All the staying at home is slowly killing me. I kinda feel like I’m rotting. Get a job, most people will say. But what kind of job? Gah.

Btw my situation reminded me of an article I read in The Star pretty recently about Lee Kuan Yew talking about unemployed graduates in Singapore.

The following is the quote from here.

It is a national dilemma. Unless graduate unemployment is reversed, the middle class here faces erosion and social problems and poverty could set in.Out-of-work graduates are unable to service their home payments or maintain their family. More couples may decide not to have children.When he was Prime Minister during the early days of university-building, Lee Kuan Yew had said that Singapore would avoid countries like India, in producing too many jobless graduates.
With an able mind and higher expectations, too many of them would sit idly around coffee shops hatching revolutions, he explained.

Another article from the same author about Lee Kuan Yew quoted from another article here said:

For me, it’s like reliving some of the problems I had reported in other countries a generation ago.The headline made me recall what (then Prime Minister) Lee Kuan Yew once said about unemployed graduates.Commenting on the street violence that often marred life in India and Pakistan in those days, Lee attributed it partly to the large number of out-of-work graduates.
They were a potential source of instability. Their education allowed them to organise, plan or lead violent revolutions and they had the free time to do so.

I kinda feel what LKY said was true. I put myself as an unemployed graduate. Well I satisfy the first criteria, albeir voluntarily and the second criteria, let’s just say I’m an A-Level graduate and will be a university graduate in 3 years time.

And all the free time that I’m having, what have I been doing? Planning revolutions here and there on the Internet for the local youth scene.

Might work out, might not work out.

“With an able mind and higher expectations, too many of them would sit idly around coffee shops hatching revolutions, he explained.”

Damn I’ve been going for coffee sessions too many time thinking of ways to strike it big. Well perhaps it’s good. Or is it?

And just a few days back, I came out with a rebranding exercise for myself and this blog. I’m working on another personal project. Another revolution? Man!

Working makes time passes by very fast. But not working leaves me with too much idle time. And the brain is always cooking up some surprises for me.

Bobby “CE” Ong: It’s time to implement those revolutions. No more talk shop. Time for action.

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