Just took a taxi in Ubi area, I was surprised when the taxi driver told me he remembered me. I was his first passenger quite a few months back. Took me quite sometime to recollect, he wasn’t really old but full of white hair, professional and fluent in English. I remembered our conversation, he lost his job and had no choice but to be a taxi driver. He had problems with my house which was in one of those many small lanes of Singapore but I told him just take the roads that he was familiar with.

Never expected to meet him and never expected him to remember me. He seemed to be doing ok and we started talking about his taxi driving business. He told me he had just had a horrible Caucasian passenger who was totally outrageous and high handed. But overall he is still doing ok, but seemed quite resigned to his fate. Not difficult to see that he was used to be a much higher social position than now. Taxi driving seemed to be the last choice for those who are down and out in luck. But luckily I won’t be one of them, thats definite, I still failed my basic theory driving test…..