Lion City

By Peace | August 4, 2007

Singapore, the Lion City, is just a very small dot in the world map. It is such a small country and it is so nice to know that you can actually find your own country, Singapore in Second Life as well. Alvin Loo, Alvin Korvin the creator of the sim, Lion City has created Lion City in Second Life. It is definitely a job very well done. When I first sign up for Second Life, I do not know that there were any Singaporean around. Seeing these in Second Life is really something very great. Not only can it shows people who have never seen Singapore before, it also allows Singapore Second Life player to have a ‘home’ where can belong, as well as to feel ‘homely’. It is a great place to know fellow Singaporean too.

The picture above shows Suntec City, and the water fountain at the centre is the fountain of wealth. What a great feature to represent Singapore in Second Life. There are many other things like shophouses, the Merlion, coffee shop and so on.

In this world, there are people fighting against each other, framing one another, so that they can get the attention and they want fame. Even Singapore, our nation is like that. Such a small country, a dot on the map, but it wants to be the TOP of everything. Everything must be world number ONE, everything must be the FIRST. The fact is the really Top and the First nation do not need to tell people they are First and they are TOP. So what if you are first and you are top? How are the nation faring? How are the people all feeling?

Our National Day is on Thursday, 9 August 2007. This would be Singapore’s 42th birthday. Not many HDB flats have hung up their flags. I did not. I put on the flag for the first time in year 1997 or 1998, when the campaign to put on the flags were just launched. At that time, we need to buy our own flag and after that, we were told that we need to take down the flag after one month. If not, there would be a fine. So what is the point of hanging up flags? We need to buy them and face a risk of paying fine if we put the flag in a wrong position or we put them up for longer periods than expected.

Anyway, Lion City had their flats decorated with Singapore flags and it was nice. However, Lion City is doing a major revamp to their sim, and don’t know when the new ‘Singapore’ would look like.

This is what ideally we should see on every block of flats in Singapore. But each year, there were lesser and lesser flags being put up by residents of Singapore. I do not see as many flags put up as before. I have read a blog recently and this person had even capture a video and picture of people using the Singapore flag as tissue paper, to wipe their face. This is very disrespectful to their own country.

Education is very important. Singapore definitely need to improve more on that. People should be taught the right values and not using fines here and there to ‘control’ people. ( I have more things to say about this, concerning money, I shall post it at Money Sick).

More photos of Lion City