{"id":1590,"date":"2009-06-02T00:21:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T05:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2009-06-02T00:21:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T05:21:52","slug":"mrt-at-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/mrt-at-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"MRT at Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I intentionally went to work at around <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Noon\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noon\">noon<\/a> and left work at around midnight, this was all done to ensure that I would be at the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_Rapid_Transit_%28Singapore%29\">MRT<\/a> station after midnight!<br \/>\nSome observations:<br \/>\n-I have to confess a certain <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fantasy film\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasy_film\">fantasy<\/a> that a scene in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"My Sassy Girl\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0293715\/\">my sassy girl<\/a> would be repeated. (No Go)<br \/>\n-I had to wait about 18 minutes for the train to arrive.\u00a0 I am told that the trains arrive every thirty minutes, but it also depends on the number or people wanting to ride, they adjust depending on demand.<br \/>\n-It&#8217;s either surprising because the plain was relatively full without being shoulder to shoulder with other people being the first day, or it is full because it is the first day, I suspect a combination of these two.<br \/>\n-It&#8217;s surprising for me that most people were going out at the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"North Avenue MRT Station\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=14.6521694444,121.032263889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=14.6521694444,121.032263889%20%28North%20Avenue%20MRT%20Station%29&amp;t=h\">north avenue<\/a> station not the cubao station. I believe this is because after around 5 stations taking the mrt is more economical than other transport options.<br \/>\n-I was unlucky enough to be caught in the middle of the downpour. Half of my body was wet.<br \/>\n-Surprising how many of my friends were awake at midnight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/17fc1042-d296-4bf7-84d7-774850d68ba6\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I intentionally went to work at around noon and left work at around midnight, this was all done to ensure that I would be at the MRT station after midnight! Some observations: -I have to confess a certain fantasy that a scene in my sassy girl would be repeated. (No Go) -I had to wait &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/mrt-at-midnight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MRT at Midnight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,64],"tags":[185,350,366,537,668,1025,1185,1455],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-pettiness","tag-arts","tag-collecting","tag-conditions-and-diseases","tag-fantasy-film","tag-health","tag-noon","tag-recreation","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}