Dial in Now!!

I was in the train the last few days, the one thing that I noticed was that people have a tendency to cluster together no matter how uncomfortable it is. It is quite funny because, the amount of space that I have between the next passenger was like twice larger than the next carriage.

Maybe they really enjoy smelling the armpits of the next person and I suspect that they were afraid of speaking out of line than they are of standing next to a person maybe whom it is unfamiliar. But the funny thing is that in spite of the effort to make themselves smaller, they make themselves heard louder than the person next to me that he was almost whispering.

I really have no qualms about where they wish to stand, sit or even squat so long as they realised that people can see, smell and touch you. But sometimes, they look at people like they were some freak show- and that is exactly what makes them so insipid.

They are curious like an auntie in a market, pressing and touching the fish but have no intention to buy at all. It's perfectly fine if you don't wish to buy, but do not spoil it for the next person.

I was with this Caucasian guy opposite me, an Indian guy in front of me, some Filipinos somewhere, but some young kids standing and looking at some freaks in a carriage. This to me is very impolite.

If you do not feel comfortable, you don't need to look from the corner from eye, laughing among yourself and making some joke and trying to attract attention to yourself without really trying to do anything.

Do not treat others like they are in a zoo, because trust me others will treat you the same way when you overseas.

I really tend to agree what people say about Singaporeans- we are "cheena-pok", we are so afraid of everything that our instant reaction is either to be very loud- like some "Chinaman" just that we say it in English or alternatively pretend that the person doesn't exist or used this idea of numbers game. We are the more there are, the more fearless we get. This is like some juvenile gang by the street corner.

To be quite honest with you, we don't have an etiquette, we don't have charm, and we don't have anything going for us that make us very likable.

We think we are the best for a reason that escapes me when all we have going is that we clustering together that's all. Sometimes, I feel very embarrassed to be called a local. Everyone comes here to make money but have no idea what we do and the only thing that gets us going is the likelihood that some foreigner will bring us some sales. We make more money than most developed countries and we act like some hungry rats in the sewer sometimes. Rushing around like there was gold in the train or train.

Any train station is like a microcosm of Singapore society. You won't see the well-suited on weekends which would drive on weekends and leave them out on weekdays. But you will this close proximity everyone so angry. The young kids pisses off the old folks so much that it is like they looked resigned to the fate of the random behaviour of these children.

You can almost see the resignation across their face on the lack of manners and sometimes, a frown on how some young kids carry themselves. Personally I might have been out of touch since I have been caught up with things like about making money or seeing things practically, but even when I see online, the things coming out- like hatred and "please die" messages are like entertainment. No one takes all these seriously. And I don't expect anyone to take this seriously as well even the kids themselves. I am not sure whether the kids expect the older folks to be intimidated just by saying this type of "taboo" subjects- but let me be honest with you, it often manifest into the behaviour described above. Anything different is like a freak show.

Internet did not open their minds, that I can assure to the parents, but what they did was give them the tools to irritate people without trying to do anything. I watch videos on Internet and I also have some of those social media accounts but let me assure that the internet has a lot of information- a lot of them free, and don't use and watch all of them like it was unfliltered channels.

I was there even you knew what IRC was, I have even met people on IRC. And I also watch porn on the internet even before you guys know about playstation. They came in gif files and they were not "photoshopped" they were simply cut and paste onto naked bodies of famous people. I never got Lan gaming because I never liked anything I can do in real life which I have to do virtually. That's why I know you guys who flamed without any identity, sit in their own rooms with nothing better to do and cannot articulate anything to anyone face to face.

Internet is very useful, what you cannot get in real life cannot be gratified online. I don't want to sound like a grandfather lecturing, but I come from a generation when internet came in dial up and we have pagers before we have handphones. We have seen how this whole internet thing came from infancy without the baggage of a typewriter and letters. This makes me and my peers uniquely equipped to tell you that what you have now is simply what we did quite rudimentary. Do you know what does 1 177155 4 on the pager: It means I miss you.

We know exactly what you have in your mind and with all these equipments, This is nothing more than the same extension of the same spirit only  

We have our ways and so we know what exactly you guys have in your mind. There isn't a need to try to even fool what you guys do online. We were there even before you came from your mother's womb.

And so even if you try anything funny, we already go there way before you guys did.

At this current moment, we are abit slower on this account because we never quite needed them in the first place and that we spend more time outside than we on the computer because it was so slow and the games so rudimentary that it was so easy to master them.

There wasn't such thing call online gaming until way later and in order to come together, we had to come together and we have to pre-arranged a time because not everyone has a cellphone.

My suggestion in the future is that, don't messed around with your older brothers and sisters, you can fool your parents, you probably cannot fool us. We download free music and movies online even way before you guys have youtube and make yourself famous.

This means that we listening to eminemen even before you heard of "one direction". Hence for crying out loud, I think in the future, you try to outsmart anyone one of us, my suggestion is to run a quick check with your older brothers how does a 56 kpbs dial in modem sounds like and how does dos screen looks like too.