Burning Issues

Life's Burning Questions - Volume 1.

1. Why are today's NSF recruits carrying duffel bags with rollers on it? 2. Why are we seeing an influx of China girls as salespeople? 3. Why are those auxiliary police you see at the airport behave like they are the state police? 4. Why am i seeing a vast number of Suzuki Swift cars on the roads? 5. Why are the touts/people who stopped you on your tracks at the mrt station/bus interchange getting more aggressive and shove useless 30 cents pens for $2 in the name of charity? 6. Why is it everytime you pump petrol at the kiosk, the pump attendant insist on wiping your car, and sometimes, despite the heavy rain outside? 7. Why do Suria Channel keep having re-run programmes? 8. Why does Denise Keller have such an extra huge mouth (like you can keep a Nintendo Wii set in it)? 9. Why isn't Old Changi Hospital torn down yet? 10. Why can't women take out their ez-link cards and tap instead of keeping it in their handbags and swing back & forth trying to scan it, and holding people up in the process? 11. Why do people park like an idiot and taking up the next lot's space? 12. Why do Singaporeans like to complain? 13. Why are there no great local shows now like there used to be in the 90's(Growing Up, Under One Roof, The Ra Ra Show, Asia Bagus...)? 14. Why didn't anyone pointed out that Israel used to be known as Palestine(because Israel stole their land, thus rename it as theirs, today)? 15. Why isn't there a cure for HIV or a truly effective medicine to fight cancer? 16. Why do headphones wires get entangled by itself? 17. Why can't more money notes just be printed to solve economic recession? 18. Why does the Pizza/McDonalds delivery boys have to speed without caution on the roads? 19. Why is it that a prolific Malaysian ex-minister keep bashing Singapore? 20. Why is it that we keep pressing the snooze button when the alarm rings, and promising to wake up in another 5 minutes and oversleep as a result? 21. Why does the MRT track ends at Pasir Ris? 22. Why do we still call ourselves conservative when the sex trade in geylang, changi and deskar is active, and home-made sex videos starring teens make its round freely and furiously? 23. Why are the vehicles getting involved in accidents are always Mitsubishi Evo and Subaru WRX? 24. Why do people still queue up at the post office and 7-eleven to pay bills when AXS and SAM machines are accessible and efficient, and within proximity? 25. Why aren't there any freakin' weapon of mass destruction located, Bush? 26. Why is every single piece of vacant land in Tampines being utilized for residential/commercial purposes? Isn't it too claustrophobic to be surrounded by buildings in every directions? 27. Why do we have to discriminate against drag queens, lesbians and gays when just like you can't expect a straight to be bent, you also can't force them to change to fit society's social norm of thoughts...it's not a choice, it's inborn... 28. Why is everything in Singapore too perfect, structured and ultra cosmopolitan? I mean, even the last of standing villages are wiped out...are we getting too uptight? 29. Why are the actors' genitals in Japanese porn flicks pixellated? 30. Why do people have over 500 to thousands of 'friends' in their social networking site when 90% of the are total strangers and that they are there just to make up the numbers and figures?

Are you with me on any of these? These hot and searing issues are driving me to a corner. That's me. The Grouch. I know you second me on this post. I am not irked, just baffled. Just furnishing you the diabolical aspect of life. My blog is never beauty and fancy. I am sharing life as it is and that it ain't all glossed over and glistening. I am redefining blogging and when you can resonate with issues that i hung out to dry, i know i have done something worthwhile, be it by touching a raw nerve, addressing issues or engaging your mind into participating in sharing sentiments. Let's wrap the month in a good note and bid January a warm goodbye.