We are miles & miles & miles...away from a gracious society

Am wondering if I did something accidentally to my settings cos all my blogspot's account all in Chinese now..

Anyway, was extremely irritated by some of my fellow Singaporeans this afternoon.
Was at the NUH food court & the following scenes just irked the hell out of me.

1. Hordes of people looking around for seats. Yet there were a few tables of people who were there just sitting around and chatting, oblivious to the stares of hungry hippos who were looking for places to sit & eat. Some hapless chaps were even carrying trays and walking around trying to find seats.
Felt like knocking some sense into those table-hoggers. So much so for the word "initiative".

2. Order Yong Tau Foo for my lunch, wanted something light after my BBQ yesterday. The lady in front of me took her own sweet time to take her cutlery, prepare her soya sauce, chilli sauce, sweet sauce...
My food came for me and the lady after me. And she was still taking her time, causing a jam cos there was only space for one tray to be placed there to colelct our food...

3. Was carrying my soup back to my table when a dumb auntie bumped into me, causing my soup to spill a little. And my bowl rice almost slid off my tray.
No word of sorry. No word of acknowledgement. Not even a glance at me. And she just walked on. "What the fuck?" I muttered under my breath.

4. Was sitting at my table still eating while my dad went to get his dessert.
A few moments after my dad vacated the seat, someone took it away. I shouted at the person, saying that it's occupied. To which that guy put it back and said sorry. Ok, at least he apologised.
But ain't the basic courtesy to ask first before taking???
Funnily, I saw the same scene at another table a few minutes later.

5. Similarly, there were others who were looking for seats, and when they saw an empty seat at a table, they just dumped their tray on the table & sat down. Without even asking if the seat was already occupied or not.

6.Then there were some peeps who were waiting for others to finish their food. So they stood right over those poor sods eating their lunch. Staring at them eat, glaring at them eat. How uncourteous can you be?


And I'm talking about people ranging from their 20s to 60s...whom I saw today committing such deeds...
I was extremely irritated..more than rightly so...
Anyway, started the day on the wrong side of bed also.

But if you ask whether we have the essence to become a gracious society...
No, not in a long time to come...