I love complaining.Yes complaining like what we have culltured to do.Dont blame me for we are encouraged to give “feedbacks”.And since nobody ever specifies,there you have us Singaporeans complaining about every tiny little bitsy problem.
But i Love complaining.Complaining about Singaporeans.And yet i dont realise that i am the complain-er.
Something very interesting caught my attention.A Yahoo editorial on “Why on Earth would any one wants to find a planet like Earth”.Such a nice topic to debate on.There we have people living on the other side of the world talking about global warming,poverty,space issues,entertaintment or et cetra.
BUT
Here we have us,Singaporeans,talking queues..Bad service…Long waiting time…Principal Being Too Frank..Ways to improve our already very comfortable life…and everything you “can possibly not talk about” is talked about.
Guess thats the difference we have with those white folks dominated country.Could it be the environment,the Government, the values or simply the upbringing.Very often , we see minister and officials trying to spur conversation larger than ourselves ..Say global warming..Economy inflation…et cetra.And i will foolishly expect letters from singaporeans engaging in that very matured conversation.Yet when one opens the ST forum,you will still be disappointed by what we see.A lady complained about a mother slapping her son…Oh wait…another one:A man writes in to ask for chairs to be provided for in a bank.
Question:
Why can’t These questions be directed to the party involved and not the papers.You want chairs,write to the bank.You want to slap he lady who slapped her son,call the lady.You want better service,write to the shop owner.NOT THE PAPERS.
When will we have singaporeans writing in,addressing issues that should be addressed.Maybe issues like how middle income gaps can be further reduced.How do we push the low income families into our median centre?Oh,what singapore could do for global warming?And also,views on issues not concerning us but the planet like
“Why on Earth would someone want to find a planet like Earth?”
ADIOS !
