Ah Choon, why so many crazy drivers on the road today?

Those dang dangling participles (see my 8 Sept posting) keep popping up, like weeds! Here's a recent weeding out:

Compared to other liberal democracies like the United States -- which sees a higher percentage of cynics of between 47 and 73 per cent -- researchers say the 30 per cent figure for Singapore is not huge (TODAY, 15 Sept, "1 in 3 S'poreans are 'cynics' ", page 4).

Amongst other reasons, I do not believe Singapore can produce two top-class teams (ST, 15 Sept, "Mr Lee Kuan Yew on...", page A6).

From shoppers in town to golfers at a tournament in Yishun, Sunday routines  across the island were scuttled by the haze yesterday (ST, 12 Sept, "Haze casts smoky pall over weekend crowd", page 1).

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Singaporeans, it seems, love their cellphones so much that many of them use the device without a hands-free kit while driving. A TODAY report (15 Sept, page 2) said: "Figures from the Traffic Police showed a worrying trend in the number of offenders caught for using a mobile phone while driving. There were 1,666 motorists who were caught in the first half of this year, about 500 more than those caught in the same period last year."

The co-chair of the Singapore Road Safety Council, Associate Professor Gopinath Menon, said the top priority in improving road safety lay with "curbing some of the dangerous behaviours such as using the handphone while driving... People may think it's harmless, but it's actually very dangerous." (ST, 13 Sept, page B5).

Well, let this following (presumably fictitious, I must add) account help you to decide...

Ah Heng: Harrow (hello), Ah Choon, ah, I'm calling you from the expressway on my new stylo-mylo smartphone. Very shiok to use, man.
Ah Choon: Huah ho seh, hor (drive carefully)... 93.8 radio station just said oo ji kor siow lang (there's one mad man) on an expressway driving the wrong way.
Ah Heng: Huh? Um see ji kor!! (not just one!!)... kia jit chng jia chway siow lang huah chia (there's a lot of crazy drivers on the expressway today). Also dare to 'horn' at me and flash headlights some more! Boey tah han, man."