公交车和地铁

我住的地方，中远两湾城可以说是非常方便的，即便可能人多了一点，杂了一点。建立于苏州河的两个湾（所以才叫两湾），风景嘛，还可以。我的好友春明说我的家很幽静，虽然令我有一点惊讶（因为你还可以听到外面路上车辆的汽笛声），但我想若不要太计较的话，是真的（所谓“不嫌不坏”）。通常，我都搭轻轨上班（中潭路站3/4号线到上海火车站），但这几天，我决定试一试801路的公交车（aka 巴士）。其实，真的很方便。撇开要等可能要挤的因素，其实公交车真的很便宜，才2块钱。而且，因为我上班的时间都很早（约7点），所以还算挺空的。只是，我的办公室离下车的那一站还要步行大约10分钟吧。远吗？还能接受。因为，基本上从3/4号线的地铁站走到我的办公室也差不多距离。但是！下班回家的时候，千万不要搭公交车！第一，人很多，真的很多，而且很闷很臭！第二，要等很久，真的很久。第三，堵车（aka 塞车）！所以啊，回家时，我还是选择了搭轻轨。其实，还是挺有趣的。想想这一种生活，虽然很贫乏沉闷，但是，若不要太过在意的话，还可以找到一点乐趣的。不知我从哪里听来的，只要稍微改变一下你每天生活的轨迹，比如说，改变一下上班的路线，这样的话，沉闷的生活会添加一些不同的感觉。我非常认同的。在荷兰的时候，我会随兴的选不同的路线其脚踏车（aka 自行车）上班的。不妨试一试。

I live at Zhong Yuan Liang Wan City. Frankly, it is really a convenient location. Even though maybe the population might be a bit crowded and too "wide-variety". The scenery actually isn't that bad. My friend Soon Meng said it is such a quiet place, which is surprising to me because we could still hear the vehicles honking like mad outside. But, I guess, if you don't think about it too much, it is not that bad at all. Normally, I take the metro (Line 3/4 from Zhong Tan Road Station) to work. But, these few days I have decided to take the bus (Line 801). It is indeed very cheap, only 2 RMB. In fact, since I go to work quite early (around 7am), there bus is not that crowded at all. However, I still need to walk around 5-10 minutes to my office from where I get off the bus. Considering it is more or less the same distance of where I get off Line 3/4 metro to my office, it is not that bad. However, I will never take bus to get home after work. First of all, crowded, very crowded. Secondly, need to wait very long. And, thirdly, traffic jam. Therefore, I still use the metro to get home after work. Sometimes, if we change a tiny albeit trivial thing in our daily routine live, you could feel a bit different. For instance, change the route to work. I really agree with that! When I was still working in Netherlands, sometimes I would just take a different route to cycle to work or from work. It certainly gave me a break-the-routine kind of nice feeling. Maybe we should do that more often.