Singapore's gracious society

Maybe not so gracious after all.

I realise one of SG's past-times is to complain about how younger people are not giving up their seats for older folks, pregnant ladies and young children.

An alarming preoccupation for Singapore, yet nobody gets off their lazy bums. Graciousness only extends to the current ongoing campaigns -- which is to clear their trays from fast food and hawker centres.

Last weekend, a wee little boy of 5 years, his mother and I were clinging on to a train railing. I was so worried that someone would accidentally step on his tiny toes. Of course, none of the young people sitting around us had offered them a seat.

When a seat was finally vacant the little boy had a chance to sit. But he got up again, so an elderly man who just boarded the train can sit down.