What the fog!

Yes, thanks to a certain phenomenon -- PSI = Please Stay Indoors -- Singaporeans are getting fed-up and muttering "What the fog!".

For example, "Did that fogger say that? What the fog!"...

The screen grabs above of the AFP story are from the insing.com site which also has a story titled

Survivor's guide to the Singapore haze

http://news.insing.com/news/survivors-guide-singapore-haze/id-da763f00

The story has this picture:

ST (June 20) carried this page one lead:

Below the story was this cheeky McDonald's ad:

As it turned out, today's PSI (okay, it's not Please Stay Indoors but Pollutant Standards Index -- peaked at 371 at 1pm. At 3pm, I looked out from my balcony and snapped this pic:

Meanwhile, the garmen is working very hard on the matter. It has formed a ministerial-level committee as well as an experts' panel, the Haze Advisory Panel. Let's hope this panel does not turn out to be HAPless!

Folks online have, of course, also been had at work, ie, putting their witticism to work:

   Even the pets need protection from the acrid smog (P and KA put these up respectively):

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Blur like sotong, how to see stars? 

Finally, I thought these items which appeared today were rather ill-timed:

By the way, those three locations above in the SIA ad have clear blue, welcoming, skies. But that's the point! The policy-makers in Jakarta look up at the sky and say, "What haze?". And that's why Singaporeans say "What the fog! I'll rather spend my money elsewhere."