18%
Sometimes the friends I have says things I can never imagine them saying. It amuses me to no end when language like this pops up.
koh wai kit says
woi
woi
wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
cocktease
like the girl i saw on the way home
fucking cocktease
awesome sexy little kitten
Seriously, "awesome sexy little kitten"? I can never put it across in a more exciting way than that.
Talking about "on the way home" brings to mind "transport", which in turn leads to the current furore over SMRT's services. I get the public ire, I really do. But this is simply the result of complacency, and this fiasco isn't that impossible in the first place. SMRT is a private company, with the suffix "Ltd". It just means that shareholders are not liable to losses of the corporation, which means that if the corporation suffers too many losses, shareholders only lose the amount they invest.
Which just means they don't really have to be responsible for the people who take their transport.
Let's face it, we have no proper competition for SMRT. There's only one corporation (SMRT) plying the NS/EW/Circle lines, with SBS Transit plying the NE line. We only have 2 corporations doing our MRT. We have no say if they were to pakat and raise the prices.
People will be outraged. They will remain outraged for a few days, and then their anger will simmer and die off. This matter will be largely forgotten until the next time SMRT tries to raise its prices. And the prices will be raised anyway, and people cannot boycott SMRT because the alternatives are not as feasible or convenient in the long run. Purchasing a car isn't the cheapest thing to do. Buses take a long time, and there's less chiobus on the bus. Taxis are expensive unless you're travelling with 3 friends, and even then it's more expensive than the MRT, and not necessarily more convenient.
SMRT knows this. They can exploit the fuck out of us. They can force their corporate dick of greed into our poor anuses and rape us without lube, and all we can do is grunt, grumble, and moan like the little sluts we are in the merciless hands of insatiable greed. We're powerless, and they know it. The only thing they're doing is trying to deceive us into thinking that we're not as powerless as we are, and that's why they don't raise the prices in a way that screams unreasonable. They raise it in a way that says unreasonable.
This is a classic case of monopoly, when you land and pay through your nose for every land you step on, because your friend is a dick who owns like 5 hotels along Nassim Road, and you can't do nuts about him being a dick because he's not playing against the rules. He's not going to have to pay for the maintenance of the hotels, shit, no, unless he gets the Chance card, and let's face it--that'd be rare, and he'd still earn more from renting the fuck out of you. He can't lose. Monopoly teaches life skills, and Singapore allows such things to happen.
So...
We have a problem.
We are the problem.
In other news, I've finally gotten my 3SG rank. But I don't really feel all that excited about it, because I don't think I've earnt it. There's nothing to be proud of for something that I haven't succeeded in, because putting in effort isn't enough; actually succeeding in something is what truly matters.
But for the higher "allowance", I guess I'll take it. Money talks.
Did you know that 22% of all married males cheat on their wives. You might think that only males would cheat on their females, because Nature built them to propagate as much as possible, but you'd be surprised/disappointed when you find out that a whopping 18% of females cheat on their husbands. I read that on The Straits Times. So much for fidelity, marriage vows, and whatnot. The statistics are worrying though. 18% roughly translates to 1/5 women cheating on their husbands, which also obviously means that 1/5 husbands are having cheating wives. This is indeed worrying, because I normally have at least 4 other males surrounding me, because I'm that popular. And judging by circumstances, and past experiences, my luck isn't the best.
This means...=\
I'm not going to get married. This is either a clairvoyant moment or me being very very insecure. The possibility of wearing a green hat is too great for me to contemplate.
Which also makes me wonder how many people are actually faithful even when they're only dating.
I can blabber on and on and make no sense still.
-- 12/13/2011 08:29:00 PM
