No to Punggol

August 17, 2010 in Rants and Opinions by somethingboutrenes | 5 comments

I had to go to Punggol for a work-related short stint. This experience left me more certain why living in Punggol is a major no no. No offence to the residents in Punggol but here are three personal reasons why I’ll never want to stay in Punggol.

(1) It is in the middle of nowhere. Unless you frequent Dhoby Ghaut (which I don’t) or work in Outram/Harbourfront (which I don’t either) I don’t see any reasons to stay in Punggol. In order to travel to visit Barley in the East, I had to take the God-forsaken LRT (Light Rapid Transport, which I’ll rant more later) to Punggol MRT, take the North-East line to Serangoon, change to Circle line to Paya Lebar and eventually get on to East-West line towards the east!

(2) There is nothing except HDB flats. Nothing else except open field (waiting to build more HDB flats), HDB flats (which is so close to each other gave me – an individual suffering from Claustrophobia – a major headache just looking at it) and construction sites building more flats!

Granted they have shopping malls but a crappy mall like Punggol plaza with nothing worth shopping except FairPrice can drive me crazy!

(3) There have crappy LRT services.

These are nothing like the ones in the west! The station has no indication displaying the expected arrival time; the train is stuffy with loud announcements going on and on.

Sigh. I hope I’m not turning into one of those cocky easties even before moving over cause I don’t really like them either. HAH. Shit I think I just turned myself into a public enemy for people living in the east and north-east. HAH. This I’m assuming if there are people alive reading this. hehe.

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  1. lbluewindl’s avatar

    lbluewindl on August 18, 2010 at 12:23 am

    Could you also please explain how the three reasons you give DO NOT describe Chua Chu Kang? Ha.

  2. somethingboutrenes’s avatar

    somethingboutrenes on August 18, 2010 at 7:44 am

    Please the area I stay is near bukit timah and bukit panjang area not the yew tee side and beside flats we have awesome malls with theatres and decent shops! Also we have awesome lrt services which tells the arrival time and comes at a frequency of 1-3mins.also with the new downtown line getting to orchard from my place will only take 30 mins! Haha so cck is way better then punggol!

  3. lyanna’s avatar

    lyanna on August 18, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    doesn’t matter. you’re moving to simei, which is as awesome as awesome gets :)

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    lyanna on August 18, 2010 at 9:43 pm

    and oh, we have reason to be cocky. HAHA.

  5. somethingboutrenes’s avatar

    somethingboutrenes on August 18, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    AHahaha a brillant example of a cocky eastie! Lol