Such a dilema

Question.1
What should one do when walking along the common corridor to the lift?
Here is my problem. Everyday, sometimes several times a day i walk past my neighbours house to the lift. They keep their windows open and there is always someone in the living room, they are really good neighbours always ready with a hello and a smile. My issue is this, if it was my house i would not want anyone looking in every 5 mins and have to say hello or wave just because someone is walking past my house. However there are times when i am walking past and trying to look busy they will shout out from their sanctury "hello" or give a vigerourous wave. TLOML is not consistent in her behaviour when it comes to this matter as she sometimes looks in and sometimes doesnt, Leni(our staff) is the worst she always looks in and waves smiles and say's hi.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO! Do i seem rude and uncaring by looking busy and dashing by, do i seem kpo and overfriendly by looking into their house....these are the things i have to deal with on the way to the lift. such a dilema.

Question 2
What do you call taxi drivers?
Lately i notice when i get into a cab( or should i say money pit) more and more cabbies calling ME uncle(yes yes i am that old). Which often leaves me stumped for a response as i normally greet them with a "Hello Uncle..take me too..." now as we know this is a singapore phenomena, everyone older is an uncle or an aunty but it would just be wrong for both cabby and i to be callign each other uncle. ITs a cab not a retirement home. I have since started calling them "Boss" but it seems rather odd to be calling the person providing me the service (albeit at a heavy cost) Boss, shouldnt he be calling me that? Maybe i should not call them anything and just start of by saying "morning" but this just seems to formal and un friendly, i mean how will the cabby know i am his buddy, kaki as he rails on about the government lol. (by the way 90% of the time i love listening to the theories of cabbies, most of which if i posted on this blog i would surely do jail time for)So what do you call cabbies?.such a dilema

Question 3
Actually this is a rant, My name is Edward. People real close to me call me eddy, now i will only stand for a few people calling me that cause it sends shivers up and down my spine when they do but its ok they know me well enough to do it. There is one person that calls me eddie cause she has always known it annoys me! mind you i call her all sorts of vulgar things so we are pretty even(D.J you know its you). Since i have i have grown older (lol) i am not so ANTI eddie BUT and this is an important BUT i dont like people i have just met taking liberties with my name. THe other night we were at this event and my sister introduced me to a friend of hers "edward this is bleh bleh" and bleh bleh shakes my hand and goes Hi Ed, i recoiled as if i had been slapped by a soccer players wet sock. Bleh Bleh didnt even notice and jsut kept bleh blehing along, really under normal circumstances i am sure i would have said something but i was just to stunned to say anything. I have been thinking long and hard about this, if you are newly introduced to me and want to shorten my name to something you can just call me SIR. thank you.


Sidebar-if you have notices the errors i would advise a change of vocation. Maybe something with the yellow pages.