four kilometres per hour

Drove onto AYE at the Jurong Town Hall exit on Thursday evening and was greeted with a line of cars all stationary and neverending. I thought, 'just the usual peak hour traffic'.

After some time, I realised it was not the usual jam when the sign said accident at clementi, lane 1 and 2. But hmm.. which part of clementi? I didn't exit at Clementi Ave 6 thinking its already in Clementi and can't be far. But boy was I wrong..

After 40min in the car, I finally reached the Clementi Stadium area, and still obstinately thought against leaving the jam since the accident site should be near. I took another 25min to get to NUS, where I saw the accident vehical facing against the traffic and a line of cars stopped on the road shoulder, only 1 lane was passable.

The surprising thing about this (1 hour 5min to pass the accident site) was that I was hardly impatient. Being kiam siap environmentally conscious, I switched off the air con and wound the windows down slightly. For the last part of the jam, I switched off the radio and decided to call a friend to chat while waiting.

I thought to myself, some people are stuck in an accident, they may be hurt, I'm just wasting some time, no matter. But I do wish the radio's traffic update was more informative. All that was said throughout the hour I was stuck was 'Heavy traffic along AYE', now that sounded more like the usual peak hour jam. It was more like 'Massive jam on AYE and traffic is at a standstill from NUS tailback beyond Jurong Town Hall Road exit'. Whoa, I can almost write traffic updates now. :X

80s rewind

I was having dinner at my mom's and for some strange reason suddenly thought of a theme song from a cartoon I watched when I was a kid.

Came home, googled and youtubed and its so fun looking at the cartoons from so looooong ago!!

See if you recognise any of these.. (ok, I meant to get the pictures but cant really sit here all night, needa yank meself outta bed early, so juz the names 1st HAHAHA) Good thing about youtube is all the 'related' videos! So many cartoons from the same era that I'd forgotten!

It all started with me going "Denver, the last dinosaur! He's my friend and a whole lot more!"
So here goes.. (Decided to 'categorise' them)

Denver the last dinosaur

Centurions

Ghostbusters

Transformers

X-men

Dennis the Menace (People in suits/People)

Duck tales
Count Duckula
Darkwing Duck (Ducks!)

Care Bears
Gummi Bears
Yogi Bear
Sharkey and George
The Raccoons
Mighty Mouse
The Chipmunks
Chip and Dale
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Looney Tunes
Tiny Toons (Bears and other animals)

Wuzzles
Smurfs
The Snorks
Animaniacs (Imaginary creatures)

And this is not the end of the list of course.. but I realise I watch a lot of Ducks and other animals cartoons HAHAHAH.. not a fan of watching people in cartoons.. Guess for me, the idea of cartoons is to see things that aren't so realistic. Like.. bears talking HAHAHA.. I'd just watch non-cartoons if I wanted to see people walking around, or like I do now, watch movies with great visual effects =)

Ok, looks like I spent an hour watching youtube videos of cartoons. Enough for the night! =P