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Farewell, student concession. Remember to tap your ezlink cards when alighting! I easily spent $10 plus on transport alone in 2 measly days. Ugh.

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Someone should really educate the old folks about hygiene. I stood waiting at the bus stop with sour waves of disgust washing over me as I watched an old man stop at a pillar, carefully blow out gooey mucus onto the floor, leave a long trail of goop on the pillar when wiping his fingers clean, and cough phlegm onto the ground. The lady next to me walked over to give him tissue, but he didn't know how to open the packet, and finally threw it to the ground.

I should have been the one to teach him what to do, but prissy me didn't dare to go near the trails of mucus and phlegm. This doesn't happen too often because we're living in clean and green Singapore, but it still does.

(Like the time I watched an old man on the bus repeatedly cough out phlegm, spit it on the floor in front of him, and smear it around with his slipper. Or the time I watched an old man pee in his seat in the bus, forming rivers of pee that ran from the front to the back and from side to side every time the bus moved.)

To be honest I'm not really thinking about the germs right now, I'm just thinking about the fact that I could very well have TOUCHED it and ... ugh. Squirm. Not. Pleasant.

I was thinking, maybe next time I'll arm myself with tissues galore and walk up to the person and tell him/her what to do ... but someone has to prepare a speech in Chinese for me first. Evidently, from the below post, I have erased all vestiges of Chinese from my head and I have immense difficulty stringing words together to form a coherent sentence.

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Arts Education Program. It's great, because we're getting exposure to different types of Asian dances (Korean, Tibetian, Japanese, etc), we're getting stage experience, we're teaching little kids about dances from around Asia, and all that would be good enough for me but guess what, we're even getting paid!

Pretty excited (:

Let's just hope laoshi doesn't kick me out after watching my disastrous imitation-Tibetian dancing, or whatever it going to be.

(I'm still pretty miffed though, that she laughed at me when I said I was going to do waitressing. Well I guess I could have found an office job or something more scholarly, but I want to learn more about service and dealing with customers.)