Copy from TREMRITUS
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When I took a cab from Taman something Melodies in JB, I allowed the cabby to quote me a price to take me to JB Sentral. The Malay man said, “10 Ringit,” and I hopped on.After some silence in the cab I finally broke the silence and asked, “Abang, why sometimes I take cab $6, sometimes $7 sometimes $10?” My driver was visibly slightly taken aback by my sudden question, which seemed like challenging his professionalism. So he replied, “Ah…. I asked you if $10 is ok or not only. You can say no if you find it too high.” He seemed disturbed and showed it.“Don’t worry ‘bang, I said $10, means $10. Just asking only.”Then he loosened up and began to fill me in with how hard life as a cabby was by throwing the statistics at me. I guessed there wasn’t much difference between Singapore and Malaysia cabbies in this aspect. Abang’s texsi rental was RM60 and his daily petrol cost was around RM100. I told him Singapore cabbies were not having it easier because their cab rental was an average of $110, though their daily petrol cost was significantly lower at around $40. They will both require about 10-12 passengers who pay about 10 bucks to break even for the day before any profit can be earned. At the Singapore side, cabbies rely on a complicated surcharge system make ends meet and at the Malaysia side, they cannot rely on the meter but their own haggling skills.Then coincidentally I read an update from a friend that her dad, who drives a taxi, will see his rental rates increase from S$103 to S$163 soon, if not already. Wow. That’s the 60% increase in rental. Seriously, I thought the housing rental rates in Western Australia has been rocketing through the roof at a ridiculous rate until this. If a Singapore cabby still clocks about 40 bucks on fuel per day, that will bring his total daily overheads to S$200. Since taxi drivers are not entitled annual or sick leave by their companies, they will be expected to pay rental every day whether they drive or not. That change makes the Singapore cabby worse off than their Malaysia counterpart for sure.While that is a little better than slavery, the total outlay of S$6,000 per month in rental and fuel may offer Singapore cabbies better luck elsewhere if they bring that $S6,000 per month elsewhere to the regional countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia or the Philippines. One may even have a chance to own a humble fleet of taxis eventually. Even selling Char Kway Teow may have a lesser chance of getting bankrupted by your air-conditioned mobile money trap.Most of us Singaporeans are already resigned to our fates if our careers take a wrong turn at the wrong age at the wrong time. An unemployed Singaporean man can only turn to the Big Four sources for jobs. Namely Security guard, McDonald’s, Recycling scavengers and Taxi drivers or SMRT in short. Now, even the Big Four seems shaky and the feasibility or falling back on them is diminishing. Nothing, it seems, last forever. We gotta prepare ourselves and spend less on Hello Kitties.
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Aiya, did not you saw our PM Lee crying in his national speech? what more you want him to do, knee down and beg you?? Just decide what you want to do come 2016, other than that, nothing much you can do, got rice eat rice, no rice eat grass lor
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Have been taking taxi quite regularly so far all taxi drivers said okay leh tua tua tang tang...hehe
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Don't work lor. I don't like big 4, so big ZERO
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Dun like at least big 4 big 1 small mah, if kenna, at least can be more relax instead of having to struggle to meet the end.
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Originally posted by decent02:
Have been taking taxi quite regularly
so far all taxi drivers said okay leh
tua tua tang tang…hehe
Most people become taxi drivers are easy going people, people who because of these and that, from illness to stress to no job, and finally see open and become a taxi driver, I use to term it as enter shaolin temple and become a monk.So from that perspective, what you expect a taxi driver to earn base on a background of having to pay high rental, as easy as they are, since got no more hope nor ladder to climb for promotion and annual increment, they just see open everything, if today can earn another $30 more than yesterday, this will be define as tua tua tan tan.
But to a working class or executive in the workforce, what is $30 extra? If got 6 months bonus, then maybe consider huat, otherwise, huat ki lan.
So you must take taxi driver words as relax and simple as possible, because most are happy go lucky brothers. We know that today tua tua tan tan can also be tomorrow tua tua OBK, so we just take it as a pinch of salt.
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Originally posted by bowah:
Most people become taxi drivers are easy going people, people who because of these and that, from illness to stress to no job, and finally see open and become a taxi driver, I use to term it as enter shaolin temple and become a monk.So from that perspective, what you expect a taxi driver to earn base on a background of having to pay high rental, as easy as they are, since got no more hope nor ladder to climb for promotion and annual increment, they just see open everything, if today can earn another $30 more than yesterday, this will be define as tua tua tan tan.
But to a working class or executive in the workforce, what is $30 extra? If got 6 months bonus, then maybe consider huat, otherwise, huat ki lan.
So you must take taxi driver words as relax and simple as possible, because most are happy go lucky brothers. We know that today tua tua tan tan can also be tomorrow tua tua OBK, so we just take it as a pinch of salt.
ya, taxi driver provide the most untrustworthy information,
from cannon, earn little also tell people very good
to modesty, earn many also tell people very bad.............
we, taxi driver, should know how much we can made in this trade, got good days and bad days.
afterall, it's about the same for all, there is no exceptional.
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PM Lee tears during emotional National Day Rally with 'heart'
Like father like son hor...
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Originally posted by bowah:
Aiya, did not you saw our PM Lee crying in his national speech? what more you want him to do, knee down and beg you?? Just decide what you want to do come 2016, other than that, nothing much you can do, got rice eat rice, no rice eat grass lor
Tears only can fool lady
cos �爱是她们的天性�
for guy....???
hahaha!
i also can make tears cum out in less than 10 sec
train by TCS b4!!
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Originally posted by OptimalTrans:
ya, taxi driver provide the most untrustworthy information,
from cannon, earn little also tell people very good
to modesty, earn many also tell people very bad.............
we, taxi driver, should know how much we can made in this trade, got good days and bad days.
afterall, it's about the same for all, there is no exceptional.
Got exceptional hor, dun said dun have, but to have exceptional, you need to be thick skin, need to take on others or even con others, and you also need to set up a gang, a team so as to proclaim yourself chief, however the end result may not be so exceptional if not, more worst...lols
I call them the exceptionist
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Originally posted by bowah:
Got exceptional hor, dun said dun have, but to have exceptional, you need to be thick skin, need to take on others or even con others, and you also need to set up a gang, a team so as to proclaim yourself chief, however the end result may not be so exceptional if not, more worst...lols
I call them the exceptionist
that one belong to the CANNON family.
pai sai no need to squad/sit one............standing can liao
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Originally posted by bowah:
Most people become taxi drivers are easy going people, people who because of these and that, from illness to stress to no job, and finally see open and become a taxi driver, I use to term it as enter shaolin temple and become a monk.So from that perspective, what you expect a taxi driver to earn base on a background of having to pay high rental, as easy as they are, since got no more hope nor ladder to climb for promotion and annual increment, they just see open everything, if today can earn another $30 more than yesterday, this will be define as tua tua tan tan.
But to a working class or executive in the workforce, what is $30 extra? If got 6 months bonus, then maybe consider huat, otherwise, huat ki lan.
So you must take taxi driver words as relax and simple as possible, because most are happy go lucky brothers. We know that today tua tua tan tan can also be tomorrow tua tua OBK, so we just take it as a pinch of salt.
I also ex TD.... one word to describe Tua Tua Tang Tang but ppl drives 12 hours TD is all about Blood and Sweat...not easy -
Yah it,s quite true those working more than 14 hrs,it,s all blood and sweat!one word to describe xchge health and time for monetery
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Originally posted by Alvin87a:
Tears only can fool lady
cos �爱是她们的天性�
for guy....???
hahaha!
i also can make tears cum out in less than 10 sec
train by TCS b4!!
For me, cry until dry up liao, now hv to use lubricate...lols -
Originally posted by decent02:
I also ex TD.... one word to describe Tua Tua Tang Tang but ppl drives 12 hours TD is all about Blood and Sweat...not easy
Blood and sweat? no lah, TD is not about blood and sweat, these are more for those working in heavy industrial like shipyard and construction.For TD it more of brain and sperm drained
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
Yah it,s quite true those working more than 14 hrs,it,s all blood and sweat!one word to describe xchge health and time for monetery
Average Life expectancy in singapore for male is 76yo and female is 78yo, we spent half of our time sleeping, so actually living can only be let say 40years, that is average 8hrs per day, 8hrs + 14hrs on the road, 22 hours spent, left only 2 hours per day of true living. 360x2 give you 720hrs per year true living, which is only 30 days or one monthSo per year, you only live freely as human for 30 days, the rest are either sleeping or driving
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Originally posted by bowah:
Average Life expectancy in singapore for male is 76yo and female is 78yo, we spent half of our time sleeping, so actually living can only be let say 40years, that is average 8hrs per day, 8hrs + 14hrs on the road, 22 hours spent, left only 2 hours per day of true living. 360x2 give you 720hrs per year true living, which is only 30 days or one monthSo per year, you only live freely as human for 30 days, the rest are either sleeping or driving
Some people pang sai once every two days. So can say for 6 months, he never pang sai? hehe.. -
huh??? lols,,
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