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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Fares
No-one except taxi drivers are happy about the increase in taxi fares. There has been much talk about where the taxis have disappeared to and why they only appear when surcharge meter is on.
I just read an article about a foreigner who waited as long as 1 and half hours to get a taxi 'cos he didn't know how to book one. We all know that:
-taxis pop up in abundance when midnight surcharge is on.
-taxis love the airport.
-taxis all disappear on roads so that people have to start calling to book, hence adding a booking charge of $2-$4.50.
-fewer people continue to take taxis since the increase. Well, at least they've lost their ardent fan - me.
There was one part of the article about some guy pointing out some current problems then adding, "...but of course, we should also extend peak hours charge so as to prevent people who finish work and wait till peak hour's over to get a taxi." Or something to that effect. Thing is, if your work ends at 6pm and the $2 extra charge will only be lifted after 8pm, would anyone be crazy enough to wait 2 hours till you don't have to pay that $2? Might as well take a bus or MRT home. Or maybe if you walk back home, you'd make it in 2 hours too.
Let's see. There are so many problems now. What are the solutions? Lowering taxi fares back to normal rates is out of the question because if they'd do that, they would be admitting that they've made a mistake. So, gahmen very smart. To solve the problem: increase the fare of MRT! Few months later, bus fares will increase. Like that, number of people taking taxis and MRTs will be back to equilibrium since taixs, buses, MRTs have comparable fares once again - they're all just as high.
Oh, who cares what the people think? Elections are over!
Reverend Hong was an expert at feng shui and after taking lots of readings he said that the proposed constellation of MRTs tunnels and the huge amount of metal being driven deep into the Singapore bed rock would sever Singapore's Dragon Vein which is bad, bad, bad for the nation. Reverend Hong then offered the following advice: "If you want to continue with project, then u must give every Singaporean household - Indian, Malay, Eurasian, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim - every single one of them a Chinese Ba Gua. Or else Singapore will sink."
Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Its a popular myth that MM Lee consulted a feng shui master before he set about constructing MRT tunnels. Also, have u noticed the Octagon on the coin? Why an octagon? Why not a nine-sided coin? Or for that matter a 10-sided coin? why an octagon?
Even the SAF Cap Badge - "Yang Pertama, Yang Utama" has an OCTAGON. I remember my old CSM used to say if you go guard duty carry a 1 dollar coin and always have ur beret with the capbadge facing out and in front of u and when you turn, don't just turn ur head, turn your entire body so that any bad spirits will be driven away by your energy.
Sort of like a Street Fighter Ryu energy "Odugan" fireball effect.
I heard about the story long ago from my brother. He also told me another thing that the feng shui master told MM Lee. Feng shui master told MM Lee that Singapore has an outline that resembles a crab (well, at least before we got all those reclaimed land). And since we're at the equator, we naturally look slightly "red". And a red crab simply means a cooked (and dead) crab. So of course, this represents bad luck for the country.
The solution? Green trees. And that is why, we have sooo much greenery in Singapore! So now from a bird's eye view, we don't look like a red cooked crab anymore.
Don't you just miss those days when you were in kindergarten. We'd have to stand in twos - one boy partnering one girl. And then when we walk, we needed to hold hands and maintains the two lines.
I wonder if kids still do that.
But if I do see them, I'd sue the teacher for causing unnecessary physical intimacy between a young boy and a young girl. To add on to the hoo-ha, I'll scold the teacher in public, "Oi! Boy boy and girl girl 5 years old only already start to hold hands. 10 years down the road, 5 year old kids will start having sex okay!"
Kantang took me and my boyfriend in the MRT and we weren’t doing sex or anything… we weren’t even hugging intimately or some shit. He just had his arms around me and I was lying on his shoulder. THAT’S ALL. And this chao kantang had to whip out his 2 mega pixel N90 to take a snap shot of it.
Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "this is how conservative some singaporeans can get."
Absolute bullshit. If you're in school uniform you're called to an extremely high standard of conduct when you're in public. You should be doing nothing that might even possibly besmirch the school name in any way possible.
Dear Ms Fish,
The MRT train is a public place. You were lying on your boyfriend's shoulder in a public place. Members of the public are usually present in a public place. Some members of the public have cell phones with cameras. Members of the public are free to use their cell phones in public to take pictures of anything in plain view of the public.
You can rant all you want, but if you lie on your whoever's shoulder, or hike up your skirt and show off your cheeby (is that why you call yourself fish?) to all and sundry, or bend over and show off your hairy asshole (since you are so obsessed with it) to others on the train, then it's fair game for anyone with a cell phone camera to snap a picture.
Calm down, and try to grow out of this puerile and juvenile stage of your life.
Be happy that someone actually wants to snap a picture of you.
Fish is right. Singaporeans shouldn't be so conservative. It sould be legal for people to have sex in the streets.
While they are at it, they may as well also make it legal to dump unwanted babies into refuse chutes.
I know that there should be self-restraint and I'm not supporting what the couple did. But neither am I going to make a big fuss and exclaim, "Social blasphemy!!!" Some of the comments there are not there to access the situation. In fact, they're just by adults who hate actions of youths. There's this tendency for people to think that they're more right because they're more experienced. It is true, but not always.
It's like how we feel superior when we move on to Sec 1. We'd look at the Primary school kids and go, "*rolls eyes* Twits." Sec 4 students will scoff the Sec 1 students. Pre-u students will think that Sec school students know peanuts.
I think it's just human nature to look down on people whom we deem less experienced than us.
I mean, if these adults really think that their views are more right since they're more experienced in life, can't they at least put in some effort (even if it's by faking) to sound professional? Most of the adults ranting about the issue just sound petty and self-righteous.
Then again, I'm making a huge assumption that the commentors are mostly adults. That's just an inference on my part because when such issues arise, the youths stick together and the adults stick together. The adults' goal? To blast the youths down with their holier-than-thou views and then ending with a "I'm more experienced than you so you are wrong" fullstop.
Big picture is, some adults need to realise that just because youths nowadays don't "have no chance to go to school and have to work since a tender age of 4", doesn't mean that we are brainless and have no life experiences. A lot of talk about "adolescents are getting more and more blah blah blah" (in this case, "open"/"intimate in public"/"sexually suggestive") exist because adults just thinks that teenagers are stupid.
Ah. Another reason why I want to be an adult soon: So that people will stop thinking that people of my age (including me) are stupid. I'm just glad that at least the elderly are not that bo liao to have so much talk about how adults are more stupid than them.
As you (hopefully) see, this entry is not just about the trivial matter on "girl lying on boyfriend's shoulder". It's more of...Hello, can you annoying adults stop thinking you're so great already? If you hate the way the younger generations behave so much, don't give birth. It's totally stupid if you think the world's gonna be a better place after successive generations. For heaven's sake, just live with it.
I am stupidly busy. I have a lot of things to blog about but I have no time. Gah gah gah gah gah.
My timetable is so packed that I have to drop one of my guitar lessons to make time for remedial lesson. Do you know how frustrating that is.
Okie. I shall just do some random updates:
-It's been 2 weeks plus since I last skipped school. This is a feat worth congratulating me.
-I am sleeping less in lectures. That's an improvement. Though I think I dozed off for 30 minutes during Maths today.
-I may be going to Outward Bound Singapore (India). That means going to India (just in case the word Singapore there confused you). Exciting.
-I failed my Economics common test with a pathetic score of 25/100. I got DCCCU. Slightly better off than a tennis friend of mine who got DEUCE.
-NAPFA is coming soon. Really, I don't see how being able to "sit and reach" very far makes you fitter than the rest. NAPFA is simply Nonsense Athat Pgahmen Fgives Aus.
Everytime I hear those fighter jets flying across, I will think that it's a terrorist attack, till I realise it's another one of those National Day Parade reheasals.
A one of a kind marathon will take place in London next month. Called the Masturbate-a-thon, it is expected to attract hundreds of people to gather in a hall in central London to pleasure themselves in aid of charity. From Masturbate-a-thon:
Participants ask friends and loved ones to sponsor them for a certain amount of money for every minute they masturbate during the Masturbate-A-Thon, or simply for having the nerve to turn up and take part!
In aid of global sexual and reproductive health agency Marie Stopes International and HIV/AIDS charity Terrence Higgins Trust, and sponsored by ID Lubricants (UK), the leading UK brand of personal lubricants, the event also aims to act as a public education device to increase the use of self pleasure as a strategy for safer sex. The Masturbate-a-thon seeks to raise awareness of, and dispel the shame and taboos that persist around, this most commonplace, natural and safe form of sexual activity.
There are also prizes up for grabs. From Guardian:
Prizes will be on offer for those who clock up the most orgasms and those who can masturbate the longest - the current record, according to the organisers, is a chafing eight-and-a-half hours.
To qualify for the record, the organisers say "at least 55 minutes of every hour shall be spent self-pleasuring by manual or sex toy stimulation" with participants getting just five minutes to "replenish and renew".
Eight-and-a-half hours!!! Crikey!
(Thanks Sir Thomas)
It is sexy no more when you see a guy ejaculating blood after a few hours.
As Cowboywould put it simply, there is no hope for the human race.
