Train Service Disruption

 

Caught in the train disruption between Yishun and Bishan earlier.

After leaving from Sembawang station to Yishun, I heard the announcement and decided to go back to Sembawang to take a cab rather than fight the crowd at Yishun.

Upon getting down from the escalator at Sembawang station, I heard an announcement update that the train service has been restored, so up the escalator again.

Very late for work today.

Train is Coming ...

Many people I know are getting very irritated by the constantly repeating chant at MRT station:

Train is coming … train is coming … start queuing! Love your ride!

Here’s a suggestion for a change of words:

Life is challenging … life is challenging … enjoy it! Love your life!

Squeezed!

Ever experience being squeezed? This girl on the train must have felt it, having been sandwiched between two men.

Wonder how you girls feel when faced with such situation. Will you give up your seat or stay oblivious as if nothing has happened?

GuYs, pLease do not taKe advantage of the guRLs!

Uniquely Singapore

When you see a caucasian rush into a MRT train just to 'fight' for a seat, you'll know he has stayed in Singapore for too long! This is the way Singapore teaches culture to foreigners!

As I attempt to tie-up my umbrella before getting off the MRT train, I accidentally let the umbrella drip some drops of water on the lady sitting at my left. Her face expressed great annoyance, but she failed to realise that throughout the journey, I have expressed irritation, because she has placed her umbrella on her right, wetting the left side of my pants.

A small build man in his thirties crosses his leg and occupies three seats on the MRT train. To his left, he puts his personal things, and on the right, he lets his leg cross boundaries, as he reads a tabloid sized newspaper. The small man hangs his umbrella at the metal pole in front of him, where he allows the rain water to drip a the train floor. When I take the seat on his right, he remains oblivious and continues to put his leg across. When a big guy stares at him and the seat of the small guy's left, the small guy gives up the left seat and let his leg down. When the crowd starts building up in the cabin, many people has to avoid the umbrella hanging at the pole because of the wet floor, and that is despite the scarcity of space.

This is Singapore, the place where graciousness is built on putting ourselves first before others.