Thursday, April 02, 2009

A Fool on April's Fool

It's only a matter of time before my body broke down, and today, that time has come. Ironically, the feverish headache, which I've long been accustomed to, is the least of my concern. It has been a lousy couple of days for me. Mornings have been a nightmare.

A few days ago...at 08:15am, Flinders Street train station,
"The 8:24am Pakenham train is delayed for approximately 2-3 mins"
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"Pakenham train delayed for approximately 4-5 mins"
I was like, what?! wasn't it 2-3mins, 2-3mins ago? Never mind. I shall wait.
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"Pakenham train delayed for approximately 6-7mins"
Great. Now you're annoying me, especially with rush-hour crowds building up on the platform.
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Hmmm. No more announcements?
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The train finally came, at 08:45am. A cool 21minutes late, on top of the 10-minute intervals in the morning rush-hour
Oh, did I mention that the train stopped for a few minutes on the track for-god-knows-what-reason before it even reached the first station? I would really like to express my sincere gratitude to Connex and the dilapidated train infrastructure of Melbourne for allowing me to 'skip' my 9am tutorial.

And today, Ooops! Connex did it again! But much better this time, only 8 minutes late. Well done, keep it up. But it's also thanks to Connex that I'll be receiving 2 free daily tickets due to their performance shortfall in March according to government regulations.

Facebook. A place supposedly for relaxation and fun. You stalk on people's lives, You Poke your friends, You play mindless/meaningless games. Yet, recent developments on Facebook, which were started by friends all in the name of harmless fun, peace and laughter, suddenly turned into utter embarrasment for me and eventually being subject to manipulative public statements.
For those of you who know, you would have known what's been on my Facebook recently. For those who don't, ignorance is a bliss.

And no, this is no April Fool's joke.