“Where is MID?”

This was where I was asked by a young girl the way to MID? I know where AIA is in Hong Kong, but I didn’t know where MID was in Singapore.

I said politely to her,“ Sorry, I don’t know!” I could not ask her back, “What is MID?”

I would be embarrassed if I told her that I was a tourist from Hong Kong and that I, myself, was using a map to find out where I was. At that time, I asked myself, “Do I look like a Malay or Singaporean or a person who knows the way?” I watched her walk away.

I stayed at the crossroads there for some while because I wanted to take a photo of as many taxis that I could. There were many colours for taxis, yellow, red, blue, silvery and multi-colours. The big difference between Hong Kong taxis and Singapore ones is when the latter have passengers on board in the night-time, the light at their tops would be on!

In this photo, there are different modern private cars, a double-deckered bus, cargo vans, lorries and a motor-bike. There were “red light” cameras there similar to those in Hong Kong.