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Blog post: Moving aroundThis forum post is dated 09/03/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Blog post: Moving around Its been 7 days since ive arrived in Malaysia and have loads of thoughts to share. Just bare with me i promise to keep it short and simple In todays post i chose to deal with transportation!If i were to describe the Malaysian environment i would pick one word: INTERACTIVITY. Unlike in the USA where everything is user friendly, simplified to the basics so that you can get around without any help, such as buying food, using public transportation, or shopping, the Malaysian way is for sure not foreigner-friendly. Taking a bus is like picking a lottery ticket and taking a taxi (teksi in Malay) a fierce negociation. Allow me to be more explicit: there is no bus schedule or itineraryso you just have to get on the bus, ask the driver if he goes to your station and pay him the amount of money he asks from you. As there is no possibility to check if the price is correct and obviously you dont speak the language in order to find out, you might get f***** a few times There are no ticket counters, so you have to rely on the driver. Kinda like the Romanian maxi-taxi sistem, only that fares differ from one bus to another, and from one stop to another. One time we ended up waiting for 1 h for bus no. 666 (yeah, uve got it the Devils line). Even more fun stuff happens on busesTrying to reach Desaru beach (http://www.myoutdoor.com/desaru/) we took a bus. A guy wearing white tennis shoes and a small backpack got in and sat next to Julio, the Mexican intern. At one point I found myself just staring at the guy thinking that he had very nice features for a Malay. Then all of a sudden i noticed he was sitting very close to Julio touching him with his leg and backpackwhat was even more weird is that he had one hand fiddling with something under the backpack strangely positioned on his knees. My first thought: What a perv!! Doing a handjob in public while touching Julio!!! Disgusting!! Only after he got off the bus did I notice that one of Julios sidepockets was open. The perv guy proved to be a very slick pickpocketer who had actually manager to steal Julios digital camera from his own pocket with me watching the entire show!! And i thought he was a perv
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