Punctuality 

There aren't many things that will help in making my day bad, unfortunately waiting for a friend who is late is one of them. I truly despise tardiness.

My toleration for waiting a tardy friend is actually quite high; I had waited for 1 hour or more previously. Honestly I wouldn't mind to wait, but not this frequent. I know it probably isn't true, but in the midst of me sillily waiting for you, the thought that you are being disrespectful to others people time just makes me wonder if you are a self-important person. Having the chance to know a person more this way is certainly not very efficient.

 I'm sick of having to wait for you every time we have a meeting, so I decided to return you the favor, too--by reversing our role. You be the one who waits and I be the tardy friend. But there is a flaw, I don't like to play this kind of game. I like to go meet my friends relaxed, thinking of having fun etc; not having to plan this bullshit waiting game. I'm not 100% convinced that this is hurting our relationship(at least to you)in anyway, except I've become more inclined to go out with you less.

I know you have your reasons(but they are lame) for being late every time, but the thing that is bothering me is, you always have a reason.

R.I.P Mr.Lee Kuan Yew


Tomorrow is Friday. This is no ordinary Friday, it is the third day Singaporean get to pay their respect to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew at Parliament House. Mr. Lee passed away on Monday morning. I don't know much about him, maybe because I'm a failed Singaporean or simply because I'm lazy. To summarize my understanding of him, it would be "without him, Singapore wouldn't be the Singapore we know today."

Besides me, there are of course "qualified" Singapore Citizen. Unlike me, they are way more enthusiastic than me in grieving over Mr.Lee's death. Parliaments House, which is holding Mr.Lee's body, it's queue said to have been taking more than 8 hours to reach the entrance. Actually, I thought of joining the crowd, but when I heard how absurdly long the queue was, as much as I want to pay my respect to Mr.Lee, it was really tough imaging myself standing in the queue for more than 8 hours just waiting to sign my name and bow to a person's remain that I had so little understand in. This is why I have some opinions on the people who was in the queue.

The queue was long, this is a good sign, that probably meant Singaporeans are uniting. That is good for Singapore's growth. The thing is puzzling me is, how many of those have more understanding in Mr.Lee than I do? I doubt the amount would go pass 1/4 of the people queuing. Mr.Lee is 91 years old. Most of his early contribution were done more than 20 years ago. That's right, older than many of the people in the queue.
Even for the older ones, most of the contributions done by Mr.Lee were even known among those people.

So, how the hell were they willing to stuck in the queue for almost half a day? I don't have evident to support me, the following answer is just my assumption. Singaporeans are KIASU. That strange word means"afraid of losing out".

Can you imagine when you went to work on Monday and your colleague sitting beside you asked you if you were at the queue for the parliament house last week and your answer can only be no because you didn't make an effort to join the queue? Can you imagine all the people you knew on Facebook were posting their condolences, picture of themselves near Parliament house and them being part of the queue and you looked at your album all you found were the Banana Splits that you had that afternoon? No?

Congratulation, you are a qualified Singaporean.


(By no mean I'm disrespecting Singaporean or Mr.Lee's death, I just thought people should pay more attention be more aware of their intention when doing certain things.)