Revenge of the Fallen

Sleeping Child.

Chicken White

Joo Seng.

Promise That I Will Never Wipe You Guys Out With Water Anymore

Next time, I will wipe you guys out with fire.

Why Cabbies Prefer Malay Passengers

Even though i have only been driving for less than a month, i have noticed the passengers that i have been picking up comprised more of Malays than Chinese.

This caused me to deduce that Malays are generally more willing than Chinese to spend money on taking taxis to where they want to go.

Then i heard another side of the story. It's a religious one. As Chinese are unbelievers, they are considered to be spiritually unclean. So our good friends are not keen on squeezing with the heathen either on a crowded MRT train or a packed bus.

This is why they would either buy their own car or take taxis to travel around.

Why do cabbies prefer Malay passengers? Simply because they are more courteous and polite than Chinese. Generally it's the Chinese who are more "gao jare" (fussy in Hokkien). The male Chinese are more likely to anal assholes while the female Chinese are more likley to be bitchy bitches. They are the ones who make a cabby's life miserable.

Malays are more "chin chye" (easy-going in Hokkien).

Cabbies are thankful for this. Or at least they ought to be.

Enough said.

Running To & Fro All Over The Island

Joining the taxi queue at Compass Point.

I had quitted my job of almost 12 years since 31 December 2008.

I've been driving taxi since 05 January 2009.

It's something which i enjoy doing. Driving people to where they need to get to.

It's not easy to make a living this way though.

It came out in the news recently that most people are taking less taxis nowadays because of the economic crunch. People are taking more of buses and MRTs instead of taxis.

It's especially tough if you have to bear the costly rental of $100 a day all alone by yourself as a hirer without any relief driver to share both the costly burden and burdensome cost.

Need to drive for at least about 5 to 6 hours on a normal weekday just to clock the $100 breakeven sum.

Going to switch to be a relief driver instead so i would only pay for $50 rental a day instead of the hefty $100.

Will the Bull Return in the Year of the Bull?

Things are likely to get worse in the first half of 2009.

Hopefully things would get better in the second half of 2009.

Hope springs eternal.

For all we know, this year of the bull might just be a year full of bull shit instead of bull run.

The Futility Of It All

Every morning, before I start work, I would wash my car if it’s not raining.

Often, a couple of my colleauges would say stuff like, “No need to wash lah. It’s going to rain already lah.”

I would retort them with, “So does it mean you don’t need to eat when it rains?”

This morning, immediately after I washed my car, it started pouring.