Our group chose a site at Bendemeer Blk 29 market and food centre for interview. We suspected this place is common for elderly around the neighbourhood having meal and gathering with their friends. We approached some senior citizen with different backgrounds and asked them several questions related to their ability to move around the city and their experience in taking public transportation. Mostly of the elderlies are Chinese. Therefore Mei qi our groupmate spoke to them in chinese while me and Vella are recording.
The man in this photo => He rejected to be interviewed because he said he didn't travel much since he is homeless.
The photo above was my interview to Malay' elderly. The woman named Noor Vi (70)This old lady lives alone in Bendemeer HDB. She has a high blood pressure thus, she experienced fell down inside the MRT few years ago. That happened when she was trying to stand up but while the train stopped she couldn’t stabilized her foot. She told us that ever since she had never taken MRT anymore. She rarely travel far away from home, except someone from the community centre accompany her to take bus or MRT.
I did interview the man next to me as well, but from his answer, I'm pretty sure he has a mental problem. In the middle of the conversation, he was speaking out of the topic and babbling. I stop for a while and after I get enough information I just I thank them and end the interview.
These two husband-wife elderly are the best interviewee that we luckily met at the hokker centre.
Mr. Huang and his wife are used to be teacher many years ago. They taught Math and Language Arts. Now Mr. Huang works as a businessman. They shared many things about their experience in taking public transportation. They shared in what Singapore's facility best at in comparison with another Asian country.
We got the most useful data from them as they also gave us some idea to solve some weaknesses in Singapore's public transport.
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