i really had the best of intentions. i was supposed to shower and head straight to bed. but it started pouring, so i simply had to make a cup of tea and do that whole cozy routine. plus, the tea was supposed to help remove the taste of some blue cheese i had taken by accident (which mum had bought by accident. i don’t suppose she could have known that the blue packaging was significant in any way.) but i don’t think peppermint tea and blue cheese work, and coziness aside… i think i just might throw up any minute now.
i wish my fellow countrymen would stop going on and on, whining about the decision to remove some seats from the trains to make space for more commuters. it is, apparently, an issue of genuine importance to many singaporeans, because… oh really, making it harder for us to get a seat on the train is an infringement of our rights as commuters.
it is one thing to whine about such things over coffee and rolls, while talking to your neighbour in the corridor, while trying to fill up an uncomfortable silence. of course we all whine. where would the joy in life be without whining? but it is another thing altogether to write to the country’s major english daily, all self-righteous and seemingly logical, and plead that those seats might remain. that plea, alongside everything else in the news. why does it feel wrong and embarrassing? i don’t know. maybe i am snobbish and hypocritical… and a show-off into the bargain. because if i were going to write to the papers, i would make sure i had something more important to say.
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