milk powder & cabbies

monday morning...
i'm sooooo sleepy today..maybe coz i slept so much over the weekend i'm having trouble readjusting to sleeping only 6+ hours! =P

anywaysss..
i'm going rant about 2 things. one is about milk powder (yup..now you must be wondering what the heck i have to say about it huh! ) , the next about a certain 'breed' of cab drivers.

Now..the milk powder story.
it was a few nights ago, i was watching tv in my room when this ad for milk powder came on.

"Enriched with AHA..blah blah blah..aids the growth of your child..blah blah blah..good for brain development..blah blah blah..brainier kids..blah blah"

we didn't use to have such 'enriching-brain-milk'..i mean back when i was teeny tinier..i probably had just normal milk powder with the usual nutrients and whatever.
and how there's THAT..'enriching brain milk'. i think it's a whole lot of crap!
firstly, i don't think it's working much is it now? given that our society is filled with crapass little brats and stupid teenagers who wanna rock like simple plan. where's has all that brain enriching special stuff in milk powders of recent years gone to?! TURD.
secondly, the thought of our future being infested with nerdy, competitive, "i'm singapore's brainiest kid!", kiasu, irritating brats...is quite a nightmare! i don't wanna live in THAT society

ergh. it's the society i'm more bothered by..not the milk powder..
there's so much about this society and its people that i don't like..

on to the next bit..
i was on my way out yesterday to meet our mum for dinner. it was around 7 when we left so we headed out to the back of our house, to the singapore science park to try to hail a cab. we were very casually dressed, in shorts and tees.
so we waited..and waited..and waited..
finally..we spied a cab from a distance..it was one of those mercedes cabs..even though we've had unpleasant experiences travelling with them..we flagged it anyway
as expected..the brilliant driver really lived up to our expectations!!
he didn't freaking stop for us! he just drove on and only stopped further down for a bunch of 4 ladies - OFFICE LADIES..DOLLED UP SKIRTED UP HEELED UP MADE UP WORKING LADIES!
what kind of rubbish behaviour is that?! just coz we're casually dressed he assumed we weren't going anywhere far?! and just caused someone is more "richly" dressed they're going somewhere far?? what kind of stupid logic is that?! if he hadn't been THAT stupid..he would have earned a good 12bux or so for sending us to chinatown.

so there we were..me & my sis..cursing the cabbie like crazy..we were SO tempted to give him the finger when he drove past us..we didn't. we decided it's not very nice and civilised for us to be doing that. so we stuck to cursing - that the girls were going somewhere bloody nearby like holland V where he'll only earn no more than 6bux (inclusive of that extra $1 peak hour charge!) and staring him down.
the bloody idiot...

i did a little search for who owns the bloody mercedes cabs.. apparently, smrt & comfort offers both. smrt's line is called "Prestige"...comfort's line is called "Sovereign Limousine Taxi"
both websites claim these special fleets of taxis are to provide better QUALITY service as well as have a more up market appeal..as their names would suggest..'sovereign' meaning supreme excellence and 'prestige' signifies honour..
MY ASS!

those companies should do something about the drivers of their 'special' fleet. what my sis said that evening was right - it doesn't matter if you drive a mercedes or a toyota..you're STILL a cabbie. most of those drivers have probably forgot that they are supposed to provide a service..even though it's a more luxurious line..THE CHARGES ARE STILL THE SAME so there is no point in being so selective of the 'types' of passengers they ferry. if they continue with their rubbish behaviour..they might as well be 'demoted' to driving toyota crowns coz they don't deserve to be driving around in luxurious cars and spoiling the name of the companies they work for.

*sigh*

someone should probably feed those cabbies with the enriching brain milk eh?