a bus ride home

I had a good start yesterday, woke up at 730am, got ready and took the 839 bus to Bradford. I’ve got to do my SSc project there, and decided to commute, instead of staying there. The first 3 days went quite well, and it’s becoming more of routine now, Get the 839 bus so I can be at Bradford Royal Infirmary by 10, and try to get back home as soon as I can. So yesterday, we finished inserting a third of the patients data into the computer by 3pm. So I thought, sangat lah bagusnya, I can get home by 5pm (I got home about 6pm for the past few days).
I took the 407 pm bus to Leeds, and fall asleep instantly. hehe, sangat penat membaca all the data yang sgt laa tak terurus.huhuhu. Tetiba terjaga pukul 445pm. Tgk luar. Dimana ni yer? macam belum klua dari bradford, tapi rasa tak logik sebab dah almost 45 mins in the bus. Rupanya jalan jam dgn teruknya. The bus took more than 1 hour to get out of Bradford. So much for finishing early,ey? *sigh*
After a while, I supposed everyone in the bus were getting bored, and this one abang started to sing hindi songs. Agak kuat laa. At first I thought it was just some random HIndi song, then I heard him singing ‘mere mehbooba mere sanam’(tak ingat from which movie, but certainly one of Shah Rukh’s movie, then afterwards he sang Kuch kuch hota hai. Macam bas dia yang punya. hehe. I think he was listening to an mp3 player or something, so he probably didn’t realise he sang out loud. Rasa nak gelak, but then I was alone..kang orang cakap giler pulak. :p (nasib baik sore sedap - agaknya sebab tu takde saper komplen kot? :p)
tapi ok laa kan, ada jugak orang nak entertain kebuhsanan dalam bas tu. Then this one akak, start sembur perfume yang semerbak baunya sejurus sebelum dia turun bas. adoii makk!! sakit hidung. kalau wangi takpe jugak. and there were these 2 guys, rasanya, diorang ni beli return tiket kot, so the driver tak bagi naik. driver tu suruh diorang tunggu at the next 2 stops, baru dia boleh bagi naik. Imagine laa betapa slownya bas tu bergerak, kalau abang2 tu boleh berjalan lenggang kangkung and caught the bus kat stop depan tu.   
Jadi, pada hari ini, IJa telah mengambil langkah bijak dengan menaiki train pulang ;). 
I wish Malaysia punya public transport is as good. I mean, kalau bus tu patut datang tetiap 1/2 jam, tolonglah dtg setiap 1/2 jam. ini, kadang2 ada 2 bas berturut-turut yang lalu, kadang-kadang tu duduk laa tercongok kat pondok bas tu sampai 1-2 jam, tak de satu bas pun yang lalu. Sangat laa frustrating. Especially kalau bas yang dekat kampung-kampung laa (my kampung particularly). Jenuh menunggu. W/pun sekarang I don’t use the public transport as much, (sbb ada byk driver nak hantar ;) ), tapi, sgtlah penting mempunyai public transport yang reliable, supaya memudahkan orang yang menggunakannya. Like some of the buses, takde proper timetable pun. Kalau ada pun, kadang2 depends kat driver bas. sesuka ati jer dia nak jalan pukul berapa.
Hmm.. apa pun, I do enjoy using the public transport. Tengok gelagat orang yang macam-macam (bau pun macam-macam jugak )
haa.. tetiba teringat this one incident happened when I was taking the komuter from UPM to KL Sentral on one deepavali holiday. Masa tu sangat ramai orang, and there were 3 of us, me, nazmin and along. Masa kitorg sampai tu, the one komuter yang ada kat situ was already full with people, so, we let the komuter passed. Jadiknya kna tunggu lagi 20 minutes. So, when the next komuter arrived, by hook or by crook, kna laa get into the komuter kan, tak larat laa nak tunggu lagi 20 minit. so, kitorg pun berpimpin tangan laa sambil berpusu-pusu nak masuk, yelaa kalau tercicir tak ke naya. Sambil tu sempat buat lawak - ini kalau ada orang tertinggal gelfren masa nak naik ni, ada jugak yang break terus.hehe. pastu dah naik tu, memang penuh bangat laa, I couldn’t even stand properly on my feet. My weight was like supported by people around me, sbb sgt penuh, tak bleh bergerak langsung dalam tu. tetiba terdengar laa handphone abang yang stood next to me berbunyik. sumer orang kat situ senyaplaa kan (tak tau laa nak bg kemudahan abg tu cakap, atau pun nak eavesdrop :p)  tapi lepas, tu dengar laa dia cakap " laa ko tertinggal ke? knapa tak naik? takpe laa, aku tunggu ko". heheh, I tried to tahan my gelak, tapi tak tertahan, selamba je aku gelakkan abang tu. Sian btul, baru je beberapa minit yang lalu kitorg buat remark ada orang tertinggal. Nasib baik bukan gelfren dia, kalau tak, aku sure minah tu merajuk berhari-hari mueheheheh :p

thehealthinspector: cinta macam menunggu bas, bas yg 1st datang, ok, tapi takde air-cond, so kita decide utk tunggu next bas yang ada air-cond. pastu datang yang ada air cond, tp tak cantik, jadi kita pun tunggu lagi. sampai satu tahap, kita dah terlambat, jadi kita pun naik je mana-mana bas yang lalu masa tu. tapi yang pastinya, kita tak pernah tahu yang mana baik utk kita sampailah kita naik bas tu. tak semestinya bas yang ada air-cond tu tak rosak tepi jalan, kan? ;)

3 Responses to “a bus ride home”

  1. LaMaison Says:

    malaysians in general are really bad wif time. hence, the transport problem. i would prefer to have my own car rather than using the public transport.

    another thing that annoys me when people started to answering their phones in komuter or lrt. dahlah cakap kuat, nak bagi satu gerabak dengar ke yg kau sayang gf kau. adoi… tension aaa! sbb tuh underground kat london buat dalam dalam, langsung tak dpt reception.

  2. Ieja Says:

    hahaha. itu btul. macam dia sorang jer ada handphone. kot iye pun nak berkasih sayang, tolong laa cakap pelan2 sket. duhh.

  3. -yatiE- Says:

    hehe.. love is like waiting for a bus?? hmm.. u’re right, ieja. anyway, public transport kat KL nih quite ok laa.. susah2, naik LRT jer.. monorail pun dah ada. dok kat KL mmg senang. tempat lain, susah skit kott..

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