Trip to the city~

Short update today. Started in forensic lecture again. This time on forensic DNA. Again, I think this is cool! Hahahaha no surprise there now. Today’s lecture we talked about Short Tandem Repeats, Variable Number Tandem Repeats, and how to identify and look for blood, seminal fluid and saliva in a crime scene. Pretty interesting stuff don’t you think? XP

Then after class, we went out to town in the afternoon. We spent the whole afternoon just going into clothes store, shoes store, buying socks, looking at food, and being weird people. I didn’t buy any shoes or clothes, but I did buy a pair of earrings, eight pair of socks and 8 mid-section chicken wings. :D oh and a belt. And some sushi for dinner. Yay! But the only non-yay thing is the bus rides again.

I like to take buses. I prefer them over to taking the MRTs in Singapore. But the buses here are really tough to ride in. the buses we take to town is always crowded, especially the buses back to the school. This is where all the chaos takes place. Trying to flag and get on a bus is the tough part, because the buses like to pick up people away from the bus stop, so everyone is chasing after the bus like mad. Then when the bus finally stops, we have to try to get on the bus. There is no such thing as civility or order during this frantic fight to get on the bus. People are elbowing, pushing, stepping over each other in their effort to get on the bus. I got sandwiched between people as they push at the back so I got plastered all over someone. If you finally get on the bus, then you will face another battle. People will fight for space for themselves before settling down for the long journey ahead. During this time, jostling, shifting, stepping on feet(again), and the elbowing continues. I was literally sandwiched. My back was leaning against someone, and my front was almost(I resisted) plastered to another person’s back.

I got lulled by the rocking(read:bumping) on the bus so I ended mostly asleep while standing in the bus. I think I might have leaned on the person behind me too much because she shifted away. I was too tired to care by then anyway. When we finally got down from the bus, it was raining and I was only wearing a single layer of clothing outside since it was warmer today afternoon.

Taking the bus trip really makes me miss the public transport back in Singapore. Even though the buses and trains gets hairy during peak hours, Singaporeans are still very conscious about personal space and they normally do not plaster onto another person’s back for a long, if at all. And they surely some of them, if not most of them, will apologize if they stepped on someone, or elbowed them, unlike in here, they ignore and pretend anything ever happened. I don’t mean to say that they are rude, they are just used to this kind of treatment from everyone else, but for us who live in Singapore for the most of our lives, it might be a little shocking at first. I think it is our fortune that Singaporeans are generally quite courteous to others. I really do appreciate Singaporean public transport more now.

Tomorrow we have a city tour! Yay! I hope we get to visit the museum! I will not hesitate to eat the street food. I don’t have much time left to care if the food is clean or safe to eat. As long as it looks safe and there 

isn’t anything funny or weird, then I will try it. :D teehee. Can’t wait!!! ^ ^

Gotta go to bed soon. Tired from all the walking and the eye power needed, LOL. G’night and peace out~