So we've been to all the open houses for the MRT lines. It will join the rest of the train networks such as the current Downtown Line 1 & 2, Circle Line, North South Line and East West Line. So last Sunday on the 15th October 2017 was the Downtown Line 3 Open House. We went after 1pm because we were late like that, nothing new...lol..but it was a good thing too because we got a notification that there was a track fault. It wasn't part of the stations in the open house, but still they had to stop the free train service for awhile as a precautionary measure.
However, it was quite quickly rectified and then the train services resumed as usual. We started at MacPherson as it was the nearest for us. It was also a pretty hot day so we had to walk quickly to the station, lol. So we took the train from MacPherson Station to Mattar Station and along the way, we stopped at several stations where we wanted to see the celebrities. They were doing some hosting of games for the commuters there. Some of them were really seasoned hosts and they were just naturally funny and engaging to the audience. My favourite is Chua Enlai and this wasn't the first time he did hosting gigs for the train stations. Also, Irene Ang who was really friendly and willing to take photos after the events. For the first time, I saw Najib Ali hosting live and he was just as entertaining as his TV personality.
There were also activities held in each station but the queue was so long and the commuters had to do jigsaw puzzle, some memory game and so on. They would get some (cheap) freebies as tokens but my brother didn't even have to do any of them except do a survey. At first I politely declined it though when the next person asked, I asked my brother to do it instead. He was right that he would be given a souvenir. A cool lanyard and tag which didn't look cheap, lol.
As we had came pretty late, we didn't manage to go to Fort Canning, which was the last station for the DTL3. But we stopped at Bencoolen right at the closing time. We were more familiar in this area and it is also nearer to town.
Overall we had fun and we also took pictures standing in the middle of the fare gate. I mean how often can you do that, lol. After that we continued our DTL journey to Hillview since it was free all the way anyway for our dinner at a prata shop called Springleaf.
Enjoy the pictures below!
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However, it was quite quickly rectified and then the train services resumed as usual. We started at MacPherson as it was the nearest for us. It was also a pretty hot day so we had to walk quickly to the station, lol. So we took the train from MacPherson Station to Mattar Station and along the way, we stopped at several stations where we wanted to see the celebrities. They were doing some hosting of games for the commuters there. Some of them were really seasoned hosts and they were just naturally funny and engaging to the audience. My favourite is Chua Enlai and this wasn't the first time he did hosting gigs for the train stations. Also, Irene Ang who was really friendly and willing to take photos after the events. For the first time, I saw Najib Ali hosting live and he was just as entertaining as his TV personality.
There were also activities held in each station but the queue was so long and the commuters had to do jigsaw puzzle, some memory game and so on. They would get some (cheap) freebies as tokens but my brother didn't even have to do any of them except do a survey. At first I politely declined it though when the next person asked, I asked my brother to do it instead. He was right that he would be given a souvenir. A cool lanyard and tag which didn't look cheap, lol.
As we had came pretty late, we didn't manage to go to Fort Canning, which was the last station for the DTL3. But we stopped at Bencoolen right at the closing time. We were more familiar in this area and it is also nearer to town.
Overall we had fun and we also took pictures standing in the middle of the fare gate. I mean how often can you do that, lol. After that we continued our DTL journey to Hillview since it was free all the way anyway for our dinner at a prata shop called Springleaf.
Enjoy the pictures below!
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