Me with my beloved bike
Selalu kita nampak dalam movie Hollywood ataupun Korea ataupun Jepun, yang mana kalau scene dalam universiti maka student2 dalam universiti tu akan majoritinya guna basikal sebagai pengangkutan mudah. Mulanya rasa macam tak praktikal, tapi setelah 3 tahun lebih kat UKM ini, rasanya macam terbalik pulak. Adanya basikal adalah lebih praktikal berbanding motorsikal.
Why?
Nearly 4 years living in UKM I am blessed with one motorcycle passed on by my brother to me. It is not a grand-beautiful-spanking new type of motorcycle but nevertheless it is functioning with great efficiency. Modenas Kriss, blue colour with plate number KBF 4980 is my great servant to me here. She is the reason why I can easily go to classes, faculties, mapley, Mines, Putrajaya, hantar assignment, Nims restaurant dan macam2 lagi. Saya sayang motor saya.
However, with an asset, comes maintenance. Purata minyak kena isi dalam seminggu adalah sekali. Which means RM5 out for a week, RM20 for a month. Yes it is much cheaper than the fuel expenditure for a car but still- money out. Then, maintenance in term of engine service. This one depends on the owner. If he cares, he cares. If he buat bodoh je, buat bodoh la. But remember one tiny mistake can cause you hundreds of bucks to repair. As what happened to me in the 1st year learning period. Hahahahaha.
Jadi, kalau menggunakan basikal, semua duit2 tadi untuk minyak-maintenance bagai tu jadi zero. Ok mungkin ada sedikit maintenance untuk tayar pancit dan rantai tiba2 putus. Tapi itu saja la, dan ia sangat jarang berlaku. Besides that, cycling does benefit your body and health. Kasi kuat sikit kaki dengan stamina di samping melancarkan peredaran darah dalam salur2 pembuluh darah dan otak anda. Basikal juga senang nak alih, senang nak simpan. Sebab kecik.
Tapi, kelemahannya- senang dicuri lah. Terlalu ringan dan kecil, senang rasanya nak curi. But that shouldn't be a problem. Rantai kan banyak ada jual di kedai2. Pasar malam pun ada. Lock yang high standard pun banyak jual.
Kelemahan lain- mungkin orang pandang serong kot kalau guna basikal saja? People might think that 'budak ni takda duit rasanya....kesian....' Hahahaha. Juga mungkin gadis2 tak berkenan dengan basikal? Tak laju dan tak macho dan tak leh nak berbangga? Tapi dalam drama korea jiwang2 selalu saja scene romantik adalah melibatkan basikal. Hohohohooo~
Sometimes I do imagine myself using bicycle in UKM. And the imagination is not a far-fetched idea. Places that I often go in UKM are just in one or two kilometre at most. If I want to go out (mapley-mines-tasik) usually it is an aktiviti berjemaah, means we use cars or KTM. Hm....
However, I'm still waiting to see a student riding bicycle to go to classes or cafes or colleges. Maybe the culture here is different from those in the movies/ drama. Maybe the weather here in Malaysia is not suitable for the idea. Maybes, a lot of maybe.
If one day mahasiswa2 di Malaysia ini menggunakan basikal secara extensive dan serius, maka insyaallah masalah mahasiswa badan tak sihat dapat diatasi. Masalah parking untuk mahasiswa dapat dikurangkan secara significant. Tiada lagi pakgad nak sibuk2 tahan motor dan kereta yang masuk kat pagar. Tiada lagi rasa tidak puas hati student apabila tempat parking motor dirizabkan menjadi hak parking kenderaan felo kolej.
Malah, mungkin lepas ni mahasiswa boleh berdemo dan menghantar memorandum secara berjemaah? Berbasikal seramai 400 orang dari UKM ke Putrajaya untuk menghantar memorandum. Sounds cool, seems legit, look matured.
Whatever it is, anyone who use bicycle as his main transport in uni, he is a real hero. Cool enough to be against the norm here. Salute, and respect.
You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like Star Wars
You say Rolls I say Royce
You say God give me a choice
You say Lord I say Christ
I don't believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
-end of story-
