Sunday, March 13, 2011

Think Global, Act Local..

Gold Arawana on his trip experience by a public bus..

It happened last year, when the Mukah-Selangau Road was under upgrading works. I cannot afford to drive my own car to Sibu, as my local car could be broken once its reach Sibu. As no other choice, I decided to travel by bus. And here is the story...


As I bought my ticket, I seat at my designated seat, owwhh... my first impression is that: It will be a great day! The floor was really dirt as it was just travel out of a logging road..

I can even wrote my name on the window frame.. Remember, I'm not talking about the outside of the bus, it is inside...

After about one hour journey, this is what really happened.. I really scared that this antique bus will be overheat and explode! I'm not joking... The disaster started, the driver have to off the air-cond in order to keep the bus on the road. Imagine travel on a gravel roads (even some of them are still earth roads) on an open windows... A nightmare for a traveller...

Pity on this young passenger in front of me, his smart hairs turns to blond wires...

And this is what I get for free... Its all over my body.

Half of the journey, the bus finally stop. We have to wait for about one hour for the rescue bus to pick us. The best thing is that, the bus company send us even worst bus for rescue. I shall used darker colour of jeans in the future..

Can you see the "No Smoking" sticker on the "wind-cond". Of course... because we were given free dust and smoke more that our needs for 6 hours journey..


For most develop countries, any personal car shall be change after a period of years. And there is strong rumours that Malaysian Government will follow this as a concern to the safety of the users. So... before we do it for the personal car, can we first imposed the law to the public transport? We can follow the good example from the other countries, but on Gold Arawana point of view - Think Global, Act Local!

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