Convenience or Inconvenience?

The KTM train is probably one of the types of transportation most heard of in the Klang Valley. In other countries they have their own train transport system as well. Public transport is meant to provide convenience and ease of travel. They work for more than 12 hours shift everyday. However there are convenience and also inconvenience in taking the public transport system.

Everyone probably agrees that Malaysia has one of the lousiest transport systems other than Kuala Lumpur’s LRT and Monorial. Apart from these two, everything else is just screwed up. I want to bring your attention to the KTM train system in this post of mine today.

I use the KTM everyday to go to college and including Sundays when I have to go to Petaling Jaya for my magician meeting. So basically I use the KTM 6 days a week, 4 weeks a month, 12 months a year. Phew! That is one whole lot of tickets haha. There are times when the KTM comes a little late and sometimes very late. Apart from that, sometimes the trains get stranded halfway on its journey and it remains still for like an hour. Sometimes two hours. My neighbor went through four hours! Gosh! And this is when all the cursing and swearing comes out. “Stupid KTM! Useless! Malaysia’s transport system like crap.” And it goes on.

Just last week on the way back from KL, the train had some problem and had to stop in Setia Jaya. The train operator told us to wait for the next train coming on another lane. So all of us got out of the train, I have to admit I was quite frustrated as well. It was a long and tiring day and I just can’t wait to get back home and sleep. I do not know whether my estimation was right but I think there were roughly 200 people who got out of the train and waited for the next train. Look at the pictures, you can judge for yourself the amount of people and the amount of stink! Haha.

The next train came and to everyone’s dismay, the train was FULL! The amount of people in the train was same as the amount of people waiting outside. There were a lot of groans from the waiting passengers including me. But I decided to be a typical Malaysian and try to put myself above everyone else and try to squeeze my way into the already full train. Did I mention with me was Jolene and Simon Kong? Haha. The three of us had to try our best to be as thin as possible to get on the same train and head home. After much squeezing and tasting of people’s sweat, we all managed to get in. The doors literally closed with some people’s butt sticking out haha. My oh my was I glad to get in…

So here goes the question. Should I be angry because the train broke down or should I be glad that there actually was KTM to make our travel easier although not faster?

Do we ever think of the many times where the train comes in time? Every morning, the train at my place arrives 8.05 A.M. sharp. However there were times the train delays for 20 minutes and 40 minutes. Come to think of it, life would be much harder if the KTM never existed. I would have to drive to college from my house everyday and face the jam and build up my high blood pressure. Life would be much harder for us teenagers without car license. When we need to go to Sunway Pyramid to celebrate our friend’s birthday we rely on the KTM train to take us there. When we need to go to KL for shopping we also rely on the KTM. Of course there are teenagers who are really blessed with transporters to take them everywhere they want to go but I am talking about the many people who can’t afford to pay for petrol nowadays.

So is the KTM an inconvenience or convenience?

You see, people view different things in different ways. One sees the cup half full while the other sees it half empty. Do you know that the way you view the world will determine the way you will change it?

Also keep in mind that we cannot have the best of both worlds. We cannot expect everything to be perfect and going the way we want it to go. This will not happen because people may fail, computers may fail, electricity may fail, and something somewhere will go wrong and affect many other things.

But rest be assured that one person will never fail on you. That very person is GOD.

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By the way… KTM should improve on their services, so does many other public transportations but… thank God for KTM =)

Always look on the bright side but don’t fool yourselves with an imaginary light.



There were a lot more people who weren't in front of the camera's eyes. Can you imagine the amount of people waiting to get on the next train? Survival of the fittest yo! haha.