5.40pm Tues 29 June 2021
I notice Singaporeans, due to their small village mentality, cannot discern situations before offending people. That's how they get people angry with them. Examples: red T-shirts "Ambassadors" and security personnel.
Hurt and anger directed at them can be easily avoided if they only use their brains.
For instance, just now I was sitting away from the crowd to a quieter area at Vivocity board walk on street level. I was taking out a piece of pita bread and just about to spread some pepper tuna with a spoon when I heard a security male call from across the pond, "Auntie! Wear mask after you eat Ok?".
??? He called me what? I looked up at him, really displeased. My meal totally ruined, my mood for some peace completely gone.
What a stupid, hateful man.
I said, "I am not 'auntie'. Don't call me 'auntie '." and turned back to my food.
Just as we don't appreciate racism, don't insult people based on age-discrimination.
I don't even know him. We are not related in any way. I have 2 university degrees (what has he got?). I just want some peace to quietly eat my meal and get a decent Wi-Fi connection from being closer to Sentosa.
Why insult me? I haven't even taken a bite of my pita bread. And he's telling me to wear my mask "after" I have finished. Come on. You cannot let me eat in peace first?
Of course after eating, I will put my mask back on. Needless to say. He is so free walking back and forth just like the library "service ambassador" that he can't wrap his brain around that and must say useless things.
How would you feel if someone tells you off at your meal?
I wished that when it is his turn to eat, his food will drop to the floor.
As a person, regardless of race or age, you gotta have common sense. Where is the benefit in getting a stranger angry with you? The anger directed at you is bad. Why incur it?
The better course of action is to walk away first. Let the person eat. Give the person some space since it's obvious the person wants to be alone from the crowd. Then after a suitable time, walk back. If by then, the person didn't wear a mask, then tell him/her nicely. Just say, "Please wear your mask. ". That's all. No need to call the person any age-discriminatory terms.
It's just simple consideration towards another person. It's also self-preservation from people's anger and hate and evil eye towards you.
There is no difference between the Anti-Chinese/anti-Asian racism in the Netherlands and Europe, and the age discrimination in Singapore. Both are attacks on people.
I regret that because I feared racist attacks in Amsterdam, I let the plane fly without me. I should have left.
Very tired of Singapore. No meaning. All fakery and illusions. I am sure the poor woman who lost her son to the army understands this all too well. She made a terrible mistake in inculcating the wrong ideas in her son, resulting in his death.
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