Complaints galore... 201
I've never really been a big fan of complaints of any sort. I hate intimidating pple and I hate telling pple off... (surprise, surprise... like tht also can be teacher?) I'm not the confrontational sort and i totally stay away from it unless i simply have no choice but to face it... - so u can imagine how stressed i was feeling throughout the last 6 years of my life...
Actually, I hate complaining and whining mostly because what's done is done and well, if i hadn't done anything to resolve it earlier, why go back and complain abt it only after the event?
Transportation peeves -
Recently, i've had the opportunity to encounter free music while commuting - free music from teenagers handphones - yes, i know this is old news. - but it's only recently that I've really experienced and be truly irritated by such behaviour. One of a few instances: group of 4 or 5 boys sitting in the middle of 2 train carriages blasting music through a phone's speakers, no decency to keep the phone volume nor the volume of their conversation low. This is stated here as this was the most ultimate case. 1. What was all tht noise they were listening to? 2.If you want the whole train to hear ur music why the hell you talk so loudly? 3. If u want the whole train to hear ur conversation, why blast ur phone? 4. Since u are talking so loudly, u can't possibly be listening to ur "beloved" music, so why the HELL is it on ur phone's speakers in the 1st place?
Today... or rather yest afternoon, since it's now after midnight: On the way home frm lunch - caught a 1345 hr bus home. Chanced upon an uncle type of person looking sheepishly around him. After some time, i realised why he was doing it. He nicely treated the bus as his home... shoes removed, socks removed, airing feet... OMG... so comfortable eh? If only some lady wearing high heels had insisted on squeezing into the seat next to him and stepped on his foot! What a gracious society we're turning into.
Was reading an article the other day about handphones and teenagers... and how pple in Japan - though having phones much more hi-tech than those available in Singapore, are making less of a nuisance of themselves as compared to those "swakoo" type of SGreans who show off their "wonderful" and "hi-tech" ring tones and MP3 phones in public places - esp. public transportation. Own observation - one can eat and drink while commuting via public transport in Japan, there are no rules on the trains reminding them to get rid of the rubbish. They just do it automatically. No bits of unsightly rubbish in sight! Here, there are threats hung around... eat and drink, get fined... throw rubbish in inappropriate places, get fined...
Oh well, maybe this is the price to pay for having an economy that has grown and developed so much so that many pple don't realise what gracious living is, or what living is all about... it's become very much a me, myself and i type of living. I wouldn't deny there is significant number of pple who do care enough for gracious living and all that. However, not enough pple realise that ultimately - No Man is an Island. We need to realise that we are a community not individuals. Anything you do or don't do WILL (fortunately or unfortunately) affect others around you.
I rest my case.
That aside, I'm glad that now there're electronic signboards at certain bus-stops showing the waiting time for the arrival of the next bus.
I've never really been a big fan of complaints of any sort. I hate intimidating pple and I hate telling pple off... (surprise, surprise... like tht also can be teacher?) I'm not the confrontational sort and i totally stay away from it unless i simply have no choice but to face it... - so u can imagine how stressed i was feeling throughout the last 6 years of my life...
Actually, I hate complaining and whining mostly because what's done is done and well, if i hadn't done anything to resolve it earlier, why go back and complain abt it only after the event?
Transportation peeves -
Recently, i've had the opportunity to encounter free music while commuting - free music from teenagers handphones - yes, i know this is old news. - but it's only recently that I've really experienced and be truly irritated by such behaviour. One of a few instances: group of 4 or 5 boys sitting in the middle of 2 train carriages blasting music through a phone's speakers, no decency to keep the phone volume nor the volume of their conversation low. This is stated here as this was the most ultimate case. 1. What was all tht noise they were listening to? 2.If you want the whole train to hear ur music why the hell you talk so loudly? 3. If u want the whole train to hear ur conversation, why blast ur phone? 4. Since u are talking so loudly, u can't possibly be listening to ur "beloved" music, so why the HELL is it on ur phone's speakers in the 1st place?
Today... or rather yest afternoon, since it's now after midnight: On the way home frm lunch - caught a 1345 hr bus home. Chanced upon an uncle type of person looking sheepishly around him. After some time, i realised why he was doing it. He nicely treated the bus as his home... shoes removed, socks removed, airing feet... OMG... so comfortable eh? If only some lady wearing high heels had insisted on squeezing into the seat next to him and stepped on his foot! What a gracious society we're turning into.
Was reading an article the other day about handphones and teenagers... and how pple in Japan - though having phones much more hi-tech than those available in Singapore, are making less of a nuisance of themselves as compared to those "swakoo" type of SGreans who show off their "wonderful" and "hi-tech" ring tones and MP3 phones in public places - esp. public transportation. Own observation - one can eat and drink while commuting via public transport in Japan, there are no rules on the trains reminding them to get rid of the rubbish. They just do it automatically. No bits of unsightly rubbish in sight! Here, there are threats hung around... eat and drink, get fined... throw rubbish in inappropriate places, get fined...
Oh well, maybe this is the price to pay for having an economy that has grown and developed so much so that many pple don't realise what gracious living is, or what living is all about... it's become very much a me, myself and i type of living. I wouldn't deny there is significant number of pple who do care enough for gracious living and all that. However, not enough pple realise that ultimately - No Man is an Island. We need to realise that we are a community not individuals. Anything you do or don't do WILL (fortunately or unfortunately) affect others around you.
I rest my case.
That aside, I'm glad that now there're electronic signboards at certain bus-stops showing the waiting time for the arrival of the next bus.
posted by lesmjuzycyan at
12:41 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home