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9:07 am
The MRT has a way of making people see things differently. It's probably due to the fact that you have to choose between two options: to look around or be oblivious to everything else. More often than not, people opt for the latter (or both), deciding that it's best to "get it over with."
Standing in the midst of a diversity of people, i get reminded strongly of window shopping, or perhaps a wet market on a Sunday morning. You look, but don't necessarily buy; you try to find something you might possibly want to get, but weigh it over in your head. Or you already have an idea - something nice, but not beyond the "budget," more of something 'practical.'
In a dizzy-slash-sleepy state (obviously i'm not a morning person), I imagine myself talking with a random person. The person beside me perhaps, or the girl across me with the dark-rimmed glasses. Or maybe that dude in the junction, it really doesn't matter who. Then I imagine striking a lively conversation about some obscure random useless fact like arthritis or some weird headline in today's paper. And after which, as all lively conversations go, we'd be laughing about how people are really just like interactive web buttons - an elaborate interactive flash animation, never leading you anywhere if you don't give them a 'click' (or in some of cases, badly coded text marquees, or glitter graphics and whatnot). And everyone else will start laughing and trying to give something to the whole conversation. I start to see people exchanging one-liners, the same people who would've strangled each other getting on the train.
And then people will start to notice that their stop would be the next one, and people will not want to get off the funny train. But eventually they'd have to, but it would be ok because they've already gone through the crazy part of the day - and the rest of the day would just be peas and carrots (unless of course they don't like peas or carrots, then they'd most probably think of something else entirely different).
Window-shopping, I guess, will no longer be as evident because no one will really be as indifferent, and "buying" for practicality's sake will be done also for enjoyment.
I like riding the train more now.
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11:25
After a jolt of reality from the office, i read what i've written, more than an hour ago. i wrote this, and somehow, in the cloudy recesses of my non-working brain, it made sense (to me at least). Just felt like writing. hahahahahaha.
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