Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:32 AM
taking the bus has become an unpleasant experience. it shows all the bad side of human nature.

you stand in the queue waiting very long for the bus. you are standing at the back of the queue, and you wonder if you are gonna get a seat when you board the bus.

the bus finally arrives. you pick up your grocery bag which you have laid on the floor and paces as the crowd moves forward. as you walk up the steps, the bus driver has his eyes fixed onto you. you tap the card. 'tit tit tit tit' the card reader says 'error' and flashes red. you tap again. 'tit tit'. green light. the guy behind you makes that irritating 'tsek' sound as he grumpily moves to the other card reader as if it was my fault that the card reader could not sensor my card and as if the other card reader was miles away. the driver looks at me again. 'girl, let me see your card.' i show him my card. he looks at it-the picture- and lets me go. as if i look like a working adult.

i move into the body of the bus. i was right. too crowded for there to be a seat for me. i stand amidst the crowd of standing passengers and hold on to the grip. i look around me. a whole row of people standing beside me, like a phospholipid bilayer coz there's two rows of handles, and people are sitting on the outside of the TWO seater. nobody, no plastic bags even. just one person sitting on the TWO seater. and then there were the two three seaters. one person, empty, one person. as if trying to say, if u want to sit just sit la.not tat we nv leave a space for you. see, in the middle is empty, just tat u dun wanna sit. yar, as if anyone would want to squeeze themselves into that space no bigger than a slit. figure the amount of space if the two had sitted next to each other. it's so difficult to move inwards nowadays eh?

i stood truout the journey, enduring with loud mp3s, grumpy folks, lovey-doveys, loud complains, occasional sudden car brakes, sometimes some strange odours, sometimes people whom i dun wanna meet.

and then i reach my destination. i get down the bus.

i am relieved.

:D cos' just now tat experience is a merger with that on an mrt train. horrible oso. squeezing in the train lyk nobody's business, dun let the pple inside to even haf the chance to step out of the train.

and yes. student camp's coming in one day! exciting yar, but the tot of a need to pia chem after tat totally puts me off yuck. but 5 days student camp!yea! hope it wld be good..hope the first year of being zu zhang will go on fine with a grp of npccs..:D:D gogo..