Sublimal Messaging.

I had gained enlightenment on the train today.

I was standing there in the centre of the train carriage, with empty seats all around, with pen in hand, writing down ideas for the IHDC scripts. Then the automated voice thing that tells people not to leave their stuff on the train thing started playing.

You know, the one that goes something like "Please do not leave your belongings on the train" or something like that. Yeah, the one they play over and over and over again, like 10 times before you reach your destination, more if you travel further.

Then it hit me.

Like shit hitting a fan switched on at max speed.

The government is so damn smart. The only reason they have these stupid messages replayed on the trains is to prevent terrorism. Think about it, this is really just effing sublimal messaging. They're just going to drill the message into your brain simply by repeating it until every intonation, every slur, every accent, of every word of every sentence of every one of the major languages in Singapore is etched into the back of your cranium.

How does this prevent terrorism?

Simple.

The terrorist takes his bag off the train with him.