Reroute

Breaking the routine

Our homework this week is to either travel somewhere new or to take different route to school/ home.

Every Wednesday my sister and I attend a boxing lesson in the evening; and for a change instead of my sister meeting me, I decided to meet her in her school Temasek polytechnic instead.

Firstly, I had to make my way to bedok. So I took the train. The journey was quite pleasant as it wasn’t the peak hour. After a few stops, there were three policemen who boarded the train. For some reason, everything I see policemen in public I think something is about to go down. So I got a little tensed. But eventually, they left and they actually seemed friendly.

When I reached bedok, I quickly got on to the bus 69 which lead straight to Temasek polytechnic. When I was in the bus the first thing I nothing was, everyone being stuck to their phone. To be honest, I am exactly the same a times. Just when the bus stopped at the first bus stop, I noticed a girl wearing a short jeans shorts. Similarly everywhere I looked had the same thing. It was rather disturbing to me as it was quite revealing.

While traveling in the bus, I passed the Bethesda bedok-tampines church. As a catholic, whenever I pass a church I make a sign of cross; so when I did it, I had looks being exchanged. It didn’t bother me much. After one stop, I saw the bedok reservoir. It wasn’t so empty, I was surprised s I thought there will grandparents exercising or relax but no one was. If I had nothing to do I would hang out at the park rather than staying at home and watching television.

Nearing temesak polytechnic, I saw a Leyland mini, yes. The ‘Mr. Bean car’. The moment I was that car I got a flashback of the Mr. Bean cartoon I used to watch. I think we had better cartoons back then.

I finally arrived at the TP bus Stop. I was surprised by the size of the school, it was huge. I thought should go in and meet my sister near her class. I turned to my left and there I met him, my worst enemy, STAIRS. I hadn’t even climbed half the steps and I already felt like the stairs were mocking me when I was losing my breath. But I was thankful I didn’t pass out halfway.

At the end of the day, I realized breaking the rules wasn’t really always bad thing. Each time I found something new, I felt like I had accomplished something. Therefore, from now on I am to try thing differently.