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SUSPICCCCCION, SUSPICCCCCION.

THIS IS A NEW TERM I COINED AS OF 2307 HRS, 5TH MAY 2010. Please be as proud as me as I am of myself. It's just that I've grown increasingly annoyed with a certain public message announcement/ advertisement and I shall seek to expound on it in the following paragraphs.

There's this thingy I see pasted on the acrylic bus panels and it annoys me to no end because I look at our society and realize how uncivilized and uncultured they make us out to be and as every good article should; I've made provision for the opposing voice, hence, I shall include a small paragraph of (un)biased material for your consideration. Surely, since I'm a brilliant writer. (I lie, my writing score is way below average. Ah, I've got a month till SATs anyway. Besides, I'm mugging every day in May anyway)

Oh yes, so what is this offensive piece of literature (Read: shit) I see pasted in our buses? Here, I can't find a snapshot of it but its really just the Phua Chu Kang campaign thing of being gracious. So you find his face plastered next to the reserved seats saying "SLEEPING AH? DON'T BLUFF. GIVE THE SEAT UP". There's even a rap for it. They changed the words a little and on first glance, you'd think its cute and novel but when you sit down to actually think about it. Oh gosh, weak.

I mean, honestly, why instill this sense of suspicion in people around. By having suggested that, you've immediately thrown an anchor to anyone who could possibly have had a bad back, diarrhoea, terrible headache sitting on the reserved seats. I mean, honestly. If you want to educate the public about something like that, don't use the stickers as a fixture (which we know our buses are very prone to doing. Like oh gosh, don't punch the bus captain, paste a sticker. omg, no eating, paste a sticker. STOP PASTING BLOODY STICKERS EVERYWHERE. WE GET IT ALREADY. )

Back to my point, accusing people of bluffing is just really insulting and its really cheap. There are other ways, this was just brought about with good intentions, a quest to be different but surely with negative connotations. Kids will receive mixed messages, they'll grow up in a world where people sleeping on a reserved seat immediately means

a) they're dead

b) they're bluffing the whole bloody world

c) they're frigging tired cos they just pulled an all nighter

d) they've just finished dialysis

Ding ding ding and the answer to the kids of tomorrow is........

B!!!!

Because compassion and grace are surely concepts unknown of course.

Oh silly you, I'm sure you got tricked!!

Such are the ways of child psychology, inject a drop of negativity and watch it flower and sprout.

Yet, do we shield the children from such negativity altogether? Ah, they'll grow up and make choices. Lets leave it up to them. To that I say, bullshit. Don't give me that.

Do you, expose your child to porn and graphic images of murders and say Ah, they'll grow up and make choices. Lets leave it up to them.

No, i don't think so.

Too adverse a parallel example you may wonder, well, look at it this way, you make a child grow up in an environment where he knows no other way, I'm sure the choice when he grows up will be clear as day. I have no choice but to choose to be suspicious (or be addicted to porn).

I'M REALLY NOT DISSING THE PERSON WHO CAME UP WITH IT LAH. ITS JUST THAT, I DON'T KNOW LAH, THE REFLECTION OF YOUR HEART IS THE MEASURE OF A MAN.

Okay, and as promised. that tiny (un)biased paragraph just for you people. Deep down, I implore those that are really reluctant to give up their seats to those in need to just give up the bloody seat. I'll write you a testimonial, I'll give you a chupa chup, I'll make Michael Jackson come back to life and sing a song to you. Just give up your bloody seat and make this world less suspicccccious of each other won't you.

AHA, BUT SOMETIMES AH, I DON'T FEEL LIKE GIVING MY SEAT UP COS OLD PEOPLE SCOLD ME AND SAY "WHY? YOU THINK I SO OLD AH? YOU YOUNG PEOPLE AH..BLAH BLAH BLAH" when i try to give my seat up :( and I get saaad :(

Ah, I've surely gone on for quite a bit now and I really wanted to cover 3 more angles but there's work to be done tomorrow and it was a long day at work today so toodle-loos.

And just for fun, SUSPICCCCCION. Why have I spelt it such?

Love and kisses,

the Oracle