YOG (again)

Its my first day back at work since the start of YOG. I left home at 9am.

Upon reaching the interchange, the numbers of YOG buses surprised me, besides the men in blues. I didnt expect that there will be so many policemen stationed at the interchange, all looking so busy, I have no idea why.

Upon reaching the entrance to the interchange, I held up my accrediation pass to identify myself and the security personnel stared closely at my chest area and said "ok ok" and waved to indicate that I have passed.

I walked into the premise and radar through the views I see right in front of me. Many blues (the policemen) and many purples (the YOG personnel). there were only small crowds at the two waiting queues. Then I spotted a mixture of colors, notting that those are us, the working staff who are NON YOG personnel, lining up waiting for the bus to pick us up. So I instinctively joined the queue after spotting some familar faces.

The journey seems like a trail around singapore. We hopped into the purple YOG bus and it took us from boon lay temporary interchange, all the way to jalan bahar and from here, we reached the lst check point, but the policemen signaled the bus to make a U Turn. The bus then traveled about 3k away from the 1st check point, did a U Turn at one of the residence hall, then returned back to the lst check point before letting us alight. This time, more policemen crowded around the alighting point, scanning through us with their eagle's stare as if we are the new jail birds, making our way to our cells.

Then again, we left our bags on the machine belting, and walked through the security gantry which seems like an ERP system to me.

I stood on the designated red carpet waiting to be scanned. The policeman signaled to me, indicating that his female colleague will do that. So I waited in the next queue, wondering if I should take my bag lst or leave it at the machine belt while being scanned. Then in a split second, the same policeman signaled to me and said "Mdm, its oke". I looked at him with my blurrest expression, took my bag, and left the check point without scanning.

Then we continue walking to a nearby point, waiting for the mini bus to pick and bring us to our office block. The bus never came even after some patience wait of like 15 or 20 mins?

Thankfully, one of the liason head was with us and he lead us all to take another bus instead. Along the short journey, we spotted Ciscos guards, Policemen and Gukahs. Suddenly I felt so unsafe.

And by the time I reached my office, it was 10:40am. The journey from home to work which took me about 15mins usually, now takes me 1hr and 40mins.

Hopefully things will get better tomorrow. Else, its really a pain in the neck to come to work everyday with all these security checks...