I feel tired staying in Singapore. Below are my personal opinion

1) You cant find dialect movies like HK cantonese movie here in the cinema but you can find those award winning Japanese/ Korean or European original language movies in the cinema. What a joke!

2) People here are always preoccupied with the rat race since the time when they are born. There are many things to worry or to keep them occupied ie CPF, HDB and others retirement matters.

3) Not much variety of food in Singapore. Most of the food is the same from one food court to another. Try to go to China or Taiwan and you can find lots of different food that you can imagine.

4) People in Singapore might feel they are at the centre of the world with little regards of what is happening with their neighbouring countries. I believe one way to solve this is to inculcate Geography and history into the minds of the young. The general paper in A level should also focus on nationhood from constitution to law of Singapore. This should promote awareness and general knowledge among its citizen.

5) If Singapore is a landlocked city state perhaps it will create a different physical mentality just like luxembourgh in Europe. However because it is connected to Malaysia by a causeway, it creates a feeling that Singapore is secluded physically just like a castle surrounded by the moat. Feels like Alcatraz fortress.

6) Every national day the PAP leaders will repeat its message to tell the citizen to be hardworking and to stay ahead of the competition. This creates stress. I gave my example of productivity is a function of time and money. To improve productivity either you make it cheaper or faster. Hence people here could not stop working till the age of 62 and counting up.

7) If Singapore is resource rich I would recommend it to keep it population small to boost a high per cap income. If not it can only rely on its human resources. LKY mentioned to thrive in ASEAN, Singapore must become what its neighbour are not ie clean, efficient and business friendly to give it a comparative advantage. So to export more human resources Singapore will need to beef up it population so we will see by 2030 the population could hit 6-7 million.