griping about the Mrt...or rather its passengers

i usually take the bus to work. it's a much more pleasant experience. no crowd, or little if any. there's the tv mobile and enough room to almost curl up with a book if necessary.

but on days like this morning when i head to the gym, i'd hop onto the mrt at novena to head to work. and i dread the mrt ride in the mornings. if not for the fact that it takes almost half the time i'd rather climb up a bus.

getting onto the train at novena, means that i'm climbing into a jam-packed carriage squeezing myself almost spread out like jam at the door. today someone else jumped into the carriage squeezing me literally like jam between 2 slices of bread, except that the slice behind me had a big ass. Not only did he have a big ass, he was an ass. When we got to Newton, he refused to budge from the entrance/exit of the carriage. He just stood there, while i was face on with passengers desperate to get out of the train. I couldn't move cos he had me practically pinned there, between another guy, and it wasn't as if this ass was a small one!

so i started saying under my breadth:

'You have to step out of the train' repeatedly with my volume gradually increasing.

you have to step out of the train you have to sept out of the train you have to step out of the train YOU HAVE TO STEP OUT OF THE TRAIN YOU HAVE TO STEP OUT OF THE TRAIN

he finally got the message and stepped out. i think he was quite afraid of me cos he let me back into the train first after all the passengers got out of the train.

yeesh what is it about Singaporean train passengers. are we so ridiculously afraid that we can't get back onto the train?

anyway. i was surfing today and found that Virgin did a ranking of the top 11 metro/subway systems in the world. and we're not one of them the list goes:

1. London, England
2. Paris, France
3. Moscow, Russia
4. Madrid, Spain
5.Tokyo, Japan
6. Seoul, South Korea
7. New York City, USA
8. Montreal, Canada
9. Beijing, China
10.Sao Paolo, Brazil

I've been on the London Tube, the Seoul Subway and the NYC Subway- and hey i think we're just as efficient. Maybe not as beautiful as some of the stations in those cities- which boasts beautiful architecture and interior- but come on! NYC's subway's can be quite dirty, dark and gloomy.

but if passenger ettiquette had anything to do with the rating, i'm not surprised we're nowhere near the top!