Sunday, July 10, 2005
hear ye.
fate just spoke to me through my pillow, and said that i would not sleep in peace today.
but destiny will triumph over fate, and i
will find sleep. upon my word, i declare that i have identified the fragment of thought that stands between me and my sleep.
she is. the monster i met on the train.
YOU SEE. i was thirsty hungry and dying on the way back yesterday, cos for some sadistic reason, the teachers in crescent obviously made a mass resolution at the beginning of the week to deprive sec4 students of as much food and rest as possible.
one of their battle plans were to pile us with work and tests. but we triumphed over that adversity and emerged very much alive, so they tried instead to use up our lunch periods based on strange excuses such as "you will not leave the classroom until everyone has handed in blabla"
so i had barely a drop of nutrient in me by the end of the day la. cos i don't go for recess. and i went with shan to photocopy some geog worksheets for the people who lost them..
so after school. on the way back.
got some green tea at redhill. stared at it delightfully, but my joy was short lived because we had to quickly move up to catch the train. so gotta wait a few more minutes.
finally. on the train, i took a sip and closed my eyes in escatsy as the relief of having something osmosize into me after a long day of starvation drowned me. it felt as if i were on wings, floating up to the sky. -suddenly
"you're not supposed to drink green tea here. you should know that yourself." this grubby woman monster said. i was baffled. i stared at her in mock horror.
firstly. if i had transferred the drink into an opaque bottle, my drinking the drink would not have been questioned. so having scolded me for letting her see that i was drinking tea instead of what she knows as holy water, the woman is conclusively judging the our inability to spend the time and energy and money on expensive sport bottles for the shallow sake of hiding the fact that we are drinking more effective thirst quenchers on the train.
secondly, if we had been a group of boys instead of girls, the likelihood of her making such a fuss over my apparent misdeed would have been much smaller. why? because it's easier to bully smaller looking people of the weaker gender. considering the case that her efforts to have a child that could preserve her husband's bloodline were futile, causing her to she feel the uncanny need to vent her frustration onto unsuspecting and less compatible targets, it is very clear that this woman has committed a serious misdeed herself. if she hates the sight of children, then that's another story.
which brings me to my next point.
her generation of women started the plea of liberation after having benefited from the then ineffective singapore education system. i want to have the satisfaction of a successful career too, they all thought. the men can always get pregnant instead of us. we don't always have to give way to God's plan of our fruitful multiplication. so we will all have one point four six children, and no more.
and because of people like this monster on the train, who cares more for her career than her kids IF even existent (from the fact that it was after 6pm when we got on the train), our longsuffering generation of pathetic children will grow up to higher tax rates and lower bonuses. because a large portion of our money will go towards sustaining the lives of the previous generation who refused to contribute towards the replenishing of the only natural resource singapore has. so much for being morally upright. go home and bring me 5 baby monsters, and maybe i'll never bring anything but water on a train anymore.
i, unlike you, have done my part as a citizen of our country. i helped this amah carry her heavy plastic bags from the mrt to a taxi stand just this wednesday. and because of the monster i met on the train, i have decided never to ever take trains home again. this way she has impeded a citizen from lending a helpful hand to our society. and this new statistic will last everyday until i die.
so not only has she created a very bad impression on the young and vulnerable future breadwinners of singapore, she also contributed towards making life harder to bear for many amahs taking our trains.
such a disgrace. i don't take advice from this kind of people. auntie monster.
ehh. still not sleepy. haiyo.
many happy returns of the night.
12:06 AM
reach for
the stars(:
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