my ambivalent attitude

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Two separate traffic accidents on the same highway this morning left me pondering over the effectiveness of the safety message that the traffic police has ever been trying to send across to the public. After getting through the inconvenience that the traffic jam created, the few seconds of brushes with the 2 accident scenes gave me the shivers. What were presented before my eyes proved to be at two different extremes.

On the left stood a group of people that appeared to be safe and sound. One of them apparently was smiling, probably relieved that there were no casualties. On the right delivered a much gruesome sight. A man was lying sprawled on the cold, hardy road and his helmet seemed to have flunged off to somewhere 10 metres away. The ambulance had arrived minutes ago but no paramedics had made any rescue efforts. The first inference made by my parents being he was already gone.

Safety is crucial in driving - it is something never to be compromised. But judging from the frustration I felt simply because my parents were jumping on every slightest blunders made by my brother who was on the wheels, I really wondered what kind of driver I would become in the near future.

P.S: Sorry for such an inauspicious entry on the first day of CNY. Here's something adapted from a sms I received to liven up the mood! (Change encoding to unicode to view it)

送你一首旺旺曲

身旺体旺健康旺

运旺气旺财势旺

爱旺情旺亲友旺

家旺人旺合家旺

狗年来到了，祝贺不迟到

祝大家旺旺！

scribbled at 9:17 PM