Opening of Boon Lay Extension: Pioneer and Joo Koon.

The poster is obtained from SMRT official website. It shows the details of Boon Lay MRT extension.
One more good news for residents living on the western side of Boon Lay. Pioneer and Joo Koon MRT stations will be in operation from tomorrow 28th February 2009 0528 hrs.

Reading week

So, half of the semester 2 is over. In my opinion, the pace is way faster than the previous one and more boring. My daily routine involves sleeping, eating, travelling on buses, mugging at schools. Before the tutorials are done, another set has been uploaded in the online portal.

The modules that I have taken this semester is more of learning new things completely.
C Program is the first thing in my mind after completing the previous statement. Programming is fun but I soon become to hate it when the requirements of the output becomes too "stringent". Marks will be deducted if the output contains an extra blank space and I only got to know it quite recently. My view is that since the output looks the same with or without the blank space, it doesn't make any difference.
However, I also try to think the reason why they are being so detailed. Are they training us to be more careful and more meticulous? I don't really know. I feel that their method of teaching doesn't seem to suit well with my form of learning.

Anyway, other modules include statics and living with mathematics. These two modules seem to be rather fun. One got to do with the stability of structures while the other got to do with some sort of mathematical reasoning and graphs.

I have come to realise one thing about blogging. It is better to do the ranting and complaining and of course writing very personal stuffs to the personal diary (the hardcopy one), they are really good "listeners". Blogs simply provide the platform to let others know about your "updates". So, now back to reading in the reading week.

Yay. Lower transport fares with effect from 1st April 2009

Ok. Here is a piece of good news. Transport fares will be lowered with effect from 1st April 2009 to 30 June 2010 to help ease financial burden of Singaporeans. This move in my opinion is timely as small cuts in essential services such as transport will amount to significant savings over a year.

For adult ezlink fares, 2 cents will be cut across all farebands. Transfer rebate will be increased from the existing 40 cents to 50 cents. This increment of transfer rebate will of course encourage more people to transfer between buses and trains and thus seen as a move to integrate the provision of two types of services together. Instead of wasting much time waiting for a direct bus service to bring us from place to place, we can have more choices to go from point A to point B through transfers.
In my opinion, we can only enjoy the benefit greatly if we are aware of the choices present to us.

For child and student, 1 cent will be cut and for concession stamps, primary and secondary school stamps will be cut by $1 while for NSFs, tertiary concession stamps, they will be cut by $2.

Hopefully, all these initiatives by the Public Transport Council (PTC) can encourage more people to take public transport and make it an attractive option as compared to private transport. Singapore is a country where a significant number of people takes public transport. The move towards distance based fares is still ongoing and it is set to be implemented next year instead of October this year. Nevertheless, we have lower prices to enjoy while waiting. In addition, more MRT lines are on the way. Expect more good news in the days ahead.

Extension of service 502 to Soon Lee Bus Depot

With effect from 23rd February 2009, Express service 502 will be extended to Soon Lee Bus Depot. So, it will call for 2 more pairs of bus stops in its route as shown in the poster. In my opinion, this extension makes the route more complete.

Fantasy route amendment of service 14

Following the amendment of service 196 to Lower Kent Ridge Rd to relieve service 95's demand, service 14 will be amended to ply the withdrawn sectors of service 196. In my opinion, 166 goes to Clementi from Dover exactly the same way as 14. Next, 147 goes to Clementi passing by Dover MRT from Jln Bt Merah. Furthermore, 106 also goes to Dover MRT from Orchard where service 14 plies. Thus, there is much duplication between 14 and other existing bus services between points A to points B where A and B are rather close. Close = not more than 13 fare stages.

C Programme

I will describe C language to be a stubborn language that seem to have a preference for numbers rather than characters although my code seems to be logical. Sigh!!

Busy, busy

I guess everyone is busy right now since school has started. As compared to semester 1, semester 2 seems to be a more busy semester for me because my timetable is more spread out with monday from 0800 hrs to 1930 hrs. As compared to semester 1, everybody is working very hard in semester 2. I remember playing a few DOTA rounds with my friends in the first few weeks of semester 1 while in this semester, there is less time spent in games and more time spent in programming.

Last Sunday is a rather eventful day to me. It was a day when I met up by chance one of my ex-colleague in the bus while going to my jc teacher's place. After that, I met up with my JC classmates and teacher whom I have not seen for like two to three years le. Hehe. So... It was a day filled with good memories and good memories are meant to be remembered.

Amendment of Service 128

Poster is taken from www.sbstransit.com.sg.
Serice 128 will be amended with effect from 2nd February 2009 to skip Toa Payoh town as a move to decrease the time taken from Ang Mo Kio to city.