ghed

got my eee pc 900 last weekend at suntec for 798 SGD, during harvey norman roadshow. very portable siya at madaling gamitin. like HK, may free upgrade din ng battery dito sa singapore from 4800 to 5800. na-register ko na itong sa akin sa asus, tawagan na lang daw nila ako kapag available na yung free upgrade battery ko.

balak ko na ito ang main pc ko, mag-uupgrade na lang ako sa Dell XPS laptop kapag meron akong kailanganin na feature na wala dito sa eee pc.

MRT/LRT are government owned, that's why customer service is very lousy. You know how it is in Philipine government, it's not quality of service, but who's your padrino.

* Fare cards always run out. Effect - long line from ticket booth all the way to the street (especially in North Ave. Station). Dangers - crowding is the favorite places of pick-pockets (a few paces away of the guards that check your bags). Danger of people queued up in EDSA being hit by run away vehicles. Danger of stampede - people in queue are tightly packed, if one falls, everybody falls. Danger - perfect target for bombers, will k*ll massive people without the fear of cover being blown. Just place the bomb under the dark staircase with a remote triggering mechanism, nobody will notice. Those security people, including the trained cops stationed there, are so dumb that they don't realize this danger.

* Trains too crowded - Most of the day, regardless of the time, trains are crowded. They should schedule more train on the track, and why don't the put an extra cart on the train? If you check, the platform design can accommodate one more couch/cart.

* Security lax - Guards are still 100% confident on their magic sticks (drum stick looking wood they use to poke your bag with). The guards usually use it as a probe, inserting the stick without actually looking into the bag. Are those sticks high end bomb detectors? Malusutan lang kayo nang isa diyan, ayos kayo, but then again our gov't are the best in the world at finger pointing and passing the blame.

* Air-conditioning - imagine how it feels in an overcrowded closed cart (i.e. insufficient ventilation) on a tropical country, without air-conditioning. A lot of times I get into a cart with no air-condition, not sure if it's broken. But there are times wherein after sweating a bucket, the train operator would turn on the air-conditioning 3 or 4 stations down.

* Lousy train schedule - if there's such a thing. Trains arrive in unpredictable interval, unlike in Singapore, Boston, an N.Y. subway wherein you know when the next train will arrive. Do you really have to be a first world country to have this? For goodness sake, you just need a watch!!! The MRT management should follow Singapore style in managing bus/MRT schedules. The drivers, aside from basic pay, are given an allowance. Every time the driver misses his target time on a station, a certain amount gets deducted from his paycheck. If the driver is good in keeping on time, he gets that allowance in whole. If he's lousy, that allowance disappears. If he's incompetent, he gets nothing because the deduction doesn't stop when the allowance is exhausted; penalty also eats up on their regular pay. It doesn't take a genius to come-up with this type of solution, one just needs passion in solving problems.

Same goes with our traffic problems; it's mainly the effect of poor implementation of the law. Imagine how much money the gov't is loosing because wayward drivers are not penalized, then they have the nerve to increase our taxes. To fix this traffic problem, enforcers should issue tickets. Traffic management should expect the brunt of the ticket to come in the traffic congested area, and if the tickets issued on such area is unusually low, that means somebody at the area is accepting bribe. The traffic management would issue a warning on the team leader of areas prone to bribe, a prelude to termination. Team leader in turns warns his staff to issue tickets or get fired. Our unemployment rate in the country is huge, even if you kick out all of the traffic enforcers; we have more than enough people to replace them. Why isn't this happening? You're right, their bosses is out to make money, not implement the law. Pakitang tao lang yung mga huli-huli kuno, otherwise, this problem would have been long solve. Just look at Subic in its hay day (Gordon's management), it can be done if the leader is dedicated.