How to get to school for a class at 9am:
- Wake up at 6.30am.
- Leave the house at 7.30am. (Yay, half an hour early!)
- Think that you're going to be early for tutorial unlike previous weeks.
- Step out of lift. It rains. Heavily.
- Wait at the bus stop for the bus.
- Oh, I meant wait at the crowded corridor near the bus stop. The bus stop is too full so you'd have to wait in line with other in the corridor. Also, don't forget to use your umbrella to shelter yourself from the heavy rain that is being blown into the corridor by the wind.
- Wait. And wait. And wait.
- All hopes of being early are gone.
- Now you can only hope to be on time.
- Half an hour later, four buses come at the same time.
- The first bus doesn't even stop because it's too full.
- Forget about boarding the second bus, since the people at the bus stop are all trying to get up the bus.
- Board the third bus! Use your umbrella to shelter yourself from the rain. Everyone else with umbrellas is doing the same. Avoid being poked by their umbrellas.
- Get to the MRT station. Unfortunately, you'd have to wait for 6 minutes for the next train.
- And obviously it's supremely packed, so you can't get in.
- Board the second train. It's just a 2 minute wait - it's not like you've already wasted 36 minutes of your life, right?
- Alight at Jurong East and wait for the train that will bring you to Clementi.
- The first two trains are too full. As you watch the trains come and go, a bunch of people from the other platform you had alighted from rushes over as well.
- Get annoyed. It really makes you feel that you could've gotten up half an hour later without having to wait for the bus, and board the train which came after the one you had taken, since you'd end up in the same position anyway.
- Board when the third train comes. (Total waiting time: 45 minutes)
- Hope that you can make it in time! Or at least, be less than 15 minutes late.
- Walk to the bus interchange. At least bus 96 never disappoints.
- You're late for class. It's inevitable but hey, at least you've tried. Now that you've realised that it sometimes takes almost 2 hours to get to school during peak hour in the mornings (instead of the usual one hour), you'd have to adjust your alarm clock and wake up at 6am.
- Go home and type a blog entry about it to laugh and see how ridiculous this is.
