My Life, Your Story.

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Extracted some parts out.. Interesting~
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Listening to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally two weeks ago, my thoughts were not so much on babies but something more 'upstream' - falling in love and getting married.
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Both parents and students see exams, degrees and diplomas as essential parts of a child's education process.

Boy-girl relationships, on the other hand, aren't compulsory at all. In fact, they are messy and distracting, and are best avoided.

The result is that it's actually quite okay to be uncool (and unattractive to the opposite sex) in local schools and universities. In many Western school systems, these nerds and geeks are outcasts. In Singapore, they're just 'focused'.

Now this, of course, might be perfectly all right, if not for the fact that the nation is waging a desperate campaign to get people to marry early and have more babies.

If people didn't have the time or inclination to learn how to interact properly with the opposite sex in school, how much opportunity would they have when they are working at full-time jobs that leave them exhausted every day?

And the older people get, the more set in their ways they become. It becomes harder for them over time to change themselves and accept another human being into their lives.

So you can enhance matchmaking services for working adults to make them cheaper and more widely available, but this won't necessarily mean more socially inept singles will get hitched.

To put it plainly, there is no way of getting round the problem. If you want more people to get married, the chances are higher if they have some experience with having relationships and falling in love.

And if you want them to have relationships, you can always teach them theory in a classroom (as the Government is already thinking of doing) - but nothing beats putting boys and girls together and letting the sparks fly.

Instead of designing yet another set of marriage or procreation tax incentives, why not channel the funds to Singapore's universities so that they can build enough hostel rooms to house every student for at least one year?

Why not make it compulsory for all university students to live in mixed student quarters and within close range of the opposite sex? In fact, universities should build the cost of one-year's on-site accommodation into their fees.

It's also a fact that many of our top schools remain single-sex schools.

Why not cluster these schools by region and have boys and girls do team projects and engage in other co-curricular activities after school?

To be sure, more hearts will be set a-flutter and broken. There'll be more laughter and tears, higher highs and lower lows in the average student's life.

But they will emerge more self-aware and better equipped not just for working life, but living life.

In the many relationships that will come and go, there will be more than a few that will take root and blossom.

When I look around at my friends, I can't help but notice that it is always the high school or university sweethearts who always best fulfil the nation's baby-making ambitions.

They got married the minute they landed stable jobs, and kids followed soon after.

Now, that's the kind of certainty worth investing in.
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Seriously, i would try dating agencies if i haven't met Andy..... lol.

OK i know easier SAID than DONE.....

But still, i think i will.. Really! To widen social circle, make more friends, and yes, finding the right partner to be with (if that can come out from it). & this idea is getting more & more popular.. everyone is facing the same issue here. Soooooo, why not?