Singapore is flooded

Yesterday, 19 November 2009, I have witnessed a very rare event that could ever happen in Singapore: flood! It was raining so heavily around noon time, and to everybody's surprise, some parts of the city was covered with water. The flood was not as what happened in other cities, for example my home town Jakarta. But to Singapore, what has happened was quite massive.

Main road in front of my office

 The big canal was over pouring to the road

 The big canal was over pouring to the road

I had many times in my life experienced flood. I lived most of my life in Jakarta with its lousy drainage system, every year we expected to have flood (it's true). 
I got so excited yesterday, mostly because of the fact that Singapore with its 'greatness' can have this kind of thing... I mean, well it means Jakarta wasn't that bad... :D

And then the rain stopped, and in just minutes the flood was gone!!... I really had to give my 2 thumbs up to Singapore's drainage system. I wonder when Jakarta can have proper drainage systems... so we don't have to wait for days for the water to run down...