Now i know i'm supposed to be studying like real hard, since my first paper (yes u heard right, my first paper!!! When other people are already finishing!!!) is tml.

But.

The pursuit of academic excellence has dulled my brain sufficiently to cause the words on my notes to float aimlessly around my peripheral vision. So i went blog-surfing.

Anyone who reads Mr Brown's blog will know he has this autistic child. Sometimes he will blog about him and his wife's experiences handling Faith, and its really quite touching and inspiring lar.

YES I HAVE AN EMOTIONAL CORE OK! I DO GET TOUCHED ONE HOR!

Anyways, reading his blog made me remember this one time when i was taking the train home. Think it was 4 plus so the train was filled with smelly sec sch students, and errr, me. I remember there was this group of rowdy students from dunno-wat-school and they were making a lot of noise on the train, pushing each other, daring each other to go approach the pretty SCGS girls who were huddled in fear on the far end of the carriage. (Heh yes, i do have a soft spot for SCGS girls, comes from sharing a bus stop with them for 4 years, AND the fact that i was cooped up for up to 7 hrs a day with smelly boys BEFORE i get to go to the bus stop)

Then this mother boarded the train with her young son, who was making a lot of noise. Cos i was listening to my trusty IPod (which has finally died on me) i couldn't make out what they were saying but i knew she was scolding him lar. The scolding got pretty fierce cos i notice the whole train was staring at her, so i surreptitiously took down my earphones to find out wassup. I'm not kaypoh, just concerned.

Anyways, think the boy didn't like sitting on the train, as he kept clamouring to get off his seat, and whenever the train door opened, he would try to struggle away from his mother's grasp and make a mad dash for the door. The woman was making a valiant effort to hold on to his wrist. All this time the boy was shouting and screaming and he refused to listen to his mom lor. Then u know what those smelly boys did???

They actually mimicked him.

Yes.

I couldn't believe how insensitive and childish they were. They actually imitated the way the boy was screaming and shouting and laughin at each other's wonderful oscar-deserving performance. As the boy shouted louder and louder, so did the smellies. I think at this point, the whole carriage was quiet except for the boy and the smellies, and everyone was transfixed. The mom got so frustrated and embarrassed at what the smellies were doing that she

Slapped her son. Real hard.

Immediately the boy stopped crying. Think he was too shocked too. One of the smellies had seen what had happened, and he quickly told his gang, then they finally quietened down. The mother was so traumatised by this whole incident that she suddenly pulled her child out at the next station (or maybe that was really her destination...hmm..aiyah dunno lar)

Throughout the remainder of the ride, the passengers kept casting dirty looks at the smellies. Then as i was sitting there, casting one of my dirty looks as well, it suddenly struck me that i could have done something. Why did i just sit there minding my own business when i could have just said someting to them, and stop their brilliant imitation of a monkey.

Is this the normal singaporean inertia that we always read about - like not giving up seats cos we paiseh to give up, or not stopping to help someone simply cos we're afraid of drawing attention to ourselves? There were at least 40 of us in that carriage, and no one actually bothered to speak up. Hmm but i guess a weak defence i can make in my favour is the fact that there were 5-6 of them, and 2 of them look like bouncers. Although with my agility and athleticism i'm sure i could have taken them on too. Hur hur.

Anyways, sometimes i'm really shocked by how insenstive we can be lar. Wah lao, crying boy they also want to make fun. I never go up to them say they're smelly they should be happy liao.

Ok lar end of this rambling post. Shall attempt to study again. Key word being attempt. Haiz. Oh i bought a new car lei. Had some spare cash so just bought one for fun lor. Nah here's the picture.


Err the people behind are just there to watch me drive off with the car lar. Hur hur.