Rant Time

I keep forgetting that Singapore is NOT an advanced developed nation.

You know, a place where so many people do not wash regularly, will drop their trousers and take a crap in an elevator, spit in the 'coridor' in apartment buildings (okay, HDBs), and leave parisites crawling around seats in public parks, cannot be called advanced. It's kind of like half the population is civilised, and the other half really belong in a dirt village in some jungle.

But also reinforcing this rant is the fact that so many shops here do not take credit cards. This is really hard to deal with. Even in Eastern Europe barely out of the dark age of socialism takes credit cards. No, not Singapura, "will that be cash or NETS?".

I just went to the Asus Service Centre, an official Asus Service Centre, not somebody else servicing Asus laptops, and they wanted cash or nets. Can you believe this? They could not take a credit card.

This is only millimetres away from clam shells. That is how backwards this is. Close to a thousans dollars and they want cash. A corner store or deli I can understand asking for cash, a computer centre no.

This is my fault, I acknowledge this, I just keep forgetting that this is NOT an advanced nation, it is still dragging itself into the late twentieth century, it has a long way before it can be considered in the twenty first.