happy birthday Singapore, 40% off petrol my ass!
Its National Day today, and the mood of the moment is ambivalence. This is not a particularly good time of the year for me and has not been for the past coupla years. Most national days pass rather quietly, but this one was special not least of all thanks to some bleddy fucker who decided to start a hoax about there being 40% off petrol between the hours of 4 to 8 pm today. If you haven't already, you should have seen the freakin jams.
Must admit that the bugger had a brilliant idea, it was a masterstroke in a sense tinged with all the deliciousness of irony, that on our nation's birthday, many among us would be caught up in the uniquely Singaporean pastime of queuing for non existent bargains.
Quite funny in a sense though sad too in many others. Whoever you are, fuck you but hats off to you all the same.
For a brief moment, I pondered if it might have been part of a horrible terror plot... lure the greedy singaporeans to petrol kiosks and then have a "barbeque" in some form of perverse social admonition. But I realised that unless the terrorists read lit at JC level, they might not have fully appreciated the depth of what they have achieved, and thus bereft of intention, there could not have been motive. Most of the lit students I know somehow end up doing law or NIE with working for a terror network ranking pretty low on the job list. And even then, surely there were better targets, placing landmines under the luxury cars of the rich buggers who snatched free textbooks from the less well off for one... Bumping off moses lim before he crossed dressed as a nonya would have been another.
Learnt that I need to work on being more assertive today. Its a start I guess. My oven's broke and I'm looking for an espresso machine.
Happy birthday Singapore
Must admit that the bugger had a brilliant idea, it was a masterstroke in a sense tinged with all the deliciousness of irony, that on our nation's birthday, many among us would be caught up in the uniquely Singaporean pastime of queuing for non existent bargains.
Quite funny in a sense though sad too in many others. Whoever you are, fuck you but hats off to you all the same.
For a brief moment, I pondered if it might have been part of a horrible terror plot... lure the greedy singaporeans to petrol kiosks and then have a "barbeque" in some form of perverse social admonition. But I realised that unless the terrorists read lit at JC level, they might not have fully appreciated the depth of what they have achieved, and thus bereft of intention, there could not have been motive. Most of the lit students I know somehow end up doing law or NIE with working for a terror network ranking pretty low on the job list. And even then, surely there were better targets, placing landmines under the luxury cars of the rich buggers who snatched free textbooks from the less well off for one... Bumping off moses lim before he crossed dressed as a nonya would have been another.
Learnt that I need to work on being more assertive today. Its a start I guess. My oven's broke and I'm looking for an espresso machine.
Happy birthday Singapore
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