Irritating factor

1. You thought you can catch some sleep on the bus trip when an ah beng boards the bus with his handphone playing some techno music loud loud. Then he always have to go and sit right at the back... and he will never ever be the one to alight anywhere before you.

2. You try to get on the crowded bus and wants to be considerate to move to the back but this love-sick idiot is standing beside his girlfriend (who is sitting down), refusing to move his bloody ass, without even bothering to look up... like there are only the two of them on the bus.

3. When it is 11p.m. and you are trying to sleep because you got to work the next day, some idiotic youngsters start to loiter around the playground below your flat, and playing music from their handphones. Best part is, it's not only music, the youngsters also talk loud loud like nobody's business.

4. When it is 8 a.m. and you are trying to sleep in because it's the weekend, or because you slept late the night before, some idiot have to start bouncing a basketball at the enclosed area below your flat, with the damn "boong boong boong" echoing so loudly like the stupid ball is just bouncing right in the next room.

5. You try to be friendly by holding onto the lift button for the neighbour, but he/she gets in and out of the lift without sparing you a glance, not to even mention a word of thanks. Hello, I'm invisible?

6. At the supermarket, an auntie holding a basket bangs into your shin. You look up, expecting some kind of apology, but the auntie just "tsk" at you, gives you an irritated glare and walks away. Eh, my fault?

7. When you are hurrying down on the right side of the escalator, but have to stop halfway because this person in front of you (on the right side), is standing there, oblivious to the human queue behind him/her, and is happily chatting with the friend.

8. You want to hold onto the handrail on the train but some idiot is leaning his/her whole body against it.

9. A whole group of people rush past you to be the first to board the LRT, leaving you having to stand so near the door that you are nearly kissing it. Then immediately at the next stop, this same whole group of people are pushing past you trying to alight.

10. Kids running around screaming and shouting like monkeys in the bookshop, restaurant, supermarket, MRT, etc., with the parents looking on without doing anything, even when people all around are giving them dirty looks.

11. The guy/girl behind you in the cinema talking and explaining about the show to his/her companion as the movie goes along. And you can hear every single bloody word clearly.

12. You suddenly hear a high-pitched scream out of nowhere, that will most probably trigger a heart attack if your heart is weak. When you find the source of the scream, it's almost always just a group of highly excited young girls chattering incoherently, holding one another's hands, most probably also bouncing on the spot, and giggling loudly at something their friend has just shown or told them.