Three cheers for the june holiday! I now travel to work early in the morning with greater ease and better mood. The bus would arrive with ample empty seats, sufficient to guarantee everyone boarding it a seat of their choice such that nobody would bother to scramble to be the first. In my own private space on the bus I would immerse myself in the music playing on my trusty MP3 player while appreciating the morning streetscape through the window. Upon reaching my destination (Queenstown MRT station) I would reluctantly leave my seat wishing the journey had been longer.

Just last week, things were nowhere as picturesque.

The bus would arrive filled to capacity and I have to struggle for an inch of space on the vehicle. Sometimes the impatient bus driver would raise his voice to urge passengers to move to the rear by suggesting that 'there is no ghost behind' in Hokkein. My MP3s would be drowned in the jarring noises created by the uniformed boys and girls so I have to raise the volume to a level detrimental to my ear drums. Alighting from the bus was viscous and brutal as I have to push and jostle my way through to the exit door, and by the time I got of the bus I look disastrous, tousled-hair and all. Ok that's slightly exaggerated but if you get what I mean.

So despite the jealousy of hearing how my cousins are going to spend their holiday overseas and all that, I guess school holiday still means quite something to me after all, however irrelevant it may seem to an ex-student like me.