. i was stuck on the train for an hour due to "a technical fault in the train ahead which had stalled between Tiong Bahru and Outram Park".
and incidentally there was this passenger in my train who fainted and had chest pains.
so some good samaritans kept pressing the legendary red emergency button to urge the train driver to get the faintee immediate medical attention.
however, the train driver just kept apologising for the fact that there is nothing he can do besides getting an ambulance ready at the next station, while we have already been stuck in the underground tunnel between Redhill and Tiong Bahru for 15min. apparently nobody can get out or enter the train when it is juz like 20sec away from Tiong Bahru station.
so after another 10-15min of being pressured to get medical help for the faintee, it finally struck the train driver that he can ask if there are any medical professionals onboard the train.
couple minutes later, i saw the crowd infront of me opening up and letting a lady in her 20s walked through to the faintee at the last cabin. i think i was sitting in the 2nd or 3rd cabin.
she doesnt look like a nurse nor a doctor, in my opinion, look more like auditor lor. but that is not the point im trying to make.
the point is, if im a doctor, i would have offered to provide medical attention once i heard someone had fainted on the train. rather than wait till im being called. i thought that should be in the Hippocratic Oath or something?? what if that person was having a heart attack??
anyways, like another 5min or so after the auditor-looking medical professional headed to the faintee, the train finally moved and disembarked at Tiong Bahru.
many passengers, including me, who self-concluded that the situation will not get better, decided to alight the train and look for alternative transportation.
taxi queue was uber long, as expected. so i headed over to the bus stop instead. but the bus stop was freaking packed too. duh.
hoards of working adults were crowded at the bus directory, so i thought it will be faster and easier to call Facai Dew and ask what bus i can take to office, since he stays in the area and would know better than me.
alas, Facai Dew doesnt know either, but very kindly offered to help me find out. while waiting for him to call me back, i decided to check out the tranSGuide app in my trusty iPhone, and realised it is actually faster than calling Dew! LOL.
tadah! there is no direct bus from Tiong Bahru mrt station to Raffles Place! wtf.
just when i was sighing in exasperation, my boss smsed me and said she reached office already, even though she was even way further back than me on the affected East-West line.
me..: how did u managed to get out so fast??
boss:i took a cab.
me..:how to get a cab so fast?? the queue is horrible!
boss:i called a cab.
AHAHAHAHAHA. dont ask me why, but i really never thought of calling a cab and i dont know whyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
so i managed to successfully book a cab via Taxi Booking app *applauds iPhone again*, and proceeded to the taxi stand to wait for my cab.
upon seeing how many poor sobs were queueing for cab (calling for a cab probably didnt cross their mind as well), i decided to earn some good karma by just randomly announcing to the queue that i've gotten a cab to Raffles Place and if anyone wanna hop on. 3 stranger ladies hopped onto my cab in the end, along with me.
at the foot of Singapore Land Tower where the cab stopped, the strangers insisted on sharing the cost with me even though i said there is no need to since i will be taking the cab with or without them. they literally stuffed the money into my hand and ran off.
in the end, i only paid $2 for cab. fuck lah, that little bit of good karma also dont give me. bah.
so in the end, chanqh reached office only at 1030am when she would have reached at 9am if there were no "technical faults". and there is no way SMRT will directly compensate chanqh for all the time and trauma suffered...
SMRT SIBEH TAK BOLEH!! .
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