CDG Sonota Taxi! Rejected at 2am! at Hougang Plaza!
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I am an Indian. I stay in Hougang. I drive from 6pm to 6 am. By 2 am already no mood to drive because of the number of rejections and number of greedy taxi drivers of other race.
I was first in queue after queueing for 15 minutes. At 2am there is still queue at Hougang Plaza. Just imagine queuing for 30 minutes at Changi Airport!
Now I am at Hougang Plaza and first in line. People arrive. Before I can reject them, they reject me. They went to a Transcab taxi behind.
These were Chinese Nationals who cannot speak English.Why were they allowed into Singapore! in the first place?
If these idiots don't have the confidence in speaking the ENGLISH! LANGUAGE! Why were they given entry into SINGAPORE?
What language did they speak in! when entering Singapore?
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CDG Sonota Taxi! Rejected at 2am! at Hougang Plaza! because Taxi Driver is INDIAN!
Title should be changed to!
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bro, quite common la
one chicken one duck how to communicate ???
some times along road pax din flag, i slow down let them see my handsome face, then they flag ... hahaha (just joking, they just want chinese taxi drivers, sometimes overheard them saying cannot communicate with other race taxi drivers ...)
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CDG Sonota Taxi! Rejected at 2am! at Hougang Plaza! because Taxi Driver is INDIAN! in SINGAPORE!
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Singapore Prides itself in not being racist!
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Originally posted by Reliefdriver4u:
bro, quite common la
one chicken one duck how to communicate ???
some times along road pax din flag, i slow down let them see my handsome face, then they flag ... hahaha (just joking, they just want chinese taxi drivers, sometimes overheard them saying cannot communicate with other race taxi drivers ...)
Best is to have one common language! correct?
INDIANS ARE IN SINGAPORE ARMY. WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE USED IN SINGAPORE ARMY?
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In the Army, there are no language barriers.
Language barriers happen when Indian Singaporean Taxi Drivers! pick up Chinese Nationals! at Hougang Plaza! at 2 am in the morning.
WTF! Are Idiots who cannot speak or Understand English! wandering around Hougang at 2 am in the morning?
Every Singaporean should be able to speak English .
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Originally posted by PS2U:
I am an Indian. I stay in Hougang. I drive from 6pm to 6 am. By 2 am already no mood to drive because of the number of rejections and number of greedy taxi drivers of other race.
I was first in queue after queueing for 15 minutes. At 2am there is still queue at Hougang Plaza. Just imagine queuing for 30 minutes at Changi Airport!
Now I am at Hougang Plaza and first in line. People arrive. Before I can reject them, they reject me. They went to a Transcab taxi behind.
These were Chinese Nationals who cannot speak English.Why were they allowed into Singapore! in the first place?
If these idiots don't have the confidence in speaking the ENGLISH! LANGUAGE! Why were they given entry into SINGAPORE?
What language did they speak in! when entering Singapore?
Ya loh...FT tiong bus drivers also dunno ENGLISH!!! Then our local indian and malay auntie how? They dunno how to speak mandrian leh!!! SMLJ This is singapore not cheenaland leh!!!
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Originally posted by PS2U:
In the Army, there are no language barriers.
Language barriers happen when Indian Singaporean Taxi Drivers! pick up Chinese Nationals! at Hougang Plaza! at 2 am in the morning.
WTF! Are Idiots who cannot speak or Understand English! wandering around Hougang at 2 am in the morning?
Every Singaporean should be able to speak English .
Not necessary need to speak English...old ah mah also cannot speak but they take indian taxi no problem lah cos they know local street names. But Chinese FT AT dun even know how to pronounce street name. Pronounce in chinese how I know? SMLJ...This is SINGAPORE so street name in English/hokkien/singligh ok...in chinese KNNBCCB lah!!!
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
Ya loh...FT tiong bus drivers also dunno ENGLISH!!! Then our local indian and malay auntie how? They dunno how to speak mandrian leh!!! SMLJ This is singapore not cheenaland leh!!!
HUH!
You ever taken bus in Singapore driven by FT Tiong? Can he understand your directions? What language you spoke in? Did he drive you to your carpark?
Hello Hammer!! Are you a FT Tiong Bus Driver? If you are a FT Tiong Bus Driver, how many Malay and Indian Aunties have you spoken to, while driving?
Got Malay and Indian Aunty ask you to change lane or take different route while driving BUS?
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Originally posted by hammerhammer8888:
Not necessary need to speak English...old ah mah also cannot speak but they take indian taxi no problem lah cos they know local street names. But Chinese FT AT dun even know how to pronounce street name. Pronounce in chinese how I know? SMLJ...This is SINGAPORE so street name in English/hokkien/singligh ok...in chinese KNNBCCB lah!!!
I agree.
Chinaman took Transcab behind me. I suspect these are Transcab Mechanics from China.
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tambi , i will be glad if i am a tambi and got rejected cos u will never know what sort of problems ah tiong will give you .
trust me its a blessing u got rejected . dun be so dejected .
u earned less ? rubbish . . . u might earned more than the transcab , u lost anything ? no lah u gained valuable experience and mental strength ti survive in this dull trade .
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I also got rejected at Little India cos i am a chinese and i can't speak tamil .
Is that a problem to me ? Nay .... No .
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I got rejected because i drove a special looking taxi not like Sonata or Magentis , or Toyota Wish .
I got rejected because my funny taxi looked like hanging a Chrysler tag on the taxi roof top .
I got rejected because my taxi cost $0.10 more than a Chevrolet .
$0.30 more than a Sonata .
It's that a problem to me? Nay ,,,,, Nope .
My next pax is just infront , not my lost , their lost .
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how i wish i could auto reject those ah tiong bu pax, be it who reject who, i'm ok
ah tiong still ok, gent mah
ah tiong bu, esp those can't speak english type..... they are the most cheapo pax in my list
they will never know which route they prefer, but any route we use, they will always claim it's the longest, and demand a discount, $1 discount enough to make them wet.
they are the top in my list to have problem with me.
So TS, you still upset about it?
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Tambi , no need worry lah .. life goes on .
Dun blame yourself because u a tambi , those AH Tiong have to blame themself for not good enough .
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Lol. Like that also fed up.
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Originally posted by PS2U:
I am an Indian. I stay in Hougang. I drive from 6pm to 6 am. By 2 am already no mood to drive because of the number of rejections and number of greedy taxi drivers of other race.
I was first in queue after queueing for 15 minutes. At 2am there is still queue at Hougang Plaza. Just imagine queuing for 30 minutes at Changi Airport!
Now I am at Hougang Plaza and first in line. People arrive. Before I can reject them, they reject me. They went to a Transcab taxi behind.
These were Chinese Nationals who cannot speak English.Why were they allowed into Singapore! in the first place?
If these idiots don't have the confidence in speaking the ENGLISH! LANGUAGE! Why were they given entry into SINGAPORE?
What language did they speak in! when entering Singapore?
Hougang Plaza chances of ah tiong very high and mostly can't even tell u the road name. Kenna numerous times they just direct me as i drive. "zuo" or "you" most of them work at defu.
Also kenna rejected a lot of times due to I look like malay and also my epica. scared my meter jump like chrysler.
Though u say in singapore speak english. I ever fetch old uncle and aunties who can't speak english. Flag my taxi, see my face, open door and ask "ler melayu"???? I always reply "teng nang" then they smile and board my taxi.
Those who drive crown and cedric lagi jialat. Though 1st at Taxi Stand along shenton way, 2nd 3rd 4th taxi already take and go they are still waiting.
Till now I still don't understand the stupid rule. pax can choose to reject taxi but taxi cannot reject pax.
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Originally posted by Poolman:
I got rejected because i drove a special looking taxi not like Sonata or Magentis , or Toyota Wish .
I got rejected because my funny taxi looked like hanging a Chrysler tag on the taxi roof top .
I got rejected because my taxi cost $0.10 more than a Chevrolet .
$0.30 more than a Sonata .
It's that a problem to me? Nay ,,,,, Nope .
My next pax is just infront , not my lost , their lost .
Precisely.
When I drove Azera also faced some rejections, but what it meant, those who took, are better type of pax, not cheapos.
Anyway, we as TDs also have some form of stereo-typing, or put it plainly, we have to adopt some of our own SOP based on some racial discrimination. Eg: I don't take Indian FTs - so many reasons mentioned already in other threads. The very saart local Indian gals with education, the Pinoys and Burmese (based on areas resided).
Then we read in the papers sometimes, Malay youths bash up cabby. Things like this makes avoid these kind of pax, so not to have trouble and waste time.
But are we racists for doing so? I don't think so. In our line, time is precious and money. Is it fair on our part, maybe an outsider will think so, but when you do the job, you realise you have to be street smart.
Aand if by being a little biased against some type of pax from certain racial groups, because of a few bad cases by some their own, then just too bad. We are just taking our own precautions. As for Ah Tiongs not wanting to take my cab, I will say thank you very much. Why bother with such pax, and later have communication problem?
As for speaking English, as a pax I have no complaints with them not speaking. maybe they are lowly educated types, so don't have a chance to learn English. But if they work in front line customer service and I'm the customer, this one I surely fuck, but not them, instead I'll for the idiot who deployed them there, when they can't speak English properly.
Finally as you know, I did take break from driving a few years back and as such was a regular pax myself. 1 thing I noticed and experienced of course, is as an Indian/Eurasian, it's hard for me to get cab sometimes, maybe because of my race and location. Because the Chinese are the majority, obviously rejection from them will be higher. Before midnight, they wont look at my face, after midnight, they will U-turn to ferry me. But as a Td we all know this.
And sometimes, because of this I get fed up too, so what I do? If after midnight at a taxi queue, I will skip all the Chinese drivers until I find a malay or Indian. That's my own way of getting back at some Chinese drivers.
All this part and parcel of life, am I racist? No. But everyone will always have at some point of time, a feelling of kinship with one's own race. It's a natural human trait I feel.
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Originally posted by PS2U:
I am an Indian. I stay in Hougang. I drive from 6pm to 6 am. By 2 am already no mood to drive because of the number of rejections and number of greedy taxi drivers of other race.
I was first in queue after queueing for 15 minutes. At 2am there is still queue at Hougang Plaza. Just imagine queuing for 30 minutes at Changi Airport!
Now I am at Hougang Plaza and first in line. People arrive. Before I can reject them, they reject me. They went to a Transcab taxi behind.
These were Chinese Nationals who cannot speak English.Why were they allowed into Singapore! in the first place?
If these idiots don't have the confidence in speaking the ENGLISH! LANGUAGE! Why were they given entry into SINGAPORE?
What language did they speak in! when entering Singapore?
whu u q at Hougang Plaza at 2 am ? Hougang Plaza is not at Orchard rd where got pax ? who shops at this plaza at 2 am ? -
Originally posted by Pntc70:
Hougang Plaza chances of ah tiong very high and mostly can't even tell u the road name.
That's why I say there should be multilingual road signs.
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Originally posted by Pntc70:
Hougang Plaza chances of ah tiong very high and mostly can't even tell u the road name. Kenna numerous times they just direct me as i drive. "zuo" or "you" most of them work at defu.
Also kenna rejected a lot of times due to I look like malay and also my epica. scared my meter jump like chrysler.
Though u say in singapore speak english. I ever fetch old uncle and aunties who can't speak english. Flag my taxi, see my face, open door and ask "ler melayu"???? I always reply "teng nang" then they smile and board my taxi.
Those who drive crown and cedric lagi jialat. Though 1st at Taxi Stand along shenton way, 2nd 3rd 4th taxi already take and go they are still waiting.
Till now I still don't understand the stupid rule. pax can choose to reject taxi but taxi cannot reject pax.
In the eyes of the taxi companies, we are part of their machinery to churn profit for them, if this machine cannot works, they get it replace
In the eyes of the public, we are just pieces of bread placed and shown on the bread and pastry shop for pax to choose and pick, and it is up to them to choose what they want, as bread, I cannot choose them
In the eyes of the govt, we are just a mode of a public transport to serve the society of singapore, and they expect you to be discipline, talk less, diam diam guai guai work hard and do your job, and to do that, they set up fark up strict system to take you down, and change the public transport mode.