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Onsite Research: One Raffles Quay

8:30AM

the sound of footwear clicking/stomping against the floor is all over, its extremely rapid. The sound of it drones out everything else.

I didn't catch anyone talking while at this timing. Everyone seemed very focused in putting their next foot forward.

9:00AM

there were alot of footstep sounds and they all seem to be in a hurry. There is hardly any verbal communication, so its not surprising that all you can hear is footsteps like a ongoing rush.

There were a few conversations that i overheard, cheerful banter about breakfast apparently, and some details about work.

9:30AM

The footsteps are relatively slowed down by this timing, but the sound of footsteps is still constantly ongoing. But each set of footstep sounds can be identified individually as compared to earlier when the sounds were all indistinguishable.

By this time, the sounds start to develop an echo-ey quality. It wasn't noticeable just now that the area reverberates sounds.

10:00AM

From the sounds of the footsteps, it seems that the pace is really relaxed now. The whole place is quite quiet and theres the occasional group of people walking by. Their bored chatter can be heard quite clearly.

The ding dong of the 7-11 bell is really irritating after awhile. It breaks the silence out of nowhere.

11:00AM

At this time, the area is silent for the most part, even 7-11 stopped its infernal ding dong(motion sensor got to motion to sense). Some lone footsteps can be heard from time to time.
There isn't much verbal communication going on...

12:00
LUNCH TIME! The atmosphere is very chatty, the footsteps of the people are light and fast. The echo-ey resonance is still there.
Every now and then a noisy bunch would walk past with their random banter.

13:00
The random banter from 12pm has become more gossipy and cheerful... Footsteps are a mix of fast and busy or slow and leisurely. The individuality of the sounds are lost. It has once again become a huge mess of sound.

14:00

The crowd is starting to thin out, conversations between the execs are becoming more business toned. Footsteps of the crowd have become very uniformly mid paced, not in a hurry but not leisurely either.

15:00

Shenton way at this time has become very quiet once again, but its not totally silent. There are more random passersby than in the morning. Every sound they make is heard clearly due to the structure of the place.

16:00

Even more quiet than just now. But other than that, the scene is somewhat like 3PM. There was one ang moh who walked past to buy kopi from the cafe(at this time?).

17:00

Not really 5PM, more like 5:30 3:40ish I was stuck in the SMRT office for quite some time...

The crowd picks up... a little like lunch hour but the mood is quite oppressive, hardly any banter and stuff.

18:00

By 6 the returning home crowd appears and swarm the place. Very noisy and bustling mood. People are talking about random stuff again, mostly gossip. The footsteps are abit heavy.

Onsite Research: Northpoint Underpass Pics

Here's the remaining pics.

Onsite Research: Northpoint Underpass Pt.3

So this is during lunch time onwards:

12:00pm

• not much of a rush hour

12:14pm

• the uncle selling lottery tickets is still there and so is the uncle selling tissue packs.
• Mostly students were having lunch.

12:18 - 12:25pm

• Army officers going for lunch.
• Still no sign of rush hour.

12:35pm

• Getting more people going for lunch.
• Malay auntie selling curry puffs at the underpass talking to her friends passing by.

12:40pm

• Lottery ticket uncle is having his lunch.
• Busking uncle playing songs.
• Children running.
• ITE students going for lunch.
• Yet no sign of rush hour.
• Since it's a friday, families & couples are likely to go out.

12:45pm

• The underpass starts to get crowded.
• Secondary students going for lunch.
• Student also going back home from school.
• Seems like every 5 mins will have a burst of crowd.

12:55pm

• Students racing down the stairs.
• Looks like the traffic is picking up.
• The busker playing the same song.

12:58pm

• Alot of ITE student going home or school.
• Most of the crowd are in a hurry...probably hungry or late for something.
• Student are always in a hurry.

1:02pm

• Sudden burst of people.
• working men and ladies...sometimes students.
• Busker playing the same song again.

1:05pm

• Lady from the kiosk throwing a box across the underpass.
• Students with BBQ stuffs heading up the escalator.
• Teenagers going school or meeting friends.

1:10pm - 1:35pm

• The underpass feels quiet with only a few of people walking through.

1:41pm

• Busker starts a new song.
• Lottery ticket uncle is still there.
• Students from primary school going for lunch.
• Young adults stop by the kiosk to grab 'Newpaper'.
• Malay auntie is still there selling currypuffs.

1:53pm

• The place starts to get busy from people going back from the friday's prayers.
• Students from school.
• Men going back home after he's done his shift.
• Sounds of trolley.

2:00pm

• Currypuff lady finally gets people to buy her currypuffs.
• Mostly those looking for a quickbite.

2:40pm

• currypuff lady packing up after selling all her currypuffs.
• Tissue pack uncle was long gone.
• Traffic was low at the moment.
• Occasionally group of students going home.
• Families finished lunch.
• Teenagers went out since it's friday.

2:50pm

• Busker playing still.
• lesser crowd
• Most are going out.

3:00pm

• Do not have that burst of crowd happening.
• ]Few people coming in and out.
• Busking performing a chinese song.

3:15pm

• Followed the crowd from the MRT station.
• Singing and Strumming of guitar fills the space.

3:30pm

• Low crowd traffic.

3:48pm

• Alot of people going out from the way they dressed.

4:00pm

• Traffic starts picking up.
• Adults made most of the crowd.
• Rushing to get home.

4:30pm

• Can see more people walking past.
• Getting more noisy due to the footsteps.
• Also the playing of the busker is getting louder.
• Now the pace is getting faster.

5:00pm

• Now the underpass is getting full of people.
• It's the time for people from work to head back home.
• Unexpectedly this is the rush hour.
  

Onsite Research: Northpoint Underpass Pt.2

Continuing my observation from Northpoint Underpass.

10:05am

• Bunch of uncles and aunties talking loudly. Seems there's alot of seniors here, speaking dialect

10:10am

• Female worker from Mcdonalds came down to the underpass to distrubute Mcdonals coupons.

10:12am

• Occasionally people run down the escalator. Probably late for something.

10:16am

• Uncles, working man, goes to have breakfast at the food court.
• Now teenagers can be seen in groups, maybe 16 -19 years old.
• Uncle and his wife coming back from NTUC fairprice.
• One bangladesh took the wrong escalator up. *LOL*

10:20am

• Teenagers making a ruckus while climbing down the stairs.
• More Students coming in the underpass.

10:25am

• People would slow down just to receive the macdonalds coupons.
• A couple bought a lottery ticket from the uncle selling them.
• Uncles & aunties after shopping from NTUC fairprice goes to Foodcourt.
• More younger age groups can be seen.
• Older seniors come back from wet market.
• An uncle talking loudly which took my attention however not for the locals there.

10:45am

• not much people walking now...
• Malay aunty setting up her currypuff section.
  

10:46am

• Now more people walking through the underpass.

10:50am

• Alot of people walking at the underpass.
• Short burst of people coming in again.

11:00am

• Squeaking babyshoes

11:15am

• Less people walking at the underpass.
• The sounds of the air vent is heard.
  

11:17am

• More people starts coming in and out.
• Children saying bye-bye at each other.
• more children are seen, Teenagers too.

11:35am

• Uncle with guitar starts setting up for busking.
• Quite noticeable from afar due to strumming of guitar and the nature of the underpass.

11:45am

• Busking uncle starts playing
• Children from kindergarten going for lunch with moms.
• There's no mistaking children because of the sounds they make.
  
• Working men and ladies going for lunch.

11:51am

• Underpass is increasing a bit with traffic.
• But not rush hour yet.
• More sounds of the footsteps is heard.
  

To be continue again...

Onsite Research: Northpoint Underpass

Okey...so on friday morning, i went to Yishun, Northpoint Underpass...reached there at abt 9.00am.

My observation(s):

9:00 am

• Mostly students from polytechnic and ITE going to school, walking fast towards the mrt station.
• At the underpass, is a kiosk where people stopped by to buy newspaper.
• People looking at me while going down from the escalator.
• Uncle selling tissue packs, standing along the underpass.
• Another uncle on wheelchair selling lottery tickets

9:14am

• Traffic starts to reduce and about 20 people can be seen pasing through.
• Two uncle who are in-charge of keeping the underpass clean were talking aloud.
• Sometimes, there will be sounds of footsteps banging on the escalator steps.

9:17am

• Sudden short burst of people climbing down the escalator in a fast paced manner.
• *clang**clang**clang* would best described the sound.
• A man pushing trolley full of beverages. Possibly thenew stock for the day.
• 3 china man talking loudly.
• Noticeable dragging of foot.

9:25am

• Another burst of people going down the escalator.
• the place starts to slow down.
• Seems like peoples' attention do get drawn to the big advertisement boards along the wall of the underpass.
• Age group from 17-40 years old can be seen.
• Sometimes, there will be the age group of above 40 walking pass taking their time.

9:34am

• Two old uncles infront of the kiosk talking to each other.

9:40am

• Traffic is picking up but went silent for a moment.
• Alot of people going down and going up the escalator.
• some people going to the food court for those coming down from the mrt side.

9:45am

• China mens that talk loudly previously came back to the underpass.

9:46am

• People are still going to work in a hurry.
• families pushing prems and market trolley.

9:50am

• The crowds increasing.
• Childrens' voice can be heard, calling out their mom
• People slows down to see what's new at the kiosk.

9:55am

• Now 20 -45 years old seems to be going to work.
• Occasionally the sight of ITE students going to school.

Pictures for that hour:

To be continue....

Observation at Citylink

I have covered a few areas along the stretch of citylink, and i notice the crowd at 9am wasn't, majority of the crowd was tourist and the pace the were walking was slow as they were not in a hurry. On average for every 10 minutes, there were roughly 8-10 people walking pass the stretch towards esplanade. The sound at that time wasn't that loud, the background music played was rather soft and whenever there was somebody passed-by their footstep sound was kind of loud as the acoustic of the surrounding was empty. This helps to amplify the sound it produced at that location.. This continue until at 12noon.

After 12 noon, the crowd gets slightly crowded as people are heading for lunch. And on average for every 10 minutes, the crowd increases by maybe 20-30.

After lunch at around 2plus, the crowd subsided. the crowd was made up by the students, foreigners and some parent bringing along their kids. noise produced was off and on because most of the crowd was coming in group. this was continue till 5pm.

Crowds after 5pm were slightly different and increased. And i have made some interviews of people passing by there, the reason was due to esplanade will be having some performance and thus audience will also be increased. Sound of the footstep wasn't as clear in the morning as there were more people and footsteps going on, so people will be distracted once there were more noise produce.