what a pain travel could be ...

At times ( but lately all the time ) my one and a half hour trip to PD has increased in time ... now it takes me almost four hours to reach home ( cursing Our KERETAPI TANAH MELAYU Berhad ).

This is not the first time a few weeks back, while am heading home for Deepavali i reached the BTS station arnd 3.00pm , there was train scheduled for 3.05pm ... seeing that i was pumped up that i get reach PD a bit early ... but then i checked my watch it was already, 3.15pm ! DANG !!! there goes my plan ... I heard the annoucement on the hailer , saying that 2 bloody trains to Seremban has been cancelled and that the trip has been postponed , no further details were given ! gosh ... atlest appologize to the customers who paid and still waiting for your service to arrive la ! ( even kindergarden kids know how to say sorry... , their announcement didn't even sound close to that! )

standing a bit far from the enterance gave me a full view of the platform , and it ain't good ... i saw people ( very much like ants) crowding the platform... the best part is they sent down a subtitute police to shepherd the crowd ! she was a rather loud lady ... occasionally blowing her whistle loud enough to make the man next to deaf atleast for a minute! and she was shouting .... " Berdiri di luar GARISAN KUNING !!!) Man! how many time does all these ppl need to be told ... don't they have the common sense that the yellow line marks the line between life and death ! haih ...

and so after a much waited 2 hours a very full ( much like a can of fully stuffed sardine) came by ... the moment the train stopped , the people from the platform just rushed into the train without even thinkin abt the passsenger who would want to disembark here ... Me? I just stayed away , cursing my luck for being late on that day ...

fortunately for me , another one came abt 30mins after the moving sardine can ! but this one just as packed as the earlier , at least i was able to get in .... am grateful for that. And so my journey home began ... ( in a rather stuffed train).

So, what's with this story ... ??? well , am just emphasizing on the matter that the KTM Berhad should seriously consider some major time management class !!! if you knw that a train is down ... send in a shuttle train , before that inform the waiying passengers at the platform ... they have made plans and you have ruined just like that , so APPOLOGIZE! jangan buat TAK tahu je ... take reposibilty for ur actions.

my message would be , just knw the peak hours and avoid making ur travel plans for that time ... so far i've found that the mornings ( 7.00am - 11.00am ) is the good time to travell by KTM , and in the afternoon only make plans from 1.00pm - 3.00pm ... after that we better off travelling the next day!

well , guess this is the end for this entry ...

- B -