I think I need to puke. Big time.
This is the result of getting stuck for an hr in a darkly-lit, sauna-like, spots-blotched room, followed by another 0.5hr in an equally poorly-ventilated train with hundreds of other perspiring souls who were also reaching their fainting thresholds. This is a place where 'ventilation' is a virtual aLiEN. God save Homo sapiens.
This afternoon, on impulse, I went with an uncle, two aunts & a dad to JB for a makan-jalan session. BIG MISTAKE. Don't misunderstand, JB's great, with lots of cheap buys and sinfully delicious food (we had today - herbal duck, butter prawns, golden-fried beancurd, braised fatty pork..). But to bash in and then try to wriggle out on a public holiday is utter NUTS. You must be tired of living.
The queues at customs on our return trip back to Little Red Dot, were out of the world. A scene straight from Class A++ Horror movies. Hundreds of sweaty bodies squeezed together like sardines, I think everyone of them could have screamed 'MOLEST'. We decided to try the trains instead. An equally BAD, if not WORSE, idea. This was the place where I very nearly suffocated & puked at the same time. Zero ventilation. It's like us slowly steaming away in a claypot... I usually have pretty high tolerance level towards all kinds of sub-standard conditions, but this time, I don't know... Maybe it's PMS or something. At that moment, I was ready to qUiT and pay for a night at some JB hotels with my relatives. Anything, to get out of this terrible terrible terrible mess.
Anyway... one bottle of sour prunes & 2hrs later, I made it back to homeground. Alive. But traumatized. I don't think I would ever cross the border on a public holiday again. EEeeeksss...
I'm still feeling puke-ish right now... X'cuse moi, I need to go get my paper bag.
Don't say you haven't been warned.
3 comments:
Haha.. this's quite a funny entry! But I can imagine the situation... Is it faster to take the train? Thought there're many buses plying this JB-Sin route now?
it's not funny. it's TRAGIC! yah, there are many buses plying the JB-S'pore route, but the whole bridge is clogged full with all big buses/cars/motorbikes! it doesn't matter how many buses there are if none can move... right? in that suana train, every sec felt like an hour. so ans to ur qn is subjective. PuKe.
hmm..
my friends are asking me to go jb this weekend..
was not very keen..
and esp so after reading ur experience..
but then again..
will i make the trip?..
as far as i know for now..
i dun have an answer....
stayed tuned..
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