Due to unforseen circumstances, I was not able to post this yesterday(My computer suffered a breakdown, sad I know). I hope it's not too late. I am writing today on a more carefree topic, having received unsavoury comments from mysterious and shy people with absurd names on my previous post.(Read the comments on my previous post, don't worry I hold no grudges)

I was walking my dog along the park beside my house yesterday, I was witness to a most despicable act. A fellow dog walker was letting her dog defecate on the grass without using a newspaper or any sort of material to prevent the faeces from littering the public area. Without a word, when the dog was done, the young lady took up the leash and walked off, smiling at me as she walked past. I was flabbergasted at this despicable act of littering. I confronted her in the most civil and polite way one can speak to such a charming but disgusting girl.

"Did you just leave your dog's poo there?" I asked her with a concerned expression on my face.

"Oh, no one will step on it lah, anyway now you know, it's ok lorh." she said as she carried on walking, apparently unaware that such an act is an offence. I am ashamed to say I did not take further action having no desire to pick a fight with someone in the middle of the street. I was unable to clean up the other animal's waste as I had already(most uprightly) disposed of my dog's waste with the newspapers I had brought along.

I know most people in Singapore, especially people around my generation, view picking up their pet's waste as disgusting. My own sister finds it paticularly horrifying, we all hold a sense of disgust at having to clean up after our pet's. But if you are not prepared to do so, you are not qualified to own a pet. As our principal is fond of reminding us, every action has a consequence. Even if we find it "icky", our basic sense of community spirit should at least make us do something about it. Perhaps we should all think carefully about what will happen before we do something, and what we should do right. Singapore has shown a marked improvement of late, there is little or no more defecating in lifts, throwing our flowerpots off our window ledges to crack our neighbours' heads open. But as Minister Mentor Lee has recently said, it will be a long time before we become an courteous society island wide. I am hard pressed to get a smile or "hello" from some of my neighbours even though I have lived here for over a year.

So, to end with, I strongly urge all of my fellow distinguished students and readers, no matter how much you might dislike me, pick up the faeces of your dog!

(If anyone somehow finds offence with this latest post, I am at a lost as to how, then my comments are my own and do not reflect the intention or opinion of anyone in power, alive, dead or dying. :)