"Are you happy" Posters pasted outside Raffles Places
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Does anyone saw the "Are you happy" posters pasted on the ground outside Raffles Place today, it is just beside The Arcade and Caltex house.
The artist truly understanding our feelings. It is so sad walking down that street every morning and lunch time. Nobody smiles, nobody talks, except the loud sound from both projector screen.
Does anyone have the pictures?
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if grafetti was allowed, some one would have written NO!!! in reply
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Our society does not yet appreciate the simple gestures that improve our days. A cheerful expression and a beaming 'good morning!' can go a long way to upping the mood at the start of a hectic day.
Yet our people continue the 'mind my own business' mentality, ignoring the friendly gestures that come our way.
In some aspects, 'pay it forward' might be a good concept to adopt: to extend a helping hand and expect nothing in return is a sign of true generosity, completely unlike our current calculative mindsets. -
isn't pay it for3ward just being calculative in another way?Originally posted by BillyBong:Our society does not yet appreciate the simple gestures that improve our days. A cheerful expression and a beaming 'good morning!' can go a long way to upping the mood at the start of a hectic day.
Yet our people continue the 'mind my own business' mentality, ignoring the friendly gestures that come our way.
In some aspects, 'pay it forward' might be a good concept to adopt: to extend a helping hand and expect nothing in return is a sign of true generosity, completely unlike our current calculative mindsets. -
There are FEW 'happy' people in SG, and it's getting fewer still...Originally posted by BillyBong:Our society does not yet appreciate the simple gestures that improve our days. A cheerful expression and a beaming 'good morning!' can go a long way to upping the mood at the start of a hectic day.
Yet our people continue the 'mind my own business' mentality, ignoring the friendly gestures that come our way.
In some aspects, 'pay it forward' might be a good concept to adopt: to extend a helping hand and expect nothing in return is a sign of true generosity, completely unlike our current calculative mindsets.
I need not explain WHY... -
The whole idea of pay it forward is to extend help to a stranger without self benefit, hoping that the stranger, upon receiving aid, will feel compelled to likewise offer his/her help to another without expecting anything in return.Originally posted by hisoka:isn't pay it for3ward just being calculative in another way?
Kinda of like spreading a 'positive' disease.
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If the people are truly happy, well-to-do and have wat we call "disposable happiness", our service and tourism industry would be in a much better shape than other East Asian countries. Unimaginable that it was still being touted as a shopping paradise a few years back.Originally posted by BillyBong:In some aspects, 'pay it forward' might be a good concept to adopt: to extend a helping hand and expect nothing in return is a sign of true generosity, completely unlike our current calculative mindsets. -
We do not yet have a balanced lifestyle, without the misguided and rabid pursuit of money. Thus we cannot expect Singaporeans to feel 'happy', or even have some indicator to measure our level of happiness.Originally posted by ^tamago^:If the people are truly happy, well-to-do and have wat we call "disposable happiness", our service and tourism industry would be in a much better shape than other East Asian countries. Unimaginable that it was still being touted as a shopping paradise a few years back.
Our relationship with the govt is also currently strained, no doubt by the controversial ministerial salary hikes, coupled by multiple cost increases ranging from public transportation, GST to property prices.
Until we find some equilibrium in our distorted sense of living, we cannot hope to be 'happy', or gracious enough to say 'hello' to the average stranger on the street. -
Yeah lor.Originally posted by BillyBong:Until we find some equilibrium in our distorted sense of living, we cannot hope to be 'happy', or gracious enough to say 'hello' to the average stranger on the street.
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if happiness is = $$$$ then alot of NO!!!!!!
Q: Are you happy that you are healthy and free from sickness?
A : YES
Q: Are you happy that your family are safe and sound?
A: YES
YES if you do not equate happiness with $$$
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Your happiness over Good Health, Security, and Family, will all go down the drain when you lose your job to a variety of reason - commonly to FTs and over saturation of job market.Originally posted by LinYu:if happiness is = $$$$ then alot of NO!!!!!!
Q: Are you happy that you are healthy and free from sickness?
A : YES
Q: Are you happy that your family are safe and sound?
A: YES
YES if you do not equate happiness with $$$
And of course, INFLATION brought on by Merry Price Hikings...
Moreover, it takes MONEY to have and maintain Happiness, and Health as well as Family.
No job, or inability to keep the job, equals no MONEY. -
well, in singapore if you are on your way to work and was walking along an alley and say good morning to a fellow passerby, they'll just give u a curious stare.. with that kind of reponse, how many people would actually want to say good morning?
thats the way society is in singapore...
'u go about doing your business & i go about doing mine' -
Talk about Common Courtesy and Mannerisms;
In the first place, people here lack 'culture'. By this I mean that although our gov and their system has brought up its people through the pursuit of Academics and Commerce, they neglected the need to Refine people.
People afterall were generally conditioned to Self-sufficient, Self-preserving, and basically every man to himself.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a No Free Lunch, and Non-Wlefare State.
Forget the smiles.... -
"If you care too much about Singapore, first itÂ’ll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart." With hindsight, he would have added, "And you could suddenly lose your job too."
http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/ -
I read that article by MR WANG previously.Originally posted by ^tamago^:"If you care too much about Singapore, first itÂ’ll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart." With hindsight, he would have added, "And you could suddenly lose your job too."
http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/
How sad that the more effort and passion you throw at trying to right some wrong, the more hopeless it all seems. Being DPP and trying his level best to correct the countless flaws in the LAW all seemed futile the moment his senior colleague told him to take it easy.
Guess there's only so much one can do. -
few happy elitesOriginally posted by ShutterBug:There are FEW 'happy' people in SG, and it's getting fewer still...
I need not explain WHY... -
The government will be so confounded by your apparent unhappiness. They are such an excellent government you know. Even the likes of Denmark and New Zealand have mediocre governments when compared to our great and almighty government... so what are you people so unhappy about?! PAP is doing a great job! Those numbers in the posters are chicken feed lah.
You guys need a dose of incompetent governing to know how great PAP is. Get out of my elite uncaring face. -
Life is tough in Sg but life still goes on, so, why don't we live happily and help make the days pleasant for others too?Originally posted by BillyBong:We do not yet have a balanced lifestyle, without the misguided and rabid pursuit of money. Thus we cannot expect Singaporeans to feel 'happy', or even have some indicator to measure our level of happiness.
Our relationship with the govt is also currently strained, no doubt by the controversial ministerial salary hikes, coupled by multiple cost increases ranging from public transportation, GST to property prices.
Until we find some equilibrium in our distorted sense of living, we cannot hope to be 'happy', or gracious enough to say 'hello' to the average stranger on the street. -
And in the process, encourage the tyrants and despots to continue with their daylight robbery?Originally posted by pearlie27:Life is tough in Sg but life still goes on, so, why don't we live happily and help make the days pleasant for others too? -
Hey, what happened to the poster picture? its been deleted?
Oh well, so much for freedom of speech.