I have not been blogging for a long, l-o-n-g, L-O-N-G time. My busy work schedule took away much of my personal time and the frequent overseas trips also robbed me of the much needed energy to bring myself to sit in front of my computer to start typing away my thoughts.
I have not been travelling on the public transport for a while now, particularly the MRT and today I finally have the chance to take the train to go attend a meeting which is just a train station away from my home. It also came to my mind that I have to replace mine and my cousins' EZ-link cards as they would be expiring in September 2009.
I read in the newspaper months ago informing the public not to go and rush to replace the EZ-link cards for fear of holding up long queues. For that, I had the impression that the process of replacement was time consuming and tedious. I held back my urge for the rush till today I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't take more than 3 minutes to replace one single card - I timed it using my own card as a trial at the Newton MRT station. I got a new blue card.
After my meeting, I saw the long queue at the ticketing office and decided to return to Toa Payoh MRT station in hope of a shorter line. I was wrong, the line was equally long, but I had the Post Office to turn to as an alternative site. So I took the escalator up to the Post Office which is just above the train station. The line was much shorter and I managed to replace another 3 of my cousins' cards. Unfortunately, I left 2 other cards at home and probably have to wait for the next available oppotunity when I get to take the MRT train or post a letter again.
For now, the cards seem to come in only 2 standard colours. I'm sure over time more designs would appear on the EZ-link cards.
