Public transportation~ Neglected Issues

I’ve been here for 12 weeks, a very convenient, in terms of public transportation place – Singapore. In these 12 weeks, I’ve experienced different types of public transportation, such as the MRT and public buses which I’m forced to take everyday to get to town. On the first two weeks, it’s kinda new for me, and I’ve to look at the signboards to figure out which way and which ‘number’ to take. After a month, I’m quite used to it and seem to be ‘fun’ for me. Ya, ‘fun’, some of you will wonder that ‘like that also fun ar?’, but what I mean is by traveling and doing stuff all by myself, without having others beside, I can do whatever I want, go wherever, whenever I want. Sometimes, I will take an 8 to 10 minutes walk to a near central market, just to walk around observing the crowds, look around the shops and stalls seeing what are they selling, the price, the flavor, the brand and stuff. But I didn’t tend to do that, is just that I like the crowd and the thing is, it’s a Chinese town, it reminds me about my lovely hometown, TAIPING!!! (Which where am I at the moment)

Ok, back to my point, what I wanna blog about here is the neglected ‘unnoticed’ or ‘unmentioned’ real life of taking public transportation. What I mean by unnoticed or unmentioned is, we would not see or read it from books or advertisement, we will not know until we experience it ourselves. Let me start with the bus issue, when we have a bus, we must have a bus driver (duh~), ya, so let’s talk about bus driver.

You know, in Singapore, there are many ‘active’ senior citizens and they travel by public transportation, and we can see there are lots of privileges for senior citizens and disabled people, especially in public transport, they have their reserve sits, they have their reserve space for wheelchair, they have special installed escalator on the staircases for them and etc. As compare to Malaysia, can’t deny that they are more ‘hang fok’ here~ So, what about the bus driver? As I said, there are many senior citizens taking public transport, some bus driver, I’m not sure whether they are trained before having their job, they drive like Formula 1 driver, maybe they’re one of them, they will accelerate until very keng even though is just a short distance, then they will brake like shit, and the passengers will be like sitting a roller coaster (ei? Abit like jean’s driving skills hor~), we’ve to hold on to the pole tightly because its very super damn dangerous and someone might just fly to the front, and sometimes the driver need to cut 3 lanes in order to get on the right track of the traffic light, and the whole bus will be wobbling right and left, just try to imagine for the old people, they will grab the pole like they’re giving birth, really pity them. Some of you will be saying that those old people should be sitting down, on the sit, but it’s a very normal situation for letting the old people standing unstably and those youngsters, guys, strong teenagers, will be occupying those sits as if they’re paralyzed, but we usually see this kinda situation, so not really an unnoticed one to mention here.

Next, I noticed this recently, because my term is coming to an end, so I need to rush my finals and I will bring my laptop which I put it in my backpack and bring to school everyday. This issue really got on my nerves especially during the peak hours, when tons and tons of people taking the public transport, all at a time. But can’t deny, most of them are women, or maybe I should call them strippers. They will hug the pole as if the pole belongs to them, they would not bother the others that need to hold on the pole as well, and they will just hug or lean on the pole with their body attaching the common part of the pole where we grab or hold on to. Com’on la wei, if you wanna fuck the pole, go buy one and put it in your fucking home and fuck it yourself, don’t abuse the public properties la~ sorry, cannot control, but that’s what in my mind when I’m the ‘victim’ (NOT THE POLE! BUT ONE OF THE OTHERS THAT NEED TO HOLD ON TO THE POLE), especially with my fucking heavy bag.

Here's a pic of example which that fucking bloody pig is occupying that bloody pole~

Ok, now, let’s talk about MRT. As we know, we need to take the escalator to get to the platform or to the exit. Peak hours, I will try my best to avoid it but sometimes still have to face it. Let me just tell the situation. As usual, walk out of the train, walk towards the escalator where everyone is trying to squeeze on like a bottle neck on the high way, then line up on the left lane, and here’s the moment where I really worried of sometimes, especially the front person is a senior citizen or an aunty (sorry again la, but really most of them were aunty), at the step where we get on the landing, ok la, (let’s forgive those old people) some aunty will start their catwalk or doing something else like trying to find their tab card, then they just slow down or even stop immediately, imagine, what will happen to those at the back? I’ve tried once, by pushing the aunty in front, nah, not my fault har, I’ve been forced to push her because the one behind me is pushing me as well, and we almost fell man~ then everyone is having those expression like, what the hell?! But the aunty steady la, she just walks off after she found her tab card.

Actually I’ve a lot more to tell, but seems like its kinda tired la for you all to read such long ‘truth’, did you guys watch The Ugly Truth? Kinda nice, but as usual la, comedy love story, if you’re not a popcorn fan, is better for you to get pirated DVD or VCD or just download and watch it at home, not really necessary to watch it in cinema. Ok la, maybe, if I’ve the time and mood, I’ll continue with other issues, or else, that’s it la, bye!