I realised that 100 grams of sweetsis actually quite a lot. It’s been a long time since I bought sweets from the shops where you can pick and choose the candy that you want, and then pay for it according to the weight.
I caught the 2:35pm movie Terminator Salvation with S and ZY today. Being not-a-terminator fan, I had no idea what the storyline was about, or the sequels, nor the prequels. It was still an interesting movie however, looking at the ways the animations were put across.
We bought 3 huge bottles (1.5l, I suppose) of Apple/Mixed Fruit Juices from Cold Storage that cost $1.00 o.O. I’m still left with half a bottle as of now. Then I bought another 100 over grams of sweets, all the sour ones, which cost me some $2.65, and I’m still left with almost the same amount I’ve bought now.
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Earlier in the morning, I overslept by about 45 minutes, and I only woke up when S called me to ask “Where Am I”. Quickly showered and rushed out without breakfast – in record time, I reached school 30 minutes after I woke up. Reached there still half asleep to sit in on a meeting – wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, the frying.
Finished a Practical during the meeting since I was too bored and I was simply just listening anyway.
Then it was lunch at Long John Silvers, and the movie.
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I found something interesting on the table while I was back at school. JR had some interesting notice up for the students wanting to reset their passwords – particularly picking on the usage of the English Language. It was hilarious to read the notice – differentiating between the usage of May and Can.
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After the movie, we went home. I fell asleep immediately and napped for 3 hours, and now I’m sleepy again.
I was at Ang Mo Kio MRT Station this afternoon, seated there with S while we both waited for our friends to arrive. I was waiting for W to arrive, while S was waiting for someone else.
Whilst seated there, a blind man appeared from the escalator. He struggled there for some ten minutes, walking around with his stick, but nobody really approached him and attempted to render aid to him.
I attribute this to what we call the Bystander Effect, whereupon people are less likely to help in a situation when other people were present, since we’d assume that another person would help him anyway.
Of course, I was guilty of it, too. I looked at him struggle for an entire ten minutes, before walking over to help him. I’d thought that someone would help him during that ten minutes, but nobody did.
I walked over, asking if he needed help and where he was heading. He said he wanted to get to Yew Tee, then mumbled something about him not having any stored value in his EZ-Link Card and he needed to top up tomorrow after selling some items. I asked if he needed a single-trip ticket there, yes he did.
Hence, I walked him to the Ticketing Machines.
Along the way there, he started grumbling about how uncaring the world is and how no one bothers to help him and other stuff along those lines. I smiled it off and ignored his rant, having heard it so many times everytime I help someone like him. Of course, he did say thank you once or twice.
As we approached the Ticketing Machines, I asked him if he had any money, since the fare was $2.80 (after the $1 refundable deposit). He started grumbling about the fare and said that he had no money and whatnot, then how unhelpful the world was to him and refused to spare him some money. I was never able catch his reply in full anyway, since he was mumbling and mixing dialects with Chinese and the background noise was simply too overwhelming.
I was reluctant to help him pay for the fare at first, him being a total stranger, and helping him to the ticketing machine or the station gantry would probably be the furthest I’d do.
I gave in and decided to help him with the fare – but I had an issue. I didn’t have coins.
An anonymous lady approached me, and started digging in her purse. She gave me a $2 note, but I told her I needed coins and asked her if she had any. She managed to dig out $1.80 worth of coins, and I contributed $1 to it, making up the fare. I bought the ticket for him and we walked over to the gantry.
Most disgustingly, none of the staff stationed there wanted to help, even when I requested for it.
I’d have thought SMRT’s Staff are trained to help such people when they sight them, being in the Service Line. However, it seemed to me that none of them were helpful enough. None of them came out of the control room despite obviously sighting him. None of them bothered to come out of the control room even when I asked them for help. None of them bothered to help him up to the platform, which I couldn’t help him up to. The station staff gave me a “I can’t be bothered, get lost” look and waved to a security guard standing there to help him when I asked them to help him.
The security guard didn’t even bother at first. He let him walk a distance on his own, and then after a while, started to walk over to him.
Having seen the guard walk over (but I’m not sure if he ever approached him), I went back to where S was, feeling that my job is done. I don’t know what happened after that, hopefully he walked him to the platform. I’d wonder what happen on the train, or even when he reached Yew Tee.
As for the blind guy, he never did breathe a word of thank you again. He seemed to have more of blamed me for everything after he realised I couldn’t pay for the fare for him and hence started to be rude to me.
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Whilst I certainly didn’t help because I wanted to be thanked *rolls eyes*, sometimes I feel that it’s because of such incidences that stop us from helping people. It’s like, you help someone, and the person, instead of feeling thankful, blames you for his plight. I mean, as a total stranger helping someone out of kindness, nobody certainly deserves this unjust treatment. I certainly didn’t owe him anything in my life.
We’re not apathetic. We do help, just like how the anonymous lady approached me and gave me money. I can’t say the same about the station staff d’oh. It’s just that such people make us not want to help.
Perhaps, the older generation, has a culture where they expect things and take it as it is something they deserve. I’ve experienced it so many times. Nevertheless, as there are always two sides to a coin, there are still people whom are thankful when you help them, and I’m glad I meet people like that.
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Anyway, I went over to AMK Hub later at about 5pm. After that I went back to my ex-school, then dinner with the guys and chatted over some issues.
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Quote of the Day:“I don’t know where Republic Polytechnic is.” – Anonymous, May 2009
Again . I have so many post titles with KTV Outing, so much so that Wordpress is prefixing numbers behind the Permalinks.
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It was on Wednesday, went with W and R this time, picked the afternoon session from 2-7pm for once. I wanted to use C’s card, and help her make one there too since she lost hers, but they decided that I had to refill in all the particulars on the membership form, and etc, instead of taking the information from their database. How ridiculous – ended up making the card for myself instead.
Having went there with a slight flu and cough, I ended up killing my throat.
After that we went for dinner at some nearby Hawker Center, then went back half asleep.
Took the train back to Yio Chu Kang, then received a phone call there, and that freaked the heck out of me. It does make me wonder how can one (or in this case, two) be so stupid as to not think before they act. I essentially sat outside the train station for almost 30 minutes talking on the phone.
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Today.
I took the Circle Line to to Yio Chu Kang today! Whilst the journey time was the same as taking a bus, the walking distance I had to make was shorter. The trip from my place to Yio Chu Kang cost a dollar – would have only cost $0.69 by bus, but since I bought an unlimited pass, it’d be $0.00.
Earlier, I saw P at the bus stop waiting for 74, helped him check when’s the next bus arriving, and it’s only coming in 10 minutes, and he’s waited for 10 minutes already. We decided to try out the Circle Line together.
After lessons, I took the Circle Line again for the fun of it to Bartley, then switched to a bus to meet C for lunch at Paya Lebar. J came along to join us. I figured out that taking a bus there directly would have been faster than taking the train, then switching to a bus, even though they were both headed in the same direction*rolls eyes*.
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There’s a premium service running from Marymount Station to Sin Ming – Premium 721.
I think it’ll fail. It has the most uninteresting route ever that duplicates current bus services, and it costs $1.10 to board it. Surprisingly, it managed to pick up a measly one passenger today, according to the News. I would suppose after the publicity of the Premium Service the News gave today, the ridership would be up tomorrow.
Why fail? Someone that stays in Sin Ming will have better hope taking 410 or 52 to Bishan MRT Station, which costs only $0.69, and then switch to the Circle Line from there, or even just take the North South Line from there, since I’m sure most would take the train from Marymount to Bishan. There doesn’t even seem to be a point for this service to run, at least maybe until the full line opens.
It’ll probably have better hope if it served the landed housing estate opposite the train station.
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I hate doing redundant stuff.
For example, I’d prefer just coding out a web design immediately, rather than having to painstakingly draw it on Photoshop, then extend the layers and try and fit in data using the text function, while throwing in dummy pictures, and all that other nonsense.
I was browsing through a Gallery on “How is Yahoo! Answers Formed?” that I saw via Digg. While most were just pure stupid (dumb questions) and didn’t make me laugh out loud, this one caught my attention:
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I like this song I heard the other day at the KTV, though I’m pretty sure I heard it before as usual, just never took notice until recently.
I watched Night at the Museum 2 today (again). This time, it was with W and R, felt like a super bright lightbulb when I went out with them.
How exciting! I felt that this time it was pretty worth it too, though its the second, at least it made me laugh at the scenes again, and I realised the Cathay’s Grand Cathay Cinema was really nice!
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I woke up late in the morning, realised that it was 1030am by the time I was awake, and I had a project meeting at 11am at Yishun. Hence, I injected some money into our Transport Sector’s economy again, and reached there at only 1130am after preparing.
After that I went over to Ang Mo Kio Hub trying to find some food to eat, took the longest way possible there, via 169 since I realised that no one was at home. Unfortunately, none of the food amazed me nor made me feel like eating it.
Messaged W and asked her if she was free to go out, and she was with R going to watch Night at the Museum 2. Decided to join them nevertheless, since I had nothing to do.
After movie, we had dinner at Pastamania.
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Took the NEL home so that I didn’t join them on the train, though it was utterly tempting to go to Yio Chu Kang to take a bus home from there instead of from Little India.
I ended up taking 851 all the way to Yishun and then back to my house – adding 45 minutes in the travel process.
. I have so many post titles with 