Thursday, July 27, 2006
"excuse me, say sorry, please?"
i suddenly find myself very ashamed to be a singaporean. On my way to work this morning, whilst waiting in front of the exit door to alight, this guy just thumped down from the upper deck, bumped me and pushed his way out when the door opened. No sorry..no excuse me...instead what i got was a glare...
i realised that glare was not uncommon... they glare when they bumped into you as if its your fault..they glare at you for taking too long to alight the train when they are trying to get it...(and the reason you took so long in the first place is cos they were all standing at the face of the door and you just cant get out)... they glare at you for blocking their way when they want to get in the lift (and the incident is same as the train incident)...they glare at you for making the elevator at MRt stations delayed while you try to lead your grandmother in. all this are personal experiences.. i dunno if im just the unlucky one....no excuse me...no sorry...no please...no thank you....
are singaporeans really such a rude lot? ive been in australia for three years while i was studying... there even the bus drivers will greet you...and people will actually say bye and thank you to the driver when alighting...do they have extensive courtesy campaign like we do in singapore? its just sad that our society and our people do not seem to know or understand basic courtesy...
we are always proud of our eastern values...most of the time we feel that eastern values family more. Being an easterner means we respect our elders and as such we always treat them with the utmost respect where we will include them in most decisions we make in our life..whereas western culture in very much different... they value independence and personal space and responsibility... but have you ever wondered why we need courtesy campaigns in the first place...and are they effective??
Darnisha â¥
10:37 AM
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
S. I.
Jus realised that the two alphabets seemed quite popular now eh... SI singapore idol...CSI..CSI miami..CSI New york oh well that doesnt count does it...NCIS...tho its the other way around.. (there she goes...vomitting thrash..) aniways... been looking through the singapore idols blogs... its interesting... the SI2 with all the blogs and all the extensive roadshows... it kinda made them look less like a celebrity and more like a normal everyday person...someone you can easily reach to.. someone you can connect with...cos they could be the girl or guy next door.. i remembered the days where celebrities are the untouchables... nobody noes what they are like unless interviewed... even then not their true persona is portrayed... with the SI blogs, we get to know them for who they are... at times, its easy to put on a front during interviews.. television or radio or otherwise... with blogging, their true personality tends to shine through... they may try to cover it up and write in the third person but it will still show a little of their character... and its really interesting... well oh well oh well..... whilst reading through.. i find them really intersting... i mean i have always supported nurul... i think she is such a Happy Goober... using her words..hehe.. but what i find really interesting was that they seem to be able to get along real fine.. unlike some reality shows where there are always back-biting and stuff going on... then again i sat and think... the power of editting.. not everything you watch on tv are real.. one person may be upset at some thing...but they edited it is such a way that made it look like there was a heated argument that caused the person to be upset in the first place.. hypothetically speaking tho.. i have had a fren who was in film and TV and involved with editing and stuff.. and it was that easy to do it... the editing and putting things together to make it look like something else... so wats real wats not in the entertainment business.... you would never noe would ya?.. if you did, the TV mafia gonna have to kill ya...toodles
Darnisha â¥
2:34 PM
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
life as i know it...
my life as i know it might be coming to an end... as i ponder on the disasters around in the world, i feel the anxiety creeping up into me... slowly but surely... life as we all know it is coming to an end.... slowly yet surely... people are dying... for no reasons.. for certain reasons..they are all falling like flies... fall down bicycle die... fall down during phys ed die... accident die... accident with wild boar die... one by one... slowly but surely... as i sit and think of when my turn will be, this thought crosses my mind... am i ready??... ready to face my maker?... ready to answer for all the things i did in my life good and bad... a big big NO resounding in my head... hell no im not ready... i don think i have done enough good deeds to warrant a go straight to heaven pass from the Boss... am i gonna do anything about it?... sure...slowly but surely....
Darnisha â¥
3:59 PM
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006
life is.....
all about life... dats wat i want to talk about today... hope things go better today.. after yesterday's debacle with the internet connection... aarrggghhh.. dat was a bummer...i shall now begin from the start.. as much as i can remember at least...
firstly i apologise to my sisters for reading their blogs... hey wait a minute.. i do not need to apologise.. why put up a blog if you don want anyone to read it?.. baaahh...apology taken back.. :p ....aniway..i had to agree with my sis.. she hit it rite on the nail when she said our mother was a tyrant in her younger years.. she has since toned down a hundred notches on the tyrant scale tho but at that point... oh man oh man... wat im getting at is that, that made us who we are today.. we are survivors... put us aniwhere and we can and will survive.. ride through the storm unscathed except for a few bruises and scratches here and there...
y did i bring up all this?... my sis wrote that my 9yr old male cousin bawled his eyes out when his mum went off to work..she said we never felt that way... and i agree yet again... when my mum left for work, i was happy to left to my own devices at my grandparent's.. where i get all the freedom to roam free...back to my cousins.. well.. they are a little different.. not only do they cry like its the end of the world, they would call the mum every few mintues.. no matter if the mum is busy working.. expecting the mum to always be able to answer the phone.. and if the phone is not answered, they will hang on the phone.. walking ard, sulking with this big sad expression on their faces and start to blink back some tears and all...
left me to wonder... what if something happened to the mum?... wat would happen to them? .. how would they take it?.. how would they go on with their lives then?... i remembered the day my father breathed his last...i remembered it like it was yesterday... remembered sitting by his deathbed day and night...remembered feeling so tired... so weary... i actually whispered into my dad's ears... told him "go..just go.. just leave us.. we can take care of ourselves..we can take care of mak..don't worry..just go"
now.. im not some unfeeling bitch... i was afraid that he was hanging on for our sakes.. that he was worried abt us.. i did not want him to suffer any further... i hated seeing the suffering that he had to go through..so i asked him to go.. and when it was over, i felt relieved that it was finally over... again i say i m not some unfeeling bitch... i was just so tired...my point of bringing this up is... when the time comes for them, would they be able to let go?...well only time will tell..
One year on... expectations still not fulfilled.. yearnings not met... unhappiness surfaces..feel like giving up.. feel like letting go..feel like leaving it all behind...do not want to face it anymore.. dun want to deal with it anymore.. watever it is, i just want to leave it all behind.. just want to be left alone....JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!!... dun want to continue anymore.. dun want to feel like this anymore..i hate being like this.. hate being stuck... feelings to love slowly sliding away.. slowly bein replaced by uncertainty.. by doubt..dislike..
Darnisha â¥
4:30 PM
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
crap!!!
im so bloody angry rite now.. im so bloody angry with the internet connection..
ive typed my post.. a whole long one... and it went POOFF!!!...
aarrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darnisha â¥
11:59 AM
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