On the second deck of the second seat on bus 22
Thursday, 24 May 2007
It's going to sound like such a strange entry.
Today was such a bus-y(pronounced as BUS-SY) day.
Perhaps MrMark Tan was right, I'm pretty strange in some ways.
I do enjoy solidarity and the sense of calm it brings.
I love being on my own, it heightens my perception to my scenery (No, scenery not the people around me) and thoughts. There's no point in having said, oh I have experienced this and so, I feel such and that AND yet I don't ponder about it's significance.
The wise leaves time for retropective thoughts, you know. *ahem. xp
OK lah, simply said: I love day-dreaming, can?
I love long bus rides now.
I actually took bus 22 from tampines to ang mo kio and mind, it was a looooooooooong distance.
It's like from one interchange to another. (Oh man, and I forgot to check the cost of travelling such a distance.)
Alright, the day actually started out with my intention to go to Century Square and get new contact lenses. (Yes, I'm utterly vain and can't live without contact lenses anymore. =x)
So I took bus 55 then alighted somewhere near SR and took 72 down to Tampines.
The bus ride to tampines triggered some random thoughts like the army boys (cuz I saw the fences and locked up somewhere within were those serving the nation), my east-staying friends and both my maternal & paternal Grandfathers.
I had very strange ideas about the last thought, toying around with writing something in relation to my Grandfather's Ashes. =x
I'm kinda upset and I really want to stop my eyesight from further deterioation.
It's like both my eyes have astig now! It used to be just the left, now my right's afflicted too.
My left eye increased it's degree by 75 to a whooping 375 now and my right eye is about 300 now. ):
This is bad. I was hoping for degrees to stabilise and yes, I'll get lasik done one day if I can.
Non-myopic people won't really understand.
There's JUST this luxuriant glory about waking up in the morning, with birds chirping gleefully and the sunshine pouring into your bedroom (yes, it kind of indicates the hour I wake up nowadays. =x how does 10 sound?) AND you see them with Perfect Clarity the moment you wake up.
Utter Bliss. =D
I declare bus 22 is my favourite bus/bus route now.
In a strange way, it documents a large part of my life when in my 19 years here.
It started to drizzle when I boarded the bus and really poured heavily as the journey proceeded.
It felt so warm, cosy and secure in the bus, really!
That sensation whereby you know that it is raining heavily yet your dry and cosy inside.
Then you watch the rain pelt down against the window and trickling down and the scenery whirl by...
It travelled past my childhood tampines hangouts, bedok where my uncle used to stay and I visited once a week in my sec sch days.
Then it went past Ubi where I used to stay at blk 313.
It went past the 76 route when I used to take a bus to Parkway Parade for tuition.
It went past Jules's house, Winnie's house, Wanting's house the old PeiCai bus stop I took, it went past TeckGhee and soon it reached AMK.
Okay, I think the ride took about an hour and a half.
But I was so filled with thoughts
And by the time I alighted, the rain trickled to a stop.
It was such an enjoyable ride. (:
You know, sunshine after rain and yet, not getting wet or cold,
all on the second deck of the second seat on bus 22.
12:33 am
