2006-02-17
Some news from Singapore
Just heard about this measure taken by the police from mrbrown.com, where the police will inform the parents of teens found loitering in public spaces after 11 pm. More details here.
Hm, seems like a strange measure. Well, if I were a teen hanging out after 11 pm and my parents knew about it, then this measure would not really affect me (other than the bother of giving particulars to a police officer, and the time wasted on both sides). If I were a hardened criminal, then I might not be listening to my parents anyway. In essence, it seems that this only serves to give parents an idea of where their kids are, or if their kids are lying to them about where they are. If the parents didn't care in the first place then probably it wouldn't change anything... Alright, I haven't actually thought very much about it.
The real reason why I'm writing about this is because reading it led me to wonder whether I was out after 11 pm when I was a teen. And of course it brought back some fond memories of midnight movies and so on...
Its madness, teens nowadays study so much harder than us already and now they have their individual freedoms curtailed as well.... I mean, no more midnight movies, no more late night suppers, no more hanging out at east coast until dawn, no more arcade and pool and karaoke and no more underaged pubbing (well...).... they can spend the time at home playing DOTA or something.. raise a whole new generation of computer nerds.
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