If you're happy and you know it, achieve less! (apologies to the song 'If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!')

Why are Singaporeans so concerned about what others think of us? Who cares about that Gallup world survey that ranked the Little Red Dot at the bottom of the heap when it comes to "expressing emotions"?

And why are we so hung up about being happy? ST ran this story below (Nov 29) with the headline "S'poreans achieving more but are less happy: Survey"...

Now. as everyone knows, the headline above suggests an inverse relationship in the happiness-achievement nexus. So, what's the solution?

Less achievement = More happiness!

QED.

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Next, should Singaporeans
1) be unhappy 2) can't be bothered 3) get emotional 4) can't be bothered
5) all of the above 6) can't be bothered even to pick choice No 5
about this national flag gaffe?...

Here's insing.com's story about how China's flag was mistaken for Singapore's flag!...

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/forbes-mistakes-chinas-flag-singapore/id-4b663f00

Incidentally, the foot-in-the-mouth Forbes story above is about yet another global survey, this one by the Economist which ranked Singapore as the sixth best place to be born in this year (2013). Um, your response again please, to choices 1-6 above.

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I think Malaysian happenings are more fun to follow, at least, with regard to what goes on in their Parliament:

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Speaking of toilets, I have previously blogged about a survey (yes, there's a survey for everything) that found quite a number of people had at some time dropped their cellphone down the toilet bowl. So, here's a helpful video by Minute Hacks on what to do in such an event. It is titled "How to save your phone from water damage":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2RL4RJbS5Y

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Most countries have an air force; this one has an air farce...

http://news.xin.msn.com/en/weird/sa-air-force-pilot-grounded-for-borrowing-plane-2

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Finally, for the sake of closure, I'll post here this update on that People's Daily gaffe...