There is a train station, or rather just a stop with platform, within walking distance from my office. It is not too far, just about 10 minutes of walk. However, to get there, i will have to cross a motorway without pedestrian crossing or traffic light, and then walk through a tunnel that hardly has anyone passes by. The walk from the tunnel to the motorway is near a dump site and it is quite smelly.
(I would have posted pictures of the train station and tunnel but i am using iPad to blog now. After i have gotten the broadband hooked up at my apartment unit, mom is using my laptop to watch Korean drama everyday. That is her only entertainment now.)
I had taken the train a few times when i just arrived and was staying at the apartment hotel temporarily. The train fare is cheaper at NZD2 per trip and has a higher frequency (every 20 minutes). Everytime i passed through the tunnel, i felt rather insecure as i had never seen anyone there before. In fact, hardly anyone alights at this stop because it is out of the city center. Despite that, i still continued taking the train until one day i had an encounter with a dead rat.
Whenever i gotta passed by the dump site, i would hold my breath and walk in a fast pace. Then one morning, i did the same but then saw a dead rat lying in the middle of the walk path. It was quite big and the corpse was still in its complete shape, which means that it probably just died on the previous night (and i didn't see it on my way back on the day before). I was quite disgusted by it and quickly ran pass it.
Then on the following two days, the dead rat was still there and i gotta ran pass it two times everyday. Somehow, the thought of seeing it decompose slowly day-by-day kinda freaked me out. And the train station was just beside the sea, with strong wind blowing all the time. I started to think to myself that no matter how fast i ran, the wind might just blow some diseases from the decomposed dead rat onto me. That was then i decided to stop taking the train and go for the bus instead, even though the fare is more costly.
Anyway, i really want to get a car the soonest possible. The other day i didn't get to view the car at all. The seller sms-ed me on the day itself and inform me that another buyer who viewed the car a week earlier had decided to buy it. Further search on the Web did not yield much satisfactory results. Now the question is whether i should increase by budget or continue to wait. I am leaning more towards the first choice but we will see how it goes.
On an unrelated note, it has been a hectic week for go-live support at the client's site. There were glitches here and there, mostly technical problems that have something to do with the network and server. Other than that, it has been a rather smooth project. Hopefully the client will be happy to pay when they see the invoices with the high charges.
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