Ok. At approximately 4:00 to 6:00 PM today, Bukit Timah Road got flash flooded. Photos added on 5th March.

So yesterday my Internet decided to go on strike, and in one of the few moments I could get it working, I put up as my personal message on MSN, "my Internet is on the blink. can this get any worse?"

Obviously it could, because when you go say cliched things like that, they come right back to haunt you.

So today, after receiving back a dismally done History CCT and going to NUS only to discover that all 28 agar plates have NO RESULT (probably because something went wrong with the inoculation of bacteria step done by yours truly), I get on 151 and head back home. It's raining heavily, and I just remember that I've forgotten to bring my umbrella.

As I turn from Clementi to Bukit Timah Road (at the Bukit Timah Plaza junction), I realize that the drain which divides Dunearn Road and BT Road is filling up with brown water. Of course, I've seen such situations before, so I'm not so worried.

One stop before mine, the bus door opens to let a passenger out, and whoosh! a wave of muddy water sweeps straight into the bus, causing a mass retreat away from the middle of the bus. Everyone starts going like "OMG" and pointing out the window at the drain. Or, more accurately, the lack of a drain, because a drain implies a device which siphons away liquid.

The drain has by now blended in with the road, in the sense that both the road and the drain are completely submerged in a sheet of brown. There are leaves and debri floating obliviously in the middle of the road (or was it the drain), and most of the cars refuse to open their doors for fear of getting an immediate interior redesign (of such a nice shade of brown too).

Then the bus came to my stop, and I start to wonder how I'm going to get home. Everyone at the stop is STANDING ON THE BENCH provided for people to sit, and those who can't get a space are doing a sustained pull up over the edge of the stop. There's water everywhere; you can't even see the distinction between the road and the pavement (which is very dangerous), so the bus decided to go a further 30 meters before stopping and letting us get off.

After frantically jumping over the small river between the bus and the pavement and running to the bus stop for the little shelter that it now gave, I then realized the extent of the flooding outside the road/drain. The field near BT Road is partially flooded, which means that the pavement in between (including the smaller drain and grass patch) was underwater, which also means that I. That I found out when I stepped off the pavement and into the grass unknowingly and fell straight into the water (g_g x_x). The water is halfway to the knee now, which means I don't know what I'm going to wear to school tomorrow.

Whoever was on the overhead bridge must have been a little unnerved by this idiotic boy taking camera photos of the flooded mess below, but that's what I was doing. The photos are all quite blurry... oh wait that was just my wet glasses.

Finally, home at last, after 20 minutes of walking 400 meters. As I type, the rain is still going strong but the drain (ah, now I can call it a drain) is finally doing what it was built to do. Usually, I like it when it rains while I'm indoors; it gives me a strange sense of security... but I don't think I should think that way what with REAL flash floods happening all over the world, causing much more than what it did here. In fact, maybe I'm posting about nothing at all; maybe these things happen all the time except in front of my oblivious self, just that I keep missing it.

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