嫲嫲 & Tanjong Pagar Train Station

I just came back from a short visit from Seremban.

A surprise visit to 嫲嫲! Indeed she was very surprised and delighted. =D

嫲嫲's condition has not been very good. The latest i have heard was the Dr discovered cancer cells in her body and growing. 嫲嫲 is 80 this year and too old for any operation to be done.
Xiao Gu Jie says there are only 3 options now, Operation to take out the bad stuff, go through Chemotheraphy and lastly.. we kinda let fate decide.

Seems like.. we are taking the last one.

My aunt and uncle has been trying out TCM, basically trying to see if its possible to stop/slow down the growing rates and hopefully we can prolong anything at all. Xiao Gu Jie also mention... 嫲嫲 is still quite optimist about it, saying... if its time to go.... ya.

I went back for 2 days, took a cheap bus that i last min booked online on sunday night and i left on monday morning. I didn't purchase a return ticket because i wanted to buy the return ticket at the train station when i reach Seremban. Yes i wanted to take the train back.

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Tanjong Pagar train station will permanently cease all operations from 1st July 2011 onwards after running operations for nearly 80 years.

I used to frequent that train station alot. So many times that i had such a vivid memory of it.
When i was still young, 嫲嫲 used to visit us by taking the train into Singapore. I remembered she always takes the afternoon slot from Seremban, hence by the time she reaches, it would be almost midnight and yes a lil part of which i like to go fetch her with my parents is bcoz i could stay up late kekeke.
I would run about in the big main hall with ceiling so high i would almost fall backwards trying to look at it completely.

Back then, the building already gives off the nostalgic feeling. From the giant stone cravings outside the building to the tall paintings high on the walls of the hall. Or maybe its purely the run-down feel of the entire place. The image of 嫲嫲 walking from the train platform into the hall through the big opening beside the MaMa shop still runs clearly in my mind. And i could still feel the anxious feeling of waiting for her while bombarding my parents with "作莫嫲嫲还没有到..."

Its a Love and Hate thingy.. always SUPER HAPPY to see her arriving at the train station to stay for a couple of weeks and SUPER SAD to see her going back to Seremban at the same place. I remembered crying at night after she went back..

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嫲嫲 is probably the dearest woman in my life. The other 3 grands passed away before i could hold on to any more memories of them. I was raised from baby to a toddler by 嫲嫲and爷爷.

Now the Station is closing down and.. i srsly don't know how long... ............. .

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I do have.. very sentimental feelings for both 嫲嫲 and the train station... somehow, to me, there is a connection between us.

Now the train station will officially stop operating by this time tmr. Who would know what will become of that landmark and the tracks leading from the station to Woodlands.

As the train travelled from Woodlands to Tanjong Pagar just now, through the 30mins journey, u can see alot of pple by the roadside. All holding on to their cameras and handphones snapping away as the train pass by.

Some were passerbys and some waited for the train but they all know,

it would be their last chance to see the KTM train running across the country on that very track..

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Am glad I took my last ride.