Treating it solemnly, or treating it as if it is your close friend?

Different people has different views on this. Further arguements can be pointless.

Me, for one, will treat it as a close friend.

And like I said, this is perhaps why SMU is a suitable school for me.

It is a fallible excuse to use advancement of creativity to desecrate a national symbol. Students must know their limits and not use such excuses to test the limits of other Singaporeans who strongly believe in the fundamentals and symbols of our nationhood. No one should have an excuse to belittle the beliefs of others, no matter what the situation might be. This is called being sensitive to other people’s beliefs.

I agree it was creative. But in whatever light you put it, it was wrong. I strongly condemn the students who believed this was a right thing to do and hope they will reflect upon their actions.

I hope SMU students can think more before they act next time, because many of them are going to be business leaders, and the corporate world is going to be a lot more vicious that a couple of words thrown on newspapers. Utterly disappointing.

First, I agree we should respect our nation and I am proud of what Singapore had achieved so far. Singing the National Anthem is one way to express our patriotic feeling, but the National Anthem itself is not saint! The presenting format of the National Anthem should be considered according to circumstances. If it was to be sung during National Day, each day in the morning before class starts or when the nation won medals… (You get what I mean – formal situations), we will definitely expect it to be proper, order and serious. But C’mon Virtuoso 2007 was a singing and song composing competition! I thought it was CREATIVE to showcase the national anthem in a rearranged light-hearted way. Singapore had more than enough of rules and restrictions to inhibit creativity, if we are going to even lecture the students on this, our government can forget about promoting a creative and freedom nation!

[Maybe that's why SMU is different, the students challenge the norm]

you should be quoting the original letter instead of me i think. haha.

Not as if Shitty Times will ever publish my reply if I wrote that to them, so write on your blog loh!

I’ll try harder next time.

You sound like a nationalistic lemming.

Nations come and go. Learn some history. The nation is NEVER godly. Read up on how Singaporeans once sang “God save the queen” (before 1959); then, later, the Malaysian national anthem as their own (1963); and then, a little later, was told that their Malaysian countrymen are now their potential enemies (1965). In 1996 and September 2007, LKY fielded the possibility that Singapore would rejoin the Malayan Federation.

“Use your blain! Use your blain!” (Phua Chu Kang)

Maybe you should be listening to your gahmen officials and doing your patriotic duty and pounding out babies for “our great country” instead of wasting your time pounding the keyboard?