This sua-ku mom brought the baby to take the LRT and MRT for the first time yesterday! I am the typical over pampered, environmental unfriendly Singaporean who die die must drive the car whenever I am going somewhere. My father lives just ten minutes walk away (maybe nearer), sometimes when I am feeling particularly lazy, I drive there.

Actually I do enjoy taking public transport. I loves long rides (provided I got to sit!) that allows me to do people watching. I enjoy bus rides that passes through places I have not been to. But soon after I gotten my driving license, I becomes lazy and overly dependent on the car.

I miss the days of taking buses or the MRT, and hence, I decided to travel by public transport to Causeway Point yesterday! I know it sounds ridiculous, but it was like an adventure. I have not boarded an MRT for two years and have taken the bus only once this year. I have not travelled with the baby on public transport locally before. Should I take the bus or take the MRT? It took me two hours to decide to take the MRT. Should I use the sling or should I use the stroller? Took me another forty-five minutes to decide on the sling. If not for the rainy weather, I might need another hour to come to that decision.

And the rain saved me. It was 5.30pm, peak hour, would be crazy to push the stroller into the train when it was so crowded. I think the frustrated commuters around would be starring at me annoyingly, puzzled what was that irritating bulky stroller doing on the train, taking up so much precious space. The LRT stations are fitted with lifts, but I don’t think all the MRT stations are lifts ready yet. Maybe there is, but I didn’t saw any. So many people, before I can see anything, I was herded by the crowd onto the escalator.

So, as a mother carrying a baby, I supposed my status will be automatically upgraded to “needy”. I wasn’t really in need of a seat, but it would be fun to see if anybody would graciously give up their seat to me. Sigh, no one took pity of me on the LRT. They either pretended to be in immersed concentration staring at some distant object, or engaged themselves in certain very fast and complicated pressings of buttons on their hand phones. These people were so self deluding, everyone knew they were pretending, why bothered to put on a show! Well, not all Singaporeans were so unhelpful. I was immediately offered a seat after I boarded the MRT.

End of my mini adventure. I returned home by car in the end.