I'm back in KL. Have been sleeping the whole afternoon as I didn't get much snooze time in the bus. The journey was bumpier than usual, which explains why I kept waking up every few minutes. Other than that, it took the bus 3 and a half hours to reach it's destination. Now for those who travel from KL to Penang by bus regularly, you would notice that the travel period is insanely short. Reason being the bus driver was under the delusion that he was transporting a busload of pregnant ladies about to due towards Sg. Buloh Hospital. However, he overshot and decided to drop "the pregnant ladies" in One Utama in hopes that the bliss of shopping would make them forget about giving birth. Enough of lame sarcasm, I requested dad to purchase my return tickets from a bus company called "5 Star" because I found out that the busses from that particular company does drop-offs at 1U aside from Puduraya. This is convenient to me as my condo is just another 5 minutes bus ride away from the mall. Having said that, I think I got ripoff for about RM 5 from that bus company. A regular ticket cost RM 35 for a single journey from PG to KL vice versa but my dad paid RM 40 for that ticket! According to to the person selling the tickets, the extra cost was for those who are getting off at 1U. Okay, that's a little pricey for the difference in distance between 1U and Puduraya but I'm willing to overlook that handicap since they are not forcing us to buy the tickets from them right? NO! Not when I found out that they are actually required to stop at 1U anyway so it's not really an extra service and the most ridiculous thing has to be that the stop at 1U is actually before the stop at Puduraya meaning we are paying extra for a shorter distance? Might as well purchase a ticket to Puduraya and walk off the bus when it reaches 1U without getting charged extra. What are they gonna do? Tie me to my seat until I reach Puduraya? Those dumb fucks must have been looking forward to earning some extra cash using cheap tactics like this. Anyway, thank god for the safe journey!
Gosh... 3 days of holidays seems a little short eh? My lovely island is still the same as ever with the exception of some new structures here and there. Somehow, I don't wish for some rapid development to take place in Penang anytime soon. I don't think we are ready for it, yet. Will discuss about it some other time, if I'm hardworking :P I managed to catch up with my good pals over delicious food and also celebrate me mum's 25th birthday hehe... Guess this short break should be enough to get me through my last month of internship. In the mean time, I got to kick my lazy ass and start to clean up my jungle of a room. Gotta go, just spotted a spide.. giant tarantula.
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