*bleah* going to Ikea Alexandra

wanted to go there for dinner just before a meeting at 8pm, thought that I'll have sufficient time from leaving Jurong at 545pm. Boy how wrong I was.

I missed the feeder bus that goes to JP and had to wait in a light drizzle with a hundred others eager to get OUT of the west side. The wait was unbearable especially when the buses that we want does not seems to come!


The strangest thing about SBS here in Jurong is this: in the morning, there were three 179 service before one 199 service leaves the bus terminal, in the evenings the reverse happens! I've seen numerous disappointed faces and lots of people standing on the bridge between the two bus service trying to peep out to see which service is coming first before dashing down the long flight of stairs to chase the bus.

Yep, missed the 179 had to wait like 15-20mins for the next one, the bus stop was so overly crowded that most of the folks were just standing on the staircase waiting in line to get onto the bus, pretty orderly I would say.

Arrived at the Jurong MRT station, quickly jumped into the train that just pulled into the station and I whisk away to Redhill, since I read on the Ikea website that there are TWO direct buses from Redhill MRT station. I got off and went across the road as instructed and again waited with a bus-stop full of people for their buses!

After 10-15mins with not a SingLe bus in sight, I was wondering if they were affected by the flood that Ad mentioned ha ha

It was getting close to 7pm, I was really feeling anxious! I need food! and I need to get to church by 8pm in this mad traffic!

Finally bus 64 came, I quickly went up! After 3 stops, it started to turn right under the MRT track towards Queensway! I panic! Did it change its route and the website did not update it? I vaguely remember that Ikea website mentioned something like 3 bus stops to alight but I wasnt sure, so I took the bus till its 4th stop, I was very sure that I'm in some deep jungle of HDB and I was directly opposite to Ikea so I jumped off the bus and walked and walked and walked.

I got to Ikea at 710! Phew!