It’s been proven… now every morning the bus crowd is like crazy.. the situation is like the country is going to war and they have to take this bus to escape or else they’ll die here. Even the 7:05 bus is a problem to get up. I had been lucky for the past few days to be able to get on, coz some others weren’t so lucky.

Why did I go back for the squeeze when I said I’ll take the transfer route? It’s because I did a simple calc over the weekend, the cost of transfering from bus to train costs about a dollar more than the direct bus (after rebate). ONE DOLLAR for the same start and end point! Thats a whopping $20 over a month! So its 6:55 bus for me from now on (if I can get up that early). There’ll also be some situations I’ll still take the expensive route, like today. Due to the rain there was some sort of MASSIVE jam just before the e’way. So massive you can see the bus take 5 mins to cross a junction and a car horn symphony.

I’m thinking of a few things…
1. It’s getting too crowded.
2. I should probably start driving to work.

Having a direct bus to work, which takes 20mins over 3 bus stops is of no use if you can’t get on the bus. I waited for 3 full buses before I decided to give up and take the alternate route, which takes 30mins to the same destination, but requires a transfer from bus to train. That’s the same time as waiting for the next bus and IF I can get up the next bus by fighting over the current crowd.

Due to the 1st 3 buses the bus stop I’m at has a whole crowd of nearly 20 people (going for the same bus, not accounting for a lot more for other buses) — there were some others more who already took the alternative route. All the 3 buses came as full buses, and the last bus didn’t even open the front door to accept passengers. The frequency isn’t that bad, just about 5-10 minutes after each other. But if the crowd persists, I’ll have no choice but to give up SBSTransit and take the SMRT route…

This is a plan that almost conincides with mine, that I found thru blog-surfing (Saturdays becomes boring when you wake up too early). Even though I was linking through non-TP blogs she happens to be a TP IT ger a year younger. Wonder which batch she was in. Does ros or vic happen to know her?

http://lishire.blogspot.com/2007/03/as-per-as-request-here-is-very.html

I should probably draw up some wishlist too… but does this whole thing make up a girly plan? Well at least I don’t have urges to “buy some useless fashion stuff”. I swipe more on card actually, cos I can trace my expenses through my card, and I lose track when I use cash. So I usually opt for card and use cash in non-card places like kopitiams.

Note to myself: Trackback spam is still coming in… like WordPress said, disabling trackback just do so for future posts and not past posts. Therefore I’ll need to tweak the DB to disable all trackbacks…

Does slamming your ezlink card on the scanner repeatedly makes it detect better when it doesn’t recognize your card the 1st time?

Is quickly moving your card to the scanner and away a challenge to test the system?

If you scanner fails you at the back door of the bus, and you go to the front door with a successful scan, is that charged as Exit or Entry?

When your scan fails at the MRT gate, do you read the screen for error messages like “Please stand back”?

I hear quite a lot of failures during the Exit scans… but if really calulated the rate may be less than 1% (less than 1 failure in 100 scans) but is that acceptable? Whats the actual fail scan rate? What is your personal fail scan rate? I seldom have any. Do you hear many fail scans on a single bus trip? Are the fails happening to the same people? Why am I asking all these?

wanted to write about my new workplace, but yeah, laziness took over. Maybe someone could just write it out while I dictate…

Was suddenly hit by trackback spam from nowhere. So just disabled it. Shouldn’t have any issues with comments since only registered users can comment!

My ceiling crashed on me again last night, this time even a closer shave. About 5 am this morning, I was awoken by a loud crash. I peeked, looked around and saw nothing abnormal. Thinking the sound came from outside the window, I continued to sleep. Mum came in a few seconds later, woke me again and asked if I was OK. Only then I know that the thing between my wall and ceiling (I forgot what it’s called) has come down… again.

This time it hit the bed rails and missed me by a bit, but my hair, face and bed were showered with cement flakes. I must have been too tired not to feel anything then… I just used my hands to brush off the stuff from my face and hair and continued sleeping.

The previous incident sounded worse, cos the longer stretch on my room came crashing down, hit both sides of my bed railings, broke into 2 lengths and the middle came right into my mattress, in the middle of the night too. The cement pieces weren’t light and could easily crush my ribs if I was hit then. I happen to play out late that night and didn’t come home till morning. A lucky escape. Thought it won’t happen again cos there’s no more stuff above my bed. Didn’t expect it came much closer this time. Well I’ve told my parents to take all those stuff down, including those in other rooms, before anyone else gets hit.

I’ve must have done too many bad stuff in this life to deserve death this way. Or told too many lame jokes…

Took the time to clean the dust off my bicycle today… then I felt that I should just take it out for a ride too. Why clean it and put it back to collect dust? So off I went… I took a long casual route from Sengkang along the new Upper Serangoon Road, then travelled the whole Hougang Ave 8, then to Ave 3 then a loop back along Upper Serangoon. The bike still ran well, though my legs didn’t. I should go for another swim soon.

Since I passed by Ave 8 I decided to stop at windyday’s place to grab the purifier I wanted to borrow last month. Too bad she didn’t pick up my call, probably watching her dramas or something. Well at least she SMSed back as I was typing this entry =P

I continued empty-handed and started chasing a motorized bicycle… I was following closely behind him, and he was helping me bell off those pesky pedestrians cos he had an electronic bell that had two tones – a simple electronic siren tone and an IRRITATING siren tone. Guess why I know there were two haha. Next thought, time to get a funky bell for pesky pedestrians! Then again, probably I’m the pesky one trying to cycle on the pavement…

Quinn Day came in the midst of valentines and CNY this year, nevertheless it was enjoyable having the company of the Quinnies. And they had to bring out the marriage issue… so it seems the most appropriate time to flash out our cards… new year cards! Lol angdao and I had a very good laugh looking at their expressions. I wonder who really thought it was da red bomb… Anyway it was still our wish to give them each a card and wish them a Happy Chinese New Year!

Now what’s really missing is a group photo that we can post and remember each Quinn Day…

As promised, here are the vids.

Intel Mobile Centrino

• Shoes
• Batteries
• Climb

Intel Pentium 4

• Pipes
• Bulbs
• Pull 4

Intel Pentium III

• pen ti um
• Keys *favourite*
• Paint
• Treadmill