I’ve been browsing Stomp.sg these days out of boredom, and I find that most entries are complaints. While  many of them are valid, some are just plain ridiculous and reflect Singaporeans’ tendency to complain about everything under the sun. Hmmm, perhaps it is because Singapore has such a warm, humid weather that predisposes our people to being hot tempered.

Take for example, this post by a parent on how a doctor is being ‘money-minded’ just because the clinic he went to wouldn’t see him prescription medication without the doctor seeing his son first. I wonder if he ever thought about the consequences if the clinic sells him the medicine, then something happens to his son (i.e. allergic reaction or something worse)… then it would be the doctor’s fault.

In fact, this man’s logic is skewed – the doctor would be ‘money-minded’ if he/she sells medicine without seeing patients first, not the other way round.

The two most common type of complaints seem to be those about poor parking etiquette and people who refuse to give up their seats on MRTs. Well, valid points were made about how Singapore would be a very slightly better place without such poor behaviour, but Stomp seems to be publishing too many similar, repetitive complaints. Someone left a comment on one of the Stomp pages about “Everyday got problem on mrt no better news lah .Damn this nation is getting pretty bored day by day.”. I actually agree… seems like Singaporeans either too bored, or, as I prefer to think – too repressed to be complaining about such small little things all the time.

Having said that, I do think that Stomp is doing a great job in allowing Singaporeans to air their views, and hopefully through reading about the bad experience of others, readers will become more conscious of their own behavior too.

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