Journey to Johor
Almost no plan, we three — myself, flatmate, and officemate — went to Johor Bahru, Malaysia. We thought it’s better than doing nothing at home. So we got the bus 950 from Woodland Regional Interchange, that is the bus from Woodland Singapore to Kotaraya Malaysia. Qeueuing not too long for the bus, but many people also, may be because this is long weekend, tomorrow is monday and holiday for Deepavali –Indian people festival–.
I think no more than 10 minutes, the bus stop, all passenger alight for passport checking in Check Point Authority of Singapore, then continue. Second time and for last time we stop again, now in Check Point Authority of Malaysia, after no more than 5 minutes journey I think. And,, fyuh… so many people there, queueing so messy, so I called BBQ –barbarqueue–. There is a guy sit behind the desk, writing on "white card"; hm,, he is what we call "calo" in Indonesia 
, fuh… Malaysia is similar to Indonesia.
Waw, 30 minutes has over, still queueing. I look a couple Singaporean with their friend cut the queue by making new queue. he he.. I follow them. As I predict, somebody will complain, an old man told to me, "where is your queue?", I just said "this, I just follow them". FYI, his wife –i think– just complain to my friend before by saying "Hey you cut queue, shame!". Agh, don’t care, who wrong? 
(ngeles) why the security guy don’t take an action. I saw them just stand on front, watching to the messy queue. Fyuh…
Around 1 hour has passed. My queueing was completed. Ah, I can breath free… free? I don’t think so, some disturbing smell outside. Aiyah, teh environtment outside not so good, it seem like the cities in Indonesia, almost no different. We went to food court to fill up our hungry stomach. Because I confuse to choose, I just choose ‘nasi goreng ayam’ and hot milk tea, all are RM 7 –ringgit malay.–. We continue to see some building in Johor, not too many.
(image: near Indian market)
Ah, no plan, no guide, so no direction. After go around, shopping a little, we don’t know to where we have to go. No choice, go random! We got a bus to Kota Masai, and just said to bus captain, "ke kota masai", and paid RM 3 and 40 cents. Not like in Singapore, we still pay by cash here. 3 or 4 hour journey until we back to original point 
. We don’t where we have to alight, so just waiting for interesting place, and it bring us back to original point. Not bad, we just look the Malaysian people’s life, children play around, mother with her kid gather with another neighbour. I think it’s nice to live here, althought the transport not as good as in S’pore.
Last thing to do, dinner! I choose ’sop daging kambing’, hm,,, nice. But the environment not so good, food booth at Pasar Balubur in Bandung is slighlty better. So, what I got from Johor are physicaly look-like this below. T-shirt, Tolak Angin herbal made in Indonesia, and some of ringgit.
(image: handgift if you pretend it as handgift)
Then go home. Again, BBQ (affirmation: BarBarQueue). I thought, "whether Malaysian people don’t be shame, here in check point there are people from almost around the world, I saw from their passport: Singapore, Indonesia, Nepal, India, Kazakstan, Korea, United State".
We thought it will be too long and too crowded if using bus, so we use "FOOT", we walking from Malaysia to Singapore. Don’t thinking it’s so hard, only around 20 minutes untill we reach check point of Singapore. Ah, here is more tidy, and no BBQ 
. I took bus for 2 stops, then train for 1 stop, then go home.
That’s all my long weekend, as I remember 
