Unhappy survey

In a recent survey, we were ranked as the most unhappy in Asia, behind countries we didn't even know existed, like the Bahamas. Here's why.

1. Our football team didn't make it to the World Cup and never will, at least for the foreseeable future. Look how happy the Germans and the Italians are now. We need to be in the World Cup.

2. We have to pay to watch football. We have no choice but to let Starhub blackmail us into paying for the Premier League and World Cup. Even prisoners in other countries get to watch the World Cup for free while we, free citizens, have to pay. No wonder we are unhappy.

3. There are too many PRCs, Indian nationals, ang mohs and Nigerians, Cameroonians, Togolese, Ghanaians and Africans of other nationalities that we don't even know whether this is still our home. We no longer have a strong sense of identity.

4. Our local TV productions cannot make it. They only produce talent-spotting shows or everyday life dramas on TV nowadays. There's no more originality in our TV programmes. No wonder we feel bored.

5. Everything nowadays is up, up, up. University fees, taxi fares, bus fares, GST, petrol etc etc. When prices go up, our happiness goes down.

6. This affects about one third of the population which in turn affects their families, which is just about the whole of Singapore. It's called the SAF. They torture the male population for 2 years in NS and continue to harass them with call-ups even after they have served their duty. They even keep sending Pioneer magazines even after they ORD long ago. And there's no way of cancelling the subscription. This constant harassment is irritating, to say the least.

7. Our buildings look stupid. We've made a mistake by building a music theatre that looks like a durian. Now we want to build an IR that looks like 3 ancestral tablets. They are an embarassment.