Thursday, April 13
why buses pwn mrts 1) its cheaper for fulltime students. try beating 45 cents flat rate, and even cheaper if you take consecutive buses within half an hour or something of the sort i dont pretend to understand.
2) its more er, stable. you lose your balance but you dont jerk in all 360 degrees.
3) no matter how crowded a bus, you can always look out of the windows. now mrts, are different. when its REALLY peak period, all you see are bodies.
4) you see more than bodies, you see things you dont want to see. (refer to my entry written on saturday) most of the time this means overly-passionate couples acting unaware of the fact that they are in a crowded environment where people have trouble just standing and do not appreciate having to see, er. things!
5) after peak period, mrts retain the unpleasant smell - normally of shoes, sweat and perfume. buses, on the other hand, don't.
6) bus interchanges, no matter how huge, are easy to go through. just like er walk and you'll find the bus that you want to take. now compare this to places like dhoby ghaut interchange, where you have to go up down left right north south east west just to get to the train you want. even if you're just following signboards. or maybe its just me, and having no sense of direction.
7) you can eat at the bus stop while waiting for your bus to come.
8) you can talk to bus drivers - who're mostly very nice people.
9) everytime i decide to take the looong way back from orchard to bukit batok ( long way meaning i dont need to change mrt) the bus i take TERMINATES AT YISHUN. always. (prob kuz of the time i take = around 7 ) now see, that never happens in the case of a bus. so far, that is.
10) buses come in double decker =)
11) when at the busstop with a group of friends, you can wait for a whole bunch of buses while your friend can only take one bus. thusly, you ge the chance to gloat. this is definitely not the case in mrt situation.
12) in mrts, one often comes across selfish prats plonking their arses down on the floor, a group of them SITTING IN A CIRCLE with all their bags/sports equipment in the centre like a campfire. while people around them politely compress around them. grrr.
okay i cant think of anymore.
monday music test, tuesday 2.4 run and maths test, thursday chinese-lit test, friday napfa other 5 items. doom, death, destruction. thank goodness theres a nice long-ish weekend for me to prepare & all. God please do give me perseverance (i have the feeling i spelt that wrongly) for the three days, and the good judgment to balance a bit of fun, a lot of work.
anyways, list of things to do during the weekend. this is minus off all the Easter meditation, worship and stuff.
- play tennis with pa
- go bowling with pa and lorena
- mug for music
- study for maths, understand coordinate geometry
- practice piano for at least 4 hrs in total
- buy drumsticks (2 sets)
- do lit review for an article (SMP)
- check out price of marimba in yamaha
- finish unfinished work
- burn a copy of melissa's physics cds
- do something to fix up the computer
- read up on waves and whatnot.
- eat (a lot!) at the pasar malam thingum outside west mall
- write zuowen for SIA
- do the SBQ for BSP argh.
- finish report draft for maths
whee which means i really need to work. hard. sniff.
i was green-ed at 12:55 am
