I might as well share with you what I did today because I find it super amazing how my thoughts just run like livewire. This morning at 8am I was at Ang Mo Kio… across the MRT station waiting for my supervisor to pick me up because today is special… the department went out of office and into a hotel conference room to do some deep and thoughtful discussion. Let me go back to AMK. I do not know how long have I not alighted at AMK MRT during the morning peak… maybe a year or more. The experience, however, is something I want to share with you. One of the escalator on the second level is under repair and there is a staircase next to it. So naturally, I have to walk down the stairs together with a big crowd. At the same time, commuters are also climbing the stairs up. I mean… why? Have we become so health conscious that we HAVE to climb stairs and fight for space in that narrow staircase? No… I don’t think so… It has, I believe, became a habit for them to go to this part of the station because that is what they normally do except that the escalator is under repair. Right.
So I walked out of the station and towards the junction. It was red light so vehicles were travelling perpendicular from my line of sight. Then those travelling straight stopped and the lights turned amber. The pedestrains waiting at the other side walked out of the pavement. And I am not talking about one or two… but ALL of them. I counted more than 30… walked out of the pavement… onto the road… across two lanes and stopped. WHAT THE F? Those vehicles turning to the right are still doing so… then the lights turned amber… and now it was green man… those pedestrains on the road literally MARCHED towards me… and I had to shovel my way through the angry morning crowd… going against the flow is indeed crazy on a morning.
Boy, am I glad I live two MRT stops away from the busy AMK.
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