Harri Sapto WIJAYA

thursday, ordinary thursday, life as usual, cause i have to do some testing, i go home around 7.45 pm. at that time, there is company bus going to choa chu kang, but when i’ll board, it full already, so i think i only need to go to buona vista mrt station, so i just take a bus randomly. i board to blue bus.
to ensure, i ask the driver "where this bus going to?", he said "tiong bahru" (at least i hear it like that). it’s ok lah, i’ll alight at buona vista and then take train. bus moving on, i sit relax. eih, wait, why this bus turn over to unusual way, it take expressway. i hope this bus will stop at nearest mrt (you know, no body don’t want alight at expressway except he ready to pay fine).
bus move so fast, hm, this road is strange to me. clock show it’s 9 pm, the AC make me freeze and this bus not stop yet. i become worry, where this bus actually went? fhuh, is this bus really go to tiong bahru directly without stop between? i feel different souround, different people, why indian guys can speak malay, it’s strange.
damn! first time i experience traffic jam in singapore, fuh, so loooong. what’s up? some people, me too, rise up head, look around, what’s wrong? but some people looked like rilex, as it’s usual. this bus on the left side of road, right side is trailer truck, front a car trapped between this bus and next trailer. co-driver (may be) go out and look around the road condition, he said to driver to turn the bus to right and take another road. he comply. yuhu, on the right road, this bus can move faster. fuh, i feel better.
strange view again. i never seen traffic police here, but i saw several polices beside road. oh, may be because this is tiong bahru, near main city. bus queueing, front bus alighting passangers already, this bus turn. all passanger in this blue bus stepping down and enter the building that seem like mrt station at a glance. but, eih, where is place to tap EZlink card, there is only sequence of lanes, long lane. strange! i think this is not mrt station, so i turn out, agh i think i lost, just take taxi lah, this is 9.30 pm. outside, there is at least 4 police, one of them with big gun, haha, i ask this guys
"excuse me, where is nearest taxi center?",
(look like confuse, or may be sleepy)
"hah, no taxi center here"
"this is mrt?"
"oh, no no, this going to malaysia"
ALAMAAAK…mampus gua!
other police came and ask to me,
"hey, where do you go?"
i said, "i want going to tiong bahru, this is not mrt station?"
"no, this going to malaysia, where you from?"
other police came, she is female,
"where you came from? do you bring passport?"
i’m asked by 3 polices, may be they think i will do illegal cross border.
fortunately i bring EP (employment pass) in my pocket, i show it to them, female police take it and call to someone to ask, may be, wheter this EP is valid. after she close the call, the polices look ‘cool down’ (before also cool, sleepy like ). "so you lost, right?", i answer, "yah, i take wrong bus. i just want go home"
after i explain that i not going to malaysia, and just go home, the police show me the nearest bus stop. not show me, he accompany me to the bus stop. "You can wait a bus there, but i don’t know is there still bus", "no problem, i just call taxi".
fhuh, finally i arrive at admiralty (my/our rented home) by spending S$18 (compare to S$2.5 if using train).

hah, never ever go home using blue bus again.
you know, that bus has letter "BAS PEKERJA" on it. I should know what it’s mean (where it go).

 -lost is not my hobby, although often it occur to me-