Move it, people!

Singapore has an excellent transport system. Seriously, it’s awesome! But not for me. Why? Because a (prohibitively expensive) taxi ride to office takes 20 mins, but a bus ride takes 1 hour 15 mins. I kid you not, almost four times the time!!

Why? Because to begin with, the bus stops at every stop, every signal and every time a bird poops from the sky. And then, when the bus gets crowded at the entrance and there’s not enough room for people to enter, instead of the Bombay local train maara-maari, nobody says anything. The door opens, and people outside simply stare. That’s right. STARE. And then, the stare-me-not Chinese whispers continues all the way till the last guy inside who will then decide to move two inches, and a couple of people will get in.

The process takes 3-4 minutes and in that much time, the Mumbai Virar Fast guy in me dies a slow death. At the end, I take the same amount of time to travel to office as I did in Mumbai. It's just a slower version of it :P

And the biggest bitch of all. The transport system is actually designed in the right way. It’s comfy, covers all of the island, and minimizes the need for personal transport. But then, a Singaporean doesn’t know the joy of jumping into a local and catching a window seat, does he?