I used to find long bus rides frustrating, but now I’ve grown to like them

They offer you a pocket of personal time and can be productive as well as soothing.

There are many reasons why people sometimes prefer long bus rides - it might be therapy for some, for others it’s a rare pocket of personal time. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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For some months after I moved into my new flat in Tampines in 2023, I dreaded the commute to work.

My home is one of a cluster of new flats in a part of Tampines that, just a decade earlier, used to be forest and the old Tampines Bike Park. Like many other new estates, it is relatively inaccessible.

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