Facts Of Life Which You Didn't Know, #7

Bus drivers generally aren't impressed nor happy when they see you chasing after their bus. Most drivers act blind/blur, and drive away when they see you from the corner of their eyes, running and flagging at them like some madman/madwoman.

This unhappiness is made even all the more worse when you manage to catch the bus with the other boarding passengers, after having the below odds against you:

- The bus-stop is 200 metres away from the traffic junction you are at.
- The bus is right beside you, stopped by the red light. You are stopped by the red man as well.
- There is another junction 100m away that turns red/green at the same time as this junction that you are standing at.
- You are only able to cross on the green man signal, and the bus has the green light to move off as well.

When you do catch up with the bus and board it, you will have already incurred the wrath of the bus driver. Angry glares at you will last throughout the whole of your bus ride.

Be forewarned.

Facts Of Life Which You Didn't Know, #6

We make mistakes, we learn from it. We swear never to do it again the next time we face a similar situation. And we stick to that promise and improve our lives as we grow older.

Now there is at least one person (whom I know) who doesn't stick to that rule. He never learns. He makes mistakes just like the rest of us, but he never learns from it.

And it's not like he's a retard. He's just as smart as you or me.

He just refuses to learn from his mistakes, nor listen to the advice of others. So in the end, he repeats his mistakes over and over and over again, countless times, multiple times, endless number of times.

Offer him casual advice when making small talk, towards the best of his interests, he rejects it outright.

Offer him serious advice when he's faced with a problem/dilemma (which anybody in the sane mind would take up because it's the only rationale choice left), he refuses to take it.

Give him personal tips on dealing with things/people/situations, he ignores it.

And he still runs up to that wall and knock himself over.

He's paid for his mistakes with just about anything in his life: his money, his time, his grades (in school), his efforts, his energy. But he still repeats it. The mistakes are everytime of similar nature.

If you're feeling down-in-the-dumps for committing a wrong, feel glad at yourself. Because you learn, and you understand what you should do the next time round.

Can Means Can, Cannot Means Cannot, Don't Talk So Much Cock...

If you've watched the 7pm fishball drama yesterday (Monday, 25th July 2005), you would know what I am talking about.

There was this rape scene in the show, and this guy was forcing himself onto the girl in the show. Guy pushes girl onto sofa, pins her hands down. Girl starts screaming like a real rape scene.

And then it goes downhill from then on.

Guy sticks his head into the girl's right shoulder, supposedly to kiss her neck, but we all know that he's only sticking his head in there. Then he sticks it to the left.

And to the right. Then to the left. He doesn't tear off the girl's dress, he doesn't reach to unzip his fly.

Left & right, left & right. Over and over again. Left and then right.

And that WAS a rape scene, mind you.

Maybe the girl's dress was too expensive to tear up for that scene. Maybe the guy hasn't worked up an erection yet (in which case he should be tearing up the dress to work one up). Maybe he forgot to pop that Viagra first before he tried getting at it... but I think we all know the truth.

On The Bus... #8 or The Pissing Dog

There was a boy, probably in his late teens, wanting to get off the bus. When the bus reached the bus-stop, there he stood, by the door, waiting to tap his card.

You and me, we just reach into our pockets fish our cards out, and tap our cards.

Him, he had his card in his trouser pocket, and he raised his leg to tap his card at the machine.

Talk about a Uniquely Singaporean experience.

No prizes for guessing how the boy looked like.

In A State Of Self-Denial

"We are not veteran swimmers."

"We are dolphins!"

"We are not children."

"We are champions!"

Sounds familiar? The Milo commercial on TV showing the 3 chewren swimming in the pool?

They seriously need a good psychiatrist; to be in such a bad stage of self-denial.

Facts Of Life Which You Didn't Know, #5

There is at least 1 man on the street who wears a red T-Shirt with a yellow star in the middle.

NDP and Fireworks

Personally, the sight of seeing girls and parents with their kids going gaga-goo-goo when they see fireworks at the annual parade is simply something which I cannot fathom at all.

Obviously, the fireworks cost a few hundred thousand dollars upwards.

Everytime I see a firework going off, my heart feels the pain.

"OMG it's SOooooOO PreEETTtYYY!!!!!"

Yeah yeah, there's your money up in the sky from the tax you pay.