Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

My conscience hit where it hurt the most: right in front of my thoughts. I was typing about being nervous to be the over-aged applicant in a local polytechnic, but I couldn’t sensibly write with it hanging in my mind. Kind of like a jab in the ribs, but inside my head.

After recoiling, it took me a few minutes to hunt for my digital camera. The Casio QV-R61 decided to hide itself when I needed it the most. Pretty sneaky, though a quick call to my Mom (whom was irritated that I had to bother her, since it was, after all my stuff, and my own fault that I am living like a pig without hygiene problems).

It wasn’t among the mountain on the computer desk, nor the one where I kept all my sleeping-reading materials. I found it in a drawer instead. There must have been 6 months since I last used it, which would have enabled the Leak of Death to consume the nodes in its green oxidation glory (also known in short for being spoilt). Luckily, there was no sign of that, which made me very happy.

Here are some snapshots of my Malaysian trip back in June 2006. It was that long ago!

I took this photograph at the Yong Peng rest stop in Malaysia. The drivers need to eat mid-way through the 6-hour jouney, and we stopped just north of Batu Pahat (which is currently flooded because of the monsoon). Just barely 6 months ago it was scorching!

The elaborately painted bus that you see here was the one I took for the trip. The 24-seater features an individual entertainment system at each seat, like most modern commercial airliners. Of course, everything is held in place by “air-suspension”. I have no idea how they manage to do that, but it is a really comfortable ride.

The seat was cushy and broad, probably large enough to house an average non-asian. My Mom is always big on saving money, which makes this bus trip a very unusual luxury. I had bought the tickets to Kedah initially (economy), since we wanted to visit my maternal grandmother for her birthday; but later they decided to do it all in K.L., and we had to rush down to the agent to have the tickets changed.

They didn’t want to change the ticket to economy for Kuala Lumpur, since they do not refund the difference in price for the nearer destination. In the end, we settled for the VVIP bus to K.L., with a minor price difference from the original ticket, but with all the frills.

A view of the on-board entertainment system from my seat. The sunlight was very bright that morning, you can see my reflection in the blank monitor screen. You can watch pre-loaded movies, listen to the very recent music collection, or play games with it, much like the one you see mounted in the aeroplanes these days. The only thing they don’t do is display the current location of the bus. That would have been very cool!

That’s all for this batch of photographs. There’s more to come in a bunch, but that will have to be in another post.

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