sigh… was reading today’s papers about courtesy in s’pore… i feel so embarrassed for those ppl with 0 courtesy in them. it’s like ‘HELLO!!’ dun you all even know a bit about basic courtesy???! i’m utterly disgusted. not very surprised though… i mean this is Singapore… not that i want to say but ppl here are so self-centered and think the whole world revolves around them. sheesh. i was hoping maybe reader’s digest was wrong but after the ST reporters went ard the island to ‘test’ ppl, the truth is plainly out: Singaporeans are really low on EQ. i wished the reporters did not try to test the ppl, at least i ve the hope that maybe it is juz a wrong judgment by reader’s digest… but i know i will be living in delusion. What really disgusted me was not the "no courtesy" but their response to their lack of courtesy when stopped. if you dun know what i mean read the article in today’s(25 june) life section in ST.
However i do find some ‘tests’ they used that i would not have done anyway… like the asking of which floor the person in the lift wants to go to, i will only do that if the person is very far from the buttons, or have his or her hands full or if the person forgotten to press. i think it is b coz if the person dun press the floor they want to go to, we actually assume that they are going to the same floor as us… and even if we are not sure, we are too embarrassed or soft-spoken to ask. But the rest of the tests, i found appropriate.
I recently had a very ugly experience in the lift. i pressed the floor i wanted and moved in coz a lot of people were coming in…but when it reached my floor (which apparently no one else wanted to go to…) the lift door opened, the ppl in the lift juz pressed door-close! so i shouted that i wanted to go out (in the midst of the door closing…), and no one even bothered to hold the lift door or press door-open. the ppl in the lift din even bother to say "sorry." i was truly disgusted. this just shows some singaporeans’ attitudes.
ramblings. 