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Saturday, January 10, 2009
[I didn't see the queue...]
I was at the coffee-shop earlier buying chicken rice. This particular chicken rice stall has been operating at the coffee-shop for ages. A lot of other stalls have come and gone, but this stall stood the test of time because their chicken rice is absolutely delicious.
In the past, they did not have any "crowd control" measures and people would just mill around the stall and shout their orders. It was really chaotic. Now they've implemented a queue. As we all know, Singaporeans love to queue. Show them a long queue, they will definitely join it. Sometimes, they don't even know what they are queuing for. "The queue is long, so whatever they are selling must be good!"
Anyway, this auntie came along and went straight to the head of the queue, gave her order and said she'll be back later to collect. When she did, the stall assistant said that her order's not done yet and that there's a queue.
This stupid auntie had the cheek to say, "Oh, I didn't see the queue."
You didn't see the fuckin' queue?
Are you freakin' kidding me?
This is the reason why I don't like giving up seats on the bus or MRT to people who fall in the auntie/uncle demographics. They are probably the most inconsiderate group of people in society. They would squeeze their way from the front of a packed bus all the way to the last row just so they could squeeze their huge asses into the last row of seats (there are five seats in the last row, but realistically, it sits only four). They would think nothing of putting their bags on the seats next to them, depriving others of a seat. They talk loudly, smell bad and use too much medicated oil. They expect others to give their seats up to them just because they have a purple EZ-Link card (stole this from Keith). They would think nothing of stepping off the pavement and right in front of you just so they could get on the bus first when it arrives at a bus-stop (I meet this uncle sometimes in the morning when I go to work and he always does this; I can't wait for the day when one of the wheels of the bus goes over this foot...I'll shake the bus driver's hand, give him my name-card and offer to be his witness that he did nothing wrong and the uncle with the crushed foot had it coming because he was such a douchebag).
I just realised that I started the above post talking about queuing up for chicken rice to complaining about public transport.
Public transport is uncivilised. Anyone who thinks otherwise has been brainwashed by the MIW going on and on about our "world-class public transport system". If it's so good, why aren't they using it?
I believe it was yesterday morning...I was looking at ST Online in the morning and an article was posted about PM Lee saying that our CPF system has worked well. Later in the afternoon, another article was posted. It was about a survey done in Asia-Pacific regarding pension plans. We were rated the lowest. And yes, the people who did the survey counted CPF as pension.
I wonder if anyone else saw the irony. I thought it was hilarious.
I did not read both articles thoroughly, but to be fair, the people who did the survey did not count the money in the ordinary account as pension for old age and only considered the money in the special account, which was 13+% returns or something like that. If they combined the amount in both the ordinary and special accounts, it would be 82+%.
I haven't had time to follow the developments in the entertainment industry's attempts to sue Internet users into adhering to their old business models - the ones that existed and worked before the Internet came along. An article on ST Online was published on Thursday about this issue which I thought was interesting because "intellectual property" experts have finally said what academics and industry watchers/commentators have been saying for years - Copy protection doesn't work and the entertainment industry needs to adapt and change.
^^^ by Locksley @ 6:53 PM.
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