Sunday, May 9, 2010
The Inconvenient Truth
TIME TRAVELLERS EXIST!!!!!“If time travellers exist, then where are they?” as said by Albert Einstein.
You see, this is actually a lie made up by him to cover up the fact that he is actually a time traveller. If there was no time travelling, then how would the person who took the photograph of JFK’s assassination know when it would happen?
Ha-ha, just a little digression there.
Okay, have anyone of you experienced deja-vu? I sure have. It occurred to me, that I experienced the same thing again. One example, as I was rehearsing late at night with my Chinese drama CCA, it suddenly occurred to me that it actually happened before! It’s quite hard to explain, but I felt that I actually went through it before. Either I am crazy, which I am not, or something is going on… really! Just now, as I was writing the blog post on ang mohs, I suddenly felt that I have done all this before. Can anyone offer some explanation?
Okay. This is pretty much philosophical, and it is not in my scope of work, idiosyncrasies. So here is the crux of the matter. On the newspapers, I always see NTUC trolleys( the type where you put $1 inside) parked along corridors, and chained to the railings. It is quite a funny sight, actually, but can you imagine the anger of the store manager when you see your own trolley “stolen” by someone. The trolleys must have cost quite a lot.
The mindset of the people is: ONE DOLLAR FOR A TROLLEY! WOW! CHEAP! MUST GET MORE TOMORROW~ Yes, this is about it. The $1 is to ensure that people do not steal the trolley away, as they would not be able to get back their $1, but it is very funny seeing how this backfires on the store. People are not THAT petty. They may have lost $1, but they have gained a trolley. A good, reliable one at that.
What I suggest, and this may work, is to let people use their ICs to borrow the trolleys.
Speaking about ICs, I want to talk about libraries. THOSE LIBRARIES ARE WAY TOO LIENIENT!!! Scenario 1: student a borrows book, returns them on time, no fine
Scenario 2: student borrows book, does not return until he finished reading, 2 weeks late. Does not pay fine. Ignores messages to pay fine. End of year, fine waived, no fine
See? Bothe does not pay the fine, and thanks to people like student 2 who does not pay fines, libraries are losing money. Last year, NLB waived off about 1 million in fines. This should not be the way. People will just develop the mindset that even if the return the books late, the can still evade the fine.
Once again, I have the solution. Like the trolleys, pay a deposit, say $10? If the books are failed to be returned, the deposit is kept. So, the problems for both situations can be used interchangeably to solve each other.
6:39 AM By Eugene
