// Happy Chinese New Year? //

Yesterday, 8th Feb was the first day of the lunar year and my family so happened to join the hordes of foreigners in the "Sentosa Flowers 2008".

Despite being Singaporeans, ironically, we were in the same predicament as those bangladeshi and china people as the bulk of our relatives were also in another country.(m'sia)

Hence, once we reached harbourfront bus terminal, what greeted us was a snake-like queue for the bus to Sentosa. In fact, the queue appeared to have no end to it.

Drats!

Thus, we went to check out the new monorail booth in vivocity and were faced with the exact same situation of long queues.

Hmph...if we had decided to visit our relatives in m'sia, we'll be faced with the same long queues at the customs.

Looks like there is no way we can escape queuing up during public holidays!

Well, unless we just stay at home and be couch potatos...

Anyway, when we finally reached Sentosa, the flowers were nothing to be "wowed" about.

My mum was disappointed that the flowers were not as blooming as those she saw in Taiwan.

My dad was commenting that you can't even admire the flowers with so many people around, which was a very apt description.

But the most maddening thing was that some foreigners cut queue twice!

Firstly, when we were queuing to go into the monorail station, the group of them just pretend to hang around and then walked into the queue when it was moving.

Right in front of the group of bangladeshi who were queuing in front of us!

My mum said she would have yelled at them if any of them dared to cut right under our noses.

Then, as we were queuing to get into the monorail, another group of them from the SAME country rushed in from the front without queuing at the back.

This time, right in front of our noses.

And the crowd controller wasn't even looking.

In the end, since they rushed in and there were no space for us to get in, my parents and I pointed at them and shouted "Never queue!" in Chinese.

And they still dared to bare their teeth and smiled as the monorail went away!

Well, since they understood us, I think you would have guessed which country they were from.

In addition, as we were first in queue, waiting for the next monorail, another group of people from the SAME country also almost cut the queue.

My family sort of "worked" for Sentosa Express monorail for 10 mins.

We pointed to the back whenever anyone tried to cut the queue.

Altruism, isn't it?

What a eventful day.