Going home by taxi
5.35pm - Leave office, stroll to Novena Square. Go to Celio to try a cap.

5.45pm - Stroll to the taxi stand, board taxi, give directions, lie back and relax

6.10pm - Reach home happy contented and cool :)

Going home by public transport
5.26pm - Rush off from office for the lift. Walk briskly in the underpass, run for the escalator at Novena MRT station.

5.33pm - Board the packed train with no seat. Stand and smell Eau De ABNN.

5.43pm - Reach Raffles Place MRT station. Watch in dismay as the connecting train door closes and leave just as your fucking train door opens. Wait another 4 minutes for next train.

5.47pm - Board connecting train. Stands really near the exit ALL THE TIME so I can alight without jostling with a million people. Train stops a million times. 5 million people rushes in from various stops. Train door closes, pause, open train door, sound signal to close train door, close train door and train moves again. Stops at Buona Vista station for an eternity, close train door, open train door, sound signal to close door then close door again. Listens to a brat scream, blows ear piercing whistle, listen to someone else's ear phone blasting heavy metal music, share poles with an auntie who keeps inching towards my already non existent personal space, listen to a mundane conversation between two Chinese Nationals about the term "catching a movie", looks at the hairy pits of a woman wearing sleeveless blouse, cringes and recoils in horror. Repeat the last step 5 times.

6.13pm - Reaches Clementi Station. Jostles with a mad man who wants to rush inside the train even before the passengers alight. Scolds the man "U SIAO SIBOH!!?!?" before pushing myself out of the train. Rushes down the escalator.

6.12pm - Watches in dismay as my connecting bus leaves the bus stop. Wait another 6 minutes for the bus to arrive. Jostle up the bus with a kiasu auntie who slides in front of me to board the bus to plant her saggy ass onto her favourite seat.

6.22pm - Finally reach my bus stop. Totally drained from all the drama on the journey home. Feel rattled and unerved.

6.28pm - Finally reaches home. All worn out and sweaty from the battle.

Save the environment by taking public transport? Fuck the environment lah!! My sanity is more important ok!?!?! I am taking taxis as often as I can. Sorry Gaea, unless you suck all the remaining droplets of fossil fuel from your womb, I am going to drive and take taxis whenever I can! Public transport here just sucks so much ass!