There!.... and back again

yj and me had to go to Alliance Francaise which is at Newton to sign up for a french proficiency test. And we had all the time in the world to burn. But not money. So we decided to be man and walk to Newton, saving us 75cents, enough to buy a cup of soapwater, but too bad the canteen isn't open tomorrow. And so we walked... (for those who wanna follow our giant footsteps)


Starting point:Junction 8

(yay! j8)




(here got shade la)








And we walked
Braddell


(we jaywalked here)







(this is a cave and there were bats but yuk and i were damn brave)






Toa Payoh





(we love trees cos they provide shade)





(first complaints of leg pain)





Toa Payoh still








(jaywalked again but you can't blame us. traffic lights are slow to change nowadays)









Balestier

(we swore at the overhead bridge)









(welcome to pollution town called balestier)





Thomson



(while we walked the talk, we talked the cock)













Novena




(had a break here. damn thirsty man!)







(and we neared the final stretch!)




Newton




(jaywalked again. i told you the traffic lights were damn slow. not our fault)

(jaywalking spree. did it again!)

(and ZOMG we finally reached Alliance Française!!!)




And as we kept walking and talking cock, there was this irritating buzzing in my head. "Walk some more, walk some more!" Must be the after-effects of Sec 1 orientation.

Anyway, we panted our way to Alliance Francaise, and guess what! the registration begins only this Saturday! hyper giga humongous jacked! Our morale suffered, but we knew we had to make our way back. This time it was a different buzzing in my head.
"I'M TIRED, I'M HUNGRRY, AND ITS SUCH A LONG JOURNEY!!!" wah damn irritating man.

And at first I thought Singapore so small, 1 hour sure can walk from school to orchard, but nope, we took 1hr 10 min to reach newton and a similar time back. It was an enlightening experience. And its free of charge.

Along the way we also escaped from the jaws of death as some cb school bus driver tried to run us down at a zebra crossing. Luckily we managed to push the bus back with our combined strength. And the license plate of the bus had cb on it. Proves our point doesn't it.

The bottom line is that we saved 75cents today and defied public transport. The bad news is that we have to go again soon. tmd. Anyway, keep walking. Walking builds character. Next time we're gonna walk to orchard.

(Pictures and captions courtesy of yj)