bus adventure #3.

i sent this to mpmum@um.edu.my. went to Legend Hotel to meet family cuz sis' convocation was today, so i couldn't update the blog for three days. now that i can, kinda lazy. =P so some copy-pasting here. still an original piece ok.

7 AUGUST 2009 (FRIDAY)
Report #1:
• Location: Faculty of Law
• Bus Registration Numbers: WJM 5199, WAD 5954, WKG 8444
• Started waiting at: 11.45 AM
• Time(s): 11.55 AM, 11.55 AM, 11.58 AM, respectively

• Comments:
1. I waited 15 minutes under the hot sun because the bus stop at the Faculty of Law has no shade to stand under except the big tree which won’t do very much to help on a rainy day (I can’t emphasize this enough).

2. The buses did not stop for me. In my three days’ worth of surveying, I noticed the buses only stop at the Faculty when there are passengers getting off the bus. Again, clarification needed as to whether the bus stop at the Faculty is for unboarding, or for boarding also. If it is only to drop passengers, then where are we supposed to wait? The Bus Terminal? Again, it is impractical!

3. Suggestion: May I please suggest that the buses stop at the Faculty’s bus stop when there are people waiting? The buses do that for every other stop and I do not understand why they cannot do so for this Faculty.

4. Query: How eye-catching must I be to get the bus to stop? I’m beginning to think I should do the chicken dance. (Sarcasm is due to frustration. Please excuse me.)

5. I gave up waiting and asked my friend to get me so I could get to the Damansara Gate.


Report #2
• Location: 10th RC
• Bus Registration Number: WKG 8428, Jalan 1
• Started waiting at: 12.10 PM
• Time of Bus’ Arrival: 12.15 PM

• Comments:
1. Good. Nothing much to complain about.

2. Except it’s quite inconvenient to have to wobble down the aisle to tell the bus driver to stop at the Faculty. I understand that it would be a stupid idea to ask to install bells in the bus, but can clarification please be made to students from the Faculty so that they know what to do. The Faculty’s students are usually made to get down at the Faculty of Engineering or 2nd RC and walk to the Faculty because they do not know of this. Sometimes they inform the bus driver when they board the bus and he forgets.


Report #3
• Location: Bus stop behind main library
• Bus Registration Number: WJL 5199
• Started waiting at: Er, forgot to record. =P Wasn’t that far from time of arrival.
• Time of Bus’ Arrival: 3.40 PM

• Comments:
1. Good. Nothing much to complain about.

2. Same thing with the absence of bus bells. Had to wobble down the aisle.