That's right, says a Gallup poll. And we are bottom of the heap in the poll's ranking of 150 countries/territories. The study was conducted over three years:
http://news.xin.msn.com/en/weird/storyviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=251197113
The AFP story above includes these quotes:
"Where got time to laugh? Wake up, must fight for place on trains, lunch time, must fight for place to sit down and eat, go home must fight for place on trains," Edward Alexzandra Peters wrote on Facebook.
Kok Leong commented on Yahoo! Singapore: "It's so stressful to be living in Singapore. Our mind is all about $$$ -- how to survive, how to raise family, tax, etc. Nothing is free here."
Another commentator wrote on Yahoo: "We have everything, and yet we have nothing. No one in this country actually lives life to the fullest; we merely exist. To our government, we are nothing more than a statistic."
"How can Singaporeans be the most emotionless in the world when they complain the most every day? I'm baffled," said a post by Melody on Twitter.
Gallup said it surveyed about 1,000 respondents 15 years old and above in each country annually between 2009 and 2011. They were asked if they felt five positive and five negative emotions the previous day.
The negative feelings were anger, stress, sadness, physical pain, and worry, while the positive emotions were feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, enjoyment, smiling and laughing a lot, and learning or doing something interesting.
Only 36 per cent of Singaporeans said they felt any of the emotions, Gallup said.
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Well, I am glad that some Singaporeans have succeeded in making us laugh. Among them on my list is this man, Mr Toh Kia Hing. He featured in (so far) two spoof videos as the so-called Hokkien-speaking "massage therapist" stressed out by having to cope with willing sexy models who turn putty in his hands:
http://news.insing.com/tabloid/viral-video-massage-therapist-revealed/id-cd653f00
Here's a short extract from the insing.com story above:
[Mr Toh, whose day job is that of a sound engineer] said laughs and giggles filled the set when he rehearsed his lines and nothing sleazy went on: “The girls were fun to work with. One of them even thanked me for a good massage.”
Asked if he had ever considered being a massage therapist, he said: “I have been a soundman for more than 30 years and I’d rather massage a microphone than a woman because it doesn’t nag.”
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Meanwhile, I am still amused by some of the stuff from offbeatchina.com.
This one is titled "English Words with Chinese Characteristics":
http://offbeatchina.com/english-words-with-chinese-characteristics
Here's a list of such words and their etymology (some of them are very good!):
geilivable/ungeilivable
zhuangbility
shability
nubility
halfyuan
z-turn
don'train
gambller
shitizen
antizen
goveruption
profartssor
departyment
emotionormal
propoorty
freedamn
togayther
vegesteal
eggache
eggcalm
smilence
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