A lot blogworthy happen today..so here it goes.
A visit to the hospital earlier today. No this time its not some appointment but to visit the mum of a close friend. While she was off for an Xray with my friend, me and Erna waited in the ward and that's when the drama started. About 2 beds away from us, this nurse was trying to take the temperature of this old lady. But this old lady is not just any ordinary old lady. We call her Tai Lung(named after the character in Kung Fu Panda). Why? Coz you should have seen her fighting with the nurse. The nurse was being as patient as she can be and this old lady kept fighting her off, even to the extent of wanting to bite the nurse hand at one point of time. It was damn funny ok. Me and Erna tried to contain our laughter but we cant help it and even the nurse joined us and just smiled.
Then the lady next to us found a liking to me. She kept asking me to help do stuff, like pass the drink to her, push the table to her...But what takes the cake is when she tried to talk to me in full pledge mandarin although I kept shouting( yes I had to shout coz she is kinda deaf) in mandarin that I'm Malay and not Chinese, even tried speaking in broken Malay just hoping it will work. But of course its to no avail, she kept ranting on and on about how she had a son who died of cancer and another son who no longer cares about her..so now she has no money even to eat sometimes...of which she tend proceed to cry. I have no idea how to answer back nor do I know how to comfort her...so I just kept looking over to where my friends are to save me. Its quite funny how I tried to avoid eye contact with her the rest of the time there coz she still want to talk to me but she kept repeating the same thing. but quite sad also la eh come to think of it.
5pm rolls in and I had to go. I forgot NUH has a new shuttle bus system, so waited for like 30 minutes to finally got into the bus. So obviously I was late to go to my mum workplace. Waited for 254 and the bus seriously refused to come sooner. When it came, man was the bus driver pissy.
First he kept horning at all the other buses. Then there was this Malay lady and her 2 children, 1 teenager and the other is still a kid. Ok this makcik is another story on its own. She told her teenage daughter..eh isnt that so and so and point outside to this guy. The girl acknowledge the guy and then the makcik proceed to say "kau takde nombor telefon die".. The daughter replied " eee buat ape..die tua seh." Then the mum said " alah die ada motor pe..kalau jumpe kat luar lagi nanti..mesti die mintak nombor telefon"
Oh em gee..
I cant believe the mum is "pimping" her daughter la. I mean it's one thing for a mum to comment on the guys she dates.But to actually persuade her teenage daughter to date an older guy( I think he's like in his mid-20s) just coz he has a bike.. Hentam la makcik eh..asalkan bahagia.
Ok back to the bus driver. Well this makcik and her kids decided on the get go that they don't like the driver coz of his horning. So what did she do? When they were about to alight, she actually press the bell 3 times. 3 fricking time. Now here's the thing, I am already super late..so to have such stupidity in front of me..I really wanted to cuss her or something but retain my cool coz I know its not worth it. But do you know how the bus driver deals with such stupidity. He reciprocate it by driving at 10km/h to the bus stop this family wants to alight at. My goodness! It's like stupidity begets stupidity.
And this is not the only time it happened. Somewhere along the way...the same thing happened.. But we'll get to that later...I think the driver have a male version of PMS coz boy was he pissy and rude. At 2 of the stops, he actually activate the tap-out-thingy late, leaving those who wanted to alight stranded for about 30s or so waiting to tap out. So one of them actually went to him to tell him nicely can you activate it now. Wah this driver just shouted at him, " Wait la you cannot wait ah!" You know when he did the stupid thing with the malay family, I get it..Coz that makcik was just whacked. But seeing this, I was ready to put down the bus plate number so in case I wanna complain I can do so.
And he's not doing anything to change my mind la.
Remember the makcik story..well so 1 stop before where I alight( Time check..its already 6.35pm and I need to reach my mum place before 6.40), another of groups of idiots actually repeat the same stupidity and pressed the bell 4 times. So this driver pull the same stunt. This time round it was even slower and I almost lose it when a small verbal fight ensued between the driver and the workers who wanted to get off. It goes something like this:
Driver: you want to press many times right, I drive slowly.
Worker: Then just open the door, we drop here la..talk so much
Driver: Wait you think you big ah..
Wah lan neh! I feel like pulling a Rihanna and shout Shut Up and Drive You Fucker..ok maybe Rihanna didn't say the last 2 words.
You think it's over right... No!
After that, I proceed to stand up and wait at the door in order to save time coz now Im doomed, I am really late. So I pressed the bell. Wait nicely at the door and I think it paid off, coz he actually activate the tap-out-thingy earlier before we actually reach the bus stop. So I tap out and then there's this 2 idiots who actually pressed the bell again for another 3 times.So what did this driver do... He actually halted..like seriously halted that we almost fell down. I mean I get it that the passengers are idiots..but really..what's your problem Mr Bus Driver, what happen to your courtesy bone? Be a bit more patient la...you are not a fantastic driver to begin with in the first place, with all that horning and near-misses.
Tsk.
I seem to be in contact with many idiots these past few days. Like yesterday. When I was in Jurong Point toilet with Jo, this lady actually let the son pee-d into the basin where we washed our hands. Idiot! There's toilets bowls for a reason you know.
Fuck care with courtesy campaign. I think some Singaporeans need to be exiled for the lack of social etiquette.
Idiots.
Hanim