because blogging begets bitching

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i am recovering from the shock of someone accusing the grand-daddy of singapore blogs, mr brown of being using his blog as a "complain column". that is sg blogosphere blapshemy!

from the person's comments, i can assume the following:
#1: this person is not singaporean
#2: this person is very singaporean

#1 because everyone (except for those who don't know that singapore is a country) knows that we are famous for complaining about everything and anything under the sun. want proof? take a look at our forum pages.

#2 because the person, whether intentionally or not, complained that mb is a complain king.

i once used blogs as an avenue for angst and complaint. i rant at those people who happily stomped on my slipper-ed toes with their covered boots, i rant at those annoying kids who seem to use any and every venue as a playground. i rant about anything and everything under the sun. i even bitch about people who i don't know personally.

and then i realised that it's a major waste of webspace to add my blog chok full of complaints onto an overflowing cauldron of bitching. what is the point when you cannot derive anything constructive from doing so? and worse still, what if your words resulted in a negative impact on someone else?

it is human to be dis-satisfied with what we have or how things are done, because we really are meant for so much more and we know it innately.

it becomes sad when people take it to an extreme by turning a complaint into a bitchfest, without care about the consequences of his/her words.