Be more grateful?

I have been hunting for a cheap studio flat lately. So yesterday evening (before work) i went to view one of the studio flat posted on properties ad. On entering the flat i saw four person in the small living room (owner partitioned it, was suppose to be an open concept in these kind of flat). then as i check the 'room' there was another man in it. So I came out of it and the agent was explaining,

Agent: " Ahh , it look crowded and messy now cause there are five of them living here, after you cleared up a bit ah, it will be very nice, got aircon some more..."

(What!! 5 person in that studio flat!!! there are 6 of us and our place is at least 3 times bigger)

Me: " Err.. yea, i think so.. " (Actually I didn't quite like the whole place, so wasn't really so enthusiastic at that time)

Agent: "So are you living alone? or with someone"

Me: " yea alone.."

The agent stare at me for a while *bout 10 second* (okay obviously she wasn't expecting that answer.. which fair enough i guess cause the asking rental was 900 and it is actually not cheap by average standard)

Then I notice the agent wasn't the only staring, the tenant a lady which after we chat later was also from ipoh (in fact most of the tenants are from Ipoh), was also staring at me, she repeated the question and i awkwardly say "yea" then i decided to look away pretend to check the toilet and kitchen and when i face back to them she was actually still looking at me in disbelief..

I just smile at her and decided to leave. Well, didn't really take it up eventually cause there are like 12 more "groups" of ppl viewing and some obviously couples, so 900 should be easily affordable if you are sharing. But for me, that house is not worth it, especially not when there is no chance of bargaining at all.. So case close.

But what made me jolted this down is more for something that happen later.

Another gossip in the company, some of our colleagues has been complaining to a management level guy that we are not paid at "market rate". It spreads through the entire management level and then it came back down as a "reminder" we shouldn't be discussin out pay so openly.

Whoever that joker is, he (i dun think it is a she) obviously is an idiot. We just get our pay raise for around 25% in May, and now they are asking for more? We are not even doing real work yet, still pretty much on training. How can some people be so greedy? Look at the family at the studio flat, 5 person living in a flat that cost 900. We are actually living pretty comfortably here. There is no denial that Singapore has a lot of wealthy people but still, for our experience, for the kind of work we are doing and the "comfort" level, I really can't imagine there are people who are still not happy about it.

Honestly... I know we should be ambitious, and set high standards and goals, but still.. learn to appreciate at the same time...