Turn it off
February 4th, 2008 by jadeite
Note to all Singaporeans.
Yes, I understand that the Nokia Music ad informs the masses that “sometimes, it’s just about the music and you; sometimes, it’s about the music, you, and everybody else around you”.
THIS IS A FILTHY LIE.
It is NEVER, may I repeat, NEVER about “the music, you, and everybody else around you”. The people around you do not need to know what particular song you have on your Walkman phone. The people around you do not need to know that your Walkman phone has excellent external speakers. The people around you do not give a flying rat’s ass about how loud your Walkman phone can play that particular song, on repeat, ad libitum, ad infinitum, ad frickin’ nauseam.
I own a Walkman phone. I do not use the speakers on this phone on any sort of public transport. I do not, in fact, use this function anywhere or at a volume where others may discern my music tastes. This is because I understand that doing this is bloody inconsiderate and pisses the hell out of fellow commuters.
I had the misfortune awhile ago to sit beside a screwed up young woman who 1) was listening to her iPod so loudly I could hear her music (Chinese bubblegum - Jocie bloody Kok), 2) was playing on her Nintendo DS with the sound on (bloody annoying chirpy electric twee music and sound effects, even though she obviously couldn’t hear the damn sounds with her earphones on) and 3) had her phone ring no less than three times (Alvin and the Chipmunks with their nasal and eardrum blister-inducing cover of ‘Bad Day’ by Fuel) without answering it because SHE OBVIOUSLY COULDN’T HEAR THE DAMN RINGTONE, COULD SHE?
She was also obviously devoid of any sort of social or spatial awareness because despite my irritated glances and clenched jaw and loud ‘tsks’ (ah, I forgot; she couldn’t hear me) she persisted in her contribution to noise pollution. I was this close, this damn close to yanking her earphone out and demanding she do something to reduce it. Fuming. FUMING!
Children and misguided adults - do the world a favor. Save the Malay music, the Chinese techno, the angry R&B raps for your PRIVATE listening pleasure. Surely we have not taken a technological step backwards - earphones were invented for a reason. The sound quality, I assure you, is also much better than listening to music via external speakers.
Put. The damn. Earphones. ON. And USE them.
i second that!
why people have so many devices with sound on at one point of time is confusing…if i’m listening to my ipod, my phone and psp are automatically on silent. if i’m out in the open, then everything is on silent regardless.
I think Singaporeans need to learn one more additional thing, along with queueing up to enter MRTs and buses, not charging when the doors open, standing in line when purchasing items or at sales especially when it’s Hello Kitty, etc, etc.
And if we’re Singaporean and we can be considerate i don’t see why they can’t. Bleh to you people who give Singaporeans a bad name and ^^ to jadeite!
i walked into the train one day and i could hear music from three different earphones. and i was barely close to any of them -_-”
which was why i bought this :
http://www.shure.com/PersonalAudio/Products/Earphones/index.htm
The volume never has to go more than half the maximum for you to be absolutely death to the outside world
expensive but worth every cent especially when you are constantly surrounded by a bunch of inconsiderate tards in public transport and to top it off some silly tv-mobile show.
I so wish to visit Japan. I heard it is customary to turn off or silent your hand phones in trains.
matt: it is. and they’re pretty dogmatic about it - everytime someone’s phone ring they get a horde of glaring folks at them; the “you’re an inconsiderate gnome that i should beat the crap out of” glare.
And believe me, that glare works. wonderfully.
:D
If a person’s music is audible through earphones, I’m much more likely to be forgiving, because at least that first step has been taken.
It drives me absolutely bonkers when people play music over their handphone speakers or over external speakers! Curses!
Actually according to SMRT rules it is ILLEGAL to do so. Why is there no enforcement?!
lol they arent payed enough to go through all that trouble. unless they have some liking to picking on students *COUGH* *CITY HALL STATION MASTER* *COUGH*
oh wait their 156 security cameras dont record sound.
the most that could happen is having the lady in the PA say one more thing. like:
“please use your earphones when listening to music” which is pretty stupid to be honest and people will just IGNORE ANYWAY. as they do with the “please do not eat and drink”
it would just add to the noise. -_-”