District Line

I want to know - why does the District Line keep stopping inbetween or at stations for about 5 minutes each time??? It is so annoying! I guess it'll be too expensive to reconfigure the entire line, but having taken it two days in a row, it has been slightly irritating. Oh well. Rant over.

Soaked in London

It started raining in the morning and didn't let up the whole day. How depressing. It got even worse for me when, wanting to change my address, went to the bank but managed to forget my passport, meaning I wasted an hour of my life going back to get it. And I got charged an extra 1 pound 20 because I started my first bus journey before 9.30 and so didn't come under the cap. Things got less wet (but more cold) around lunchtime where I had an amazing lunch at the John Lewis cafe. It went back downhill when, after traversing nearly half of Oxford Street to find a Waterstone's so I could use my gift card only to find out their server was down and so the card couldn't be used. (On an unrelated note, why are there 2 Boots within 150m of each other near Bond Street station? It makes no sense!) And the rain started back again. Oh well. At least the train home wasn't overly crowded. So all in all, not a very good day to be going out then.

KL buses

I've just noticed, as I'm writing this. I've lived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia my whole life and I've never even taken a public bus before. Sure, I've taken long distance express buses (mostly to Singapore... well, only to Singapore) but I've never sat on a RapidKL bus before. That's mostly because I've never had a need to go on one before. Only 1 bus service, the U7 serves my area and it only goes to Chow Kit, somewhere which I have no intention of going to and hopefully never end up in, just in case I get hypnotized by someone trying to rob me (apparently a true story, although I'm not too sure myself). And also, have you seen the jams the buses get stuck in? Everytime I'm driving on the Federal Highway, I see a poor bus stuck in a long line of vehicles, with the people on board looking totally bored and annoyed, with no way to get out. The thought makes me shudder. At least in the car I have radio. And a guaranteed seat.