While we were fighting ourselves...

This is simply lovely.

Just a few days ago, I put up a blog entry, lamenting that if we ever got into trouble with non-Singaporeans, how unlikely it was for fellow Singaporeans to fight along side with us in Cambridge.

'Good Fren' suggested that the only time such 'support' by Singaporeans would be possible was if we got into a fight during a sports meet where Singaporeans from Oxford and Cambridge played against one another, i.e. 自己人打自己人.

You would think 'Good Fren' was exaggerating.

Then over the weekend... TA-DAH!!

We get a real-life example, i.e. front page news of Singaporean school boys bashing one another up during and after a Rugby match.

Meanwhile, few have learnt about the latest sports news that our foreign talent Olympic Silver Medalist joining the team in her former hometown, because the same mainstream papers have not mention any word about it.

Hello?!! Wake up! Wake up!
Stop wasting energy on mindless competition amongst ourselves! While we were busy fighting ourselves, the aliens have come and left with bags of gold oredi!!  

Related note: If the online community is guilty of 'astroturfing', i.e. creating false impressions of certain views, by spamming formal channels, the mainstream media ain't that much better either.

Omitting significant pieces of news (and/or only highlighting partial truths) is just another way to create false impressions.