MRT, SBS, TIBS and more...

Ever had one of those days...you sit in the MRT....then doze off into Lala Land...you dream...and picture yourself doing a balancing act along a drain edge...then you slip...then JERK! You awake...thoroughly embarassed, your eyes dart around the environment hoping that no one noticed...then you doze off again...this time hoping you don't grease the window pane next to you...or bonk your head against the alighting bell pole when the bus drivers with a deathwish takes over the wheel.

Ah....remember the days when the SBS buses had those patterned aluminium floorboards, red cushions with their filling spewing out at the seams...polished railings...and a HUGE engine cowling just beside the bus driver's seat (and oh...that gear shift padded with raffia string and an old towel)...oh the sheer horsepower under the cab (TIBS buses in comparison seemed to have had LEXUS muffling technology)! Then sound of the coins crashing to the bottom of the collection bin....Gahchiiingk, just shortly after the driver stops the bus as if it had been done with a brake chute. And way before the war of the colors between the major telecommunications giants, was the war between the red and white vs. the yellow and orange...