Sunday, May 01, 2005
Stop Dirty Habits In Public
Flip to page 43 of the Straits Times today, an earnest request by a reader to LTA, SMRT, HDB & MOH to put up signs to prohibit people from digging their nose/ears, spitting & get this coughing/sneezing without covering their mouths. Lest these irresponsible, anti-social and uncivilised habits become part of our public culture. And until these people are properly educated and start behaving more responsibly, we then cannot call our society modern and mature. So we should start with a month-long campaign and integrate lessons into the civics syllabus to ensure our young and old are educated on unhygienic practices in public.
Now, now, shouldn't all these have been taken care of at home? Now you want the govt to implement month-long campaigns for this too?! Darn, you sure think this is gonna make singapore more fun huh. Every month we'll have different campaigns by the different ministries, this will surely attract all the tourists to singapore huh. If you can't educate your own kids and yourself not to do all the abovementioned in public the govt has to step in. You seriously think we're not tightly controlled enough huh? Goodness thanks to dumb fucks like them, singapore definitely deserves to be labelled straitlaced. I like digging my ears, sometimes i do it in public, but hey it's damn shiok isn't it. I do it in class, at home etc. I don't hear my classmates or people around my complaining.. Frankly speaking coz it never occured to me that the action that i did, was to dig my ears in public. I think of it as clearing my ears, so that i can hear the vroom of the engines going past me clearly, i don't wanna get knocked down by cars do i. Yah and that i wanna spot the souped-up cars. Ok if you talk about hygiene reasons yeah i truly understand but to go to such an extent is a little too much. No wonder people think we belong to some part of China. It would sound like our country is cleaning up for the Olympics or something with such public campaigns. Like any society there'll be ills, just like sydney's crime rate may be higher than singapore but it's a colourful and vibrant city. A vibrant city can only do so if we stop restricting ourselves. How many a times have we locked ourselves in when we think oh we can't do this, if no rules say we can't do, it means go ahead and do it. Rebel, twist and bend around the rules, that's how societies become colourful. That's how you become more colourful too, we're all humans same yet different, we don't wanna end up like robots all behaving the same. If our people can't open their minds to the broader scheme of things, we can never thrive. I cry for our country with people like that.
Unknown at 12:18 pm