My dislikes, (and I concur with several earlier posters):
- 1, must be how they don't look where they're going and will walk right into you, it's like they're blind or oblivious or something. But then if you're 250lbs (which I am) they kinda bounce off you (:)), then sometimes they get really PUBLICLY irritated that *you walked into them*. I even had an erm 'animated' chat with some damn fool chick last year in Toa Payoh HUB (yes, very public, most un-Asian hor!!). I walk fast, so am used to plotting a course through a crowd, and I could see from yards away she was oblivious and going to walk into me, so - just for a change - I let her do it. After she bounced off me from not even having looked at me/where she was going at all. Then she basically went mental in front of hundreds of others! [Expect she won't forget my 'words of advice' for a few years to come hehe. The suggestion she look where she was going just left her looking bewildered and confused]
1A - The way they never seem to look where they're going. But suddenly when getting into the MRT they are all pinpoint, and sharp elbows
- 2, Supermarket tourists. Why are so many people, even in NTUC, behaving like they're in some special exhibition at the British Museum? Get all this clutter out, and you'd do your shopping 50% more quickly
- 3 Aunties that have to pick through every single piece of broccoli at the grocer. Then when they have picked a head, they pick off minuscule leaves on the stem, perhaps taking 5 minutes but saving 0.1 cent, which they won't get as not even one cent coin is used any more. Just means by noon, every piece of veg on the rack has been handled by 100 aunties.... yuk.
-4 That they can't use grass-cutters with cutting boxes on. Cutting the
condo lawn takes hours with a strimmer. Then hours more for 'Blower-man' to do what ever he does. There seems little appreciation of peace and quiet, when a cutter w/box could do all of this in 10 minutes, they merrily take 8 hours destroying the peace.
[And it's going on right now as I type!!]
-5 No concept of 'switching off'. Constant noise and construction everywhere. New malls on Orchard Road every 3 months, where none are needed.
- 6 The arrogance of bureaucracy. It seems that rather often, anyone with any kind of management role becomes a clipboard nazi. The management at my condo are absolute ****'s for example.
You also see this in how you might have an issue with your online banking, or ICA (only on line!) process, and how when you get to speak to someone they simply won't, or can't, believe their sparkly new online service does not work as intended. A couple of years ago I spent 2-3 months trying to convince ICA their online EPEC site did not work. Like something from Monty Python, but their arrogance was the lasting beacon.
-7 The way the climate makes so much of my belongings rot before me. I've leather belts I cleaned down with Lysol to get mold off three times in a single year. Now I've just given up. But I'm sick of throwing out clothes just because of irredeemable red-spot mold
- 8 The psycho taxi drivers. Who will for example change lanes, solely to stop others moving ahead of them
We'll leave it there. There are obviously things I DO like about SG, we'll get to that next....
. . . isn't it orgasmic when an old lady gets whacked in the head with a door . . . 
Or even better, when the wheelchair or pram gets a good thump and goes flying. 
