Some have several maids to watch the kids and fend off the rot and mold endemic in this tropical climate. The government-linked Straits Times newspaper printed an article entitled "The Instant-Noodle Generation", featuring a survey of Singaporean teens. When asked how dependent they were on maids, most rated themselves about seven out of 10 - with 10 being completely dependent.
Also lining Orchard Road are plazas devoted entirely to teenagers, crammed with food courts, video arcades and even spas. While they may lead easy lifestyles, that doesn't mean they're not also industrious, particularly in their studies, says year old Chong Tze Chien, creator of Spoilt, a play about a Prada-shod Singaporean woman tormented by an existential void.
But the word has a double meaning. Kids work very hard in school - but then they're rewarded. And they end up pampered," he says. Some say spoiled children are partially a product of Singapore's paternalistic state apparatus. But that's not the whole story, Chong says. It's like a drug. But Ong, 25, is just one of a growing number of young Singaporeans who are turning their backs on the material joys of the long-cherished "Singapore Dream," summed up as the "Five C's" - cash, car, credit card, condominium and country club membership - to do what they enjoy, even at much lower pay.
It was waiting for bonus after bonus, promotion after promotion. That didn't really appeal to me," said Ong, who studied banking and finance at university, but had worked with young people on the side. Singapore has long counted on its people as its biggest resource, the one that helped drive its transformation from a sea port with few natural resources into a key financial center after independence in Not one to rest on its laurels, though, the Singapore government recently released a nearly page "white paper" calling for higher productivity in its workforce and projecting population growth by as much as 30 percent by The School of the Arts in Singapore, opened in , has had around 1, applicants for only spaces each of the last three years.
Loo herself became a full-time artist at the end of last year and is staging her first solo exhibition. She previously studied psychology in university and had worked as a retail assistant and a freelancer on film and TV sets.
But I think a lot of people have already gone past the survival stage in Singapore, and therefore they can explore more things," Loo said. But for most people, dropping out is not an option, at least not a long-term one," Tan said. Yet Chung said these young people may ultimately prove to be pioneers. These are bored, disconnected teenagers, some as young as 13, who failed to make good in school, family life or work. Five men have been charged with his murder, including one who suffered head injuries while trying to jump from a three-storey building.
Some 20 youths aged were surrounded by a parang-carrying group shouting Hokkien expletives. A year-old assistant technician, an Indian, was slashed in the back and legs, along with six other victims. A few days after that: Outside the court in which year-old Louis Tong Qing Yao was being charged with Ng's murder, 19 suspected gang members turned out to support him and ended up being arrested.
Today these kids do it for pride and thrill, not because of poverty," said an old hawker. Their numbers are anybody's guess, ranging from several hundred to one or two thousand. Here the chief factors are poor family environment and resentment against society," said a student councillor. In , youths were arrested for rioting and were arrested for the same crime in the first six months of Most parents, cocooned in stability for a whole generation, still think their children are incapable of creating mayhem.
They grew up in a strict law-and-order setting, having to go to school wearing their hair short and their skirts long, and with jukeboxes banned.
With teenagers' values constantly shaped and reshaped by films, violent video games and the Internet, many modern parents are finding it hard to communicate with - let alone influence - their children. Youth will have the opportunity to realise their vision through projects and engagements on policy recommendations from August to March Somerset Belt A key project under the SG Youth Action Plan is the transformation of Somerset Belt, which has been designated as an area with a strong youth focus as part of the longer term plans for Orchard Road.
The Belt is set to become a vibrant and inclusive district that brings together youth organisations, businesses, and service providers to support youth aspirations and grow youth communities.
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