Riding along...

- July 17, 2013

Public transport ... bus

I think that anyone who used to take a bus in the 80s and 90s will have to agree that the public transport system has improved exponentially. I know that Singaporeans like to whinge about the buses and their inability to possess luxury cars, but i couldn't give an shit about this. Because the bus system is fabulous. And the MRT is miraculous. I remember standing at the fecking Bradddell Road busstop after having taken the goddamnned 165 from RJC which in those days was in Mount Sinai which was like as far away from Serangood Gardens as Earth is from Gallifrey and just ~WAITING for the stupid bus to materialise. It would have actually been faster to walk. When it finally got to the bus stop it was a boneshaking carcass of a vehicle and in those days it was not uncommon to find roaches on the bus - some of them had been killed so squished roaches. I have a deep abhorration of roaches, probably from having had to spend so much time with their disgusting idotic randomness. There was no airconditioning and on rainy days the windows were up so that it not just really hot and humid but it smelt. I mean REALLY smelt. I have a very high tolerance to smell because of a childhood in 70s and 80s Singapore where everything smelt.

These days the buses come constantly and they are clean and airconditioned. They are reliable and comfortable. So if anyone wants to complain about public transport they can get into their time machine and go back to the 70s where everything was so much worser and then they can shut up about it.

AMK Hub, the crossing to the MRT

Ah Chicken Rice!!!

This is the first time i have lost weight in Singapore. The gastric flu followed by not really having any appetite has meant that my clothes are actually looser than when i arrived. I am also not drinking very much, Like one glass of wine every three days. I suppose this will all be caught up with by the end of next week.

The boys on the MRT - we take it to the Science Centre

Oisin and Ghin loved the Science Centre so much we had to go back a second time. This is where i have to say that Oisin is in wonder and interest with everything he sees. It does my heart a world of good to watch them be so fascinated with the world about them.