Saturday, August 19, 2006

U for Union, Union not for U

It's been 2 weeks since i last moved into my single room at Hall 10 Blk 52.
Coming all the way from centrally located Hall 2,
it's a bloody huge ass change of environment and location.
No personal toilet.
No roommate/s.
(Man, i really miss the noise that Jingyi, me and shunyi made together and what with Hsu Lin and Jocelyn living there as toilet mates now, I can't believe i'm missing out on so much fun...ARGH!)
No late canteen visits for teh peng, kopi peng, milo dinosaur.
Most of all..the lack of convenience.
The shuttle bus over this side of the world sux big time man.
F*ck!

Dear NTU Student Union,

I live in Hall 10.
And it's a helluva bitch trying to get on Shuttle Bus C during 8 30am & 10 30am.
Buses are packed so full people are in danger of getting 'kiap-ed' by the bus doors i affectionately nickname 'the kiap-ers of death'.
It's not as bad during 8 30am.
Where thankfully some Union dude had the brains to up the frequency of the buses.
But don't get me started on the 10 30am slots.

Since i was new to the whole getting to school from Hall 10 thing,
This was me last Wednesday.
I woke up an hour in advance.
Because well, i need to shower my drool away and slick down my horrible bed head.
I left my room at least 20 minutes before my class started.
Because since we have internal shuttle buses
Rides to each destination shouldn't take more than 10-15 minutes right?
(P.s. I used to only need about 5- 10minutes to get to class from Hall 2)

I arrived at the bus stop where there were already some people waiting.
Which meant i hadn't missed the shuttle bus yet.
Yay, I said happily, shouldn't be long now.
I was wrong.

I had to wait till 10 25am before the shuttle bus ambled along.
Slow and steady and absolutely packed.
Since you have absolutely ONLY 5 minutes to get to Photojournalism class.
And you know there's this possibilty your Prof, who's nice and funny but horribly anal about punctuality, might lock your sorry ass out of the class.
You jolly well squeeze that ass up the bus.

You think the bus uncle might actually just drive on and miss picking up some people because of the already crowded bus.
But NOOOOoooo....
He still stops the bus to pick people up.
Which made the already crowded bus - MASSIVELY CROWDED.
And people being in danger of being kia-ped by the doors.
The only thing that was missing were people hanging by the window grills of the bus like they do in Sri Lanka or India or wherever.
But i suspect it was only because there were no grills to hang on to on the bus.
Air con la.

The best is yet to be.
Because just 2 stops before you get off,
the shuttle bus decides to head to the interchange.
AT BLOODY 10 32am.
When everybody on the bus is absolutely late and is risking getting their asses left outside in the LTs by their anal professors.
I end up getting to class at 10 40am.
Where thank god i barged into class and sat that worried ass down on the chair so fast the prof had no chance to tell me stay out.

Uncles and Aunties at the union in charge of shuttle bus routes..
PLEASE
Increase the frequency of the buses of the C ROUTE.
Either that..
Extend the BLARDY A ROUTE to run through Halls 8,10,11,14,15,16 etc.
What is the freaking point of having shuttle buses that copy the exact same SBS bus routes?!
duh......
And my godddd..
Change the changeover time of shuttle buses to say like 10 15am or sth.
Where people are already in class
Not when they are freaking rushing for them and are in serious danger of getting locked out of class.
-Sheesh-

Posted by Cheryl at 12:03 AM