A Singaporean man walked from Tuas Link MRT station, the western-most MRT station, all the way back to his home in Pasir Ris.

The man claimed he did it for fun.

And also explained it was some meditative journey to discover little known aspects of Singapore he never recognised for himself before until he encountered them on his walk.

Or something like that.

There really wasn't a bigger point to it other than walking across Singapore can be accomplished in a day.

Observations

Some notable observations include: In total, he took 14 hours to complete his journey purely on foot.

He took 67,665 steps.

He started at 7.54am and ended at 10.18pm.

And Singapore has a lot of greenery. With a rich and poor inhabitants.

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Implications

This little experiment in walking goes to show that Singapore is a tiny country.

To be able to cover the full length in 14 hours means most people can, in fact, walk Singapore length-wise in a week or less -- based on the total number of steps they accumulate.

Assuming you're a reasonable public transport commuter, you can easily clock 10,000 steps a day going from home to bus stop or interchange or MRT station to work and back.

In total, you can accumulate approximately 70,000 steps in a week -- more than the length of Singapore from East to West.

But perhaps what is more astounding is the size Singapore has grown.

Singapore has reclaimed land with earth obtained from its own hills, the seabed, and neighbouring countries.

As a result, Singapore's land area has grown from 581.5 km² in the 1960s to 723.2 km² today, and may grow by another 100 km² by 2033.

It total, Singapore has grown 22 percent in size already.

From east to west, Singapore is now 50km across.

Happy walking.

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