Ok ok,

In a few hours, we’ll all be done with 2012. If there’s anything memorable about it, it will be remembered as the year of yummy scandals in the civil sector and political arena, inane price fixing and overuse of tax payers’ money and and really shoddy quality of service by public transportation companies. Every single day, you woke up wondering which top civil service official will be seen getting to 2nd base at which carpark (which includes some former MPs as well) and if you can get to work on time if you take the train.

Today I was browsing through the ST and I can’t help but wonder if ST was actually written and published in an alternate dimension where nothing bad ever happens to Singapore. The Singapore that is written about in the pages of the ST sure as hell don’t seem like the Singapore that I am living in. Their year in review basically contains glowing articles about the wonderful economy, increasing capita and how every Singaporean is lying on a bed filled with money.

Meanwhile in the real world, everyone and their grandmother is struggling to deal with the soaring inflation, decreasing quality of service. Happens when you happen to be living in one of Asia’s most expensive cities. Just about the only people who have something to smile about are the Jedi masters who are employing their cheap mind tricks on us.

The poor transportation and misuse of tax payer money issues remain unanswered as they resemble a 400Kg gay gorilla sitting in your living room making lewd gestures at you that no one dares to talk about. It’s there, but the Jedi circle is seemingly oblivious to it. I shudder to think what’s coming in 2013. Remember folks, it is still just year 2 of 5.

I pity those who actually voted in favour of the Jedi counsel. I guess you must be feeling pretty foolish by now. Not only do you have the emotional maturity of goldfish, but you have just damned yourself and your grandmother to eternal damnation. The racial misquote might be forgiven as an oversight but the capability of someone who can make such a mistake must be seriously doubted.

It’s a given of course, prices were all going to jump after the swearing in of the Jedi Council, but not even the smartest and most clairvoyant of us expected this. The dark side of the force seems sweeter for some reason. Whatever official figures they give us, double it and that’s the real figure you get for inflation. Can’t wait to see what 2013 brings to the forsaken red dot.

Some Highlights:
– More Ponding
– Major inconvenience due to continual road works everywhere
– Shortages for car parks at older estates might cause price hike (Universal Solution to all problems)
– Lack of affordable housing for the every day man.
– Trains going bonkers
– COE pricing that cost more than the Hubble Space telescope
– Strikes by our dear communist brothers
– The incompetency and impotency of the Jedi council.
– Yoda not dying as expected on the 9th of August.
– More FTrash

Cheers.
ps: Seriously, it is just going to get worse.