Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Are U Civic-Minded?
I'm sure everybody has their fair share of grumbles & complaints about encounters with rude people on the train, in the mall, at the restaurants blah the blah..and in fact, it becomes almost a regular regime for us people in the office to arrive in the morning with horror stories of how people dun bother to hold the lift, mrt seat-snatchers, unshameful nose-diggers or strange peh-pehs on the streets.
Just dis morning, just as i was approaching a seat on the MRT, an auntie in her 40s my guess is, scurried in (u noe, the-nvr-sit-will-die-kinda-auntie) & wanted the seat the same. I could have sat on it if i chose to b oblivious since i was nearer. We exchanged glances & i let her hv the seat instead, since u noe, she looked like she reli wanted the seat badly.
Well, i must say she took it pretty as a matter of factly, no she wasn't dat old nor was she limping, in fact i tink she cud take a bull by its horns if she wanted to, but strangely, she didn't even bother to at least smile in return, much less thank mi.
Foreigners aside, for dey cud perhaps b excused for being too used to do wad dey do in their own countries, but wad about locals?
Of course, being a local myself, i dun erase the possibility of being the topic of OTHER people when dey share their daily dosage of rude people dey encounter.
Just wondering, being in such a micro-managed society, wad happened to micro-managing the people's manners? Does it not have economic value? Having good courtesy level from within helps in our service industry oso wot...
Since when hv we accumulated such a bad name for our courtesy level? And since when have we evolve into conniving bitches & bastards who couldn't care less about others?
Now dat IMF is impending, we c our leaders strongly advocating GEMS & all dat kinda thing. But is it becoz IMF is coming, therefore we shud hv GEMS or shud we hv GEMS all the time so dat we can anticipate IMF anytime?
Anyway, kudos to those who are still trying to make a difference. :) ¶ J poppycocked at 9:08:00 AM
Just dis morning, just as i was approaching a seat on the MRT, an auntie in her 40s my guess is, scurried in (u noe, the-nvr-sit-will-die-kinda-auntie) & wanted the seat the same. I could have sat on it if i chose to b oblivious since i was nearer. We exchanged glances & i let her hv the seat instead, since u noe, she looked like she reli wanted the seat badly.
Well, i must say she took it pretty as a matter of factly, no she wasn't dat old nor was she limping, in fact i tink she cud take a bull by its horns if she wanted to, but strangely, she didn't even bother to at least smile in return, much less thank mi.
Foreigners aside, for dey cud perhaps b excused for being too used to do wad dey do in their own countries, but wad about locals?
Of course, being a local myself, i dun erase the possibility of being the topic of OTHER people when dey share their daily dosage of rude people dey encounter.
Just wondering, being in such a micro-managed society, wad happened to micro-managing the people's manners? Does it not have economic value? Having good courtesy level from within helps in our service industry oso wot...
Since when hv we accumulated such a bad name for our courtesy level? And since when have we evolve into conniving bitches & bastards who couldn't care less about others?
Now dat IMF is impending, we c our leaders strongly advocating GEMS & all dat kinda thing. But is it becoz IMF is coming, therefore we shud hv GEMS or shud we hv GEMS all the time so dat we can anticipate IMF anytime?
Anyway, kudos to those who are still trying to make a difference. :) ¶ J poppycocked at 9:08:00 AM