." ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noobcarbuyer 5th Gear May 7, 2020 Author Share May 7, 2020 Had to check if I was reading a spoof article. Can't believe this is an actual article in the national broadsheet. Elections must be within spitting distance liao. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToyotaShuttle 5th Gear May 7, 2020 Share May 7, 2020 2 hours ago, noobcarbuyer said: Had to check if I was reading a spoof article. Can't believe this is an actual article in the national broadsheet. Elections must be within spitting distance liao. It is a proud moment for Singapore and we really need something to celebrate in current circumstances. What has it to do with elections? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wind30 Turbocharged May 7, 2020 Share May 7, 2020 1 hour ago, ToyotaShuttle said: It is a proud moment for Singapore and we really need something to celebrate in current circumstances. What has it to do with elections? do you want to celebrate the 1000 months milestone too? how about the 3000 weeks milestone? I think the 3000 week milestone might be soon. What happen to the 10000 day celebration?????? oh no!!! I missed that, must be a huge celebration in Singapore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToyotaShuttle 5th Gear May 7, 2020 Share May 7, 2020 (edited) 47 minutes ago, Wind30 said: do you want to celebrate the 1000 months milestone too? how about the 3000 weeks milestone? I think the 3000 week milestone might be soon. What happen to the 10000 day celebration?????? oh no!!! I missed that, must be a huge celebration in Singapore. Is there any organization proposing to celebrate 1000 months? The proposal by PA is to celebrate 20000 days and I'm sure they have done their homework and seen that this is good for the nation as a whole. Don't need to put up strawmen about 1000 months until it happens. Might as well ask why celebrate 50 years or 100 years? Does the number of times the earth revolve around the sun mean anything in the grand scheme of things? It is just whatever we want to make out of it and today we shall celebrate 20000 days. Edited May 7, 2020 by ToyotaShuttle 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrios Turbocharged May 7, 2020 Share May 7, 2020 More like 20000 cases pop champagne... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbon82 Moderator May 7, 2020 Share May 7, 2020 What's next? 0.5 mil hours or 30 mil minutes since 9th August 1965? Oh wait that is another 2 years away... I can only think of people counting event by days are 头七 to 七七, or some young couples celebrating first 100 / 1,000 days together. Not condemning the idea and nothing political for sure but normally we count by the no. year for major event, such as bicentennial, and so I don't buy the idea of this 20,000 days celebration. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yishunite Turbocharged May 7, 2020 Share May 7, 2020 How many anniversary bounces PAP wanna have... the more they do it the more meaningless "anniversary" becomes 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 Chey.... i thot giv every sgrean sg20k 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lala81 Hypersonic May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 waste timeeeeeeeeeeeee 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weez911 Supersonic May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 There really is nothing to celebrate, especially at this time. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Throttle2 Supersonic May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 Ridiculous. first the silly comic book heroes and now this?? come on, we are frustrated enough and livelihoods are tested. Unless really meaningful, dont waste peoples time and effort lah 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 (edited) Pls cancel National Day parade while they're at it. Spend the $$$ elsewhere. Everyone can mari-kita at home instead. Edited May 8, 2020 by Mockngbrd 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1fast1 Supersonic May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 (edited) On 5/7/2020 at 12:18 PM, ToyotaShuttle said: It is a proud moment for Singapore and we really need something to celebrate in current circumstances. What has it to do with elections? As others have said it's arbitrary bulls**t even more so than the usual milestones revolving around our base-10 digit preference bias applied to the period of the earth's circumsolar revolutions, which at least have the saving grace of being customarily accepted. The PA is a blatantly political organisation, no matter how they try to paint themselves, and that makes people suspicious of their motives. I share this cynicism. Edited May 8, 2020 by Turboflat4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver_blade Turbocharged May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 On 5/7/2020 at 12:18 PM, ToyotaShuttle said: It is a proud moment for Singapore and we really need something to celebrate in current circumstances. What has it to do with elections? I think this and other similar events eg. clap for HCW, singing 'Home', etc are good to lift the spirit of those who are feeling stress (cos of lack of income, etc), fear (of losing job or catch the virus), lonely, etc. It gives them something to look forward to and being silly for that one moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobayashiGT Internal Moderator May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 38 minutes ago, Mockngbrd said: Pls cancel National Day parade while they're at it. Spend the $$$ elsewhere. Everyone can mari-kita at home instead. National day still ongoing? 😐 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yishunite Turbocharged May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 36 minutes ago, Silver_blade said: I think this and other similar events eg. clap for HCW, singing 'Home', etc are good to lift the spirit of those who are feeling stress (cos of lack of income, etc), fear (of losing job or catch the virus), lonely, etc. It gives them something to look forward to and being silly for that one moment. By "those who are feeling stress fear lonely etc" do u mean politicians?? 🤣🤣🤣 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic May 8, 2020 Share May 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Silver_blade said: I think this and other similar events eg. clap for HCW, singing 'Home', etc are good to lift the spirit of those who are feeling stress (cos of lack of income, etc), fear (of losing job or catch the virus), lonely, etc. It gives them something to look forward to and being silly for that one moment. ↡ Advertisement 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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