My camera is in the shop, after only two weeks of proper functioning. On the plus side, the service center here is happy to honor my Japanese warranty — but, on the minus side they require a ‘Warranty Card’ which I either never got or immediately threw away.
My GPS led me on a big wild-goose chase in search of the camera shop. I was looking for 3791 Jalan Bukit Merah, so I took a train to the general area but immediately discovered that I was in the ‘120’ block of Bukit Merah. So, I switched on the GPS and it directed me far, far down the road. After a couple of miles of walking and bussing I wound up at the intersection that the GPS was pointing at, which turned out to be the ‘110’ block of Bukit Merah.
So, in defeat, I flagged a cab, and tried to tell him where I was going — I kept saying ‘E Center’ and the cab driver said ‘B Center?’ and we went back and forth and finally I held up my PDA with the address on it and he said, “I can’t see, so you’ll have to shout it out,” and pulled into traffic.
He drove pretty well, for a blind guy. Dropped me off at ECenter, 3791 Jalan Bukit Merah, which was next door to 121 Jalan Bukit Merah, where I’d started out. Hi-larious.
But, anyway, on my wild goose chase I was compelled to ride a double-decker bus, and that reminded me of how great they are. So just now (an hour or so ago) I hopped on another one at random, figuring that it would eventually terminate at a train station. The above photo is me enjoying the panoramic view from the front, top row of the bus — very nice for sight-seeing and, as a bonus, the onboard TVs are turned off tonight.
This is turning into quite a long tour — so far I’ve seen a whole lot of the Central Seafood Processing Center, and a nearly endless supply of tower cranes, and for a moment there we were heading towards the causeway to Jurong Island which is this sort of man-made industrial super-villain lair which does not permit entry by normal humans, so that gave me a bit of a scare. Oh! And now I’m back in a public housing district, so that seems good.
