Singapore Cont'...

• I got off the bus that i have traveled in for 7.5 hours and i got in one of this taxi below... I mean... Wow!! I think this was the nicest taxi i have ever got on... It was very comfortable inside... and what's best was the driver... He was a middle aged male with a beard... and was very friendly indeed... chatted with me the whole journey from Jurong's stop to NUS's Prince George's Park Residences... it costs me 7SGD...

Hyundai Sonata Cab

• Well i thought the above is the nicest it could ever get... then i saw this...
  
  
Mercedes Benz Cab...

Compare with this below...



Proton Iswara Taxi

I was like OMG!! How they managed to make a business out of it...? Considering how much the car itself costs... how much they will charged their passengers...? Although it is not as many as the ordinary ones in the street but it is not so rare either... you could spot one of those quite frequently if you are in city centre... There were really demands for that...? Or the fare are just reasonable...? But if reasonable... back to the first question... how they make money...? Haha!! I don't know... perhaps i should try one this when i got a chance...


• The next thing i like was this...
  
  EZ link Card (TouchN'Go for SG)
  
  Well... This thing could be used for buses and MRT trains... no surprise... but it was its system that got me impressed... Everytime you get on a bus... you tap for the first time it is consider a "new ride"... later you get off the bus and you tap again and it would charge you according to how far you have traveled... e.g. 1SGD... If your final destination requires you to change to other bus or MRT... provided you use the card within 30 minutes... you get in and tap again... this time "transfer" would appear... and you will only be charged a few cents extra... It help you saves... the system actually recognize your cards and it connects through out the whole Singapore...
  
  
• I was on a bus with my friends... what surprised me at first was the driver was a middle aged local Chinese woman(i guess) who speaks very fluent English... I mean very seldom you will see a woman driving bus right...? Cause you know... it is a big vehicle...
  
  My friends and I were wondering whether we were taking the correct route and thus we decided to ask the driver for further information... then she explained in a very detail way... which we very much appreciated... and once my friend got the hang of it... she still continue explaining... she did seems very sincere and afraid that we might get lost... and finally we got off the bus... and while we are discussing at the bus stop about where should we go... she never drove off and she was waving from her driver's seat trying to signal us the correct direction to go for... haha...!! I mean her service was very commendable...
  
  Suddenly i realised why sometimes i will feel discomfort when i need to ask people for directions... because not all people will give so much assistance to a stranger... and you scare bothering them... but this one... it really changes my perception about seeking assistance... Next time i think i wont be so "paiseh" in seeking assistance especially in SG...
  
  
• When i am in Malaysia... i will probably be extra careful during the nights... girls are advised to not walking alone in streets... lock your door while you were out... put in some extra locks preferably... all this was due to the fact that the endless criminal acts soaring in our country... snatch thieves being the most popular... helmet gang... burglary during middle of the night... but here at Singapore i bet you will feel otherwise...
  
  Consider this... for two days i was in Singapore... i witnessed two good deeds the people there have done...
  
  first... seeing a lady dropped his cash notes as he walks off the ticket counter... seconds later a person beside who saw it quickly picked up and identified the lady and ran towards the lady to return the cash notes to her(the lady was walking quite fast)...
  
  Second... I was in the bus sitting in close proximity to the driver... and a lady walked right through me with her hand holding a cell phone... she approached the driver and handed him the cell phone and started explaining... apparently she was giving the cell phone left behind by other passenger at her seat to the driver so that in case the passenger came back could find their phone...
  
  I don't think i will witness this kind of incidents back in Malaysia... at least not yet... most would have pocketed the cash notes and taken the cellphone they found with them...
  
  
  
  
  
  Some of my friends said most probably what i seen was just the surface and i not yet come to the down side of Singapore... Hmm... yea... probably i will see the down side... but then again... I just thought there are so much for us to learn... for ourselves and for our government... we just need to absorb the good that might benefit us...
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  Some of the other things i would like to share...
  
  
Floating Stadium

How cool was that...? Check it out here if you wanna know more...

Also... They were building this weird-angled building with sky park on top of it... almost near completion...




Check out more about Marina Bay Sands here...

It seems to me there are a lot impressive things going on there... caught me to thinking what if Malaysia was also something like that...??