buses to success

hahaha.. the title is so random.. but, i have always wanted to wrote this since a long time ago....

well, i've finished my education in university. and one of the most remembered thing during those 4 years are buses i took to go to college.. hahahaha..

my house located in a very strategic area. you can compare ur area to mine, i'm pretty sure i'll win in the aspect of strategicness (?). my house is only 3 minutes walk from grogol bus station (where you can find buses to tanjung priok, senen, kali deres, cibinong, bekasi, kp rambutan, cikarang, pulo gadung,even pekalongan, and other places in java island) and grogol busway station (which can transfer you directly to kali deres, harmoni, taman mini, lebak bulus, pluit, pgc). also only 5 minutes walk to one of the largest traditional market in jakarta, pasar grogol, and 10-15 minutes drive to 3 biggest shopping malls: citraland, taman anggrek, central park. and my house also near 2 big university, trisakti and tarumanegara,near 2 hospital sumber waras, and royal taruma, only 25 minutes walk to one of the biggest handphone center, ITC Roxy Mas.. hahaha.. how glorious my life is..

and because of that, i can take many kind of buses to go to my college, rawamangun. and during those 4 years, i've took like 8 different buses with 5 different trajects. hehehe..

during my 1st year, i took P11. it's an air conditioned bus costed IDR 5000. it can transfer me directly from grogol to rawamangun, right in front of my campus. this bus pass through sudirman, thamrin, menteng, salemba, pramuka, and ended in pulo gadung. i like the atmosphere inside the bus, but this bus is really slow.. i mean i took like almost 2 hour from grogol to rawamangun. and also, there were only a few buses. i can find it easily in the morning, cause i waited for it at their 1st stop, grogol station, but i need to wait like 15-30 minutes in rawamangun at the evening. so i rarely use this bus to get home. i often use busway.

and yes, busway is my 2nd alternative transportation. at first, i enjoyed using busway, cause i got many friends that use busway too, and i  don't need to wait for a long time. but, once i got off from campus at 5.30 o'clock, i need to wait 30 minutes to get in the bus. especially during friday evening, busway suddenly full of people.... and so, i only use busway if i got off from campus before 4 o'clock.

and there also P64, this is a mayasaribakti green ugly, notsonice bus. cost olny IDR 2500. but this bus is sooooo rare. and once it came, it always FULL of people. i hate the atmosphere of the bus. so i rarely use this bus, and i never took this bus, if i have to go to campus or go back home alone. so dangerous. my fear is proven. i watch on TV that there was someone who put pieces of human corpse on a plastic bag, under the seat of P64 bus. that was soooooooo scary. and i never use that bus again.


during my 2nd year, i use NE2 bus.... kyyaaaaa... I LOVE NE2 !!!! NE2 is a japan, green colored bus. yeah, it's unique. this bus pass through harmoni, istana negara, gambir, tugu tani, senen, salemba, pramuka and ended in rawamangun terminal. yes, this bus also can transfered me directly to my campus, within 30 minutes.and it only cost IDR 3500 but it way more comfortable than busway. it's un air conditioned, and the seat  and window was dirty too, but i stiil love NE2. hahahhahaha..

another special thing about NE2 is, there are only 4 buses and 5 drivers of NE2. so, im kinda know exactly the arrival and departure schedule and also the bus driver schedule.. lol. i still remember the looks of the driver.lol. i don't know their name, but i know them from their physical looks, mr. hat (he always use white hat), mr. kumis, mr. handsome, mr. black (he has a very dark "keling" skin), and another one is a side driver, mr. sinetron (he looks like a sinetron actor). my favorite time riding it is monday morning, the first bus. that is the schedule of my favorite bus driver, mr. handsome.lol.

and the funny thing is the passengers of 6.30am bus, everyday, are almost the same.lol. there'll always be mr. tejas, mr. austin and ms. romi (i didn't actually know their name,  it just their character perfectly fit characters from sitta karina-titanium novel.lol. well, im kinda imagine them have the triangle love story just like the novel, their face expression sometime told that.lol). and there are also 3 elderly, mr. samson, mr. kokoh, and mr. white hair (which i found out later that mr. white hair is my dad friend). and also mrs. christy (this one im pretty sure that is her name, cause i manage to found out that she is the lecturer of biology department on my campus. hehehehe.. when we met at campus, we greet each other, she even support me during my thesis presentation). and i am the last one to get off the bus, so i know where exactly where each of them destination.lol.

 i've always talked about this NE2 bus to my classmates, how i love NE2, how comfortable and nice is this bus, how is my favorite driver schedule. im kinda look like NE2 fangirl.lol.and i've been famous for my loyalty to NE2. hahahahaha..sadly, government stop this bus operation at the end of my 2nd year :( hhhuuuaa.. i really miss this bus. and this kpop girl group named 2NE1, really remind me of NE2... huhuhu TT_TT

so after the gone of NE2, and my unsatisfaction of busway and P11, i use other random buses. 213+905, 213+busway, 159+47, P7+47, P12+47, etc. my current favorite is P7+47. that is not a very safe bus, cause i've seen like 3 times of criminal happened on P7+47. and once my P7 hacked by a bunch of high school student. but that buses combination is the fastest way to transfer me grogol-rawamangun vice versa.

okay, that's it. im looking forward to read another buses story. hope my other friend wrote one too.. hahahaha...