No sitting & Smoking
Gosh,What a busy time it has been. Work really tends to pick up in the middle of the year. I have been spending two days in Singapore trying to close a project tender my company is doing. I've been working almost every weekend for the past month or so... kind of tiring. Next week there will be a 3 day exhibition in KL, which I have to attend and I'm stuck with 2 projects and 3 tenders to follow up on at the same time.. crazy!
Something kind of ticked me a bit while staying in Singapore recently. Tourist in Singapore are able to buy T-shirts saying Singapore is a 'fine' city.. The shirt proudly displays all the petty rules and corresponding fines that apply like.. no chewing gum, no jay walking etc etc.... Its one of the things Singapore is notorious about. The government basically sets a lot a lot of rules for its citizens on how to behave and what not to do....
Most recent is the 'no sitting while smoking rule'... according to my smoker colleagues.. the rule is simple... If you smoke, you can't sit. If you sit, you can't smoke! Haha.. sounds like a petty little rule does it? Usually, when we all sit down in a table outdoors, some would just puff away while everyone sits around chatting.. With this rule... you will see the smokers having to get up, walk 10 feet away and smoke.. standing of course.
I'm not sure what the logic was.. but I think it might have something to do with protecting non smokers from second hand smoke.. After all, the smoker smokes through a filter, the rest of us smell the stuff unfiltered! So, I guess to make like miserable for smokers, they came up with this rule...Wouldn't it be easier if they just banned smoking in public areas / places where crowds are present?
Whatever the intention or effect is.. I just find it highly funny... that the government make a law on when you can sit or stand!
posted by Compulsive Blogger @ 5:03 pm
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