Because I still have to earn my keep, I have to travel to
Singapore for meetings frequently. In between meeting, I usually swing over to
Kuala Lumpur to park myself there. I keep a small pad at the Saujana resort.
To-and-fro Singapore, Firefly is obviously most convenient for me. However, I
also use the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur coach service that operates from the ground
floor of the building where my Singapore office is. The coaches are clean and
spacious and I can lay back to enjoy the smooth and scenic ride.
Year-in-and-year-out, you see the same mad rush, especially during weekends and holidays. Strangely, the authorities appear totally oblivious to the plight of travelers. The officers are certainly not derelict in their duty. You also don’t need a McKinsey to help solve the problem.
But there is something always dread about this coach
journey: the Immigration and Customs check-point at Johor Bahru. It reminds me
one of the first lessons I learned in Physics in Form Five: Newton's Law of
Inertia. An object at
rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed
and in the same direction unless acted upon by an
unbalanced force.
Year-in-and-year-out, you see the same mad rush, especially during weekends and holidays. Strangely, the authorities appear totally oblivious to the plight of travelers. The officers are certainly not derelict in their duty. You also don’t need a McKinsey to help solve the problem.
I suspect, like many things in Malaysia, everything boils
down to this Law of Inertia! It stays in the same state because it has yet to
be given a push by someone at the top!
And the someone at the top has not heard of MBWA – Managing by
Walking About!
Or is there more to it than meets the eye? We Malaysians are
damn good in Conspiracy Theories, aren’t we?
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