I ride the MRT everyday at the Taft station and every time I find it funny that there are loads of people falling in line in the counter where they can just walk straight to the functional ticket vending machine and be riding the train in 5 minutes. Don’t they have enough change or are they just afraid that the machine’s gonna eat them? Ironically, once I’m done with the machine, there are several people standing behind me.

It’s nice that they finally decided to use those RFID readers after being installed months ago. Unfortunately, Globe Telecom is handling it and they dubbed it G-Pass. Why unfortunate? You have to have a Globe number to buy one. You also get charged a little extra than the normal fare which is stupid because with Hong Kong’s Octopus cards, you actually get a discount when you use it. And they also thought that it might be cool to place the chip inside a plastic coin chip that can easily be misplaced. Anyway, bashing aside, I’m just glad that it’s finally implemented. It’s kinda cool that I’m tapping my wallet twice now, one in the MRT and another at the entrance at school.

It’s New Music Tuesday so here’s some nice albums to check out if we both like the same kind of music: