:: The Singapura Thing ::
"...you wanna sit there instead ?"
And of all the looks to give, why look at me like i just deflowered you in your left nostril ?
A simple gesture born of courtesy and consideration.
Repaid with = a look of disgust as an initial reaction - a front to cover up for insecurities and a lack of a more creative reply.
...at least it would've been better than you slumping over my shoulder the whole time, right ?
Or maybe you wanted to rest on my shoulder.
...i think not.
So we go backwards through the day - and spot yet another trademark beauty of the lion city.
"The noun "red tape" -
1. bureaucratic procedure, red tape -- (needlessly time-consuming procedure)"
...just reading that definition alone makes me think twice about bothering to divulge the details of today's singapura brand red-tape experience.
A necessary evil ?
Kiss my bicultural ass.
And then, here's one for our beloved taxi drivers.
Okay well don't get me wrong. I do admit that not all taxi drivers are as incompetent as the one that gave me a ride this morning, but i'm beginning to think that this kind of thing has happened just once too much.
"Yes sir where you going ?"
"Depot road."
"Oh okay so which way you want to go by ?"
"Fastest way. I don't know how to get there so i'll leave it up to you."
"Oh but you must tell me the fastest way because i don't know how fast is your fast."
"...last time i took a cab there, it cost me around $7.50, so please try and keep it within that amount."
"Oh sorry sir but that's not very possible; what if there's a traffic jam and what if there's an accident or a road block ?"
(A traffic jam, at 10a.m. in the morning, in a direction away from CBD...and roadblocks and accidents. Why are you fucking with me so much ?"
*At this point i fiddle with the phone and ring up good old mummy who practically knows all these things. She then tells me to go by Lornie and exit at queensway."
"Uncle, go by lornie road and then exit at queensway."
"Ah you see, that's more like it, now i can go blah blah blah iwanttofuckmyeyeout blah blah blah blah... " (my attention fades off to someplace outside the car window)
-Silence until we get to Queensway-
(This is where i start to get irritated due to the meter going past $10.50 and the driver frantically looking about going 'IT'S UP AHEAD AH?' at every fucking intersection)
"Uncle, if you don't know where it is then why didn't you tell me ?"
"No you see because you also don't know how to go so i'm not at fault what..."
"Excuse me, if i knew my own way i would've taken a bus, not a taxi. I took your cab because it's your job to know your way around."
"Sorry sir but i'm a new taxi driver you see and i-"
"Then why didn't you tell me so i could've found someone else who knows the way ?"
"Why not you get off now and take another cab ?"
-Gone-
Well at least i didn't have to pay the outrageous fare.
Why the hell do people pretend so much, when it's so much safer and easier to admit that they don't know ?
Why do they cover up their incompetence with statements of self pity and endless finger pointing ?
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU A TAXI DRIVER WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR WAY AROUND ?
Forget it.
...and by the way. If you think this little page of mine is just too angry, dark, sad, pathetic or whatever. Just fucking leave. Just leave. Seriously. I don't need to hear any of that shit from you.
If you don't like it, you're the one with the choice.
All that aside, i hope you have a good evening.
spoken. at 8:17 PM
"...you wanna sit there instead ?"
And of all the looks to give, why look at me like i just deflowered you in your left nostril ?
A simple gesture born of courtesy and consideration.
Repaid with = a look of disgust as an initial reaction - a front to cover up for insecurities and a lack of a more creative reply.
...at least it would've been better than you slumping over my shoulder the whole time, right ?
Or maybe you wanted to rest on my shoulder.
...i think not.
So we go backwards through the day - and spot yet another trademark beauty of the lion city.
"The noun "red tape" -
1. bureaucratic procedure, red tape -- (needlessly time-consuming procedure)"
...just reading that definition alone makes me think twice about bothering to divulge the details of today's singapura brand red-tape experience.
A necessary evil ?
Kiss my bicultural ass.
And then, here's one for our beloved taxi drivers.
Okay well don't get me wrong. I do admit that not all taxi drivers are as incompetent as the one that gave me a ride this morning, but i'm beginning to think that this kind of thing has happened just once too much.
"Yes sir where you going ?"
"Depot road."
"Oh okay so which way you want to go by ?"
"Fastest way. I don't know how to get there so i'll leave it up to you."
"Oh but you must tell me the fastest way because i don't know how fast is your fast."
"...last time i took a cab there, it cost me around $7.50, so please try and keep it within that amount."
"Oh sorry sir but that's not very possible; what if there's a traffic jam and what if there's an accident or a road block ?"
(A traffic jam, at 10a.m. in the morning, in a direction away from CBD...and roadblocks and accidents. Why are you fucking with me so much ?"
*At this point i fiddle with the phone and ring up good old mummy who practically knows all these things. She then tells me to go by Lornie and exit at queensway."
"Uncle, go by lornie road and then exit at queensway."
"Ah you see, that's more like it, now i can go blah blah blah iwanttofuckmyeyeout blah blah blah blah... " (my attention fades off to someplace outside the car window)
-Silence until we get to Queensway-
(This is where i start to get irritated due to the meter going past $10.50 and the driver frantically looking about going 'IT'S UP AHEAD AH?' at every fucking intersection)
"Uncle, if you don't know where it is then why didn't you tell me ?"
"No you see because you also don't know how to go so i'm not at fault what..."
"Excuse me, if i knew my own way i would've taken a bus, not a taxi. I took your cab because it's your job to know your way around."
"Sorry sir but i'm a new taxi driver you see and i-"
"Then why didn't you tell me so i could've found someone else who knows the way ?"
"Why not you get off now and take another cab ?"
-Gone-
Well at least i didn't have to pay the outrageous fare.
Why the hell do people pretend so much, when it's so much safer and easier to admit that they don't know ?
Why do they cover up their incompetence with statements of self pity and endless finger pointing ?
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU A TAXI DRIVER WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR WAY AROUND ?
Forget it.
...and by the way. If you think this little page of mine is just too angry, dark, sad, pathetic or whatever. Just fucking leave. Just leave. Seriously. I don't need to hear any of that shit from you.
If you don't like it, you're the one with the choice.
All that aside, i hope you have a good evening.
spoken. at 8:17 PM
