24 Jun 2024 – Marine Parade & Marine Terrace Stations
Fri: yeah MRT-MarineTerraceSta/Exit2 is less than 100steps shaded walk from my door but you still need to go down this long escalator&walk along this corridor before you get to the trains&Exit1 – total of 6exits here. Also means can now walk to the wet-market&hawkers/Exit1 in the comfort of AC rain or shine – do not mind walking in the rain, it’s the heat&humidity that bothers me.
Walked to ParkwayP for a haircut&errands and to check out the MRTsta there. Took the MRT back from MarineParade(total 6exits)-MarineTerrace. Today’s free ride from 12noon-9p for Stage4, ie to&fro TanjongRhu-Bayshore only. Crowds@MPsta to try out a train simulator&checking out a merchandise booth especially the kids as it is still school holidays. Service for MRT-TEL from Woodlands-Bayshore(27stops) to be opened Sun23Jun.
Seven MRT stations on TEL open for passenger service | The Straits Times
Good to be finally connected by MRT.
If you grew up in the east, there’s always a special place here. You know that there are excellent food options in Joo Chiat, in Katong, and I think some people have even called this TEL4 line the ‘makan’ line – PM Wong.
Appreciations with thanks for scrumptious homemade fish,crab,steak-dinner@CJ&Theresa who is an excellent cook – the next time there, will be able to take the MRT directly from Napier-MarineT.
Edited: belated Summer Solstice greetings – longest day of the year! Also SankHans in Norway – have not celebrated or marked this day since 11yrs ago! Pix downloaded. https://amylamsg.com/2013/06/28/melbystolen/
Sat: must have been some serious winds to have wakened me up ~0300hrs. Would usually sleep with windows opened and if not for my heavy dark-out curtains blowing at right-angel onto my feet, would have probably slept thru’. Ppl who sleeps in AC would have slept thru’. FB-friend MarcusL commented that it even toppled his super-heavy flowerpot!
Sat&Sun: turned out to be lovely cool cloudy days and enjoying the temps. All the windows opened to air the place after being shut for ~2months with the sounds of pickleball being played downstairs on the hardcourt – perfect day for this popular game but glad that it will be quiet after 2200hrs!
Mon: now that school holidays are over and also feeling more human to walk to i12 catching a big-screen movie@GVKatongS$5. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies หลานม่า After reading FB-friend Ng YiSheng’s comment, was digging into my memory as to where I met him and with him stepping on a snake reminded me of TemenggongRd(as they too used to get into my childhood home) and of course he was at Royals in Our Midst: A Telok Blangah Tour by Tuah Bugis/Apr2019. Appreciate his summary on the movie, contemplating to watch or not and after reading that his parents not calling it stupid, decided to watch it, me being of his parents’ age!
Not crazy nor rich but about what we all have in common, Family! Personally, not so much a tearjerker – more to reflect on your own family relationships! Pix downloaded and a notable quote from the character grandmother – Sons inherit the house, daughters inherit cancer.
Decent fish.rice+veggie lunchS$9+Chendo dessertS$2.70