Yesterday, I got rammed a grand total of THREE times while taking the train. Twice on the way to school and once on the way back.
The first time, this funky dude wearing a green polo tee and fatigues for pants came in from my left, stepped over 2 laptop bags and lost his balance. His left adidas shoe ran down my right leg the way you would strike a match against its box. Ouch.
After this dude, who spent all his money on clothes and has no money to eat and it explains why stumbles when he walks, alighted a few stops later, a couple to my left struck next. First, the girl knocked my arm with her hand while she was in the embrace of her alleged boyfriend, oblivious to the other commuters, enjoying their moment of exhibitionist PDA*. Then the boyfriend withdrew his arms from her and slapped my left arm, once again interrupting my mental pilgrimage to outer space.
And then on my way back, this older couple were standing near me. As people started vacating the seats, the old man gestured for the old lady to sit down, acting in the typical chauvinistic manner with the body language that read "you're weaker, you take a seat." The lady, being the traditional obedient wife of the typical chauvinistic old man, complied and proceeded to sit down safely. Then another seat opposite to where the old lady was seated became empty. The old man let go of the bar and went on to take a seat.
That's when the train started moving. Just after the old man let go of the bar and before he could place a hand on the seat to steady himself. So the whole body flung towards me. No nearly enough to topple me, but sufficient to intrude my personal space. And I had to hold his arm while he sat down.
Hence the Singaporean pet phrase of "kena whack left right centre" hit the spot for accuracy, brevity and clarity. That's one personal foul and two technical fouls for one day. At least they apologized.
Useless fact of the day: Sandisk is releasing flash based hard disks for notebooks, which may be out as early as March 2007, according to this. Though the boot up time is not as fast as I had hoped of less than 5 seconds, it does sound more durable than magnetic hard disks. It supposedly takes 35 seconds to start Windows Vista as compared to 55 seconds for magnetic hard disks. The system used for benchmarking must have been something we usually can't afford though. The technology was obtained from an Israeli company.
*public display of affection - in case you're wondering. Personally I would take it to mean the handheld PC at first glance ^^ sarcastically preceded by "exhibitionist" because I'm jealous my girl won't let me do that on the train. For ethical reasons, of course.
