smoulering ruin...

i have developed an uncanny ability to chat with any taxi driver i am riding with.

This is highly depressing as i tot only the saddest, most pathetic people would actually chat up the taxi driver. But i have found it to be HIGHLY challenging. Talking with taxi uncles will IMPROVE your command of english, or chinese, or whatever babble you practice.

The trick is to keep the conversation going until you reach ur destination.

I had a lengthy discussion with a taxi driver when he drove me from WOODLANDS checkpoint all the way back to my ex-apartment in Paya Lebar. About 20min.

And we were talking about GOD. And it wasnt that we were cussing and dissing God almighty, but the taxi driver was actually a devoted christian.

This scared the HELL OUTTA ME, since there was a buddhist pendant hanging from his rear view mirror. Nothing is scarier than a split personality person who is HIGHLY religious, in BOTH of his personalities. One minute, he's all HALLELEUJAH, and the next he's mumbling Buddhist scripture.

Also on the bus today, i witnessed vehicular assault. It was one vehicle assaulting another. My bus cut a lane and made the car behind come to a screeching halt. The car accelerated forward past my bus and the uncle cussed and swore.

It was the funniest thing i had seen all week. The sight of an ageing Sikh, waving his hairy fist at the bus driver with his turban shuddering with anger was enough to make me bite my lip and drink my blood in laughter.

Of course, the bus driver couldnt give a rat's ass about it and just drove on. The Sikh was having none of this. No one fucks with a sikh and gets away with it. He rammed his car into the bus. Ok, not really rammed. It was more like a nudge. At least that's wat it felt like on the bus. The bus suffered no injuries, but the car had its wing mirror smashed. The bus driver wound down his window, looked at the side of the bus and drove off, leaving the Sikh in the middle of the road.

Well, at least, he made his point.

song of the day is "The Last Ressort" by Eagle...