Everything here is almost double the usual amount you'd find elsewhere in Malaysia. Makes me feel a little for those poor buggers who are either 1.) Naive; 2.) Desperate for food; or 3.) Stupid. Then again I guess you could also be 4.) Bleeding 50$ notes out your bum hole and thus this kinda thing doesnt really concern you. Then again if you were really bleeding money out your ass, what are you doing reading my blog? Go have diarhoea and enjoy the lottery in the morning :D
Having been exposed to all these long distance bus travels since the tender age of 17 (lol tender), I can safely say that I have grown numb to long, eventless bus trips. Which is good, because it teaches patience- a journey from melaka to kuala lumpur can easily set you back 2 and a half hours of your life, and the journey from melaka to singapore stretches a whopping 4 and a half hours (which you'll never get back). Apart from bus rides, I've also had the unfortunate pleasure of waiting in transit (4 hours), waiting for my dental appointment (3.5 hours average), waiting for my results (2 weeks), waiting for her to say yes (longest minutes of my life so far), waiting for the sun to set (~10 hours), waiting in a superb traffic jam (12 hours) and waiting for my bro to realize that my parents don't hate him (still waiting).
Hours of fun and excitementCompared to all these epic waits, I scoff when a friend (or my girl) walks up to me 30 mins later (or 15 for my girl, she's never late usually) than our promised time (but that doesn't mean you can start showing up later and later cuz I'm used to it). I could probably start a book about the fine and subtle art of waiting and how it affects mentality. Yes, I said mentality. For what better thing to do when a person waits then to... exercise your brain? No? You believe there are better things to do? Well let's see:
i.) Checking out the scenery
Yah sure, this seems plausible.. for the first 10 mins. After that you realize that you've been staring at that freaking plant forever. Or that really hot chick you noticed walking by for a fleeting instant isn't going to turn back and write her number on your lips (Unless you stalk her). No Bollywood dancers are going to magically fall in line out of the crowd. And (hopefully), no Al Qaeda member is gonna be on a bus, or a dental clinic. Better check for suspicious looking men in the airport in transit though!
ii.) Checking out the 'scenery'
Gets old after awhile. The male eyes can only absorb and filter so many beautiful women amongst a sea of 'not my type's and 'measurements no enough' before he resigns to his fate- that these women are like designer clothes in high end boutiques- SEE ONLY, DON'T TOUCH. And heck, if you are thinking at this moment "Hey, I can afford designer clothes.. means I can touch right?", then you are rich and can afford to pay premiums. Hence you don't actually have to partake in any waiting ("why take bus when i have private jet") and need to gtfo reading my blog =P
Hey, the water looks really good..iii.) Doing 'Sudoku' puzzles
If you're doing the easy one, get a life.
If you're doing medium, you could probably last about 20% of the book.
If you're doing hard, and have advanced past 5 hard puzzles without cheating, you should probably be in a Sudoku championship. Probably on the bottom ladder, but at least you're not waiting ^_^ v
iv.) Turning on your laptop for some videos, awesome!
If you're like me, you'd probably get as far as one episode of any series, tops, before your laptop decides that its had it and the battery goes for a vacation in Hawaii.
v.) Turning on your laptop for some Games
LOL GAMES ON BATTERY POWER LOLOL
vi.) Listening to your mp3 collection
If you're using a laptop to do so, see (iv.) If you're using an iPod, I hate you. Oh yeah, and this is probably the only viable option... provided you have an extensive enough song list. Otherwise, get ready to memorize your whole songlist, their associated lyrics, and the order in which the 'random' songs are gonna be played.
vii.) Sleep
Try sleeping on a rickety bus; in an airport in broad daylight; or outside the clinic where you might miss your call. I dare you.
"So what to do?", you ask. "What the fark you suggest now since u covered all the base things ppl do? Isn't Sudoku exercising your brain? HUH" Well yes, but I meant a different kind of exercising. Any normal waiting period between 2 and 3 hours should be possible to survive if one follos all the steps lined out above.
Mark my words: there will be a time when you reach a threshold. A time, when you've done all those steps- and you're barely halfway through the wait. In that time SOMEBODY GONNA GET HURT REAL BAD! Sorry couldn't resist hehe. This is when you reach your moment of Zen: When you begin to reflect on what has happened. What you plan for the future. The kind of person you want to be. Sometimes it can be surreal. Sometimes it's just amusing to realize how you can remember all the little bits that people do that define who they are. Sometimes its horrifying because people can realize they're become everything they said they wouldn't. Sometimes people just think too much and try to act all wise that when they originally just intend to simply type on the keyboard for farks sake, and to pass time, they end up with a long blog post that has no meaning whatsoever, and they forget what they were saying.
Now what was I saying?
" My heart goes sha-la-la-la-la.. "
