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Comfort Is NO COMFORT
By Peace | March 22, 2008
This is Woodlands Ave 3, a photograph taken just after a narrow escape.
This is another close-up photograph taken from my mobile phone. As usual, if I zoom in, the image will be blurred and exactly at the green sign board, that was the road which we crossed. The traffic green light man flash and we cycled across the road — on many weekends, this was the road we always used, we always crossed, and today, Good Friday, just after church, we were cycling home, I witnessed the ugliness and a heart-breaking scenario of living in Singapore.
On many occasion, I wanted to write about Singapore Taxi. Taxi fare increased, taxi accident, taxi driver robbery, taxi this taxi that, so many news about Taxi. And now almost everybody wanted to be taxi driver when they have no job. Taxi drivers used to be those dialect speaking people, the not so educated, but now, some taxi drivers speak better English than you! They can be driving taxi part-time or full-time, or even rent a cab as their own ‘private home car use’ — the ‘ba kei chia’.
Buying a car is not my Goal
So much experienced on Taxi, because I do not owe a car. I have a driving licence, but it is only for ’show’, taking taxi only when necessary. My brother also drove a cab. He had his own job, but for a lowly educated, having a job is not enough to feed a family of more than four. Life for lowly educated is hard. Need to have more than a job and he is always working. Sick and leg injured, taxi rental for the day also have to be paid. He had to pay for his own medical expenses and yet have to pay for taxi rental of more than S$100 per day.
Justice I Seek
He drove various taxi. I cannot remember company names, but colours. There are the white, yellow, blue, white, silver and now even green. Tibs, Smrt, Comfort, Silvercab, etc etc, messy, complicated, just names, but all collecting our money — we paying them for helping us, their service to us we pay them. (elaborate more another post, shall be posted and continued)
COMFORT Taxi is NO COMFORT at all!!!
On this day, when the green man lighted, my husband with Clara cycled across the road. I was behind them, with Ricsson. On my right was the road, with a blue taxi waiting to turn left. But he was in the wrong obviously. He never give way to pedestrian. He nearly knocked down my husband and Clara. Richard was very angry at his attitude and the taxi driver did not even apologise, but instead, I turned my head and saw his face — fair, with moustache, Chinese, uneducated look, scolding “Si mi lan chiao” (what the fuck!), with his window winding down. I was very angry with such kind of driver. His taxi plate was SXX 4220 I only know the number 4220 but not the alphabets. Ricsson told me he got a mole. He said it is Comfort, but I am not sure. It is blue, all blue and not the new type of car model. It is small and lousy, not like Silvercab. All comfort taxi is damn lousy, especially after this incident. I have never come across any comfort taxi which gives any GOOD service AT ALL.
COMFORT IS DEADLY
Comfort, what is comfort? We will die of comfort if we feel too satisfied with life. We will die of comfort if we do not step out of our comfort zone if our life is in crisis. And here in Singapore, my family, my Life, My Love, MY Inspiration, ALL OF ME, was almost crashed, almost destroyed, almost doomed just after this day, GOOD Friday, after I went to church, and we, the whole family were cycling to go home. Cycling save money, cycling is a good exercise and cycling save our time where we do not need to wait for buses, queue up for taxi, and our hobby. But COMFORT almost KILLED my dear ones, my family, my world, and my heart breaks, it was miserable to see such kind of ignorant people, who might not even know what their action caused to other people. Education, what really is education? It is more than just knowing how to read and write. COMFORT, another irony, another lesson about LIFE.
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining
Comfort is NO COMFORT. Comfort Taxi-drivers smokes in taxi. Comfort Taxi stinks. Their service is no good. Silvercab is the one that I will tell you more.
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