Why Would I Write

Category: Thoughts

  • Cabs of the future.

    So the other day I got in a cab, and realized that the cab in front of me was going to the same place as well. Then I thought to myself- wasn’t that a huge waste of petrol and money? If only I knew the person in front, we could have shared the cab, the costs, and the cab driver would’ve saved petrol, and hence saved the environment.

    But because we were strangers, we didn’t get on the same cab.

    So in the car I started thinking to myself about cabs in the future. Maybe in the future, there would be a sign on top of the cab that displays its destination, via which route, and how many more passengers it can carry. And people who were going to the same place can flag the cab down and join the ride. The meter would calculate when the second person got on and split the remainder of the distance with the new guy and so on.

    This would solve problems with not enough taxis going around, encourage carpooling, and who knows, even create relationships between strangers!

    Anybody wanna vote me into parliament for ministry of transport?
    Fuck me, I’m just babbling lol.

  • Gig #9

    My sister knew that I couldn’t afford my own SG yet, so she decided to be nice and bought one for me:

    And it’s not just any SG, but a limited edition re-issue of The Fool!

    Not. I wish though. Haha.

    Anyway, I haven’t been updating recently due to my time being spent defending the guilty in Phoenix Wright : Ace Attorney 😛 if I knew being a lawyer was this fun, I would’ve considered a career change back in college!

    I’ve also been busy working on the comic which I announced I was working on with James a long time ago. So I’ll be more free to blog when I’m done. Besides, nothing that interesting has been happening to me lately. Besides late night encounters with strange creatures in strange places. And the usual fun shit I do with my buddies, haven’t had much to say recently. Going through some sort of writer’s block.. I’m even having trouble penning lyrics for my newest song! Hopefully it’ll pass soon.

    And last but not least, this upcoming Saturday night (taken from Reza’s myspace):

    Come one, come all, and watch me perform for the open mic 😀
    And catch Jerome (one of the main acts). That man is a siren! Haunting voice and poetic lyrics. Real good stuff.

  • Train Tracks


    While waiting for the train this morning, one dude just fainted (from the heat perhaps.. it was a scorching morning) and fell head first onto the train tracks. I think everyone gasped and once they realized that he wasn’t getting up, a whole group of guys (5-7 men? I didn’t count) jumped onto the track and put him back on the platform.

    Good thing the train was still quite a distance away when the man fell down. The guy woke up a short while later, got up and looked clueless, as if he had no idea he fell. Awhile later some station staff came and took him away. They ‘unpaused’ the train, and I got onto it. Shocking and depressing shit first thing in the morning. The whole journey I kept thinking about ‘what if he died?’. The way his head hit the track, I was surprised he even survived it.

    I was late for work again.

    As I was discussing with Jacinth earlier (omg I name dropped you!) I learnt something new:
    Despite all those signs around the train tracks- they will not electrocute you if you go on the tracks! Weird huh!? We’ve been brought up all our lives (well at least I know I was) to believe that going on a track would kill you. Either way, electrocuting or not, it’s not a wise idea to go on train tracks :p

    I deserve a bad citizen award.
    Instead of rushing over to help the man, I just stood there and watched the other people do it. I do feel guilty about it. Hopefully next time I’ll do something instead of just watching. Oh wait.. let’s just hope there’s no next time. I think seeing one man fall head first onto the track is enough for a life time.

    I wonder if any other morning Setiawangsa LRT users read this blog. haha