Mon 13 Jul 2009
Catching a bus back to KL ain’t an easy job. I arrived at Larkin bus station at 2pm this Sunday, expecting to meet a bunch of people calling up to me asking me to get on their buses. Surprisingly, none came. So I proceeded to the counters asking for a ticket to the next bus, but they told me 5pm was the earliest one back to KL. Lost… I wandered around hoping to bump into someone shouting KL! KL!
2.30pm: I walked up to a KL bus asking whether there was still any more space, he said no, next one was 3.30pm. Ok… I thought whatever, I might just get it first before it gets sold out
3.30pm: No bus came.
4.00pm: Same thing happened.
4.30pm: Well, finally the ticket guy came over and asked us to follow him… to a normal bus that has 3 seats per row! Not your average intercity coaches that you can sit comfortably but those that you need to cramp up with your mates. Remember those school buses you traveled to school last time? Yeah, you get the idea. Luckily, it turned out that we were only taking this bus to Tampoi where we would change into another normal coach. That was heartening. But some Chinese lady sitting in front couldn’t take this news. What was offered to her when she bought the ticket was a non-stop bus direct to KL. This bus would drop some people of at Seremban first after changing at Tampoi before making it to the final stop. She started making a huge fuss out of it and tried to rally the rest of the passengers on the bus to complain at the bus company. She asked for a refund and said that she would write to the newspapers and all sorts.
For me, it was just another sickening bus ride between JB and KL. (more…)
Mr. Birthday Guy
