You don't know too much about your own country, do you. Even in the mid of 2000s there were still lines regularly services by buses without A/C and I am not talking about break downs. Probably your only correct statement was about the food. Prior to 2005 or so the rental was also more reasonable. That's roughly it.Blade wrote:WSSL? Wow, you are of those bottom dwellers AMDK? OK maybe on the No.70 and 103 they didn't bother with A/C.For obvious reasons.
I said 1990 not 1900s.
Well said, though I also agree with Arizona5 (not that you don't as well).JR8 wrote:I think with many things there is a time to come, and also a time to go. You have the initial excitement to arrive, and the final relief to have been, and go. Both are very distinct 'life phases'.
When you arrive, you tend to go in with fresh eyes full of wonder. Sometimes that changes. As time makes one less forgiving, especially when you know you are coming to leave.
JR8 wrote:I wanted to post about the latter, as a realisation, a stage (that all of us will experience) but essentially got told I 'wasn't allowed to'.
This reminds me, can we puleeze get a sticky for mangled idioms like this? Some are downright Norm Crosby or Yogi Berra malapropisms, though without the intent.sundaymorningstaple wrote:Right in their face. Or as they would say here, right ON your face.
Talking about Sindi, did you know that there was Indian influence over all of south east asia, way before the British brought peasants into this country:Blade wrote:You guys don't get it.
The Singapore of today bears no resemblance to the Singapore of the late 1990s and 2000s.
That was our golden period [not even talking about the 1980s] everything worked,no crazy congestion,food was authentic,MRT doesn't make that zany rattling sound.I could play tennis at SICC and never hear a word of Sindi.I could go on..
http://www.focussingapore.com/informati ... qWINc.dpufSome English scholars did, in the end of the last century, introduce a theory claiming that Singapore is derived from Sanskrit word for lion, singha, and the word pura, meaning city.
Seriously, wuss, you don't know too much about your own country, except for maybe which buses used to run to the camp gates and that's probably only because you had to do NS out there. I lived there for well over a decade until I bought my flat 16 years ago.Blade wrote:WSSL? Wow, you are of those bottom dwellers AMDK? OK maybe on the No.70 and 103 they didn't bother with A/C.For obvious reasons.
I said 1990 not 1900s.
BTW after the 1968 catastrophic floods they up-graded Ulu Pandan so there were no floods inland-wide until the Marina Barrage.
Check you facts or increase your dosage... lah.
sundaymorningstaple wrote:One thing the locals have never learned is how to bow out gracefully. Instead the start lashing out on inconsequential facts or other garbage when they have lost the debate. You, my friend, are a prime example as exhibited by your last post.
It's getting stronger as well. As more and more show their true colours here, I'm getting more and more disallusioned here and have practically accepted that most are cut from the same bolt of LKY woven fabric, complete with dropped stitches and all. I have my own brood of them as well, but fortunately, they are only half-way indoctrinated. Sure there are the rare exceptions to the rule, but most of them tend to immigrate so you don't see them all that much, just leaving the rabble here. I try not to "tar" them all, but the last three years has taken it toll on even the strongest of us. As more and more of my small subsidies are taken away, the longer I stay to contribute here, just to please the true-blues (whatever in the hell they actually are) the less charitable I seem to become. That, or I just don't have the patience with idiots that I used to have. Blame that on age. I just passed 67 so am getting rather set in my ways I guess. If I stepped on any toes, I'm not apologizing, as, the way I see it, if you are a local, and not part of the solution, you have to be part of the problem. Only card carrying PAP politicians are adept at sitting on the fence.Sporkin wrote:Generalize much now do we? After 30 years here you still have a very strong me vs them mentality in some of the posts I've seen. Whatever happened to tarring brushes and all that?
sundaymorningstaple wrote:One thing the locals have never learned is how to bow out gracefully. Instead the start lashing out on inconsequential facts or other garbage when they have lost the debate. You, my friend, are a prime example as exhibited by your last post.
Why aren't you allowed to post that?JR8 wrote:I think with many things there is a time to come, and also a time to go. You have the initial excitement to arrive, and the final relief to have been, and go. Both are very distinct 'life phases'.
When you arrive, you tend to go in with fresh eyes full of wonder. Sometimes that changes. As time makes one less forgiving, especially when you know you are coming to leave.
I wanted to post about the latter, as a realisation, a stage (that all of us will experience) but essentially got told I 'wasn't allowed to'.
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