Ian On The Red Dot

I was waiting for my bus at this bus-stop beside the AMK MRT station. This stop has a display board which tells you when the next bus will come. The board said my bus had arrived. The bus probably belongs to Wonder Woman because I couldn’t see the bus at all.

Anyway, I was thinking how this iris ( Intelligent Route Information System ) sucked when I realized the people who implemented it probably already knew it was going to be bad in accurately reporting the arrival times.

How did I arrive at the above conclusion?

They named the system with the acronym iris.

Iris was a messenger-goddess who rode rainbows between heaven and earth to deliver messages from Olympus.

I wonder if it was by pure coincidence that iris is the name of a goddess who was a messenger for the gods. No matter. I think the implementors of the system were already hinting to us the effectiveness of their bus-tracking-time-reporting system by using a girl’s name.

Seriously, when has a girl who said she will be done in five minutes ever got done in five minutes.