Der VIBES!

I was eating dinner in front of the TV with my family. When the Channel NewsAsia commercials came on it showed a steady moving shot of interlocking expressways full of crawling little vehicles, with the footage probably taken from a helicopter at a reasonable height. The camera panned eagerly as each second took us to a veritable rat maze of more knotted-entwining grey roads, all of them tightly surrounded by trees of an evil vibrant verdant green. The vehicles all seemed stuck in some sort of ingenious traffic jam. It makes you wonder if, as extrapolated by Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman, some insane demonic infrastructure designer really had bent the road system into one huge demonic symbol of power and is using it to send horrible vibes into the minds of all those frustrated drivers, stuck in their ingenious traffic jam.

'This is terrible!' my mother said, sounding profoundly disturbed. 'They look like ants!' I nearly choked on my food. The vibes had got her, too.

This has sort of reinforced my resolution never to drive anywhere by myself.