Reserved MRT seats, everytime kena on youtube one.

Right guys, I know I said I would try to post a blog up every week.

Well here it is.

First of all, happy Friday to everyone #TGIF.

Second of all, grats to all those who did well for their MYE, and thankfully it wasn't Meet Your End.

For those who didn't do as well as they expected, work harder and all the best!!

So for today's post, it's going to be about..............public transport.

Well not exactly public transport in general but in specific.....the incident that happened a day or two back, I posted the video on twitter if you guys saw it. And it was about two Uncles arguing over a reserved seat. Now most of you have probably seen it. For those who haven't, go check out my twitter or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUa6rg3dIo

So we know about another case where this auntie was scolding this Ah Lian for taking the reserved seat remember? In this case well....both were Uncles and both were acting like Ah Boys. Their men lah please act like Men like.

From Ah Boys to Men. Okay not funny.

So anyway...I know quite a few people are afraid of taking the reserve seats nowadays for fear of being scolded and put on youtube and going viral. That's actually a legit fear, because I myself also don't dare to sit on reserve seats now. In fact I stand up during train journeys unless I'm super tired and macam want peng san.

After this incident I think many people will think twice about sitting on reserved seats. No doubt there's no law against it but then again those seats were given priority to some people. Such as pregnant ladies, parents with small kids, injured people and of course, senior citizens. And tired students also, but not approved by gahmen yet that one.

I don't want to go into the details of who I think is wrong or right because there's no point. Both were somehow already wrong when they started arguing and cursing just over ONE reserved seat and it doesn't make sense. Plus there was already an empty seat beside it.

What I want to say is simple, next time when you're on the MRT, it doesn't matter which seat you take. It also doesn't matter who you give it up to. Singaporeans have been bred with the mindset that they have to give up their seats. And that's true, but most people do it out of guilt and fear of being looked upon as selfish and inconsiderate. I know it's good to give up seats but we have the wrong mindset of doing it.

People are giving up seats because they're afraid of being criticised as inconsiderate? Giving up seats should be an act of kindness, not an act of fear. That's just the wrong thinking and we won't go far with that. I know it's still a good act but we shouldn't be doing it for the sake of having to do it.

No, not at all. If you see anyone at all who you think needs the seat more than you do, give up your seat. Even if you're not taking the reserve seat, but just any seat, it's still good to give it up to someone who needs it more.

A lot of Singaporeans have this mindset that just because I'm not sitting on a reserved seat, it means I don't have to give it up because this is just a normal seat and not a reserved seat.

Bullshit.

The reserved seats were created to give priority no doubt, but shouldn't we also go pass that thought and understand that if a person really needs the seat more, giving it up to make their train ride more comfortable isn't so hard?

Many at times we Singaporeans go by the rules. If it's a reserved seat I'll give it up because reserved seats are meant for senior citizens and others who may need it. If it's not a reserved seat I have the right to continue sitting on it.

Uh......SMLJ?

So I just want to say again, when on MRT's or buses, if you see someone who really may need a seat, just give up yours to them. Even if you're sitting at the middle which totally isn't a reserved one, there's no harm in giving it up. And also Singaporeans can be very paiseh one ok. They will say things like “Dunnid lah dunnid lah”. But just give them the seat anyway. Don't be a total bodoh and sit down again. That one sure kena STOMP one. :P

Anyway thanks for reading as usual, and hope that you like this!

@livinginsg

Trolls? Noooooo, haters.

Oh hey guys and girls!

So recently there have been some trolls around twitter, won't name them but I can see them on my TL and shtuff.

SO WHAT ARE TROLLS.

Well actually let's not call them trolls, cos well....trolls are supposed to be smart, and many of them are not.

Let's call them haters. Everyone has haters, including me. So these haters start to post mean things and direct them to you and then you get all mad and start arguing back with them.

DONT.

They enjoy making you mad. Now let's get back to the troll part. That's where trolling comes in handy, basically you're arguing back with them, but at the same time 'suaning' then. So whatever hate they send to you gets turned into a joke. And then they try to make you made again and they fail because you troll them back again.

It's not worth getting mad over such people trust me....they only hate because of a few reasons. First, they hate you for whatever you tweet. Second, they're probably jealous you're just better than them. Third, they really are immature with nothing better to do and thus vent their anger A.K.A keyboard warriors online. Don't get mad over such low lives, they're just NOT worth your anger. Vent your anger on your MYE results instead. :P

So.....this is a short post because basically there's nothing much I want to talk about these haters simply because they aren't worth my time.

One last message to any haters out there.

KEEP HATING BITCHES, AND ENTERTAIN ME. :D

@livinginsg

Stress levels OVER 9000

Hey guys!

So I know my last blog post which was about 10 years ago was a little......angsty.

Yea I was raging very badly.

But enough about that, today I'm not going to be doing that. (Or maybe I will)

'Stress ah!!!!!"

I think this two words are damn common among us students/youngsters/teenagers and even adults nowadays.

Why ah? Cos we live in Singapore loh, that's why bo bian.

Kidding. Stress happens everywhere, that's why people commit suicide, starve themselves, self abuse and all that bad things. It's not necessarily do to the heavy workload that's place upon us about every second of the day. There are many reasons for stress.

But in Singapore, we have a few different reasons to get stressed.....

1. Work, work, work, and oh.........work.

I don't think there's actually a day in Singapore we're free of work. Sure may lepak for one whole day at times, WHILE worrying about the outstanding work we have. I don't think we can rest without worrying about how your exam results are or how you will be able to complete your homework (copy lah of course)

Even when we do have holidays, guess what? HOLIDAY HOMEWORK PEOPLE!!

2. The weather

We all so scared of kena heat stroke, fall sick, sweat like mad. Cos the weather in Singapore is so bloody hot we can cook one whole set of dinner courses on the roadside itself. Not only that, everytime we go out hor, the moment we step out of the house it's like the temperature changed by a few degrees. And that's not the worse, when you go on public transport, the aircon is meant to cool you down. BUT NO, the combined heat of all the hot people from Singapore makes you sweat like a pig.

And you wonder why we like to go shopping centers. Shopping also lah....

3. Money money money........wah lao fly away liao.

First day of the week, get pocket money. By the middle of the week need start eating only chicken nuggets or go diet to save money, if not by end of week hor all the money fly to your favourite stall in the canteen already.

Those people that are lucky enough to be able to get much more money for the allowance also anyhow spend, then they by the end of the week see their wallet only got coins left. Summore also not $1 coin is those 10 cent 20 cents nia...

So people, remember to spend money wisely, only on food and everything else!!

Sometimes I look at my wallet and I cry.....because I miss Yusof Ishak's face so much.

4. Parents

I think all of you can relate to this.

Nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag.

Wah siao liao, I want do homework also cannot concentrate because got orchestra playing in front of me.

Summore the orchestra conductor is bad.

I hate how parents nag, even though it's for our own good. It makes us worried that we aren't doing well enough and we do try our best to "do our best" for our homework. For those with siblings it's even worse, you get compared to your brothers, sisters, neighbours kids, pet dog, pet cat, pet fish, neighbours pets, ah ma, ah gong, neighbours ah ma ah gong. I kid about the last few.

And then parents ask us "AIYO AH BOY/AH GIRL AH, WHY YOU LOOK SO STRESS???"

Cos I always kena tekan by you at home?

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Anyway guys thanks for reading this. Hope you guys can relate, I think most can lah. I'll try to blog more often, and maybe.....some other stuff if I can :D.

Till then, all the best for your MYE results!! Don't stress!!

@livinginsg

Why I hate facebook.

So it's been awhile.

Let's get straight to the point.

WHY I HATE FACEBOOK.

A few reasons, we all know facebook is dying down. It's become a place where assholes posts pictures of babies with serious illnesses, and ask for "likes"

Example.

"Look at this baby who is battling cancer, look how strong she is!!

Like=$1
Share=$1

Ignore if you don't have a heart"

Seriously? This is so disgusting, even more than Steven Lim's videos! Not only are these "pages" trying to get likes, they're also taking advantage of these babies/people to get sympathy likes.

And do you honestly think the one like equals to a dollar being given? FUCKING BULLCRAP.

I really hate those pages that post even those more gruesome pictures of babies that have deforms in/on their body. Pictures that I'M PRETTY SURE the parents would not want to be shown publicly on facebook or anywhere else.

This pages are out for the likes and comments that are given out of sympathy. People are pressure to like that photo or whatever just to feel like they've done something good. It's disgusting and shows what kind of fucked up society we live in.

Now and then there will be people commenting on these kind of pics and telling them off. I think that's what we all should do. When we see such a post, immediately go on and tell the rest of the people that they're just trying to exploit the children to get likes.

There are REAL ACTUAL WAYS of helping such kids. There are organizations and societies that specialise in taking care of such children and if you REALLY have a heart, donate to these TRUE groups of people that actually do something.

I'm sick and tired of seeing my facebook friends like all these photos and pictures. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with doing such a thing. But it's the people who started posting such pictures just to get likes are the people I really want to kill. They're shameless and don't know how to respect others.

If you're still reading up to this point, I just want to say I hope you've learned something here. If you share the same views as me I'm glad. If you think there's nothing wrong and disagree with everything I've said up there, I can't help it either. Anyway, thanks for reading my rant on this and I hope you guys look at this with a different perspective.

Peace, @livinginsg