Spend a day online in Singapore and you'd be hard-pressed not to come across unhappy comments or rants. A few hours in a shopping centre here is enough for you to spot enough sour faces to last a week.

It seems that Singaporeans are having a hard time.

Here are 10 small things that normally shouldn't irritate people, but due to our stressful lives, can make someone have a total meltdown:

1. People stopping right in front of the end of an escalator

Escalators cause a strange psychological reaction. People suddenly forget where they want to go, or decide that, yes, the escalator entrance/exit is the best place to stop and ponder life, the universe and its mysteries.

Never mind the people behind you.

2. Sudden rain

Because it means you have to keep all your laundry that you spent an hour hanging up. Because you got drenched running back to office after lunch. Because you did not bring an umbrella out today as you felt 'damn hot' in the morning and no way it is going to rain.

Because 'ponding'.

3. The train door opens and closes, but then opens again

Just when you thought the crowded train ride can't get any worse, someone tries to squeeze onto the train when the doors were closing. So all the doors have to re-open. You give a mental 'tsk'.

At best, your journey is delayed another 10 seconds and you get to enjoy the hot air rushing in for another few moments.

The worst? Someone has got their leg stuck between the train and platform. Another delay. Sian.

4. 5-cents

They've phased out the 1-cent coin, why do we still have things that require the 5-cent coin?

The feeling of inconvenience receiving 5-cent coins when you get change is indescribable.

5. Bus timing boards that lie

How many times have you waited forlornly for your bus when the board says 'Arr'? Then your world comes crashing down when it suddenly changes from 'Arr' to '10'.

You never knew an electronic display board could toy with your feelings so much.

6. People who walk very slowly and right in the middle of the pavement

In 2007, Singapore was crowned as the country with the fastest walkers in the world.

Despite that, some people have mastered the science of walking at a pace that is slow enough to hold up everyone, but fast enough that you have to walk really fast to overtake them.

They have also mastered the art of walking right smack in the middle of the pavement so that you have to squeeze past them while overtaking.

7. People performing more than one transaction at the ATM

Sometimes when you queue up at the ATM and all you want to do is to withdraw some money quickly, there will always be that one person who seems to be using the ATM to derive the Binomial Theorem or the Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything.

I mean, what could they possibly be doing with the ATM that requires more than a minute?

And just when you think they are done pressing buttons and have collected their cash/ATM card, horror of horrors, they take out ANOTHER ATM card. Le sigh.

8. Infra-red taps that think you're a ghost

Some toilets have these special taps which seem to require you to know some secret hand kungfu to operate.

And when you successfully activate the tap, the water pressure is either weaker than a Screwdriver without Vodka or it immediately switches off the moment you start moving your hands to rub off the soap.

9. Autoflush toilets that go off while you're still on it

Scumbag toilet bowls responsible for wet bums and moist family jewels. It doesn't matter if you sit upright all the way, any minute movement and the flush goes off.

10. When your lift is full and the door is closing, someone presses the lift button again

We get that you are impatient and want to call the next lift. But for the love of all things holy and good, at least wait till you see that the current full lift moves to another level before pressing the button, ok?! Your impatience is actually making you wait even longer.

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