57,000 affected by seven-hour MRT train disruption Posted: 21 January 2008 1354 hrs
SINGAPORE : MRT services between Pasir Ris and Tanah Merah stations have resumed after a seven hour disruption.
Westbound and eastbound services between the two stations were affected from the start of operations at 5.28am till 12.45pm.
SMRT Corporation says the disruption was caused by the breakdown of a maintenance works train which was carrying out works between Tampines and Simei (westbound) MRT stations.
About 57,000 passengers were affected.
During the disruption, bus bridging services were activated to ferry passengers between the two stations.
Westbound shuttle trains were also put into place at a 28-minute interval to ease passenger flow at Tampines and Simei MRT stations. - CNA/ch
I was one of the 57000 people stuck =)
and i still got booked when i got to school this morning. Zzzz Cielo better get my name off that list of latecomers!
anyway, Ytd night, i was rushing out my EE on econs cause the draft was due TODAY so, i sat in front of the come and furiously typed away for 4 hours =)
Had 6 hours of sleep(thats considered a lot!), woke up and got THAT (the one at the start of the post) incident thrown into my life. On top of that, my EE tutor smsed me at 7 in the morning saying, "I will not be arnd for EE period today. please hand in ur drafts on wednesday"
$^$^#$#$#$#
but on the way home, battling the fatigue of a extremely extremely uh.. extremely extremely long day in sch, it struck me. *If i din have a deadline to work with, i might not have done so much of my essay and id still have to do it another time. SO! Thank God for the push =)* at least now ill wun be having a lack of sleep on tues rushing out the draft.
The workload doesnt seem as intimidating now that my ee is somewhat done.. the sky is clearing! or so i think.. i still have: World lit topic to come up with Econs assignment(test) to mug for Chem pract on oscillating reactions to type a report on Eng essay to write on Siddharta ( cant even remember the qsn) Physics concepts to grasp Chem concepts to grasp Math hw to do
BUT ILL BE FINE =)
Just take a while, to look back and smile, and youll say wow! at how all this while, Hes been there for you!!