For the past few days, netizens have been very active in Hardwarezone.Com for one very interesting discussion: the ragging of an ACJC female student on her birthday.
Youngsters these days have the tendency to carry things way too far and often at the expense of other people's feelings. This poor girl's only problem is that it happened to be her birthday and her "pals" decided to do a special celebration for her. The whole celebration was videotaped and uploaded onto Youtube.
Things got out of proportion when netizens picked up the video and were disgusted by the degree of ragging done. Soon word got around and everybody got on to forums to talk about it. The next thing we know, it was soon published in the newspapers, mainly The Straits Times, Today and mypaper.
In my opinion, the ragging went too far and if my own friends were to do that to me, I would severe all ties with them. Can you imagine being tied to poles and having food forced down your throat, milk poured all over you anf not to mention being videotaped and having that video posted online with a tag labelled "loser"? To add the cherry to the topping, all these ragging were done right in the school's compound, in full sight of other students and heck! even the discipline master had walked past the ragging with little interference.
Aren't teachers supposed to protect students as well as imparting knowledge to them? ACJC is SUPPOSED to be an elite school with top-notch students. Yet those "top-notch" students are nothing more just animals without brains and feelings.
I bet the poor girl went along with it as she had no choice. She might run the risk of getting ostracized if she reject the ragging. In our younger generation's world, you apparently have to have a mind made from steel in order to survive all these ridiculous pranks. I don't understand why these youngsters see the need to create all these chaos just to make themselves seem powerful in the eyes of others.
Boy, I'm glad that I don't belong to this weird generation and therefore I don't have to face with being humiliated on my super special day. Birthdays are something to be enjoyed, to be savoured slowly as you embrace the day with new beginnings.
Yet for this poor girl, it's all humiliation. I don't know what this girl is thinking but some netizens had checked and said that the girl does not harbour any bad feelings towards her friends. This girl is way too weird for me to understand.
Nonetheless, it made us sit up and realised what kind of future leaders that Singapore will be getting. This makes my hairs stand on ends and I wish I will never be around to witness Singapore's fall from grace due to such rascals.
Bah!!!
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Super rude SBS driver, damn!
I had the misfortune of running onto a super rude SBS driver just now. He made me so mad. Mad enough to write my complaint to several papers, including SBS feedback form, STOMP, The New Paper and Today.
My complaint is posted below:
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I had a very unpleasant encounter on SBS bus service 228, SBS 3640 J, at 7pm on 11 Aug 08. I thought I had tapped my ez-link card successfully and so I proceeded to the back of the bus to sit down. I was given a rude shock when the bus driver came to me and demanded my ez-link.
The problem is, he chose to confront me when every passenger had boarded the bus. I ended up getting rude stares and comments from all the passengers and furthermore, the driver took my card away and only returned it after he drove the bus on a long journey. I was lucky that my destination was only slightly further than that.
Shouldn't the bus driver be telling the passenger at that moment when the tapping failed, rather than wait for all the other passengers to board and then make a big confrontation show just to prove his point? If a tapping fails, there would be no beep sound and I'm sure the driver would be alert enough to catch that. The driver was simply too tactless and it was clear that he was out to shame people publicly. Is this how SBS drivers should conduct themselves in public?
In addition, when he returned my card, he commented out loud that next time I should tap my card if i want to board a bus. Is he trying to shame me further? Or is this the direction given by SBS on how the drivers behave towards the public? I wasn't given a chance to explain myself.
There are times when ez-link cards failed on you and that is an honest mistake. Not tapping the card at the front doesn't automatically means that you are trying to evade paying the bus fare. Unless SBS can guarantee that every single ez-link card in Singapore is working perfectly and shouldn't be encountering any tapping problems, otherwise they should discipline their bus drivers more strictly. We are not paying bus fares to get a lousy ride.
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I don't know whether my letter will get published as it seems to be a mere petty case. But I will strive to post my complaints all over the Internet until I get a favourable response from SBS Transit.
Knowing SBS's past experience, they usually just sweep aside the case with a simple reply saying that they will send the driver for counseling. This shows how inefficient the company is when dealing with recalcitrant drivers. This is not the first time I wrote in to complain about their bus services.
In the end, the service never improves and with SBS being the monopoly in the transportation industry, there will be more woes for commuters.
=(
My complaint is posted below:
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I had a very unpleasant encounter on SBS bus service 228, SBS 3640 J, at 7pm on 11 Aug 08. I thought I had tapped my ez-link card successfully and so I proceeded to the back of the bus to sit down. I was given a rude shock when the bus driver came to me and demanded my ez-link.
The problem is, he chose to confront me when every passenger had boarded the bus. I ended up getting rude stares and comments from all the passengers and furthermore, the driver took my card away and only returned it after he drove the bus on a long journey. I was lucky that my destination was only slightly further than that.
Shouldn't the bus driver be telling the passenger at that moment when the tapping failed, rather than wait for all the other passengers to board and then make a big confrontation show just to prove his point? If a tapping fails, there would be no beep sound and I'm sure the driver would be alert enough to catch that. The driver was simply too tactless and it was clear that he was out to shame people publicly. Is this how SBS drivers should conduct themselves in public?
In addition, when he returned my card, he commented out loud that next time I should tap my card if i want to board a bus. Is he trying to shame me further? Or is this the direction given by SBS on how the drivers behave towards the public? I wasn't given a chance to explain myself.
There are times when ez-link cards failed on you and that is an honest mistake. Not tapping the card at the front doesn't automatically means that you are trying to evade paying the bus fare. Unless SBS can guarantee that every single ez-link card in Singapore is working perfectly and shouldn't be encountering any tapping problems, otherwise they should discipline their bus drivers more strictly. We are not paying bus fares to get a lousy ride.
--
I don't know whether my letter will get published as it seems to be a mere petty case. But I will strive to post my complaints all over the Internet until I get a favourable response from SBS Transit.
Knowing SBS's past experience, they usually just sweep aside the case with a simple reply saying that they will send the driver for counseling. This shows how inefficient the company is when dealing with recalcitrant drivers. This is not the first time I wrote in to complain about their bus services.
In the end, the service never improves and with SBS being the monopoly in the transportation industry, there will be more woes for commuters.
=(
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