<![CDATA[Are Singaporeans happy?]]>Are Singaporeans happy?


What’s your take?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/6569/are-singaporeans-happyRSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 15:13:48 GMTSun, 08 Nov 2009 05:27:11 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:33:16 GMT]]>being appreciative πŸ˜›


count your blessings (aka - dont compliant too much … hehehe)

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/128909https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/128909Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:33:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:56:45 GMT]]>Singapore ranked 40th happy country but some say we ranked top 10 in saddest country. :lol:


http://www.relax.com.sg/relax/media/303506/Happiest_countries.html

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/105453https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/105453Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:56:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:03:52 GMT]]>Hi
[quote]I will assume you aren't Singaporean if you are not answering...[/quote]
I was born here, grew up here, served my NS and will probably spend my final days here. So I am uniquely Singaporean.
[quote]I have noticed you do not dwell so much on forum topics related to opinions, feelings, working with children,[/quote]My English is not cheem enough to allow for free flow of words. And, I really admire your flair for writing.
[quote]much less about relationship issues which include the saucy topics... ... so [/quote]As for saucy topics, don’t expect much from a man who has hit the half century mark. He should be wise enough to enjoy the peace and tranquility of a familiar harbour.
[quote]That said, you're still not off the hook yet, tianzhu.
Hahaha! You didn't answer your own thread question..
Are Singaporeans happy? [/quote]Time flies. Yesterday, when I accompanied my boy for his secondary one registration, I can still clearly remember his first day in primary one.
I am happy for he has blossomed into a fine youngster ready for his next lap.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Best wishes

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/93603https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/93603Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:03:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:48:19 GMT]]>

autumnbronze:

ks2me,

I agree with you. Sometimes I think I am too child-like, actually I am lah, unlike peers of my age. But the good thing is that I am not jaded like them πŸ˜‰

Yes, I do believe its really really difficult to come across pple who appreciate living ... but then again, sometimes I feel that perhaps its the society that we are living in.
:ugogirl: You are so right! Not jaded. :love:
Gotta have stronger mindset to stick to our beliefs in a society like this. πŸ˜‰

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89543https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89543Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:48:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:45:39 GMT]]>

Andaiz:
ks2me:

Once my kid showed me the bubble blowing ball using the small yellow stick and she asked me if that was chewing gum? :roll:


Haiz, our kids have grown up without chewing gum :!: :!: :!:

Yeah, poor kids, robbed of their idyllic childhood. it's not fun being a kid these days! πŸ˜› So I try and let them play often.
:love:

Yup no chewing gum so gotta leave to their imagination. πŸ˜„
Play is important....easy to become dull these days.
So you are doing good. :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89542https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89542Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:45:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:36:24 GMT]]>

ks2me:
autumnbronze:

Andaiz,


Haiz .... aren't we all, aren't we all?? πŸ˜‰

Actually it is not easy to be child-like, easier to be childish... πŸ˜‰
And we are just being child-like and being child-like allows us to appreciate living.. :celebrate:

ks2me,

I agree with you. Sometimes I think I am too child-like, actually I am lah, unlike peers of my age. But the good thing is that I am not jaded like them πŸ˜‰

Yes, I do believe its really really difficult to come across pple who appreciate living ... but then again, sometimes I feel that perhaps its the society that we are living in.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89501https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89501Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:36:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:37:10 GMT]]>

ks2me:
Once my kid showed me the bubble blowing ball using the small yellow stick and she asked me if that was chewing gum? :roll:

Haiz, our kids have grown up without chewing gum :!: :!: :!:

Yeah, poor kids, robbed of their idyllic childhood. it's not fun being a kid these days! πŸ˜› So I try and let them play often.
:love:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89474https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89474Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:37:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:18:52 GMT]]>Must find one day to rekindle those childhood memories :love:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89324https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89324Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:18:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:16:31 GMT]]>

kiasimom:
Hi ks2me,


yes, back to my own era.
playing 5 stones, zero point, hop-scotch πŸ™‚

I still remember I will pick up a mighty stone for my hopscotch and place it in my pocket :evil: and challenge my classmates during recess.

By the way, I don't see kids playing that now!
Unfortunately they are distracted by too many other things and higher tec toys to think of mighty stone for hopscotch.. In fact now these games have become traditional games that the school needs to introduce through events in schools. Funny hor? :? another eg is chatek...and the paper ball... Once my kid showed me the bubble blowing ball using the small yellow stick and she asked me if that was chewing gum? :roll:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89320https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89320Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:16:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:12:19 GMT]]>

autumnbronze:
Andaiz,


Haiz .... aren't we all, aren't we all?? πŸ˜‰
Actually it is not easy to be child-like, easier to be childish... πŸ˜‰
And we are just being child-like and being child-like allows us to appreciate living.. :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89315https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89315Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:12:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:39:40 GMT]]>

Andaiz:
autumnbronze:



Andaiz,

:rotflmao: you are sooooo CUTE lah!!!!

just too child-like for the corporate world (refuse to use the word \"childish\" πŸ˜› ) In denial loh! πŸ˜‰


Andaiz,

Haiz .... aren't we all, aren't we all?? πŸ˜‰

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89236https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89236Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:39:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:34:41 GMT]]>

autumnbronze:


Andaiz,

:rotflmao: you are sooooo CUTE lah!!!!
just too child-like for the corporate world (refuse to use the word \"childish\" πŸ˜› ) In denial loh! πŸ˜‰

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89232https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89232Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:34:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:32:17 GMT]]>

Andaiz:
autumnbronze:


oohhh, I love hop-scotch too ... wanna play it again :please:

autumnbronze... I'd let you on a secret: I go running at night then whilst pretending to cool down, jump on the hop-scotch thingy at the playground downstairs...by that time, neighbourhood kids are all asleep; and the couples smooching can't be bothered with this \"old\" char bo! :whut:



Andaiz,

:rotflmao: you are sooooo CUTE lah!!!!

Actually, I get into this lil kid mode when I bring son to toddler's gym. I sit with him on the slide, do the monkey bar, run ard like a monkey with him (opps, not a v gd description of myself) πŸ˜‰ Its the only time I get to be a kid w/o getting any funny stares :lol:

But yeah, nothing beats the kind of fun I/we used to have. I even ventured to play in the small longkangs (my fav hiding place during hide and seek) πŸ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89228https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89228Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:32:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:29:33 GMT]]>

autumnbronze:

oohhh, I love hop-scotch too ... wanna play it again :please:
autumnbronze... I'd let you on a secret: I go running at night then whilst pretending to cool down, jump on the hop-scotch thingy at the playground downstairs...by that time, neighbourhood kids are all asleep; and the couples smooching can't be bothered with this \"old\" char bo! :whut:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89225https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89225Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:29:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:26:37 GMT]]>

kiasimom:
Hi ks2me,


yes, back to my own era.
playing 5 stones, zero point, hop-scotch πŸ™‚

I still remember I will pick up a mighty stone for my hopscotch and place it in my pocket :evil: and challenge my classmates during recess.

By the way, I don't see kids playing that now!
No they don't!!


I remember galfrds and I used buy rubberbands from the provision shop, kind of joined them together to make it long like a skipping rope so that we could play zero-point :lol:

oohhh, I love hop-scotch too ... wanna play it again :please:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89222https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89222Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:26:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:46:24 GMT]]>Hi ks2me,


yes, back to my own era.
playing 5 stones, zero point, hop-scotch πŸ™‚

I still remember I will pick up a mighty stone for my hopscotch and place it in my pocket :evil: and challenge my classmates during recess.

By the way, I don't see kids playing that now!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89074https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89074Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:46:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:45:21 GMT]]>

kiasimom:
Hey Andaiz dear,


I fully agree.

that's why I regretted growing up :heartbroken:

I will rather be a 10 yo gal...

No worries just exams exams exams πŸ˜“
Errr... I beg to differ as I don't think it is that fun being a kid these days with all the expectations and some unrealistic ones. If being a kid back in my own era by turning back the clock, then YES i agree with you. πŸ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89072https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89072Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:45:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:41:22 GMT]]>Hey Andaiz dear,


I fully agree.

that's why I regretted growing up :heartbroken:

I will rather be a 10 yo gal...

No worries just exams exams exams πŸ˜“

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89068https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89068Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:41:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:38:57 GMT]]>

kiasimom:
Talking about happy.


I ask DS and DD to write down what happy means to them.

DS wrote,\" Only mummy can make me happy :faint: \"
DD wrote,\" Watching movies and tv show makes me happy :faint: \"

Happiness can be so simple :lol:
yep, it is as we get older (and supposedly more responsibilities 😐 ) that the definition of happiness morphs...happiness becomes more complicated and more illusive then πŸ˜›

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89063https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89063Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:38:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:25:12 GMT]]>Talking about happy.


I ask DS and DD to write down what happy means to them.

DS wrote,\" Only mummy can make me happy :faint: \"
DD wrote,\" Watching movies and tv show makes me happy :faint: \"

Happiness can be so simple :lol:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89016https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89016Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:25:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:17:43 GMT]]>

tamarind:

Back to the topic.

My theory is that, so long as we do not compare, we will be happy.
:goodpost:
tamarind:
Personally I only want my kids to be happy.

I want my kids to be happy too, but get very annoyed when my ds1 always use this to 'blackmail' me in instances when he get scolded for misbehaviour. :roll:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89014https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89014Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:17:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:05:24 GMT]]>:celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89006https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89006Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:05:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:04:35 GMT]]>

buds:
Nice. πŸ˜‰


And i must say, you're quite the poet, ks2me! πŸ˜„
Thanks Buds. πŸ˜„ Inspired by all of you! :celebrate:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89005https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/89005Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:04:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are Singaporeans happy? on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:17:54 GMT]]>Nice. πŸ˜‰


And i must say, you're quite the poet, ks2me! πŸ˜„

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/88982https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/88982Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:17:54 GMT