if you think that singaporeans are getting more educated and more informed about current affairs, you're probably right..afterall, there is a new sort of paper chase in town and everyone is eligible for it; young and old, smart and not-so-smart, rich and bankrupt, literate and illiterate (yep, that's correct folks..you can now chase paper even if you cannot read or write! wait..make that, even if you cannot read AND write!). this is the "free newspaper" chase (the essential thing here is not so much that it is a "paper chase" but that it is free. thus explaining the slack criteria for "admission")!
in the mornings as i walk up tanjong pagar mrt station to get to the surface, i always watch with amusement as executives in nice office wear and suits mix with the aunties and uncles chasing after the "TODAY" and "My Paper" distributors! just stand back and watch, it is really quite funny - especially the parts when the distributors go back for a "top up" and a whole gang of executives follow in pursuit to the "top up" area (putting the pied piper of hamelin to shame in the process)! but that is the only funny bit about this chase..the sad truth is, though highly educated and some highly paid, these people are mostly not so highly courteous! from the way they grab the papers from the distributors to the way they give demanding stares to get the papers and after all that, not a word of "thank you" or a smile..it is quite a disgrace..and how about those who take more than one copy? i mean, honestly, do you think you become more knowledgeable when you read more copies of the same news from the same paper? maybe that's why it is called "current" affairs, you read it once, the paper become giam chai and the information within disintegrates together with the quality of the paper, so must read a brand new copy to stay "current"! oh yeah, and not forgetting those people-who-make-full-use-of-time, the mrt can be packed to the brim and everyone else is squeezing..but these wonderful people-who-make-full-use-of-time will somehow still have acres of space around them to keep their newspapers wide open, oblivious to the chaos around them!
it is really a shame that as people become more educated, they demand more of others but they forget to give just a little bit back..even something as simple as courtesy. i don't want to sound like i am running a courtesy campaign but the sad fact of the matter is singaporeans are becoming habitually discourteous..meaning a lot of them behave like that, without the intention to actually project themselves that way. in fact, i know of lots of people who are genuinely nice but when put in a "paper chase" situation, they become just like any other ugly singaporean.
coincidentally, some smartie decided to name one of these free newspapers "My Paper" - not his, not hers, not yours..but my, MY MY MY!
Give me My Paper, TODAY, NOW*!
*"NOW", a new free publication by addy for the ugly singaporeans who cannot wait to get their hands on the very latest news, not yesterday's, not this morning's, not even the second that just passed but NOW! Now, is that current or what!
in the mornings as i walk up tanjong pagar mrt station to get to the surface, i always watch with amusement as executives in nice office wear and suits mix with the aunties and uncles chasing after the "TODAY" and "My Paper" distributors! just stand back and watch, it is really quite funny - especially the parts when the distributors go back for a "top up" and a whole gang of executives follow in pursuit to the "top up" area (putting the pied piper of hamelin to shame in the process)! but that is the only funny bit about this chase..the sad truth is, though highly educated and some highly paid, these people are mostly not so highly courteous! from the way they grab the papers from the distributors to the way they give demanding stares to get the papers and after all that, not a word of "thank you" or a smile..it is quite a disgrace..and how about those who take more than one copy? i mean, honestly, do you think you become more knowledgeable when you read more copies of the same news from the same paper? maybe that's why it is called "current" affairs, you read it once, the paper become giam chai and the information within disintegrates together with the quality of the paper, so must read a brand new copy to stay "current"! oh yeah, and not forgetting those people-who-make-full-use-of-time, the mrt can be packed to the brim and everyone else is squeezing..but these wonderful people-who-make-full-use-of-time will somehow still have acres of space around them to keep their newspapers wide open, oblivious to the chaos around them!
it is really a shame that as people become more educated, they demand more of others but they forget to give just a little bit back..even something as simple as courtesy. i don't want to sound like i am running a courtesy campaign but the sad fact of the matter is singaporeans are becoming habitually discourteous..meaning a lot of them behave like that, without the intention to actually project themselves that way. in fact, i know of lots of people who are genuinely nice but when put in a "paper chase" situation, they become just like any other ugly singaporean.
coincidentally, some smartie decided to name one of these free newspapers "My Paper" - not his, not hers, not yours..but my, MY MY MY!
Give me My Paper, TODAY, NOW*!
*"NOW", a new free publication by addy for the ugly singaporeans who cannot wait to get their hands on the very latest news, not yesterday's, not this morning's, not even the second that just passed but NOW! Now, is that current or what!