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Museum Trip

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we been to the National Musuem of Singapore!!!! the first ancient we see was this golden notice board, which shows that some 'somebody' in the past declare the building open.. we paid for the tour and proceed to the entrence... we were given the head set that will play back the audio recording to us, than can listen to the documentry at our own pace.... once we set foot in side, we see a giant 360degrees screen and it keep on play back a video showing daily singaporeans life.... it was made by a foreigner for singapore.... anyway, the first exhibit we see is the Singapore Stone. the stone got story one.... long ago got the stone sitting at the singapore river bank, and one day this strong guy lift it up and throw it to the other side than people praise him. than people forget bout stone, some body wrote something on it even before the stong man threw it.. than this ang moh engineer come and blow the stone up so that he can build some thing there. the ang moh dont...

SMRT Bishan Depot Open House

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Today I brought Ling to the SMRT Open House. It's held at Bishan Depot, so we took a train from AMK straight into the depot. On our way... weeeee..... we moved off the usual track that brings us to bishan.... now we're heading into the depot.. Along the way i saw a service train.... dont think many people have seen it before, but here it is.... The main purpose of these trains is to go around the tracks scaning for damages, if there are major damages, they will replace the whole length of the track.... The staff works everynight while we sleep to ensure a smooth ride the next day. We went into the main control building and the first thing we do was to watch a SMRT coperate video about how good they are, what they do, why they are needed, why we should take more train rides, why we should make them richer.... ops.. nvm.... anyway, after the "propegandish" video, we were lead to a room containing a mock up of the train simulator... They actually hav...