Run, Random thing I like, Riddle

This blog is like a run, you start off fast, then tire as you go along, then slow down to a crawl, and finally you start walking. You may even stop, and just give up. Well, the sprint's over, writing long posts is both bad on the eyes of the readers, and it takes up too much time of mine. Let's start walking... Speaking of which, I signed up for NIKE's 10km run on August 31st. It's 10km. I am soo going to die. But I'll be running with some of my classmates, so everything will be okay. I hope.

Anime
I like animes. Though I don't understand Japanese, save for a few common phrases, I still like them. There's always subs. Hrmm, this season's animes are said to be not that interesting, with the best rated anime by a certain blog being one of those less hyped about shows. O well there's always surprises in the anime world. As for the genres of animes I watch, they tend to include everything, except for yaoi and really fail shows. So far, I've watched probably only around 20 series and quite a number of ongoing series, amounting to roughly 240+160 episodes, which is 200 hours worth of anime watching. That seems alot, but is actually quite little compared to other people. Hrmm I have been wondering, since I recently found out that certain animes and mangas are practically the same thing, with the mangas being superior to the animes as not everything can be animated (an example of film/animation vs book is the harry potter series, where the book had situations and settings that had no role in the plot, and thus were too expensive and time consuming to act out), would be it more efficient to read the manga instead? But then again, my reading time is quite long, and I take forever to read mangas online, so maybe it's just wiser to watch the animes. You can listen to voice actors and actresses too as an added bonus.

Riddle
Imagine you are an MRT train driver operating from Bedok to Dover.

0. Before Bedok, you had 7 passengers on board. They were the ones who were too tired to get off, so they camped overnight since yesterday.

1. At Bedok MRT station, you pick up 18 passengers because it is a busy old town, with lots of good food. One of the passengers is a schoolboy studying in a school in Dover.

2. At Kembangan, a lone schoolboy studying at a school in Buona Vista came in, and recognized the schoolboy-studying-in-a-school-in-Dover as his primary school classmate, but didn’t feel like saying hi.

3. Passing along Eunos, you pick up 2 passengers and let down 7. What a let down.

4. At Paya Lebar, the schoolboy-studying-in-a-school-in-Dover looked up from his psp and recognized the schoolboy-studying-in-a-school-in-Buona-Vista, but was too lazy to say hi.

5. At Aljunied, a woman with her crossbred dog went in, otherwise known as a Golden Bull Poodle, illuminating the carriage.

6. At Kallang, a group of dragon boaters from a 14 seater dragon boat came in, carrying their boat on their shoulders, they took up the whole of carriage 4.

7. At Lavender, a sweet smelling girl walked into carriage 5, and her perfume was so strong that 4 of the closest dragon boaters were enticed into walking into carriage 5, releasing their support on the boat, which fell and created a dent on the floor.

8. At Bugis, you picked up multiple groups of arcade players numbering 31 in total, and a pregnant woman. The dent became deeper.

9. At City Hall, no one likes the red line so no one leaves your train, but you pick up 13 more blue-collar workers, and 2 old men. The dent became a tiny hole.

10. At Raffles Place, 2 workers forgot their briefcases, so they went down, while 4 people decided the red line wasn’t so bad after all, and left your train for redder pastures. The tiny hole grew larger.

11. At Tanjong Pagar, the awkwardness between the schoolboys were finally too great to handle, so the Buona-Vista schoolboy decided to leave the train to take the next one, which was 8 mins later. The small hole started leaking passengers out of the train (they accidentally walk into the hole, falling through the floor of the carriage and into the tracks below), at the rate of one person between each stop.

12. At Outram interchange, some of the arcade players started a fight in carriage 2, so you kick them all off, even those who were not involved.

13. At Tiong Bahru, three single mothers came in, with their 9 children in tow (don’t stop at 2). One of the child slips and falls into the gap between the trains, but was unnoticed by all.

14. At Redhill, the pregnant woman gives birth to triplets in your train, assisted by one of the blue-collar worker who happens to be studying medicine part-time.
15. At Queenstown, 8 people came in, and 5 left.
16. At Commonwealth, one commuter decides that wealth should be shared by all and decides to rob the 2 old men, leaving one cashless and another one dead from a heart attacked caused by the excitement. At the stop, two police officers dashed into the train to capture him, but he ran out instead and the doors closed, locking the police officers inside and him outside. The hole widens, now leaking 2 passengers per in-between-stops.

17. At Buona Vista, the Golden Bull Poodle bit the sweet smelling girl, for smelling too sweet. She screamed in pain while writhing on the floor, but the announcement of “If you see any suspicious articles or persons, please inform the train staff or call εννεα εννεα εννεα” drowned out her cries. The surrounding people pretended not to notice her flailing away on the floor, while enjoying their death metal music while touching their iPod Touches. She turned gangrenous and died a short while later.

18. At Dover, the train derails, caused by the multiple bodies below the floor of carriage 4, and also due to the fact that the Dover mrt doors open on the wrong side, flinging 6 random people out from the front of the train, and 2 out from the back, leaving the rest of the people inside to burn until chao tah (pronounced Kris-Pee).

Now on to the riddle:
a) How many charred bodies are there in the train?
b) How many people fell onto the track?
c) Where does the train driver stay?

Answers:
a) Anyone guessed 45 or 46? No. It is 48.
b) 9 + 6 + 2 = 17
c) You don’t know? Well, I don’t know either, but it depends. Go find a map, and mark out where you stay, then mark out where your school is (put your workplace if you are not studying). Now, estimate the distance between your home and your school on the map (lets say 30cm). Now to properly use a map, find the conversion ratio between distance on map and real distance, then divide the distance by the ratio (e.g. ratio is 1cm: 10 000cm, so you divide 30cm by 10 000 to get 0.003cm). Starting from the point of your home, move 5 home-to-school/workplace distances (e.g. 0.015cm) up north-east, then find the district of that point on the map. That would be where the train driver stays. I’m serious.

=)