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Farrer Road is a road la.
Wa piang eh!
PD: Hi guys!
Hi!
What is that?
Bad.
Maps, I'm oookay. Maps, I'm not good.
But if you ask me which city is in which country, I kind of know.
I feel like I'm okay.
I'm not okay.
I- I don't know where places are.
Okay, for me right, everything not in the east right,
is just in the west.
It's all west!
For Singapore, I guess I travel almost everywhere,
so I should be pretty good at this too.
But then again, every time you say this,
it will backfire on you!
I'm at the warded up side of Singapore.
I stay in Yishun.
The best part of Tanjong Pagar
is that it's in the middle of the East-West line,
it's one stop away from the North-South line,
and one stop away from the North-East line.
So it is perfect.
It's like central.
You can get anywhere from Tanjong Pagar.
Best place.
Best place to stay in Singapore! This is not an advertisement for Tanjong Pagar.
Oh my god!
It's geography for-- it's Singapore geography!
Oh no!
Singapore's so small, got things to test or not?
Have. Confirm. You don't say until like that, confirm have.
If I don't get this right, I don't know what I've been doing the past few years of my life.
PD: How is your MRT knowledge?
Not great.
I've told you. From Pasir Ris to City Hall, perfect.
The rest all...
PD: Name for me ah, from City Hall to Pasir Ris.
PD: Go!
*Amirul naming the stations from Pasir Ris to City Hall*
I feel like I've missed out something. I don't know why.
Yay!
Easy! Harder question leh!
PD: Do you go to Dhoby Ghaut often?
Ya, I have to,
because whenever I'm on the... that line
I have to change to that other line.
You thought I don't know the lines?
Oh! Oh got a lot eh.
Wow, this one got a lot, yeah.
There's three lines.
Yeah.
This is just evidence that we're poor, broke students.
What? What's that?
PD: North-west?
North-west? There isn't even a North-west line!
I wrote (only) one, and it doesn't even exist.
Oh man, Serangoon.
Circle and North East line.
Purple and yellow... yeah. Yeah!
Wow heng ah!
I thought there was downtown also sia. Blue line, ya.
There's a Farrer Park.
I feel like I know.
Near... Little India right?
Farrer Road. It's different than Farrer Park.
Wait, wait!
Oh no! Did I give Jewie a hint?
I think it's near Bukit Timah.
PD: Then Ra?
I think it should be on the...
That line.
The line I'm about to show you now.
PD: 1, 2, 3!
NO!
It's not a MRT station!
But it might be on the Downtown line if not.
PD: 3! Circle line.
PD: You're talking about Farrer Park, my friend.
I knew it.
I knew it. There's one Farrer Road and one Farrer Park.
A map with words and directions is already useless to me.
A map with nothing on it?
What is this?
Legit eh. For me, the map always ended here.
Not like I knew what was here.
Oh yah, you're right! Right?
Why is there-- what's happening here?
Is it a suspicious growth?
Are you okay, Singapore?
Is this-- This is the east, right?
No, that's not the east! Oh my god!
There's so many ah? I thought Woodlands was one huge chunk.
Ya sia.
In Woodlands, (you) can see Malaysia.
Ya, which is...
Here what.
Woodland's obvious, right?
PD: Ya, you say that now.
It's the one near... near Malaysia la. Right?
Ya. There.
Isn't it this one? Obviously.
Here.
Wow, very tough leh.
I'll pick the one right in the centre. Ya same.
I would have picked the same, actually.
Because this area is closer to Malaysia.
So where Singapore built (the bridge) right,
because Singapore is not stupid,
we would build with least amount of construction materials required
to go to Malaysia.
Chris does realise that the Causeway was built before Singapore was Singapore, right?
Huh?
Sembawang where got so big? Oh my god!
I was right at first!
I knew I was right.
So, this one is Tuas.
All the industrial stuff.
Ya, you have Tuas.
You have Pulau NTU.
Jurong East is very strange, because
you know it's in the west but the east part of west.
Jurong is very big, right?
Ya, Jurong is huge, like
this could be considered whole of Jurong
but you have to find Jurong East.
I really don't know where, so I'm just going to try like
east but not too east,
so I'm guessing...
Whatever la.
Got Jurong East, Jurong West all...
Aiyo stop it sia, Jurong. Whatever la.
I also think it's on this side of the island, but not that far.
I think just about here.
Is this Lakeside?
I don't know. If that's Lakeside,
then I'll just randomly pick.
I'm going to pick...
Okay.
I'll say here.
Like here.
Yeah, I'll say there too, but...
I would like to thank my parents, my Geography teacher...
Mdm Foo, shout out to you.
Oh great!
It's the MRT line.
Why is there a green line here? It's not the lines.
What the hell is this?
No, it's the expressways.
I- I remember a trivia question being
"What is the longest highway in Singapore?"
I don't remember the answer.
I'm not even going to bother to do this,
because like... I don't know.
PD: So what's in your head?
I'm just choosing which number sounds best.
PD: 1, 2, 3!
Ra: 7! Chris: 8!
Amirul: 8! Chuan: 7.
Marissa: 7 Jewie: 7
Huh? Got 10 ah?
I know PIE connects all the way to the west,
so definitely the ones that end off not at the west
is not the correct one.
Pan Island Expressway,
which means that it pans the island
so it has to go across the island,
so it's this one.
Yeah, so I'll say it's the red one. I don't know, I'll think it's the red one too.
I'll choose the red one.
I think it's the purple one because
PIE goes by East Coast?
Thank god.
Yay!
I just take PIE, but I don't know where I'm going.
AIE ah?
No, it's around here.
It's around here.
That's all I know. AIE.
AYE!
Maybe somewhere...
I don't know. The blue looks nice,
so I just choose this one lor.
No, it's not. I would say yellow.
*Chris freaking out* I don't know!
Shut up!
AIE...
AYE!
Aye.
Aiya, I just put here la. I don't know la.
PD: Okay!
I'm going to go with the yellow one.
So AYE is the one that brings you all the way to Tuas area,
to all the very, very ulu (remote) places,
Jurong industrial area la,
which is usually around here.
So I think this yellow one is AYE.
And that was what I was about to say.
Let me feel.
Purple one, purple one.
PD: I feel like you're just choosing colours.
Honestly though!
Aiya, we both put on the same one la, Chris!
It might be this one.
It might be this one, actually. Can we change?
Change lor. PD: Ya!
Are you going to change? I'm not changing.
Okay, then I don't want to change.
I choose this one,
because Bukit Timah is in the west!
I will just pick a different one from Jewie.
BKE connects to the PIE.
So, from PIE la, right?
Since PIE is the red one,
I'm going to go with green.
See, armed with that knowledge, I also chose the green one.
I think I kind of stopped breathing for the entire session.
We always got very very close to the place or either one of us will get it right.
The first one was the hardest,
because I came into it using my very skewed knowledge of the MRT.
You kind of know where the regions are,
but when you really look at the zonal areas in Singapore right,
that's when I realised that I don't really know it that well.
That Farrer Road exists!
It exists! I thought they were just kidding, you know.
I was like "Farrer Road is a road la! Wa piang eh."
I think it is good to know,
but whether or not it's important, not necessarily,
especially because you can access it very easily.
I would say it's quite important,
at least for me la, just to know how to get around.
Let's say you're driving and you're like "Oh snap! Where am I?"
We are very not curious.
We drive to get to locations. We don't drive to explore.
Our lifestyles are usually very hectic
and we're always going from the same few comfort places that we usually go to.
Our knowledge is very textbook-based,
so we don't really go out of our way to ask more questions and learn more things.
There's Google Maps though.
That's true.
As long as you know how to get there, it's fine.
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