damn idiot bl**dy MILAN BUS!

UPDATED:  0515 PM:  this morning i sent out this story of mine (though with some changes) off to all the press whom i have their emails. i was quite surprised when at 5.00pm i checked malaysiakini website and see my letter on this post published!. wow! i never imagine they could published it so fast…. just several hours after i sent the letter. a reporter from the sun had called me too and asked permission to use my story in her report. let’s wait and see. i’m looking forward to my letter being published in the star too. i actually sent 2 letters to the press – one is this stranded story here, another is asking the government to stop the existing bus operators once rapidpenang take over.

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sorry for the swearing but i’m really pissed off. very very damn angry!!

yesterday i was at the jetty (penang side) to take the milan bus back to bayan baru. saw one, the 3-3 one there with nobody inside yet. that time it was about 8.50pm. after about 10mins the driver switch on the light and opened the door so i hopped in, along with 3 other persons. then we waited… and waited… some other passengers hopped in… waited… waited… 9.10pm… 9.20pm… waited… all this while the driver was sitting on a chair at the pavement chatting with his girlfriend. then i notice the driver was on the lookout for ferry commuters to come out from the ferry, hoping for some to want to take his bus. well one batch of ferry commuters came out and about 6 or so of them did board the bus… and i thought he would have get the bus going but yet he sat on the chair and chat to his girlfriend and we waited and waited…. again the driver waited for another batch of ferry commuters to come out… and this time when the bus was almost full, then only he decided to start the bus. it was 9.55pm at that time!! imagine! i had to wait for an hour for the bus to move. oh and when i gave him RM2.00, he did not change 10 cents for me, so i asked him and he said he had no change, and just leave it as that!

wait… the story get better. so the bus moved and this driver drove like a mad man, beating red lights and honking at cars at traffic queue. then when the bus was at bukit jambul, lots of passengers went down and left only 4 of us… and do you know what? he chased us down!! yes he said "ambil bas belakang" (take the bus behind you), and gave me RM1.00 back. i said "belakang mana ada bus" (where got bus?) but he ignore me. hmph! maybe he wants to get back quick to have some ‘good time’ with his girlfriend (who was in the bus with him)?? at that time it was already 10.30pm (and the last bus was usually at 10.00pm).

i had mentioned before in my post where i sent a letter to malaysiakini and the star about how once i was chased down too, so this was not the first time… but this was the first time that it happened so late. ‘bas belakang’? will there be any bus, i wonder? well, after 10 mins, a bus did arrived but when i went up the bus, the driver asked, "mana pigi?" and i replied "sunshine", he said "tak’ da pi sana. nak balik." (no go there. wanna go home already).

huh? ‘takda pi’?? what? then how? what bus can i take? will there be any more bus? i began to panic… then i have no choice but to phone my sister to ask her to come and picked me up. true enough while waiting for my sis for 15 mins, i didn’t see any bus at all! this means no more bus! can you imagine that?? what happened if it is someone who does not have anyone to call to ask for a lift? walk back home? so far and in the dark? take a taxi?

i was so MAD :mad at the drivers of the milan bus!! first of all, i had to wait so long at tthe jetty for the bus to move. ok that’s not so bad compared to… being chased down at bukit jambul when i had already paid to go to sunshine at jetty… and worst part, when there was no bus around!!! grrr!! of all the !^$*#%&!(!!!!   i must made a complain!! write to the star or phone the bus company directly. they have no right to chase me down when they are suppose to go to my destination. they have no right to wait so long (an hour!) for the bus to move. the drivers are acting like kings and we poor bus commuters are at their mercy. grrr!!!   :mad

i really hope that when rapid penang come in operation in august, the milan bus company will be kicked off to kingdom come and to hell with them!! :mad.

unfortunately just yesterday i read in the star paper, some big name person mentioned they are going to allow the existing bus companies to run even when rapid penang is here. i must write a letter soon!!! (though it won’t do much good but at least i spoke up).

i still got a lot of grumblings to do but as it is past 2.00am now, i gotta go to bed. let me fume in anger in my sleep!! :mad