Half a semester has gone, I have started to enjoy college life. But for the time period, I have been suffering more from travelling back home with KTM. The magnitude of suffering is greater than that of enjoying. In a nutshell, I'm pissed.
I wonder how do they operate this company? In Economics, the goal of firms are assumed to be maximizing their profit. Well in this case, yeah I agree with it 100%. They are trying to maximize their profit without taking the consumers' feelings into consideration. Taking the Pelabuhan Klang-Sentul route as example, there isn't any close substitutes like LRT to KTM. There are buses, but that would be a little bit troublesome. Anyway, that is not my main concern as this posts wasn't meant to criticize much about KTM, but the passengers.
I always observe 3 kinds of phenomenon while I was waiting for and riding the train, especially Tuesdays and Thursdays, due to classes of these 2 days end relatively late @ 5pm. By the time I reached there it will always be so damn crowded. And of course, with the so-called "Q-System" implemented by KTMB, passengers will have to listen to broadcasts and then line up on one of the coloured(red, blue, green) lines according to the broadcast. It failed. Why? Well, do you ever think that typical Malaysians will give a damn about this? From my observations this far, a portion of the passengers has colour-blindness(no offence). For example, when we are asked to queue up on the green line, I can always see that there are surely some people that queue up on different coloured lines(excluding late-comers, since the frequency of useful broadcasts is only as high as the frequency of the train). Well, I wouldn't be mad at them, because they have health problem what..I never knew that there are so many people in Malaysia have colour-blindness, I felt sorry for them.
And then there are the "smart" ones, in even larger quantities or just the same as colour-blinded people. Ever heard of the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes" or something similar? These "smart" people are able to see "lines" invisible to the "stupid" ones, e.g. me. So in other words, they just line up where ever they see fit a.k.a. cut queue. I'm sure that annoyed the "stupid" ones that lined up properly on the respective lines.
And when the train finally arrives, some bastards behind will just keep on pushing and pushing...well I shouldn't call them bastards, because I would've become an "induced bastard" in this situation and pushing others in order to prevent me from being completely sandwiched. Even if the train is really full, they will still try to squeeze in no matter what. "Who cares? I pushing ma, you pain not me" might be one of their mentalities, or, they are perverted. A tip for all of you, try to get as inside as possible(nowhere near the doors), the doors are the worst ever place to be near with following the above situation given.
There are those so-called polices and a few KTMB personnels supervising the passengers' movement, i.e. call boarding passenger to let disembarking passengers out first. But most of the time they just call passengers to pack up the train until the maximum point. What's the point man? I was expecting that their presence was to prevent queue-cutters.
Little do I know that if the company set up those stacking steel queue bars(I don't know how to describe it lol, imagine those bars that you line up with when you're in a theme park) instead of employing this "Q-System", everything would have been more organized. Anyone seconded on this?
Anyway, I'm most probably going to drive to ICSJ as soon as I got familiar on the way back. So, I can most probably kiss(my @$$, it should be kick) KTM goodbye. But by then, you might see me complaining about traffic jams. Looks like studying there wasn't a nice choice at the first place after all.
Jun 27, 2009
Jun 14, 2009
Being introvert = mentally ill?
Finally there's this serious matter that came across my mind about myself. Am I born to be an introvert or was I forced by myself to be an introvert? I've always thought that I fully understand myself, but it seems like that's not the case now.
After six weeks in the new environment, I think I still haven't talk more than 100 sentences, be it short or long. Let alone making (true) friends. I envied those who said that they made dozens of friends in just 3 days. To me, to be able to make 5 friends in a year is already a great achievement. Other than classes, I would spend 99% of my time alone at either the cafeteria or the library. That's what made myself felt very different from the others, that I deserved to be isolated. And then I started to relate myself with all kinds of mental illness because I've yet to see other people as pathetic as me. It was painful.
I was always told that time will change everything. Yes it did. But for me it's more to a destructive change rather than a constructive one. The only place I can talk well in is the Internet. But then my mom said that my addiction towards computer is the cause of my present state. That made me even more miserable.
Recently I Googled about introversion to find if it's really a kind of mental illness or something. I was given informations that introversion is just a kind of personality. For mental illness, that would be autism, but I know I'm not that kind of person that locks myself in my room and won't face or talk to everyone. I'm just an introvert among many other introverts that I haven't met before that lives in an extroverted world. Instead of changing my personality, I could adapt to this world slowly. No point changing myself to lose my own self, for now.
Although introverts are usually misunderstood, we tend to make less friends when we don't reply much to others when they talk to us. When I say don't know, I mean it, not because I'm too kiasu to teach. Humans are social animals regardless of their personality, and everyone would like to have some friends as their companion. It's just that the way introverts make and define friends differently from extroverts. Just because introverts have their own set of rules, they should not always be labelled differently. Being introverted has its advantages too, though it differs with each individual:
For any other introverts out there (I just know there aren't any introverts here because I know who are my readers), visit these extra links and you might find it useful. Extroverts ignore these unless you would like to know more about introverts.
The Introvert's Personality Traits
What Introversion is NOT
So, don't worry, be happy. I shouldn't be worrying about my introverted problem now, but my 3 tests starting tomorrow. Holy cow I picked the wrongest time to do these. Bloody hell.
(A somehow hanging post, because I was interrupted by my sleep yesterday night. It was supposed to be posted yesterday, now my thoughts got lost.)
After six weeks in the new environment, I think I still haven't talk more than 100 sentences, be it short or long. Let alone making (true) friends. I envied those who said that they made dozens of friends in just 3 days. To me, to be able to make 5 friends in a year is already a great achievement. Other than classes, I would spend 99% of my time alone at either the cafeteria or the library. That's what made myself felt very different from the others, that I deserved to be isolated. And then I started to relate myself with all kinds of mental illness because I've yet to see other people as pathetic as me. It was painful.
I was always told that time will change everything. Yes it did. But for me it's more to a destructive change rather than a constructive one. The only place I can talk well in is the Internet. But then my mom said that my addiction towards computer is the cause of my present state. That made me even more miserable.
Recently I Googled about introversion to find if it's really a kind of mental illness or something. I was given informations that introversion is just a kind of personality. For mental illness, that would be autism, but I know I'm not that kind of person that locks myself in my room and won't face or talk to everyone. I'm just an introvert among many other introverts that I haven't met before that lives in an extroverted world. Instead of changing my personality, I could adapt to this world slowly. No point changing myself to lose my own self, for now.
Although introverts are usually misunderstood, we tend to make less friends when we don't reply much to others when they talk to us. When I say don't know, I mean it, not because I'm too kiasu to teach. Humans are social animals regardless of their personality, and everyone would like to have some friends as their companion. It's just that the way introverts make and define friends differently from extroverts. Just because introverts have their own set of rules, they should not always be labelled differently. Being introverted has its advantages too, though it differs with each individual:
10) Work Well With Others, Especially In One-to-One RelationshipsSource: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/top-10-advantages-of-introvert.html
9) Maintain Long-Term Friendships
8) Flexible
7) Independent
6) Strong Ability To Concentrate
5) Self-Reflective
4) Responsible
3) Creative, Out-of-the-Box thinking
2) Analytical Skills That Integrate Complexity
1) Studious and Smart
For any other introverts out there (I just know there aren't any introverts here because I know who are my readers), visit these extra links and you might find it useful. Extroverts ignore these unless you would like to know more about introverts.
The Introvert's Personality Traits
What Introversion is NOT
So, don't worry, be happy. I shouldn't be worrying about my introverted problem now, but my 3 tests starting tomorrow. Holy cow I picked the wrongest time to do these. Bloody hell.
(A somehow hanging post, because I was interrupted by my sleep yesterday night. It was supposed to be posted yesterday, now my thoughts got lost.)
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