MY PECULIAR INTEREST : PASSION TOWARDS BUSES...
Hey
guys, nice to meet you all. Hope that you all interested to listen to my story.
All of you must have something to love (I mean in the material aspect, I don't
care about your loving partner), and for me, things that I love so hard is no
other than a long, big vehicle called bus. Before that, question might lingers
in your head right? Mainly arouse about "Why buses, not cars?". Okay,
I will answer you. If you do know me before, then you must know that I came
from a quite low-income family background. Since I was a child, our family
members lived without any motorised vehicles, neither cars nor motorcycles. The
word such as 'Driving License' and 'Road Tax' were never exist in our family
dictionary. In order for us to mobilize from one place to another (our home
until now were still in Selayang, Selangor), there is only one considerable
alternative; moving by long diesel-powered vehicle which was prominent as BUS.
Have all of you seen
this kind of bus before? I bet few of you nowadays have ever know this name.
INTRAKOTA CONSOLIDATED BHD (city buses), established in 1994 (our year of
birth), this company was formed by the government's intention to provide a
European-like mode of transport, replacing the existing problematic Mini Buses
which crawls the daily crowd of Kuala Lumpur's road in that era. In the
Intrakota bus, lies 1001 memories with all of my family members, especially my
father (passed away at 5th of May 2012, Al-Fatihah), which he always have me to
hang around with him in the city of Kuala Lumpur. My father, which works as
cobbler in the pavement of Kuala Lumpur city went to his workplace everyday by
this bus. It was almost every school weekends, he brought me together to his
workplace, sometimes with my little brother. I enjoyed most of the time being
on the bus, always ask my father for tickets purchased on board, enthusiastic
with the digital destination board, memorised the name of air-conditioning unit
of the bus and bus plate number (I still remember of Denso, Sutera and Sutrak)
and listen to the loud engine sound. This buses, powered by MAN
(Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg, a German-based heavy vehicles manufacturer)
SL252 engine were famous with its 'roaring' sound in the city of Kuala Lumpur,
sometimes, it engine can be heard from a range of 300 meters from it. No wonder
it roars, if you see the MAN emblem at the bus, you will see a lion icon.
Hahaha, if my little
brother follows us, it would be his nightmare. Oppositely, he hates being on
board in the bus. I don't know why, but every time he's travelling with bus, he
will have headache and then vomit. Instead of normal people having 'seasick', I
think he have the 'bus-sick' syndrome. Every time he travels with us, we have
to prepare a vomiting bag, if not, he will synchronize his nightmare to the bus
driver, which the bus driver have to clean up his 'precious-gift' at the end of
his working hours back at the depot. The sound of the bus engine were like
music for me, but for my brother, it were like the horror sound effect in the
'Slender-Man' (horror game).
TO BE
CONTINUED...
Prepared
by:
MUHAMMAD
ZAKRI BIN ZAINUR
18459
FOUDATION MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MAY 2012 INTAKE
TUTORIAL
GROUP 11
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