JEMP Visit, Sentosa Visits, Train Camp, and YouTube 'Life in a Day'!

Yes, I forgot to post last week, so I'm cramming everything into here.

Last Saturday, Shaun and I managed to visit the Jurong East Modification Project construction site. Well, not only that, we also got into the construction office in Boon Lay. The same office was used for BLE too, which is already opened on 28th February 2009.

We also learnt that:

• Jurong East MRT Station will be closed for 2 weekends for point construction
• Shuttle bus services will be utilised to ferry passengers along the affected stretch
• The new platforms will be opened by March 2011 latest

Pretty cool isn't it? Looking forward to the opening. :)

Later in the day, we went to try out the Cable Car which was renovated recently with new cabins. It's alot more better, but the bad thing is that the glass cabins are no longer available. There is still one cabin with glass bottom though, but we won't one to ride it, and I guess you won't too. It's the VIP cabin, which costs $888 to ride on. It's air-conditioned and it has much more facilities onboard. Our ride costed $22.90 and that's for Singaporeans and Singapore PRs. Wonder how much it costs for foreigners.

Also, on that visit, we didn't ride on the Sentosa Express at all. :P

Going further in time, we met up with Youyuan and Afiq at City Hall MRT Station to film YouTube's "Life in a Day". It involved interviews and some random shots of us walking around and riding on trains. Also, coincidentally, I managed to catch the last train to Toa Payoh because I stayed up until so late. :)

In the middle of the week, trains got miscoupled! Everyone went to catch for at least one pair, except for Jeremy, which, for some reason, didn't go and catch them. If you wanna know, the miscoupled trains which made an appearance are 211/227, 057/112 and 058/111. Was pretty fun though. :P

Going a week ahead, we had our train camp. It's pretty interesting although it's typical. We caught 099/100, a train which recently got modified in Bishan Depot. It's got the new features the other modified trains have, wheelchair stickers on floor, new floor texture, builder plates and refurbishment plates. We also went to Joo Koon to camp 'fresh trains' from depots.

We also spammed SGForums Trains and BVE to get our popularity up! In the end, SGForums Trains ended up in 5th position and SGForums BVE went to 14th position.

Another day ahead will bring you to today, 1st August 2010. Went with Zhihao again to Sentosa since he missed it. Unlike the other visits, we only rode buses and Sentosa Express due to rain. Wanted to take a video of the bus ride but we ran out of time. :( But I came back with Sentosa Express videos. :D

Pictures coming up, stay tuned! Next post, coming up right next week. :)