Sleepless Bus Journey

I used to feel proud of my ability to sleep for the whole bus journey from JB to A/S. It is a torture for some people who hardly sleep throughout the 10-12 hours bus journey from the south of Malaysia to the North of Malaysia. Having to stay in a space of less than 1m3, with limited leg space, sometimes bumpy bus is someone who stay and work far away from home need to experience. Some people that i know would try to cut down the frequency of going back home so as to avoid the needs of traveling long hour by bus.But this is not a fear factor for me and i have been traveling back home once a month for the past 11mths since i started working.

To add on to the suffering journey is the need to travel from Spore to Johor. Though it is only seperated by a bridge with Spore & Msia customs each at both end,you hardly imagine the time you need to spend to cross the bridge when there is a traffic jam. And it is very common, for you to spend one hour for the journey that only seperated <2km away. Time spend including the bus waiting time (unimaginable long queue), custom clearance (another unimaginable long queue) + 10min from JB custom to the larkin bus station.(a bus terminal for long and short journey bus). Everytime, whenever i reach the Larkin terminal, i will be drench wet because of sweating( not kidding..)

You might be wondering why i still prefer to travel back to my hometown from Johor instead of the hassel free journey by boarding the bus from spore?? One ( and used to be the major)factor is because of the cost of traveling back from Johor is much cheaper ( as of now traveling back from Johor cost me RM60 while traveling back from Spore will cost me SGD54). Going back frm Spore cost more than twice more expensive. The 2nd factor is that it motivate me to work harder, earn more money so that i can escape from this ran race society. I wonder how many of you ever think of the following:
1) How many hours have been wasted by all M'sian who travel through n forth between JB and Spore?----Everyday, there are more than 40,000 msian workers travel from JB to Spore. Considering each worker spend (2hr+2hr) through & forth, 40,000* 4hrs = 160,000hrs. (actual case the total would be much higher)
Do you know 160,000 hrs is equivalent to 18.3yrs? How many 18yrs do you have in your life??
I think now you know why i said it motivates me to work harder. It is because of the feeling: 1)I feel that im very lucky for not facing this trouble and 2) Everytime, i feel pity for those having to travel 4 hrs to work and feel angry at those who make this happen..both msia & spore goverment....no matter what is the reasons behind this heavy jam ( be it political or economic concern )both should look into solutions to expand or rebuild the super old bridge which is also a symbolic of the tie between the two countries. I do not know when can this happen, but i hope it can be in the shortest time possible. These 2 reasons push me and give me energy to achieve greater height in my life.

Now i realise that im out of topic...but im not as the moment i wrote about traveling frm spore to JB to board the bus...the fire burns in my heart....i think that's how i train emotion control capability ....no pain no gain .

I guess i will post another tread as i forsee it will be another long post in order to summarise what i had gone through in my mind while traveling back home last week.......