Everywhere i go, i hear Singaporeans complain about a lot of things, but i never hear them come up with concrete or positive solutions, or win win situations.
There's a few complains that i heard that have win win situation solutions i can hand u over on a golden platter: Loud neighbours, u all know them, loud footsetps, loud TV, those kind of neighbours,...
Now i know that from u'r culture, u have to say love thy neighbour no matter what and leave them alone and do not meddle or complain to them (instead u complain behind their backs, wich isn't anny better) sooo...
Do the right thing from now on, REALLY LOVE U'R NEIGHBOUR , example, the people who step loud, are actually in "danger", no not immediate danger , but overtime danger, medical danger, explanation, if u step loud u give a shock to u'r spine each time, so the disc that connects each bone in u'r spine gets slowly dammaged, wich in time will result in lower back aches.
And if that wasn't reason enough to ask u'r neighbour to step less loud, here is a second medical reason, if u step loud u not only dammage u'r spine , but u also dammage u'r blood cells, yes indead, when u step too hard, u crush bloodcells causing annemia, more bloodcells get crushed a day, then u'r body can make, annemia is too lightly taken in this country, i noticed that the treshold u'r docters take as acceptable is totally unacceptable in Europe.
And then thirdly, the last reason to ask u'r neighbour to stop walking loudly, osteoporosis, yes by the reason above, people who alreadey eat as bad as u do in this country, will have high chance on osteoporosis, so if they walk heavey they are more likely to break somthing, and if they do not have osteoporosis yet and are younger, by walking loudly they will get osteoporosis if they get older by causing mild annemia over long period even bone disformation or a croucked back. (Osteoporosis is the fragilisation of the bone making them look like a sponge instead of solid so they break more easily, usually this illness is due to a poor diet too much rice not enough vegetables and fruits or annemia)
So people, love u'r neighbour for REAL, and ask him or her to stop walk loud, for ur peace and for their health.
Then the scond issue , loud TV/Music, really annoying that a lot of singaporeans seem to have the need to put their tv or music so verry loud, this hinted me that nobody here knows about hearing dammage, if u can hear a TV in u'r room from u'r neighbours TV, that means the sound that neighbour is blasting into their ears really passes the decibels that are healthy for a human being, and is dammaging their hearing , or it is already that dammaged they should get a hearing aid.
U would say a lot of older people do not hear that well annymore, and they don't want to get a hearing aid because they are ashamed to admit they hear bad, but let me sketch u this situation, imagine a older person crosses the street with ur grandchild, his or her hearing is impaired, they cross at green light, but a person shouts watch out, for some reckless driver, that older person wont hear it and ur grandparent and grandchild will die, because of some pride ??
Misplaced pride ...it is u'r place to help people arround you, that includes making shure everyone hears everything and that they don't live in a bubble of halfdeaf isolation, it is u'r duty to give quality of life to the elderly.
Now the main concern i have too on the matter of loudness, is the younger generations too between ages of 6 to 40 plus, all of you on trains in malls in sport centra, each time i sit near you i can hear u'r headsets, not only is that annoying to me, but i know u are permanently dammaging u'r hearing, in europe headsets cannot go over a certain amount of decibels, so that there can be no hearing loss, once u'r hearing is dammaged , it is for life!
U will notice it, as soon as u are in a silent place, u have this beeping or ringing noise in u'r ears, that is the signs u'r hearing is alreadey pretty dammaged.
The last concern i have on hearing dammage is the commercial stands in malls and so, the way they blast the sounds and the bad way they use microphones, they just put everything on so loud and it is extremely unpleasant to listen to them even if u are interested, u just can't stand to listen because u get a major head and earache from them.
Please commercial people, if u equalize u'r microphone or boxes better, u'r sound will be better heard then just by putting it on maximum level, because if u put ur sound imply on maximum, people aren't going to be able to understand a word u say, all they will hear is this , mumble screech somthing beep screech mumble... Learn to use u'r equipment before u use it and have a decibel meter on the spot ...
Lesson to learn, love the persons arround u by avoiding them to get their hearing damaged.
That is what real love and respect for each other is about, it works both ways, if u do not tell somoene they are doing somthing wrong, u are not loving that person, u are just not caring about the person or yourself enough to actually do somthing about an unpleasant situation that puts both of you in danger.
A Belgium in Singapore
Editor's Note: Belgium is a country and people living in Belgium are called Belgian. Not sure if the author is really from Belgium.