The transport situation is such a bummer here. Train services have been disrupted for the weekend as apparently there's been a sudden increase in the number of people taking MC etc. So instead of the half hourly train we get, it now becomes an hourly train. As a result, it's expected to be heavier traffic and of course more people on other forms of public transport.
To make matters worse, rugby and rules season has started and I'm staying very near to the stadium, so yea. Apparently the trains are already very pack on normal games days, so now with the shortages of trains, I dare not imagine what it'll be like.
At least when things like this happen, the public are informed before hand. Strikes are a common occurance here and the decent thing that the people who go on strike do is that they'll try as best as the can to inform you at least a day in advance. Also, they're pretty considerate as they'll try to go on strike during the weekends so that as little people will be affected as possible.
As like everything, not always will things go on plan. An example would be the last rail strike, they only informed commuters of the news on the morning that they intended to go on strike. Reason being that the union only came to an agreement at around midnight. The strike too occur on a weekend, it occured on a Friday and the reason for that is that they've already tried to minimise "damage" by having it on a Friday.
In general, that's really the way of life here and it never ceases to fascinate me on how civic minded the locals are. On the whole, the're really a bunch of people who take pride in making their surroundings clean. The toilets here are mostly clean and oudourless (except for those in Chinatown, but they're still ok), people here hardly litter (and it's not because their sweepers are doing a darn good job), drivers on the whole hardly use the horn unless really neccessary. It's really amazing how they give way to pedestrains. I mean you'll have cars all stopping way before the traffic light because people are crossing the roads before the lights (and they don't even horn). Till date, I've only seen one case of cars parking against the flow of traffic and sadly the guilty person is an Asian.
I mean, what does it take for us to be more civic minded? The university fairs here are remarkably clean in the sense that there's hardly any litter. And all that despite the fact that they're giving free food and flyers. You look around you, and you hardly see things like cups and tissue etc on the floor. Back to my gripe on the sad state of Singapore's toilets or should I say Singaporeans lack of either social graces or plain stupidity. It seems like a number of my fellow countrymen do not realise that the pee is supposed to go into the urinal or toilet bowl and not on the floor. I'll never forget the incident at Shaw House where the urine was all over the floor and there was crap at the front of the door.
I really don't care if it's a kid who crapped on the floor or an adult who's mentality is no better than an untrained animal, but he should have the damn decency to clean up his own waste.
he spoke at 11:08 am
All in all, it's a nice and refreshing change.
he spoke at 8:11 pm
I have this feeling if the price of it is not too steep, it might attract the mass market. What's next in line for the dslr market? Who knows? Maybe a slim or pocket sized model? It should be quite popular among the ladies; I do know of someone who puts her dslr into her handbag.
he spoke at 1:39 pm
An example would be last week when the weatherman predicted that it'll be raining and that the temperature would no exceed 26 degrees. True enough, it constantly rained and the temperature hovered between 20 to 26 degrees. He predicted that this week would be hot and that it'll be 31 degrees yesterday. True enough, it was 31 degrees yesterday. Now, if only they built the dams with such accuracy.
he spoke at 3:12 pm
Here's what happened. We had a lecture on globalisation and the lecturer was talking about the relationship between the East and the West. While he was going on, this hand was raised and the person was a Chinese; probably a Singaporean. The student started going on to say that the East doesn't like it when the West pushes its ideals on us etc. Well, sounds like a guy who is championing for the East. But there was one problem with our "East crusader". He was speaking in the fake accent! Here we had a guy who claims that he doesn't like the Western ideals but argues his point using the accent he had to fake to disguise his Eastern accent. How ironic.
he spoke at 7:01 pm