That is the message I see a lot of times every day.
My wallet is really heavy nowadays. And the singapore currency i carry in it contributes very insignificantly to that weight. All possible places within the wallet have been occupied by cards. And as u will see, each card has a purpose :). If you dont carry your cards with u, you are only inviting some trouble. So first lets list down the cards:
1)Access card to Graduate hall: Cant enter hostel without it.
2)Metric card: kind of I-card here. Also this is access card to lab so somewat important!
3)Student pass and Visit pass: Issued by Immigration and Checkpoints authority, these cards allow me to stay in Singapore.
5)[Notice the "and" in above entry] Singtel Chip card: needed to make local calls from payphone
6)Singtel Hello card: to make internation calls.
7)Ez-link card: mandatory for travelling in Metro railways which is the most convenient and most importantly cheap mode of transport here. Also it can be used for bus travel.
8)IITK I-card: The only useless card may be..but yeah it could have got me a thrill ride in NTU motor fest in a FIAT or a Mini Cooper!(Yeah ..details in next post :)
9)Last but certainly not the least..Debit card of Parents:Another card from India and most important. Hopefelly i ensure that money on the account lasts :)
So wat happens if one forgets some card? Well I forgot one card and perhaps that prompted me to write this blog.
We had to go for the Asia Pacific Science and Technology centre(APSTC) meeting at Sun office in Singapore last Monday. The meeting was at 8 AM! We had to meet Melvin(One of our supervisor and Technical specialist at APSTC) at Clarke Quay MRT(Metro railway station) at 7:30 AM so that he could take us to Sun office as we did not know the location of office. As expected, we woke up a little too late for comfort, managed to get ready in time somehow and were out before the Sun(not Stanford university network :P) had decided to come out![Yes..this happened..SACCHI]. We saw the bus to Boon Lay MRT approaching a bus stop and rushed to catch it. And just as i was to enter, I realized something. Wat? that i had forgotten something..and it was Ez-link card!! So basically i could not board MRT from Boon Lay to Clarke Quay. We thought that Counter which issues Ez link card will be open at 6:40AM in morning and so decided to go ahead by paying in cash for the bus travel. But there are normal people in Singapore who wake up a little late and so the counter was closed. So Kaushik decided to go ahead for the meeting while i had to head back at NTU for my Ez-link card. And it also sealed one thing: I was going to be late for my formal meeting with a research team:). Anyways I caught a bus to NTU, got my card ASAP and reached Boon lay again at 7:45 AM. Basically after arnd 45 mins of travel, I had managed to reach the nearest MRT only but I had all my cards now with me. I saw on the monitor that the next train was just departing...so ran on the escalator and entered the train with the doors clossing red bulbs flashing before me. Yeah almost like Shahrukh caught a train in DDLJ..only tini-mini difference.. Kajol was missing [It has always been that way :(]. Anyways at 8 AM, I was somewhere near Queenstown far far away from Sun office. I needed to change train at Outrem Park Interchange for Clarke Quay. Again I caught another train with same last minute entry style with one thing at back of my mind, how to find Sun office from Clarke Quay MRT. But God's angel had sorted things out. I caught hold of Jasleen in train. He is a final year student here who is doing his project under my supervisor only. We reached at Sun office just in time for our supervisor's presentation and also in time to order breakfast :). But still, I learnt my lesson..Carry all the cards with you or else be ready for some trouble!
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