Comments on: [Mailbag] Singapore MRT Service Disruption

By: pablopabla

pablopabla — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:50:06 +0000

jaywalker_82,

Now I see the sarcasm :)

You are really sharp!

By: jaywalker_82

jaywalker_82 — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:39:42 +0000

pablopabla,

My bad, I should have mentioned Shafie’s quote in comparison with Will’s

Do you think that as a Singaporean, Shafie would actually "appreciate" that we have the "cheapest", "best", "first" of the region/world?

Regardless of where is he from, Shafie could be just trying to be sacarstic towards the most frequently used statement/phrase at our cabinet ministers’ press conferences… I hope as a you as a Malaysian would have already know what are those statements/phrases, with reference with a citizen’s everday life?

By: pablopabla

pablopabla — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:31:43 +0000

jaywalker_82,

I thought that "quote" was by Will Hunting, rather than Shafie.

But I think I may have mistaken. Having read again Shafie’s comments, I believe he is a Singaporean and hence, he was commenting on some S’porean commuters’ complaint that they have to walk a couple of hundred metres extra.

My comments are directed at Malaysians. I am a Malaysian and am deeply embarassed by the incident in KL.

By: jaywalker_82

jaywalker_82 — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:55:21 +0000

pablopabla,

I think you are missing the point that Shafie is trying to drive…

One thinks that "everything we have is good enough" while the other thinks that "everything we have should be better".

Now think again?

By: pablopabla

pablopabla — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:49:01 +0000

Dear Shafie,

Complaint drives one to push for excellence if one has an attitude to improve.

If we are to compare, we should compare like with like. Our neighbour has a transit system like ours. If they are able to respond as efficiently, why can’t we emulate them?

By: Leona

Leona — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:52:02 +0000

gee there are no coincidences in life…everything’s for a reason?

By: Shafie

Shafie — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:23:27 +0000

Aiya, don complain so much lah, we have the cheapest mass railway transit in the world u know? It is also the best in South-East Asia (if we don kira a city-state as a country). You know ppl in Ghana(who has similar merdeka year with us) needs to walk a few miles to obtain food(perhaps that’s also how they train their worldcup team) one or not?? If you want to complain this and that about RapidKL, then you drive your own car lah, our car price is also one of the cheapest in the world lah u know?

By: jaywalker_82

jaywalker_82 — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:11:00 +0000

Coincidentally, today is the first day of the month of the ghosts of the Lunar calendar?

By: Between Two Realms

Between Two Realms — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

across the causeway while SK and I were cock talking over instant messaging, the unconscious mind of mine took over again, and comparisons began to surface, but this time, it ended up as a hastily written mail that ended up getting published as a Mailbag entry at MageP’s Lab (for I do not own a blog then). Now, for the sake of the obligatory first entry, here is the mail, re-produced: Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:49:40 +0800 From: Will Hunting