Life is full of journeys. Journeys make up life. One's journey in life is what one's life and its journeys are about. Life and journey are two words that just simply annoy the hell out of readers (the Cage's one at least) by being applied in philosophical mish-mashes and trials of literature elemental structures. Ok, that's enough for catching up on many many days of lacking annoyance-filled posts, now, here's the real deal, the Monkey Cage shall dwell upon a topic of much more conventional journeys that are probably not so life-defining as you would probably expect.
CHAPTER 6 : MP MP MP MP! (the meaning lies in the state which shares a same 1st letter as MONKEY!)
The definiton of journey in today's context is one which involves going from one place to another with the use of public transport. With the world turning into the world it is and as times get tougher for people economically and for monkeys bananamaniacally, we tend to go for the cheapest means possible of everything, that includes going to the mall and back. For the traditional monkeys who still live on trees, swing with vines, eat wild bananas and maybe don't read English, the Monkey Cage shall make an effort in explaining how one can make use of public transport, in this case, taking the bus.1. Oooh oohh ahh oooh uuurrrrggghhhhh Malaka rrrr san tral wuuuu. (swing and jump and climb your way to Melaka Sentral)2. Aaahh aahhh busbus ooh ahhh GPS ooh ga ooh ga ching ching ching. (go up the bus, tell the conductor where you wanna go and pay up *bananas are not part of the new-age credit system)3. Oogie oogie ooh ooh, wu wu ahh oohh teeet teeet ooh ooh ahh ahh. (When you reach the destination, simply press the red button and get down when the bus stops.)Notice that at step 3, our more primitive cousins might spot something morale-boosting or more likely intelligence-boosting as what they see at that point can be sort of a measure of intelligence for both monkey and man. Stop and stare.
So... Bus stops, people come down, people come up. What's so monkey about this seemingly normal procedure of a typical bus ride? It all lies in what lies ahead...
DILARANG MENGAMBIL DAN MENURUNKAN PENUMPANG BAS DI SINI. If my 11 years of learning Bahasa Malaysia serves me right, isn't that supposed to mean that buses are prohibited from dropping or collecting passangers here? Mr. Bus driver seemed like he was taught that the word DILARANG means you are ENCOURAGED to... Oh well, authorities would probably just close one eye as MP could have a hidden meaning which is Monkey Paradise... And Monkey Paradise it is isn't it, this world we live in?P.S; The Monkey Cage has been out for quite a while, and that is due to something humans call examinations... Regardless of what that means, be rest assured that the Cage is up and running as good as ever! Also, at this point of life, expect there to be an exodus involving the monkeys we know and the monkey-piloted buses we go on as for this time around, we all just wanna go home.
