Diary: Learn to follow the crowd, with opened mindset, and one eye closed

Important lesson on 20 Jun 2026

to learn to follow the majority and appear to be following instructions, not to cause trouble and inconvenience others and the IC

can't know the location address for meeting and had to meet at MRT together and ended up waiting for the IC and her companion. Everyone had to wait and take a bus for one or two bus stops and not allowed to walk there even though some who had exited MRT earlier won't have transfer rebates after 45 minutes as the IC is pulling a luggage. All 20 of us mostly seniors. Speechless. 😶

Insisted that it won't be easy to reach there by foot even though some of them had been to the location before. Knowing the bus one stop away on my google map app, I wasn't allowed to meet them there or the Condominium and later commented during the meeting that I'm not following the group and likes to be on own as the IC intro me to the group as newcomer. I can only nod my head slightly keeping eye contact with the IC and remain silent. What a welcoming note.

By paying say 70 cents each for one stop each, 20 of us excluding the IC and her companion is about S$14 not a great sum that can be donated or put to better use.🙏