Read this on Fab's Blog quite sometime ago, and made up my mind that I had to do a post on it =P Gonna steal the text from you Fab =P
Far far away, in the imaginary island of Country X
05/03/2008 - Commuters find it hard to get taxis, government reacts by increasing taxi fares
12/06/2008 - Country X hits population of 4 million, with 1 million of the being foreigners
08/07/2008 - More road gantries constructed due to an overpopulation of cars, peasants turn to public transport as a result of the gantries
14/07/2008 - Peasants are overcrowding the public transport system, government increases transport fares
08/09/2008 - Survey shows that 80% of foreigners think that Country X is a part of China
29/11/2008 - Government reviews ministers’ salary, increasing in by at least 500 thousand dollars
18/01/2009 - Local newspapers applauds government for increasing handouts to needy citizens by 10 dollars
09/06/2009 - Country X fails to qualify for 2010 World Cup, entire football team sacked and replaced with foreign talents
24/08/2009 - Survey shows that 90 percent of tourists think that Country X is a part of China
28/02/2010 - Mandarin becomes the National language of Country X due to the overwhelming number of Chinese nationals
04/02/2010 - Public transport overwhelmed by foreigners, locals turn to private transport
09/04/2010 - Too many cars flooding up the roads, more gantries are installed to smoothen traffic flow
16/06/2010 - Locals turn to taxis as a form of transport, due to rising costs of driving and public transport
07/08/2010 - Shortage of taxis islandwide, government increases taxi fares
22/10/2010 - Locals no longer have a economic form of transport, they turn to bicycles instead
30/12/2010 - Too many bicycles on the road, says government. Transport authority to install tax and toll booth system for cyclists
01/02/2010 - Bicycles become to expensive to ride, locals forced to walk to work
19/05/2010 - Recent studies shows that 70 percent of local talents leave the country for greener pastures overseas
29/08/2011 - Country X hits target population of 6 million, with 1 out of 3 people being foreigners
05/06/2012 - Olympic council criticises Country X for sending an entire team of foreigners to the Olympics
17/09/2012 - Country X aims to qualify for 2014 World Cup, critics laugh the idea off, asking them to qualify for the Asian Cup first
16/11/2012 - Public transport overwhelmed due to the influx of foreigners, travel becomes impossible
15/12/2012 - Country X goes into riots, with locals facing off against the foreigners
09/08/2013 - Riots finally come to an end, Country X becomes a part of China
And if you think about it. Do you remember this
Or when we had only 16 gantries
And the answer to our worries...
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And if Singaporeans really turned to bicycles.. the conference bike
Or even flintstone style.. with the Busycle