woke up @ 6.30am to prepare to head to NIE for some administrative stuff and the weather just has to be so nice to sleep in when I've to get up early.

The train was crowded and then came a Mr Kiasu who die die has to squeeze into the crowd so that he could stand in front of the seats and his wish soon came true when someone got off the seat and he squeezeeeeeed and pussssssh his way for it.

The painfully long journey finally ended when I reached Boon Lay and I was running late. And 2 people insisted to stand on the right side of the escalator and refused to move down, blocking a whole row of people behind.

And the real agony came when I finally arrived @ NIE and realised the whole thing is CANCELLED! And what actually informed me about it was a notice pasted on a random wall in NIE. And the whole orientation thing in NIE is cancelled and we'll all just head for school on 11 August when the term officially starts.

And the turn-off thing is that I'm going to feel like a secondary sch kid all over again. Dress codes poster were pasted all over the walls because we're on payroll and we're a reputation to keep as teachers. No shorts, no tanks, no sleeveless, no slippers, no sandals. and the list goes on.

and the canteen tables are seriously of primary school layout.

Then on my way back, the train was full of irritants too. 3 people were not talking but shouting at one another in their very high pitch voice throughout the journey and the volume is really like...u turn on the volume of your PC to the max and that's how loud it is. NOT KIDDING.

The culture in Taiwan is just opposite. Everyone keeps to the lane they're supposed to stand and queue up behind a line while waiting for th train even if it's packed with people.

It's really not against the people but the level of consideration people have for one another on trains. Sometimes people really have to learn how to let people alight before dashing in in search of seats and learn to keep to the right lane of the escalator.