Watch Your Front!

Boarding a jam packed sardine bus and moving right into the rear only to realise there’s another bus with the same service number totally empty. The look on the face. Priceless.

260, 000 people have decided to bid for seats for this year’s National Day Parade. which actually calculates to 10 persons bidding for one seat. You can join in the ranks of those who want to want it live. Or. You could stay home and watch it on 5.

If you missed the auditions last week, here‘s another chance to shine and be our Singapore Idol.

Teeet!

When the bus inspector boards, a flurry of activity happens. Heads start peering into bags, and pockets for ezlink cards and ticket stubs, some hurriedly head for the exit doors and hoping that they are not going to get caught for overstaying or scanning their ezlink cards at the exit door a stop after they board. Some sleeping ones are caught unaware when the inspector nudges them. Next time an inspector comes on board, which group are you in?

Watching trailers can be fun. Especially if you have not been to the movies lately. This however is a good place where you can view movies done by film students, underground directors and enthusiasts. Choose your genre. You should find something you like there!

It’s the time of the year again

slapping the bus seats silly won’t make the body heat of the last person who sat there go away. enough said

It’s going to be a packed weeekend again at this event. you can bet there will be many happy bargain hunters hoping to walk away with the summer’s hi-tech, digital toys. Not to be confused with this website. Will be an interesting weekend for those with whopper sized wallets.

Mine’s a hamburger without the meat pattie.

Eyes On

Watching the traffic slow to the standstill during peak hours can be frustrating. From the vantage view from a person in a bus, what goes on in cars are like advertisement spaces. Each car tells a story. Singing with their eyes closed, gestures and body language and the occasional private displays of affection all seem non visible to those outside their vehicles.. or is it?

This and this have made me laugh daily. It is good to know local humour can be found on the net. The current economic downturn has turned many of us into unsmiling workaholics who can’t even stop for a minute in the day and laugh.

A New Toy

Holding on to the standing poles in the middle of the trains for support can be hazardous. Some just don’t seem to see the fingers wrapped around the poles for some reason. They barge through the train doors and plonk themselves, their backs onto these fragile fingers. No apologies not withstanding. Have sent in a suggestion to the train people to make these poles electrified.”

Made a purchase. Not sure if it is out of good judgement. I am enjoying the complexities of learning the functions of a new toy. Giving up this proved to be a harder task than I imagined. The deletion of words and numbers with a detached mind can be sobering. Desperate times lead to desperate measures.

Ready, Set… Hold on

“Ladies and gentleman.. we’re 5th in the queue for take-off.” Words that brought simultaneous inner groans, including lady in green kebaya. Baking on the taxiway, the longest wait began. 30 minutes into the 5 that were promised, the grey drizzle parted and disclosed a fluffy white sky that prepared itself for the arrival of SQ866.

Apparently Hong Kong Park View is an expensive place. Or at least it is in an expensive neighbourhood. The suite is impressive. The smell isn’t. The service is good. The food isn’t. Well who says we can win it all?

Hong Kong is a truly a melting pot. You can’t see 1st world and not-so-like-of-1st-world side by side in Singapore.

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Standing on the platform, at least 100m from the train driver, twists of his white-gloved wrists signal “step on the brakes – open door – sip coffee – close door – move along so I can do this again”. What would we do without him, really?

Every now and then, someone will stand up and throw meringue pies at blogging engines. Frankly, I have no clue what makes WP better than TXP than MT than Blogger and you get my drift. In case you have arrived at this site looking for over-the-top reviews on the tools, you probably would prefer to look up this comparison chart.

I have no cableTV but I have LDOCE. Don’t envy me.