no i'm saying why didn't ts tell the expat that the seats were taken already instead of waiting for the expat to be an ass to say something.
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no i'm saying why didn't ts tell the expat that the seats were taken already instead of waiting for the expat to be an ass to say something.
D100S
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I guess its the response... "no you're not!". Its the way many expats normally answer you when they believe they are right. This might be OT, but when I brought my school kids to Perth during the dec hols, we were given a hard time by the locals while clearing immigration because we followed the instructions by their airport police or immigration officers. Seeing that we were a big group consisting of 30 11 year old kids, they let us go through the queue meant for locals. A group of locals, which included a migrated probably Singaporean chinese lady and her two kids, came behind us and started barraging us with comments to the effect that we just do not follow rules. I tried to explain and the words "NO YOU'RE NOT!" came out strong. I called all my kids to get back and allow them to go to the front but the officers stopped me and told me to move on. He then apologised to the people and so on and so forth.
I have come across many situations where expats try to outdo locals in queues and so on. Funny thing is that the locals in the middle will normally be on their sides until we speak out for our rights. The problem is, we sometimes allow such things to happen.
I have come across many situations where expats try to outdo locals in queues and so on. Funny thing is that the locals in the middle will normally be on their sides until we speak out for our rights. The problem is, we sometimes allow such things to happen.
no la your case the chinese lady was just being a bitch who thought you got special treatment and never look at why you were allowed to go to the other q. what to do people anywhere are like that one. this one has nothing to do with expats wanting to outdo locals.
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vince123123
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That's interesting, I'll go look around and pocket free tissue paper hehe 
I don't often go to Harbourfront though;and Vivocity doesn't seem to practice that.
I don't often go to Harbourfront though;and Vivocity doesn't seem to practice that.
conquer500
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tissue paper is the worst act IMHO
most selfish kind of people available, can see that all the time in shenton way.
Hahahaaha happened to me too by a young girl, many people here tend not to want to share things.......all for me me me me , and she was a young girl (about 18) :-(, imagine how she would become later
So how are you going to eat if there are no seats?, standing? It is just that those who reserve with tissues came in earlier than you lah!
I guess it happened quite fast? Example, I'm just eating my stuff and someone comes along to just take the bags and put it on the floor, first impressions on my mind will be "is this his friend?" then just as he was thinking, the owner who was standing nearby spoke up. That's what I imagined it to be.
Anyway, by telling how uncool that was, was really cool :thumbsup:
It does not matter, if it your are dealing with aunties or a foreigner. Who cares? If somebody is giving you bullshit, you should stand for what is right. And I agree with the fact that in Singapore (replace by what country you like) you do like the Singaporeans (replace by what nationality you like).
Now, me too, I love the free tissues everytime I go to the Food court.:bsmilie: So nice of them ! Constant flow, never ends ! :bsmilie:
Now, me too, I love the free tissues everytime I go to the Food court.:bsmilie: So nice of them ! Constant flow, never ends ! :bsmilie:
just like le can :bsmilie::bsmilie:
i can only say selfishness is in everyone's blood...regardless of race or nationality...
this reminds me of my true experience few years back at koh samui :
the resort I stayed in was full of caucasians and I think me
and my spouse were the only Asians. The resort's beach chairs were quite
limited and those ang mohs always "choop" the beach chairs with their
personal belongings (slippers, towels...etc) and then disappeared for days !!
So those ppl who want to have some tanning and didnt manage to reserve
the beach chairs will have to lie on the sand beach while those slippers and
towels lie comfortably on the beach chairs.
Then the next day, we saw the same things laying on the same beach
chairs again. Apparently the owners had left their personal belongings
there overnight just to reserve the beach chairs.
On the third day, we really buay tahan liao when we saw those things still on
the beach chairs, so we asked the resort staff to either collect those things
from the beach chairs or provide us with more chairs. The resort staff bo pian
have to collect and safe keep those things and let us have the beach chairs.
Then when we were enjoying our sun tanning on the beach chairs, the
owners of the slippers and towels finally decided to come out from their
hibernation and confronted us "what are you doing on my beach chairs? "
(yeah, they hv the cheek to say its "their" beach chairs, as if they owned it)
We took a look at them but continued to lie there not moving cos too lazy
to open our mouths to argue with these kind of ppl, so the rude couple have
to LL walk away and I guess they went to complain to the resort staff.
So our way of "chooping" seats in the hawker centres by using a pack of
tissue is really nothing compared to their way reserving beach chairs.
this reminds me of my true experience few years back at koh samui :
the resort I stayed in was full of caucasians and I think me
and my spouse were the only Asians. The resort's beach chairs were quite
limited and those ang mohs always "choop" the beach chairs with their
personal belongings (slippers, towels...etc) and then disappeared for days !!
So those ppl who want to have some tanning and didnt manage to reserve
the beach chairs will have to lie on the sand beach while those slippers and
towels lie comfortably on the beach chairs.
Then the next day, we saw the same things laying on the same beach
chairs again. Apparently the owners had left their personal belongings
there overnight just to reserve the beach chairs.
On the third day, we really buay tahan liao when we saw those things still on
the beach chairs, so we asked the resort staff to either collect those things
from the beach chairs or provide us with more chairs. The resort staff bo pian
have to collect and safe keep those things and let us have the beach chairs.
Then when we were enjoying our sun tanning on the beach chairs, the
owners of the slippers and towels finally decided to come out from their
hibernation and confronted us "what are you doing on my beach chairs? "
(yeah, they hv the cheek to say its "their" beach chairs, as if they owned it)
We took a look at them but continued to lie there not moving cos too lazy
to open our mouths to argue with these kind of ppl, so the rude couple have
to LL walk away and I guess they went to complain to the resort staff.
So our way of "chooping" seats in the hawker centres by using a pack of
tissue is really nothing compared to their way reserving beach chairs.
They become like those aunties mentioned :sweat:
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vince123123
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If you're alone, you wait with your food. If you're with someone, then the someone can reserve the seat first. But any unattended tissue packets or belongings will be removed without prior notice to the owners.
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vince123123
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vince123123
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Can you explain how can anyone ascertain whether the items belong to someone else, or whether they have been abandoned?
D100S
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Is it? Maybe I was just saying about expats saying "No you're not!"? Your guess! Its about THEIR attitude... not just outdoing locals... Can? Did I break any law in this so-called kopitiam forum?
Thanks.
wa you get so worked up for what? all i said was she was being bitchy in the way she acted. you react like you kena stab.
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