Watch Me Now

When your country is so rich and technologically advance, you cannot imagine the kind of facilities that the government gives to its people. It's always a surprise, and not always in a good way, unfortunately.

Well, I like most of the technologies implemented. I like the EZ-Link card, which you only need to tap on bus's & train's sensor to pay the fare. I like the GPS put in every bus and bus stations that display where the buses are. I like the every thing online, such as online tax, so that we can easily pay our tax online using credit card, and at the end of the month we just simply receive the bill for that tax, along with a computer notebook, a Mont Blanc pen and a year subscription to Playboy magazine, because apparently somebody has hacked your credit card number.

But today I saw that they put CCTV inside my flat's lift and display the picture outside the lift on the first floor. I mean, what's that for? Why do we need that? Are they worried that there might be bad accident happens inside the lift? For instance ... umm.. actually I can't think of any... mmm... people are choked? In which the people watching the TV outside cannot do anything except trying very hard to explain to their children why the man's face turns blue.

And I saw the people in the neighborhood did not even pay any attention to the TV. They glanced at it and just continued what they were doing. It's very different if it happened in Indonesia. People would get very excited to see the TV, and then steal it on the first night.

I don't know. Maybe it's a good thing to have a camera there, three cameras actually, per lift. Maybe people will not be able to do any indecent things inside the lift, such as urinating (which I heard happened a lot in Singapore). Maybe there will be fewer robberies inside lifts. Maybe people will prefer taking the stairs more than being watched digging their nose inside the lift.
I don't know the main reason they install the CCTV. I don't even know who "they" is. All I know is that now I can no longer sing my heart out when I ride the lift, which probably is a good thing for the country, and humanity.