Rules

You know what they are, they are everywhere. And as Singaporeans, we certainly know a thing or two about rules. Cannot spit, cannot litter, cannot paste notices on bus stops etc.

There's nothing wrong with rules, generally they make for a better place to live in if everybody follows them. I certainly don't like to break rules. In fact, I can't break rules, for I seem to have a CCTV right above my head. Whenever I break rules, *poof* suddenly all the punishments start to be meted out. A lot of people had done the same thing last week and gotten away with it. Just when TosH tries it, the punishments start to be given out. And then after TosH gets punished, and he stays on the straight and narrow, other people start to get away with it again.

Don't believe me? Just ask Elvin and Tong Leng. Everybody copies or don't do homework in VS and get away with it. Just when TosH doesn't hand in ONE freaking piece of homework, the teacher suddenly checks who did not hand in and scolds him. Everybody pon tang school to study for exams, and just the day when TosH pon tangs, the form teacher decided to get pissed off with the situationand marks attendance and scolds those who skipped school. When kenna turn out in NS, everybody has no time to tie the boot laces and just tuck it underneath the gutter. But guess who will be the only one caught? TosH again. Everybody tries 101 ways to not pay the full bus fare, but when TosH does it, you can bet your iPod (again) that he will be the first to be caught and fined.

And so poor TosH has no choice but to follow whatever rules there are. He can't break them, for he will be punished, and no good will come out of it. But yet, he has to watch others flout every single rule there is and go unpunished. Not only do they go unpunished, the one up there seems to like them too and confers upon them a GOD DAMN FUCKING UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. The honest hard working fella tries to do the correct thing all the time, but who fucking cares? Others are able to break the rules and shit on his head and run off with the prize, leaving TosH to eat dust.

Should I return to the days of breaking rules? Has the CCTV above me disappeared?

It might all be too late...