i've finally come to terms with my little trip around singapore. don't get what i mean? pretty much mean i got LOsT in singapore. like how did that happen?? so here's a recount of what happened that day..just to get the whole icky situation out of my system.
so the whole thing started when i met tash and mag for dinner at taka. we had crystal jade! which was really nice i must say..it was good meeting up with them again ( and where were u deb?? flying to london?? can u compare that to our company? hee..)!! the whole problem though, started on the way back to hall....
first mode of transport: MRT
from: orchard mrt station
intended destination: dhoby ghaut
k i did reach dhoby ghaut..if i had screwed that up i'd just be...i dun even know what i'll be!! it's just unmentionable! but when i reached dhoby ghaut, i had this stupid notion that the train layout works the same way as city hall..so what did i do? i happily walked over to the other side of the platform to wait for a train. but this is dhoby ghaut baby! so the train came and i only realised that i was on the wrong train, going back in the direction that i came, when they said "next stop : somerset" aarghh!! i hate taking the train backwards!! so i had to get out at somerset take a train to dhoby ghaut...where in the spirit of enlightenment, i went up the escalator to take the NEL..
second mode of transport: bus
from: harbourfrount mrt station
intended destination: temasek hall
easy enough rite? hah! easy for u to say!!
so 143 came and i got up the bus..thinking that it wld bring me to kentridge terminal coz on my way out i thought i was told that i cld take 143 from kr terminal (i took a cab out by the way). boy was i wrong. the bus went pass nus and i only realised it like 30 minutes later when i was stuck in the foreigns of jurong. i can't remember the last time i've been to jurong..jurong birdpark maybe? primary sch excursions?? i was an alien there! and the bus had to throw me into the outskirts..ok fine i actually pressed the bell to stop there..but still..it wasn't like jurong central or sth! does jurong even have a central place?? so being the smart girl i am..i decided to take 143 backwards, stop at duckfarm or heng mui keng terrace (found out that's actually where u're supposed to stop).........
third mode of transport: bus
from: somewhere in the ulus of jurong
intended destination: temasek hall
bus traumas are neverending...at the bus stop, the first bus that came was 30..so it thought hey! 30 goes back to hall!...like finally!! so i boarded 30 and thought that i finally had my ticket home. but not long after u boarded, the bus turned into an interchange..that was rather scary..i didn't know where i was! walked all the way to the mrt station there to just see where i was and..hello??? boon lay???? like how far is that from school????
fourth mode of transport: taxi
from: boon lay mrt station
intended destination: temasek hall
apparently it's 10 freakin dollars away from school..
woo! taxi..finally..the safest thing for me..that is if only the uncle wasn't so blur!! he only told me halfway into the journey that he didn't know where nus was!!! he kept asking me how to get there!! me!!! the one who spent the last 2 hrs getting lost! i so had no idea where i was heading..then he finally said "oh at the hospital is it?" aaargh!! like duh!!! who doesn't know that nus and nuh are together??? even i knew that when i was in the east!! he even had the guts to say "why din u say so earlier??" that was the last straw..i wld have slapped him one time if he wasn't my ride home!!! he then proceeded to irritate the crap out of me by making this clucking noise the whole way back...i did get back to TH safely though..bout 2 and a half hrs late..it cost me $10!! at least give me a discount or sth rite??
so that was my traumatic experience around the west. i got lost on all possible modes of transport!! i am a bonafide eastie..i can't survive in the west..was i in the west anyway?? i seriously have no idea..also another lesson learnt: i should stop thinking so much..it just makes things worse! i'm too deep for this world..woo!! hahahaha...
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i've finally come to terms with my little trip around singapore. don't get what i mean? pretty much mean i got LOsT in singapore. like how did that happen?? so here's a recount of what happened that day..just to get the whole icky situation out of my system.
so the whole thing started when i met tash and mag for dinner at taka. we had crystal jade! which was really nice i must say..it was good meeting up with them again ( and where were u deb?? flying to london?? can u compare that to our company? hee..)!! the whole problem though, started on the way back to hall.... first mode of transport: MRT from: orchard mrt station intended destination: dhoby ghaut k i did reach dhoby ghaut..if i had screwed that up i'd just be...i dun even know what i'll be!! it's just unmentionable! but when i reached dhoby ghaut, i had this stupid notion that the train layout works the same way as city hall..so what did i do? i happily walked over to the other side of the platform to wait for a train. but this is dhoby ghaut baby! so the train came and i only realised that i was on the wrong train, going back in the direction that i came, when they said "next stop : somerset" aarghh!! i hate taking the train backwards!! so i had to get out at somerset take a train to dhoby ghaut...where in the spirit of enlightenment, i went up the escalator to take the NEL.. second mode of transport: bus from: harbourfrount mrt station intended destination: temasek hall easy enough rite? hah! easy for u to say!! so 143 came and i got up the bus..thinking that it wld bring me to kentridge terminal coz on my way out i thought i was told that i cld take 143 from kr terminal (i took a cab out by the way). boy was i wrong. the bus went pass nus and i only realised it like 30 minutes later when i was stuck in the foreigns of jurong. i can't remember the last time i've been to jurong..jurong birdpark maybe? primary sch excursions?? i was an alien there! and the bus had to throw me into the outskirts..ok fine i actually pressed the bell to stop there..but still..it wasn't like jurong central or sth! does jurong even have a central place?? so being the smart girl i am..i decided to take 143 backwards, stop at duckfarm or heng mui keng terrace (found out that's actually where u're supposed to stop)......... third mode of transport: bus from: somewhere in the ulus of jurong intended destination: temasek hall bus traumas are neverending...at the bus stop, the first bus that came was 30..so it thought hey! 30 goes back to hall!...like finally!! so i boarded 30 and thought that i finally had my ticket home. but not long after u boarded, the bus turned into an interchange..that was rather scary..i didn't know where i was! walked all the way to the mrt station there to just see where i was and..hello??? boon lay???? like how far is that from school???? fourth mode of transport: taxi from: boon lay mrt station intended destination: temasek hall apparently it's 10 freakin dollars away from school.. woo! taxi..finally..the safest thing for me..that is if only the uncle wasn't so blur!! he only told me halfway into the journey that he didn't know where nus was!!! he kept asking me how to get there!! me!!! the one who spent the last 2 hrs getting lost! i so had no idea where i was heading..then he finally said "oh at the hospital is it?" aaargh!! like duh!!! who doesn't know that nus and nuh are together??? even i knew that when i was in the east!! he even had the guts to say "why din u say so earlier??" that was the last straw..i wld have slapped him one time if he wasn't my ride home!!! he then proceeded to irritate the crap out of me by making this clucking noise the whole way back...i did get back to TH safely though..bout 2 and a half hrs late..it cost me $10!! at least give me a discount or sth rite?? so that was my traumatic experience around the west. i got lost on all possible modes of transport!! i am a bonafide eastie..i can't survive in the west..was i in the west anyway?? i seriously have no idea..also another lesson learnt: i should stop thinking so much..it just makes things worse! i'm too deep for this world..woo!! hahahaha... |
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