After our haircut, we headed down to JEM to meet up with THL. Yeah I know, we could have gone to any of the hair saloon at JEM for the haircut in the first place but to what I know, there isn't any $10 hair saloon in JEM.
We took a train from Jurong Point to Jurong East and waited for THL inside the 5th floor foodcourt - CookHouse. As RK was already hungry, I ordered 2 egg prata for him while waiting for THL to arrive. The egg prata(s) are both very well done despite the hefty price of $2.40 each.
THL and I ordered our dinner after she arrived. The food is at most of the stalls are rather pricey but the quality is there. I ordered Prawn Mee while THL ordered some chinese style dish.
Both THL and I really like the Rojak and we both think it is worth the price we paid for it.
After dinner, we walked around West Gate before get a feeder bus home. Before boarding the bus, I bought 2 bowls of beancurd for supper. :)
Transport Expenses: $5.03
Bus Ride:
Home to BL (THL) -> $0.73
JE to Home -> $0.73 x 2 + $0.36 = $1.82
MRT Ride:
LS to BL (Me and RK)-> $1.09
Boon Lay to JE (Me and RK) -> $1.39
Daily Afterthoughts:
While inside the feeder bus, I notice that the route that the bus took was somewhat exactly what I would have taken if I am still driving. Apart from the slow speed plus the longer time it takes for us to reach home, I realized there wasn't much difference between taken the bus vs driving home in a car. In fact, from a financial standpoint, it is quite a waste of money to own and maintain a car since most of the time we are just traveling to nearby malls and centrals.
But when it comes to traveling long distance, for example to Johore Bahru, owning a car makes perfect sense because we do not have to rub shoulders with strangers inside the very often packed public transport that travels across the causeway as well as not having to stand in the queue for hours (during weekends) at both the Singapore and Malaysia checkpoints.
Do you agree?
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