12:05 PM
1st day of school celebrate life with SMRT...Well done... 1st day of school yesterday already celebrate life with SMRT....
1st: The usual crowd at my house bus stop at around 7:55am onwards
2nd: Choa Chu Kang MRT got people commit suicide and jump down onto the track, causing disruptions and even scare off some of my classmates... (Mel is 1 very good example.. Read her blog to find out..)
And in school, these things actually happened for 1st day:
- Lift breakdown, causing us to walk the stairs from level 1 to level 6 (for my class is at there)
- No air-con in the study clusters... (Due to power failure)
So far, my classmates are all nice people, at least for those who I have talked to (excluding Liana and Cheryl who were the same class as me for 1 of the past semester), like You Kai and Joo Kiat who I was teamed up with yesterday for Marketing module... And really feel blessed because all 4 days in the week I am in the same class, W66F...
Yesterday we just had our 2nd FYP meeting... As usual, that china girl advisor (Lu Hongwei) didn't turn up, and said on the e-mail that she will meet us this coming Wednesday (which is tomorrow) at 4pm... It's really indeed very challenging to have her as our "wonderful" advisor... I think next time we can just speak Chinese to her le... 1 week back when we had our 1st meeting, I keep "huh?", "pardon?, "(repeat) again?" when I was answering the phone call from her... Well done well done...
Our 2nd FYP meeting is mostly spent on e-mail-ing to that china girl, asking and "stressing" her a lot of questions and queries, as her instructions and everything was quite UNCLEAR... I think next time we can just type the e-mail in Chinese to her liao... Lolx.. Stayed from around 4pm++ till 6pm and I went off 1st because I need to be at Tampines area by 7pm.
Met the usual bus enthusiasts fellowship group (XY, Ben and Isaac) at Tampines Library and we went to Sun Plaza Park to have our 2nd meeting which is right opposite the library.. Talked about various stuffs and after that with worship and prayers, we ended the whole thing at around 9pm++.
After that, Isaac walked back home while XY, Ben and me waited at the bus stop outside Tampines Library... SBS2795C (NTU concept bus, perm HGDEP 107), cameo on Service 27, and both of them decided to wait for it.. I took SBS9487X of Service 168 and moments after, XY sms me that they were on SBS2795C, and I alighted somewhere along the way before the TPE to wait for that bus. SBS959K of Service 27 came 1st, with lots of seats, and seconds after that, SBS2795C came. XY and Ben stood at the entrance door steps. (means the bus is packed with people) I 1st knocked very hard on the bus a few times because the BC (driver) didn't want to open the entrance door, and because there were some people alighting at the exit door, I just dashed in and dashed + squeezed in all the way to the front and tap my card. Many people in the bus were looking at me, I even overheard some comments from others saying that I was being crazy or whatsoever... I didn't want to care about other people's comments because I seemed to be quite fierce when I boarded it. And that I even told off the BC.... Conversation between me and the BC was somehow like:
Me: you all cannot just set the ez-link reader to allow people to board from the back?
BC (driver) of SBS2795C: we cannot anyhow do that cos sbs transit say only during breakdown or what then can like tat (but in the end i still dashed in without hestitation)
Me: because in front people dun wan to move to the back sometimes, then very unfair for those people outside the bus who wanna board it when the back is quite empty or not packed
BC (driver) of SBS2795C: bo bian.. this is company say one... cannot anyhow one...
Me: sometimes the head of company (sbs transit) must use their brain and think ma.. cannot just allow this thing to happen and just let it be like that..
BC (driver) of SBS2795C: because got the CCTV in the bus so cannot anyhow... if the sbs transit staff found out about it, we the drivers will be questioned with lots of questions..
Me: 0o0o okay..
After reaching Punggol Rd bus stop, all 3 of us alighted and I went to the opposite side to take Service 161 while they took Service 86 VSO back to Sengkang and went home from there..
Perhaps I was rather too rushed that I resorted to this stunt... And I already did it for SBS Transit, let alone SMRT Buses... 1 day I will do that if I really HAVE to DO so!!
I guess, none of my friends, or even bus enthusiast friends, have resorted to this extent before... But any comments from you guys here I will really like to hear it.. =)
7th April 2008: TIB 565 U of Service 966 around 7:58am. Many people cannot board the bus..!!
Around 10 minutes later.... TIB 825 U of Service 963 came, and the same cycle goes again...
Many people waiting for the door of TIB 825 U of Service 963 to open and board...
The usual overflowing crowd of Service 902 queue all thanks to SMRT... Poor efficiency indeed..
To the extend it has another queue perpendicular to Service 902 queue.. So down there was it Service 964 queue? or Service 902 queue? Chaotic situation as usual...
This morning, at around 7:55am, this bus came, and the cycle continues.. And after seeing people trying to squeeze in the bus till the limit that they can reached, I just dashed in without any hesitation again and stretch out my right hand all the way to tap my card.. Around 3 more addition minutes of delay to close the entrance door again all thanks to me... Lolx.. What to do? This is SMRT... Celebrating life with SMRT by the "by left" ways...
Cheers and God bless! ^_^
Victor Lim