Return to Innocence

an optimistic day

I struggled to get up @ 6:50, to have a bowl of cereal before going to work.

Normally I reset the alarm 20 mins later and sleep on.

I rushed out after breakfast and boarded 176, dropped at Jurong East and transferred 197.

I climbed to the 2nd storey of the bus, only one seat was left. Yeah.

It din't take long for me to realize the air con was leaking. Cold droplets of water drip down at intervals, but I was lazy to get up. How cold blooded the people are! Just keeping quiet without reminding others of the problem.

And it soon started raining.

And yea, I don't have an umbrella.

The bus reached around 8:30. If it is a sunny day, i would have been running to the work place, aross an unsheltered overhead bridge. Not today.

So I waited and waited, no sign of rain stop. Finally I boarded another bus 198, alighted @ Bouna Vista and crossed a sheltered overhead bridge, hoping to see NUH shuttle bus where I can't see any vehicle clearly in the crowd and the heavy rain.

In the end, I boarded 198 back. And alighted @ NUS, took an NUS shuttle bus A2 to NUH and a kind lady shared her umbrella when i rushed to the staff canteen from the bus stop.

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Summary:

- bus air con drip
- heavy rain & no umbrella
- took bus to Bouna Vista and the same bus back, just to cross the road
- late, of course

buses taken to get to the workplace: 176, 197, 198, 198, A2

oh my god

it takes 1 and a half hour to reach NUH, if I take 106 to Dover and transfer the shuttle bus.

it was said that the maximum travelling time across the island (horizontally or vertically) is 2 hours.

not during traffic jam, of course