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At Trains (no punning intended)

Having always to be a die hard bus user, i converted to taking trains to school only Jan this year, after the morning traffic conditions gotten worse. Since then, the morning commute was seamless, and rather, monotonous.

Quickly it came for the very last day to school on Thurs, and possibly the very last time i'm known as a "full-time" student, going to that school, on that time. The train company gave a surprise that morning, by breaking the norm.

Typical morning, at the typical station, with many others typically went forward to glass door as the train typically comes to a stop, however, untypically it didnt stop on time, & went very untypically overshot. Thus with this untypical situation whereby the train doors ending up aligned to station glass walls, definately the train cannot open it's doors. An untypical reverse, i guess, is not possible too, so in the end the passengers inside the train are trapped.

Picture this. We, on the platform, staring onto the glass door that wouldnt open, (which leads to nothing) and those in the train, preparing to alight, staring onto a black wall.

This ackward moment lasted for half a minute or so, then the train sped off (before the next one came, bang and cause an 007 style explosion). And a straight voice came from the PA: "the next train will be arriving in 2 minutes.".

Honestly, i'm ok with it. I wasnt late or anything; it was rather, those in the train i do pity. For this mistake they have to go an extra station, instantly converting them from on time, to be late for work.

Hey, at least they could have shown some sort of Apology on the PA rather than only saying next one is 2 minutes right?

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At F1 simulator

Came across this at airport today:



And me, being myself, detoured to the booth, and 5 minutes later, on the seat trying out the PC game (not the big simulator of 'cos, i'm not going to crash loudly in public)

Nothing beats playing a driving simulator with proper steering wheel and big LCD screen. But the enjoyment was discounted for the crashing, stalling, spinning out of the F1 car. The singapore circuit is so narrow with no run off area...and the sheer speeds require all the 1000 & 1 concentration...

Damn, it was hard. No wonder F1 drivers are paid millions.

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At Exams

Here's the luck number of the week -- 8861
Fortune available at all 4D/TOTO outlet near you.

Which, by the way, is my exam candidate number, freshly out of the hot mailer that just came in. Just days before the exams.

So as we hope that our number can lead us to some Academic fortune, wouldnt it be nice if we can extract some Financial fortune out of it?

A quick check on my sister newly-beloved iPhone, whose application revealed that this number last came on:

Feb 2007, starter
Feb 2005, starter
Oct 2000, 3rd
Dec 199o, consolation

...& that's all, in entire history.


Alrite, be realistic, study hard.

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