what's the world coming to?!

i'm angry... i'm pissed, i'm piqued... any other words that come to your mind?

i can't sleep. it's a nightmare.

i was pretty happy this afternoon as i made my way down to woodlands to meet alfred and jovin for work. we're promoting cable tv and maxonline (internet service) for starhub by the way, so if you are interested, you know who to call... =) haha anyway as i was going down the escalator i met so many GB girls! and THEN i saw 34th's very own sec 2s! haha was so happy, didn't realised how much i miss them.

BUT.... BUT... from then on, my mood went downhill. tell me, where's the love and concern HUMANS are SUPPOSED to have for one another? i mean, isn't it common sense, or simply a thought from the heart?

i was joking around with alfred, leaning against a pillar at the mrt station. we were waiting for jovin. a stick hit my foot. i turned around. a blind indian man apologised. he was trying to find his way around. i was wondering if i should offer my assistance but was unsure how to go about it, so i waited a little while. meanwhile, this poor man was using his stick and hitting everyone in sight, no pun intended. majority of the HUMANS around moved away to avoid being hit, while others just "tsked" the man for tripping them up. they are actually annoyed with him and tsked him!!!! it's extremely appalling!

at the passenger service corner, an indian woman was sitting at the couter of the control station. there was a man behind her too. i absolutely CANNOT figure out WHY, not one of them could not have offered their arm to the blind man? i mean, they were just sitting there!! i remember VERY clearly that a while back, the newspapers featured a section on helping the blind or something like that. they highlighted two events in which one, a young malay boy consistently helping 2 blind women order food at a coffee stall, and two, a man working at the interchange helping a blind person find his way to the bus, or something along those lines. so what's with that article, or does no one read the newspapers?

fine, i couldn't stand it anymore, so while carrying a heavy sling bag and a folderble stand (for roadshows) under one arm, i awkwardly offered my arm to the blind man. he needed to go to the bus interchange where he had to take bus 963 to bukit panjang for work. the most incredulous thing? his work is door-to-door sales, and i thought i had it bad. this guy faces more rejections than i do! he explained to me that many people banged the door in his face and stick (he sells chocolates btw) and some people actually made fun of him. what is wrong with people these days? this man does not need pity, but he does have a heart, and a mind. so treat him with a little respect people. he may need a little help in getting around, so what? we have arms and legs, is it that difficult to go up to him and say "hi, may i help you?"

and.... i was doing my roadshow yet again today, guess what? i was told to "screw myself", and to "f_ _ _k a spider". wow! a simple no would have been sufficient enough, awww come on, i'm just a kid. smile, pat me on the back, reject me with a polite no, and you would still have made me a happy kid. but noooooooooo, my dear fellow singaporeans, whom now i'm ashamed to call homo sapiens, told me to play with a spider!!!!!

i am so mad, plain mad. what's that song? "just a little kidness" etc. obviously nothing has gone through these people's heads... i'm truly embarrassed... and MAD!!! fuming!!!

now i can't sleep... i was thinking, that man was following the raised line in mrt stations for the blind, but unfortunately it leads only to the mrt station. how about the government do something nice for us and make one that goes to the interchange? i didn't know where bus 963 was, but the minute we reached the interchange, the man knew exactly where to turn. i just guided him through. so how about it huh? a line towards the interchange?