Driven

the days of driving to school are over. gone are the days i can proudly brag that it takes me 7 fucking minutes to get to class. to class. not to school. to class. sigh.

i really wonder whether the move to the city campus is a good thing. sure, there are tons of good things about it, the facilitaies, the convenience and of course the location. the location. smack right in the heart of the city. but it's all the good things that u hear. surely not everyone is happy with the city campus. for one, being right smack in the middle of the fucking god forsaken city has done nothing for me. in fact, i hate it. for one, everything's fucking expensive, sure, blame it on the rental and stuff. but doesnt the school decide how much to charge for rental? or do we have to pay rental to moe every year for using it's highly acclaimed CITY CAMPUS. A POO ON U. food's gone up. not that it was ever low to begin with. now, it's just higher.

being in such close proximity to orchard road does not make things better for me. for 1 i KNOW that i'll be spending a lot more time doing things that i shldnt be doing, it's not like i havent been doing it but now that i'm actually there already just makes it all the less sinful. in fact, it actually makes going to town and whittling my time away seem justified. since i'm already there i might as well make full use of it. that logic is just flawed but then the young always think they live forever and i always think that there's always tommorrow. and ever since i made up my mind to not drive to school (i did want to drive to school and i secured parking for my car that costs me 60 a month. yes 60 a month. beat that. ha! but then my beloved mother and sister made me drive to school in the morning. park at the place i was gonna be parking at and walk to school. it took me the better park of 40 minutes. the car park was bloody far from school, a good 10 min brisk walk. fuck. and just so to prove their point, they made me then take a god damn bloody mother fucking train to school and WALK to the offices again. JUST TO PROVE THEIR POINT. yes it is faster, by a good 10-20 minutes. ur point is made. i wonder whether they actually did the test before they made me do it but i do not want to know. what i didnt know didnt hurt me. now i know that im not driving and yes, it hurts. like an arrow through my heart. stick a knife into my arse and twist it around. take a fire hydrant and smash it against my head. repeatedly. yes, i'm not driving to school next sem. goodbye to all my friends. i shall start school afresh. friendless. right joyce? anyways, i lost my best case for drivin to school. fuck.), gone is the headache of finding a parking lot in town, how much parking is gonna cost, the ever steadily rising prices of petrol, the exhorbitant rates of erp during the morning peak period. i will spend more time in town. since ORCHARD IS NEARER TO BISHAN THAN CITY HALL. it is ALONG the way home. so what's stopping me...

granted education is cheaper for those of us in singapore and the cost of living here is lower than the most places. but isnt that the point, to keep prices here low for the masses. the prices at smu is retard and who is going to stop the price rise or place a cap on things if they can get away ripping off students. if u can rip students off who is going to give 2 shits about things should u start ripping the working class off...

which brings me to another point. dun u find it funny how petrol company raise their prices. they do it in 3 simple steps. 1) raise the price by a few cents. 2) give a huge discount. 3) slowly cut back on the discount. then, they repeat steps 1,2,3 again and again and again. an example, the price of 1 litre of shell 95 now is the price of shell V-Power when i 1st started driving. that's a good 20 cents. 20 cents over 2 years. it's not much u might say but just think, if a 1.6 car has a fuel tank of 40 litres, 20 cents means 8 dollars more per tank. u pump 4 full tanks in a month, 32 dollars. 12 months = a lot of money. and the thing is the media is so behind them. when was the last time u heard of petrol prices being raised in singapore and when u do it's nicely glossed over. take it in comparison to how much you hear about crude oil prices rising in the states. brillant propaganda machine at work.

another case of brilliant propaganda at work, go pay a little attention to mr andrew kuan. it's classic how pap slaughtered him. the kill him for one. and for good measure, they buried him 6 feet under just in case. for crying out loud he's facing a law suit... just because he wanted to be the president.