我最近常有这样的感觉，有你们真好。
是你们牵动了我这一辈子里，第一次的悸动；让我有所感悟。在遭遇挫折之际、遇到不公、不讲理的际遇时，就会猛地想起你们的坚毅不屈的付出。去建设公正、平等的民主社会。以微薄的力量去实践自己所坚信的信念。
即使常常事与愿违、即使不断地失败。即使人心仍是那么的脆弱和自私。
所以，就在国家生日的这一天里，即便是漆黑的隧道中，我仍感欣慰，我能够享有你们无私的祝福和坚毅的力量。
单薄却坚定的力量。让人振奋。毕竟，我们是新加坡公民。
我们的幸福、繁荣与进步，唯有靠自己，责无旁贷。
8月9日的这一天里，仅以包含了大家无尽心血与不平的增长花红(Growth Dividend)献之。
这一天以后，让我们为我们自己的未来继续共同努力。誓愿不分种族、语言和宗教，团结一致。
The bouquets of fireworks lit up the dark, solemn sky,
in the attempt of projecting the spirit of joy, momentarily,
on this particular day.
The sparks succeeded in blinding the sky with their flamboyant
colours and brightness. And precisely at that brief moment of the array
of sparks that splattered across the sky, it was too when the shadows
of the fireworks were cast on earth.
So for every firework that we saw, we have to endure too, the shadows
that come with it. Unknowingly ourselves.
And so, we happily, intoxicate ourselves, in seconds of joyous flame,
and took with us the shadows that settle here for good.
So, Happy Birthday.
