The news that the SMRT won the ‘Best Passenger Experience’ award came to my attention when I saw Ridzuan’s twitter. I subsequently followed the link on his ‘Twit’ and read this post.

Below please see the news reproduced from CNA.

This is almost certainly funny, and like Sicarii said, ‘If this had come out on 1 April, I’d have brushed it off as an April Fool’s joke.’ .

However, when these – value for money, efficiency and reliability, as well as cleanliness and security – are used as key performance indicators (KPIs), then indeed our MRT is damned kriffing World Class Worse Class, even though I wonder how it did beat Hong Kong in terms of efficiency. Above which, as far as reliability is concerned, the recent 7-hour disruption of service affects only people living in the East, and it isn’t in itself a system wide failure.

But what is missing in the KPI is of course, customer feedback. And I doubt any such awards would want to take that into consideration because every city will have their gripes about their subway system. I personally don’t want to go into that again, since I rave and rant about it only recently.

Anyway, I had a really good laugh from this though poor Ridzuan’s views on Twitter were not very well received in some quarters. But of course his detractors are entitled to be happy with the best they can get from among the bad just as much as we wished for the better.

However, please stop telling us that you felt it is good enough for you – because I really don’t give a flying fxxk if you think shit is good enough for you as food too. You are always entitled to eat that! On top of that, we may perhaps be frogs in the well who should get out more often because we haven’t seen nothing yet, but you are not the one feeling how I feel, though I would be happy if you can invent a device so I can channel them to you such that I won’t feel anything.

In fact, I am really not sure what you have to lose to allow us to ask for a better subway service – such as a higher train frequency – since won’t you benefit from that as well?

Perhaps the only thing you got to lose is paying more for it. And in my opinion, the fares goes up annually anyway so you might as well ask for something!

This post is modified from a comment I posted on one of Ignorant Soup’s blog post.

He is dead right on this matter. People buy a car for 2 simple reasons – the public transport sucks and they really needed one (people who do sales for e.g.). In fact, I suspect Uzyn, the founder of ping.sg, would be in a better position to tell us why he bought a car too!

Here are some examplesof the gripes about our world class transport:

In short, this gahmen is talking out of its arse when it talks about a world class system without considering just how this blasted system that meets the generic performance matrix is in complete shambles when you include it’s true performance and daily commuter comfort for those travelling to work. In fact, I am not surprise that it takes most Singaporeans – without the luxury of moving like our Fallen Talents – about 45mins to an hour traveling between home and work. And that’s just only one way.

Please, don’t tell me to find a job that’s near home because jobs I don’t take are taken up by Foreign Fallen Talents in a blink and with much lower wages too!

Finally, it doesn’t take much for one to ask just how ‘World Worse Class‘ it is when the very guys who said so won’t even set an example to use it daily! How justified can the fare hikes really be, when the people who approves them generally only take public transports once in awhile? And I don’t even want to get started about taxis all over again, since I have talked about them before.

最近在 ping.sg 看到了某人的网志。此人在其一篇文章上曝露了自己的哥哥 (应该是哥哥啦， 他 它自己才十五岁) 之所以能有那么多的钱，是因为他在芽笼拉皮条做龟公。在文章里，还辱骂自己的父亲是个失败者。(当然在这其中，肯定也有废物的含义。)

这… 成何体统？！我在想，它的父亲的确非常失败。原因如此：

(一) 在和妻子性爱时，忘记用上安全套，让妻子怀了孕，生下它这个孽种。失败！

(二) 生下后没马上掐死它。 失败！

(三) 孔老夫子说过： “子不教，父之过。” 没对它灌输 “家丑不可外扬” ，让它在大庭广众和众目睽睽之下把自己家里的丑事公诸于世，是家教的… 失败！

(四) 家丑既然外扬，还可以原谅它年少无知。但它如此辱骂父亲，可想这个父亲是多么的不受尊重？连儿子都不尊重，失败中的失败！

不过话说回来，这乳臭未干的小子也挺不像样的。凭什么辱骂父亲？凭什么觉得哥哥是个耻辱？就算轮到教训，也是父母的工作。它是完全一点资格都没有。况且，它买电脑、上网、和电脑的电费是谁付的？除非它每分钱都是自己赚的，要不然连写那篇文章基本上都是父母 ‘津贴’ 的，它凭什么辱骂自己的父亲？简直目无尊长！

写了这样的文章都还算了，竟然还到 ping.sg 里来告诉当时在线的人去看！猛挖自己疮疤也罢，还自鸣得意… 太不像话了吧？

这样的人，教训它了也等于浪费时间。社会其实根本没必要来更正它父母家教的失败。如果他日它横尸街头，那可真是天理循环、罪有应得了。

Took this photo around 8pm yesterday after dinner at Lan Zhou La Mian (兰州拉面) at Smith Street. I noticed 4 of the stalls were closed, and 3 of them has a sign up showing that the store are open for rental. That simply means the previous stall has closed down.

My colleague and his wife who were with me for dinner, wondered whether Smith Street is dying. After all, we noticed that several of our favorite curry chicken, mutton soup, and western food stalls have all thrown in the tower. In fact, I think one of the 4 stalls in the photo may have been the char kway teow stall which I found quite decent as well.

Above which, 静思書軒 has also closed down some time last year. It is my opinion that the standard of the food – which we used to consider quite good – has dropped. We also cannot help but wonder, whether stores which used to serve good food are moving out because the business was bad, or they are moving out, because the rent has become too much to bear.

Photo Taken with an Olympus C-450Zoom I always carried in my bag

Citizen A: Wah piang! Today is day 15 since Mas Selamat’s Selamat Hari “YAYA*”… They still haven’t caught him yet! That DPM Wong ar, can’t Sing, can’t guard terrorist, can’t resign is it?!
Citizen B: What is Selamat Hari Yaya*?
Citizen A: The happy day Mas escaped lor. Now he can go and yaya about this day to his buddies in JI and tell them: “You all know why is this my big day or not? Because ‘limp peh*’ escaped, understand?!”

Commuter A: Wah seh. MRT was fined $400,000. Serves them right for that 7 hours breakdown.
Commuter B: Bah! This gahmen do nothing to improve the situation and earn $400,000 more. This has no benefit to us and impacts SMRT’s bottom line. Gives that bloodsucking SMRT more excuse to raise our fares again. Should have just make SMRT give us free ride for one day. At least we, the real victims, are compensated!
Commuter C: Come on! How many trips you can make in a day? Should simply just ban their CEO and directors from getting a bonus this year. That won’t hurt SMRT’s bottom line at all!. Only then they will wake up their ideas*!

Ah Beng: Bro, do you know Singapore has very specialised 4-passenger only bus in the CBD now?
Ah Seng: Is it? Why I didn’t know? Where to find them?
Ah Beng: Aiyoh!! You go to Taxi stand you will see all the special bus queue there. Now taxi cannot suka-suka* drop and pick up passenger anywhere in CBD you know?

Handicapped Man: Driver, can drop me at the building in front?
Taxi Driver: Encik! Now Taxi cannot drop people anyhow, anywhere. Taxi stand only lah! Fine $100 plus 3 demerits, ok?
Handicapped Man: Have mercy. It’s raining you don’t expect me to roll my wheelchair back from the taxi stand back here do you? There’s no shelter!
Taxi Driver: Sorry man. Even if you pay my fine also cannot. You tell the kam lan* LTA people who come up with this kam lan rule lor.