Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an announcement to make. If you have been following my blog, I thank you wholeheartedly. I now regret to inform you that I need to slightly inconvenience you by asking that you now refer to HERE to read my blog entries. I will no longer be writing much in this blog. There is no real reason why I have changed blogs, it is just one of my many whims. Mainly, it is because Windows Spaces looks nice and works better in Windows Live Writer.

I will still come regularly to check the chat box, and even if I don't reply, I DO read them, so feel free to say anything you want, like things I should talk about, or things I shouldn't talk about. Stuff like that.

Thank You, and I apologize again for this minor inconvenience.

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Eve of Chinese New Year's Eve’s Eve (EoCNYEE)

0 comments Posted by Mangenkyo on Friday, January 23, 2009

Parkway Parade is the place where one goes on EoCNYEE, or any other date related to CNY when one wants to get seriously annoyed. If I was forced to make a choice between going there, and staying home and repeatedly hitting myself on the head with a stick at home, I would stay home. Seriously. It seems like half of Singapore is there to shop. The other half would be at Chinatown or some other weird place where people shop for CNY goodies.

The taxi fare nowadays is insane. Someone I know woke up late in the morning, and since his school is on the other side of the country, decided to take a cab there. For travelling about 80+KM, he paid SGD22.80. It sucks. Seriously. The fare goes by the meter and starts at SGD3.00, and every 100m or so, it goes up by 20 cents, and there is a surcharge of 35%. Which is supposed to  make paying for a taxi ride in Singapore more affordable. More affordable than what? Buying a car? Just looking at the meter can give you a heart attack. If that happens, of course, one needs to be admitted into a hospital, which, by the way, means you have to pay another insane amount of money. All the companies in Singapore are in cahoots, I tell you. The traffic lights change at the rate of the erosion of rocks, which means you have to pay more when you are in a taxi, and in the taxi, the meter is in such a place that it is difficult not to look at it, causing you to get a heart attack that would result in you being admitted to the hospital. I would also bet that there are a lot of fake accidents being created so that there will be traffic jams, further increasing the cost of taking a taxi. Of course, all of this is ignoring the fact that one would have to go through those dreaded Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries, again further increasing the fare. There are 80 of those suckers in Singapore. Thus, if I were forced to take public transport, my best bet would be the MRT. If the destination is close by, take a bus. If it’s far away, take a train, then the bus. Do NOT, under any circumstances, take a cab. The weight of your wallet, and your mood for the day depends on it.

Now, my laptop is running out of battery, and I have to stop writing. I shall try to come up with more weird things to complain about.

 

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