Sipping my teh C kosong peng at the void deck kopitiam, looking at my phone and shaking my head so hard my spectacles almost fly into my half-boiled eggs.

The Big Jialat Situation Up North

Eh, machias, what is wrong with some people nowadays, hor?

Recently, the whole world got shocker. Over at the Nepal-Tibet border, big-time disaster strike. Glacier collapse, massive mudslide, total jialat situation. Hundreds of people GG already, and thousands still missing. Super heartbreaking, right?

And confirm plus plus, it hit close to home because nine Singaporeans also kenna caught up and went missing in the disaster zone. Families back home damn anxious, waiting for news like waiting for ERP gantry to open—heart in mouth, crying every day.

So what do normal, human-feeling Singaporeans do? We pray lor! We hope for the best, and our gahmen send rescue and response team all the way there to help.

Enter the Air-Con ICA Officers & Keyboard Warriors

But nooooo. Some keyboard warriors sitting comfortably in air-con room with zero productivity decided that this exact moment is the best time to play Minister of Foreign Affairs cum ICA officer.

Scrolly-scroll down the comment section, steady hand typing rubbish: “Eh, they look like this meh?”, “Aiyah, confirm not real Singaporean one!”, “Why our gahmen must bother?”

Wah, lanjiaoey or what? People’s lives are missing, families are crying, waiting for their loved ones to come home, and these aunties and uncles on Facebook are acting like they are sitting at the passport checkpoint.

MP Alex Yam Calls Out the Nonsense

Even our leaders also cannot tahan already. Minister of State Dinesh Vasu Dash and Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC MP Alex Yam had to step out and drop some hard truths on these blur sotongs.

Alex Yam went on Facebook, totally fed up, and spelt out the names of the nine missing Singaporeans—people like Estee Loeh, Ng Kit Kuen, and Rajesvaran Ayyavoo. He called out the comments as “downright heartless”. He said people can argue about immigration policy or integration next time, but not when people’s lives are on the line and families are suffering. You don’t need to check someone’s family tree to have basic human compassion, hor!

Dinesh Drops the Real Talk on Racism

Dinesh also straight-up came down hard, saying blur-cock comments judging people by their name, race, or face is plain old racism. No beating around the bush. He said blurly: “Every missing person is someone’s parent, spouse, child, sibling or friend… They are our own.”

True dat, bro. At the end of the day, when disaster strike, nobody asks for your NRIC color or checks your dialect group before the mudslide hits. A life is a life.

The Irony of the National Pledge

Think about it, hor. For decades, we standing up in school singing majulah and reciting the national pledge—“regardless of race, language or religion”. But when real crisis strike and people are fighting for their lives under tons of mud, some people’s first reflex is still to whip out a mental magnifying glass to check ancestry? Where got logic like that? Even leaders pointed out how sad it is that some folks are so consumed by online toxicity that they forget how to be basic human beings.

Kopitiam Verdict: Grow Up and Show Some Heart

So hor, to all those keyboard warriors hiding behind fake profile pictures and toxic comments: Please lah, grow up a bit. If you got nothing good to type, might as well go downstairs help uncle clear tables or keep your mouth shut. Don’t spoil market and make Singaporeans look like cold-blooded reptiles.

Let’s just hope for the safety of those missing, and remember to keep our humanity intact. Mai like that, steady hor? Now excuse me, my kopi already cold.