"Well-Done, Ma"

"Don't worry, I assure you that it's hot!" insisted Ma as she tried to assure the cup of coffee she brewed hot enough to burn one's tongue.

Sometimes, patrons at my mum's stall bound to make some unreasonable request when serving their hot beverages.

Make sure it is three-quarter filled before you add water, but not too sweet and not too mild, THANK YOU!

Please "dip" the cup into boiling water, before you fill up, THANK YOU!

Above-mentioned are some of the weirdest request being made by some nutcases.

And because our livelihood depend on these folks, we have to oblige them most of the time unless some are willing to listen what we told them.

Nonetheless, one must be reminded that a place like hawker center is never a place of any form of pleasantries when things get really busy.

Sad to say not everyone appreciate that fact and refuse to have that kind of "give-and-take" understanding, hence occasional squabbles are not uncommon.

Probably because we are being pampered lot and expect to have everything fulfil promptly, etc.



So, comes the question - do we agree that Singapore is a nation being served and not willing to serve people?

It's not wonder that every turn around the corner, we have folks from foreign lands filling up those jobs in service line, instead people like you and me who are being groomed to be supervisory position.

Thanks to that kind of educational system under which we are being nurtured, those jobs in this service industry are being shunned upon and deemed lack of prospect.

So who are we to blame for having that kind of perception?

How willingly are our younger generation take those blue-collared job that gradually replaced by folks from other lands?

HOW?