JB with a Twist

30 Oct

Met up with Raymond and Small Ben at Kranji MRT. The queue was exceptionally long and as usual, the yellow bus took a very long time to come. When we cleared the SG immigration, the bus queue was not as bad as I thought. The worst came - the traffic jam......all the way to JB custom.

As expected, we made our way to our 1st stop - Bak Kut Teh lunch at our favourite, rundown, crowded and hot restaurant. The food was as always, simply delicious!

After lunch, we went over for our foot reflex. The 80mins session was very relaxing for me. Have always enjoyed the session.

Went over to Leisuremall for Raymond to buy his comic and we stopped over at a newly opened Kopitiam (just outside Leisuremall) - Chamek Kopitiam. We ordered some snacks and drink. Believe me, you would not want to go back there again! The food was below average.

We decided to have early dinner but we did not really ordered a lot.... the seafood was delicious but a bit pricey! The Balonglong drink was simply mind blowing, though!

City Square Mall had a Food Street in the atrium and it was rather interesting. While we were about to proceed to the JB immigration, we saw a counter selling train ticket. We found that there is train back to Singapore. As Raymond has never tried the train, we decided to try it out. Small Ben managed to buy the tickets off the counter though we were told that we could only buy 30 mins before the train departs. We waited eagerly at 7:30pm for 8pm departure. Then, it was 8pm and we were still waiting to go in. The clock was ticking but we were still waiting......we learned the train was delayed. Then, we were allowed to go in......we had to clear immigration....and then we had to wait again at the holding area. Finally, we managed to board the train - free seating.

The train left the station and slowly made its way to Singapore. I saw the traffic jam coming back to Singapore. Glad I was in the train instead. It came to a stop at the SG immigration and we all had to get off to clear immigration and custom. Then back to the train and finally arrived at Tanjong Pagar station.

It was an experience for Raymond....... however, I do not think I would not consider the train again (if it is always late!).

The train journey was about 1 hour (in total) and only cost M$5. So many trips to JB, 1st time taking the train back!


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