people are destroying my home...

recently I've become more conscious of the horrible people around me! i mean my god, i hear they want to remove the no litter fine and the no spiting fines because apparently we are ready to self correct and not do such things in public! how wrong. every morning as i head to work, the void deck of my block is covered in unsightly trash. in fact the lift landing itself is usually littered with unsightly drink bottles and what not and someones old trash that they found too big to be toss through the chute system in each household that they have to throw it near the lifts, as the garbage corner downstairs is far too troublesome!

i see the cleaner every morning struggling to clean up the mess and of cause she does it with a smile coz she's a really nice old lady. have Singaporeans become so reliant on cleaners to do their jobs that they forget that they shouldn't be littering in the first place? it seems that everyone has a particular mindset; one that goes," bah, someone else will clean it. i'll just toss it here"

of cause by the time i get home from work, the place is slightly better, maybe with some tissue lying around or old newspaper at certain corners under my block with peanut shells on the stone tables and chairs, crackers and snacks that children buy and toss on the ground while they miss their mouth as they try to eat them..but i can only predict that by the next morning the garbage would intensify and pollute my entire walkway to work in the morning.

sigh

just the other day, a little girl came down from the bus with a Macdonald's drink in her hand and as she slurp the last bit of it, she walked towards the canal, that suppose to channel water back to the sea during the heavy rains, and tosses her drink in like it's a huge garbage bin because the actual garbage bin at the bus stop was probably about 4 steps further to walk to then the canal.

i stared in disbelief and would have told her she shouldn't have done so but i was just in shock as i turn to see her mother, a grown adult, dressed pretty decently, who looked like she was well groomed and had some sort of education, nodding her head in approval and then both of them walking away as if it were nothing wrong. i caught the eye of another stranger who seemed to share the same thoughts as me but neither of us did anything.

so my fellow Singaporeans... should we be proud of our CLEAN and GREEN little country? or should we be proud of our hardworking and probably underpaid cleaners to make it so?