standing on the metal grilled floors in between train cars sometimes makes one feel like the train cars can somehow disengage and pour the contents of the cars (us) into a deep abyss. OR one can experience better ventilation and airconditioning. ever wondered what that actor was saying in the movie in between the noisy …
Monthly Archives: June 2004
Grammar school
Some people like to sit on the seat-dividing-groove. Not dance to it. Some like to fall onto the seat with all the mighty strength they can muster. Not with an ‘excuse me’. Some like to read other people’s text messages. We need voting booths for that. From synapseman: How grammatically sound are you? What is …
Draw your heart out
Two daily tabloids. Pairs and pairs of eyes. Handful of drifting minds. Couple of text-ing fingers. Hardly any serious conversations. More often than not, travelling time is not well planned. If you secretly enjoy drawing flowcharts (using the right symbols) or drafting the floorplan of your dream home, SmartDraw maybe worth considering. Especially when a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …