Re: NSW Buses take the heat off CityRail?

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Brad Torr" <roadgeek@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> In article <Xz0v5.598454$MB.9094104@news6.giganews.com>,

> > Heck yeah - there were about 40 of them at Woodford this afternoon.
>
> On Saturday I caught the 05:35 up train ex-PKM.. when it pulled into
> Wollongong my carriage was deluged by dozens of South-East Asian women
> (most fairly young and attractive.... probably Filipino judging from
> the staccato, bouncy language they were speaking in)

Tagalog bouncy? I've never heard it described that way before. It's a failry
harsh language.


> all in identical
> blue gowns with ludicrously sized accreditations draped around their
> neck. I thought it might have been the Filipino team,

That would be 2 boxers and 27 officials.


> but on closer
> inspection, their gownsleeves had "OFFICIAL PROVIDER HOUSEKEEPING
> SERVICES 2000 SYDNEY OLYMPIC GAMES" embroidered onto them. So it
> appears as though cleaners, bottlewashers, etc. have been imported from
> Asia for the Games.

There are many, many Filipinos working for Cityrail, almost every station
has them.