Random Ramblings

When wanting to “raise funds for charity or a charity project”, one must be sure that it is such. This is just an unfortunate accident – not a valid charity project, in my humble opinion. If you would just hear me out before throwing raw eggs (or spam in my direction)

There are people writing into The Straits Times’ forum about how the government needs to look into these escalator incidents. As far as I know, there is only a handful that exists in recent time; I probably can count them on one hand.

Every time I go out, I will definitely have at least one run in with kids that are playing in places that they should not. They run amok around shopping malls, in restaurants and many other places and the parents just sit there and do nothing. Or they tell the maid off for not controlling the children. It makes me wonder, who gave birth to those kids.

I’m more likely to believe that the parents were not watching the child when the shoe got caught in the escalator, causing the toe to be ripped off. As my friend said, if that happened to her child, her husband would blame her for not watching the child properly. As it is, we have warning labels on escalators – not to stand too near the sides, to stand within the yellow bar area, to hold the handrail, to not play on the escalator, for adults to hold the child’s hand – all of which are common sense that should be applied regardless.

What else do we need? Every time I see a coffee cup that comes with the warning “Caution, contains hot drink” (or something similar) I just want to roll on the floor laughing. I feel like companies are dumbing me down – but I understand their need to do so, coz others can’t seem to figure it out on their own. Some guy got burnt by his tea or coffee from McDonald’s – he sued McD’s and actually won; which is probably why their cups come with that warning label.

How soon are we going to learn to stop whining and just realize that the Singapore government isn’t here to baby you? It just seems that everyone wants the government or someone to step in when something goes wrong. The snack deli opposite yours didn’t closed down and your business is suffering – what do you do, complain to the media in hopes of getting some attention. If you didn’t do enough research before committing to a shop location, your child hurts themselves because you weren’t watching them carefully or you burn yourself when you spilt hot drink on yourself, I say it’s your fault.

Don’t keep finding someone to blame; have the courage to realize that it was your mistake, fix it and move on.

P.S. Another person with a similar take on the situation – tho person has anger towards footwear too as well. The blog post can be found here