http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php Everyone else has a blog... so why shouldn't we! en http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:26:00 +0000 admin@john-n-alice.com admin@john-n-alice.com http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=19 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:39:32 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=19#cmt http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=18 Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:23:11 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=18#cmt http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=17 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:40:53 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=17#cmt http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=16 Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:09:46 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=16#cmt Today our subway line made the Times, front page of the Metro section. It's the only line in nyc that doesn't go through Manhattan, the line that alot who lives in ny might not even know about, because it doesn't run through Manhattan. And how did it make the headline? of the Times? because it's so bad, now MTA decided that no one cares enough if they made it the worst line there is. A long while ago, they decide to cut the train by half, from 8 cars to 4 cars I think. Imagine you are about to get underground for this train, and you heard that it is pulling in the station, you better run like there is no tomorrow to catch that train, especially during the night. Not only it retardedly stops midway on the platform, it may come very infrequently once it hits 9pm. In some days if I were wearing heals, I know I have no chance of catching the train if it just pulled in as I swipe the metrocard through the turnstile. The best luck I can get is to hope that there are at least 2 persons ahead of me as the train pulls in, then they would start running, it would be like a track relay, they'd reach the train ahead just in time to delay the train for maybe 3 seconds. If the conductor was nice enough, he would notice there is another person and me running our lives out to catch the train, he would hold it there as we sprint passed him and start panting entering into the crowded car. You need a second person between you and the train because it would seem to him that you are not that far away. And somehow I always notice the conductor having a smile, he probably realizes how ridiculous it is that we have to sprint our way to work. Anyway, going back to this silly train making its once-in-a-century headline, MTA decides to remove the conductor from the train, who is straphangers' only reliable train break on this line. How much more pain can MTA put on th ..]]> http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=15 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:34:45 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=15#cmt Nothing much has changed really, except I find myself reminiscing the wedding looking at the pictures. Life has definitely moved on though. I guess being married is like boarding a forever waiting train that finally arrives, you can move on and toward your goals and destinations, or maybe like water constantly splashing against a dam and then finally breaks through and flows back to the ocean...don't know, something like that, hehe. ]]> http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=14 Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:36:45 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=14#cmt http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=13 Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:42:02 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=13#cmt http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=12 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:03:37 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=12#cmt http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=11 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:05:26 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=11#cmt http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=10 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:53:25 +0000 General http://www.john-n-alice.com/blog/index.php?id=10#cmt