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Why, when you're waiting for a lift (having already pressed the button), does someone always arrive after you insist on re-pressing the button?
Everyone knows that pressing the elevator button more than once in futile, including those who do it. Eventhough youve clearly pressed the button once, with the button illuminated, indicator light displayes lift's progress, someone arriving after you doesn't seem to trust you.
In all likelihood, the tiny plastic boxes attached to poles at busy intersection corners, the ones with buttons in the center and signs that read ‘Press Button and Wait for Light to Turn Green’ despite the conspicuous absence of wires connecting the box to anything controllable, to me, are dummy buttons.The button, more importantly the sign accomplishes 2 things:
- by pausing to consider the instructions, we are given time to control our suicidal, traffic-hopping impulses, and
- we are given the illusion of control where we are liable to press the button and wait for the light.
Where we had previously intended to seize control by defying the 'Don't Walk' warning and dashing into the road, we now believe that true control is at our finger tips. Even if we suspect the button is a dummy, we will probably stick around to prove ourselves right.
The list doesn't end there. There are people who honk their horns in a traffic jam as if by doing so will speed up the traffic, or refeshing the email inbox if you got no mail, and to some extend, even sending a 'test' mail to one self.
I think that part of this behaviour comes from good old fashion self reliance and to be in control, but all the same, what do you think?
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If you have money to spend, Geylang is the place to be during this time of the year. It is THE place to be.
Lots of things are up for sale for the festive season. Cushion covers, table mats, floor mats, curtains, lightings, vases, flowers both real and fakes, frames, baju melayu (traditional malay clothing), shoes, slippers, and so on and so forth.. Too many things, too little money.
Don't go there if you don't feel like spending because just watching people spend makes you do the same. I myself bought 2 pieces of carpets (among other things) and ended up giving 1 to my in laws because there is no place to put it in my house.
Just for the fun of it, you should go there. That is where the holiday mood will start to build in you. All sort of people of different races may it be malay, chinese or indian are they to get the best bargains. Of course you have to bare the crowd, but you wouldn't have it any other way. It is the festive season after all.
So to all my family and friends back home, I wish you all 'Selamat Hari Raya'. Its a shame I can't be there with you all this year.
It's been a busy weekend for me. I haven't got any time at all with my blog.
I wouldn't have thought that blogging would be this addictive. Maybe it's just the beginning, but I'm finding myself writing details of things I did during the day for my blog. By the end of the day I threw it away because it was nothing but crap. Hehe..
I mentioned that it has been a busy weekend for me. I rented a car to go shopping for the upcoming festive season, Hari Raya Aidilfitri. The car didn't cost me too much ($70 per day) but buying fuel did dig a hole in my pocket. It cost around $1.50 per gallon compared to back home in Brunei's $0.53, and when you rent a car, you're almost positive to be using it every chance you got. I mean you're paying for the car right?On top of paying for gas, I'm also paying for parking tickets, ERPs (something like road tax) and of course, my shopping.
I went with friends (Brunei friend whose also working here) to this new shopping complex, Vivo City, which just opened during the weekend. Its BIG!! Its HUMONGOUS!! From the outside you can see its beautifully build structures with water fountains just in front of the main entrance. Inside its very spacious halls were easily filled with shoppers.
You can say it was ahead of its time, which it practically was, because there is still alot of shops yet to be opened. HAHA!!
--end of part one. More to come tomorrow--
Everyone knows that pressing the elevator button more than once in futile, including those who do it. Eventhough youve clearly pressed the button once, with the button illuminated, indicator light displayes lift's progress, someone arriving after you doesn't seem to trust you.
