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I am the boy-next-door who goes almost everywhere in a tee-shirt, jeans, and flip flops; the young and promising (just not in conventional ways) gentleman whom others stereotype as a bummer, a slacker, a buay-tak-che (cannot study); and someone who portrays the image of a beng without the dyed hair and the earholes.

I am still the joker who occasionally pushes when the sign says pull; the sceptical miscief who touches anything that is labelled "wet paint", only to exclaim "the paint is wet, la!"; and the animal lover who picks up snails along pavements and puts them on the grass so that they will not be stepped on by people who are really bat-jiu-ta-stamp.

I am the ex-full-time national serviceman in the republic of singapore air force, the ex-foh manager, ex-barista, ex-enroller; the present undergraduate and teacher; and the aspiring senior prisons officer.

I am the guy you walked past once, but was just another face in the crowd.

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Saturday, April 11, 2009 @ 01:29

The Parking Coupon

10 Apr 2009 (Fri), 0020H, Pasir Ris Park Carpark 'F', Singapore

Yesterday evening after a six-hour BBQ with my secondary five students, I returned to my car to find a sheet of paper on my windscreen under my wiper. Nope, I didn't win the 4-D nor did anyone write a note complimenting my car about how awesome it looks. It was a parking ticket, better known in Singapore as a 'summons'.

Someone once told me that it's worth getting 'summoned' if we consider the number of times we didn't display parking coupons but didn't get caught. I agree this is true because in my nine months of owning a car and the countless times i've failed to display parking coupons, I've only been fined twice.

Number of hours car was parked without parking coupons = Countless
Number of times fined = twice
Total amount of fines = S$36
Amount saved = Countless

What puzzles me is this. Why are many of us willing to pay S$1 for a canned drink or a cup of coffee at the coffeeshop (Yes, prices of coffee are not immune to inflation, you know) but yet unwilling to spend the same S$1 and 30 seconds tearing five holes in a parking coupon?