Take Train In Kuala Lumpur

I travel with car where ever I like to go. I believe most people who stay in KL do the same because (1) we have rather good highways in KL that link easily to many places, (2) we have rather lousy public transport system, we called LRT (Light Rail Transit) that link with limited places and very inconvenient to travel. Malaysia’s LRTs are operated by various operators (LRT, monorail, KTM, KLIA Express) and their connections between stations are lousy. I have been hearing from my office colleagues complaining with their services suck such as late arrival, insufficient of train services that causes delay or over-packed in the train etc.

However, occasional, during lunch hours, I do take opportunity to travel by train. Instead of having lunch at nearby places, I like to travel to a bit further places for lunch. My office has two nearby operators, one called LRT (previously known as START) and another called KTM (Keratapi Tanah Malaysia). I like to borrow my friend monthly passes to travel ‘freely”).

But now, I want to tell you an incident that very “fish” (embarrassing) that happen to me in last month (why fish? It is because in Cantonese word, embarrassment is same pronunciation as “fish”. … hahaha!!). It has happen in KTM train. I would not blame myself but I would blame the operator that comes out with this “weird” policy. I remember KTM operator has implemented a new ruling a few month ago that certain train cabins are restricted for “lady” use only. If you are non-Malaysian, please do not be surprise…. In Malaysia, such thing do happen, in Kelantan, you may even find male and female cashier counters, so, when you queue up for payment, make sure you stand at the right lane …. Can you believe it !!? LOl….

So, I think by now you know what happen to me. Although there are sticker sticking on the window cabin, but during rush hours, who can see? It has blocked by people. No wonder when I walked into the cabin, all the ladies gave me a stare look. The cabin was packed with people (ladies) and I am standing in between. Initially I wasn’t notice until I saw a reverse signboard on the window. Oh, my goodness, no wonders everyone look so funny, I am the only leaf among the roses (Kekekekeke!!) and I have to wait for a few stops before my destination arrive …. 

Anyway, in the next stop, I quickly rushed out and entered into another cabin without such restriction. Huh!! What a relieve, man!! The cabin has less people and everyone has a place to sit comparing to the earlier cabin because all the ladies went and stuck in the “lady” cabin and make other cabins so empty.

So, if you are a foreigner visiting Malaysia, please take note of such policy, don’t end up like me in an embarrassing moment!! If you do, just enjoy the moment. Wahahaha!!