Friday, September 23, 2005

Captive audience indeed...

Im at the ticket counter, wondering which bus to take.

Decided to try Nice 2, being a fan of Nice, figured the additional RM7 was fair enough.
Theres also something romantic about double decker busses...cant put my finger on it yet tho...

Off i went...
Just when we were flyin over Penang Bridge, the 'in transit' entertainment system kicked in...

Kinna like a stewardess pre-flight address then giving details about...Nice+(NicePlus), not Nice 2!...

Not sure if it was by accident, but felt kinda crappy when it went "you are now aboard Nice+" then they showed the features of Nice+ with personal screens per seat, and 4 movie channel viewing choices and airplane like seats etc etc...suddenly Nice2 (granted was pretty comfy) suddenly felt like a budget bus express :(

Anyways, then the "in flight" movies kicked in...first up!... "They Nest!"...

Aside from being totally crappy and almost B grade, which bloody transit movie shows a thriller about cockroaches?!...but heck, it was something to watch anyways...and i DID purposely choose the seat right smack in front of the display unit...furk...no point regretting now...

Then, amazingly, the DVD pauses every 20 mins or so for an "Advertisement" break...first promoting itself "bla bla Transit Vision bla bla to a Captive Audience bla bla"...and then showing the same 5 or so adverts for hiring at ParkMay, a word about littering and some music CDs...over and over again...

And WOW!! no shit!...never has a phrase been so appropriately used...i mean shit...the movie WAS bad enough for me to consider jumpin off the bloody rig going at 100kmph down the North-South....bloody driver wouldnt open the door tho....Captive Audience indeed...

Then They Nest finally ended and we were in midpoint break...off for a ciggy break :) needed one.

Journey continued, movie 2 was....."Final Destination"...no complaints about that show...but not for a transit movie right??? I mean, it bloody starts off with a plane in transit blowing up!!! lols...the folks in the seats behind me were noticeably bothered...

All in all, the bus was impressive tho...top deck for passengers, a lower deck lounge to lepak with a central table...damn comfy...

Would reccoment it over Nice Express, but please...try to talk to the person choosing the movies before departure...

2 comments:

Eaglet said...

hmmmm never tried it before.trying to forgo the busses all together now that they started going from Sg. Nibong

Edgar "Jobe" Gasper said...

Yeah, i was kinda buggered when i heard they were moving to sungai nibong bus terminal...until i moved to villa emas that is :D

now its like a 2 minute drive away, kekeke...so booyah!

anyways, nextime u ppl wanna buy bus tickets, can always ask me buy for u all lor...i charge 1 teh-o-peng per batch of tickets! :P