7:45am is too early.

So we leave the world of idle walking and waking and return once again to the one where there is never enough time. From the Paris of spacious parks and wide pavements to the crowded MRT stations of Raffles Place. Enter the world of human pod-racing and crowded bottlenecks.

Andrew's lemmas of moving faster in crowds (based, of course, on fluid dynamics):
1. The flow of people is fastest in the middle of a one-directional stream, as opposed to by the walls.

2. The flow of people moving in oppsite directions is faster the further away you are from the boundary, unless you're extremely skilled in pod-racing across said boundary.

3. The speed of flow of people onto different escalators (eg: the 3 going up from Raffles Place MRT) is proportional to the distance from other streams joining the main stream (eg: people who try to cut queue from the sides.)

4. Flow of people can be disrupted successfully if you're carrying a durian at eye-level.