Blast the Phone

Today's mobile phone technology is amazing. It can help people to be more effective, more joyful and, generally, more annoying.
Take yesterday morning for example. I was in an MRT, minding my own business and trying to sleep, and suddenly I heard a blazing music from a girl sitting next to me. I then realized that the music came from her hand phone. It’s not a good hand phone for sure, as the sound had the quality of a broken juicer. It’s just loud.
I saw the girl tried to look cool and showed the people how cool her music taste was. It was boy band’s music BTW, which certainly put her coolness standard at the level of William Hung’s. And, she also wore some tattoo on her arm, which was clearly made using a blue pen, with words which could only be read by someone who had been drinking vodka.

So she just blasted her music (I think it was music) and thought that she was the coolest girl on the block. Maybe one day she could carry Brad Pitt's baby was probably what on her mind.

Anyway, back to the point, it is more common to find people blasting music from their hand phone in public place. Of course when I said people I meant the immature youngsters who took porcupine as inspiration for their hairstyle. I haven’t seen an old guy do that.
I do not know why they do not use their earphone. Maybe it’s because, well, they probably don't have any idea what earphones are for. They just set their phone's volume to the max and make sure that everybody on the train can listen to their music. They don't care that other people are trying to sleep or read newspaper or study for exams; they are just too selfish to understand. Or maybe they do notice, but their brains don't have enough capacity to process it.

So maybe they should learn some manners. Wear an earpiece, for crying out loud. You know that thing, the piece that you put in your ears. They should remember that not everybody wants to listen to their music, and not everybody likes their music. How hard it is to be more considerate like that? They should do that, right?
Or else, I am going to start downloading Barry Manilow's songs into my hand phone.