Driving from Johor Baru to Singapore

Evening of 27 December 2005

Flew into Senai Airport from Kuala Lumpur. The trip to Kuala Lumpur was good and the food and Christmas shopping was fantastic. Arrived at Senai at 8.30 pm and after a lttle shopping in Johor Baru we joined the queue at the causeway at around 10 pm. We were surprised by the high volume of traffic returning to Singapore at that time of the night. 9 out of 10 vehicles in the traffic queue were Singapore registered cars. It took us nearly 2 hours to get over the causeway.

I did not really minded the wait seeing that it was just after Christmas and people must be either out to celebrate or returning after their Christmas break. However, the behaviour of the drivers, mostly Singaporeans, was almost animal-like. They behaved like, well - animals. Common courtesy was nowhere to be found. Shame on you, to those who bullied me that night. Your behavious just confirmed to me that althought Singapore has been trying hard to become a first world country, you will never get there because you are still with third ( or even lower ) world mentality. I am sorry to say that you may have a clean and neat country, but the moment you Singaporeans get behind the wheel, you turn into monsters.