FRIDAY TALKS : MIKROLET DRIVER

I have a plan that I'll post or update my blog at lease once a week, so I want to make my treading as FRIDAY TALKS !! I'll share what I did for a whole week (not what I did but what I learn from the other). For today, I'll share about what I talked about this morning with my "private" MIKROLET DRIVER. :) 

Mikrolet is one of our public transportation. In Indonesia we have a lot of public transportation, such as angkot, bajaj, bemo, odong-odong (that one looks like bemo but I think bigger), commuter line, transjakarta, kopaja, metromini, mayasari, patas, and another name of bus ! We also have TAXI and ojek (we called that for public motorcycle) and online ojek ^^

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So, this morning I took a mikrolet to went to my office, I am alone and I take the front seat because I still not familiar with my office area. He asked me like he didn't want to be trap in that kind of silent ! So, he told me about his stories and what he think about that. I am quite nervous because I just worked for 5 days and I can't be late T.T but, he took a really long traffic in front of the market. So, we talked a lot during that time.

He think that now JAKARTA is too crowd and too much vehicle in the road. For, mikrolet their system not that good because not only one corporation that manage all of them but there are a lot of company and that own car has their own label, you can see that when you passed by with this mikrolet, I never know about that before. so, I know that from him. He said that life in Jakarta is . tough when GO-jek and another online ojek come, everyone prefer to used that application because if you used that will be faster and cheaper sometimes. But, I just realize that online ojek isn't a public transportation. In Indonesia, public transportation used yellow license plate. But, he didn't really know what will happen to that mikrolet because of the issue that microlet/angkot will be discontinue. He said that might be will help for the first time, because of the traffic will be decrease because there isn't a mikrolet/angkot that will stay in the same place for a really long time just to wait a passenger we called that "ngetem", but that won't be that long. I said that in Jakarta everything that "BOOMING" will be rapidly grow, such as gojek. Now, I heard a lot of negative stories about gojek, and too much driver that didn't want to pick the passenger because too far and if they stay in that place longer maybe he will get more than if he pick that kind of passenger :( I tried to used GO-FOOD and when I said that I want that "nasi padang" but he didn't buy that because he said that the restaurant was closed, so when I came to that restaurant they said that their restaurant never closed except during idul fitri. And when I received the bill, I think the price is lower than what I put on that program, so he made up the price T.T ok, back to that mikrolet driver, he asked me about the future if he want to become that driver but I said that will be better if he won't because we really don't know about the future. I don't know how long that job will be promising, so I told that driver that during this time is really hard to get a job so just be thankful for everything. 

What I learnt from that driver are we never know about what happen next, how we can face that future, and everything can changes during that period. What you need to do is keep going and never stop to learning. life is about learning. It isn't only about the brain but how to face the problem.

That enough for today :") but everyone that you met in your life must be change what you think and make you become like now (good or bad) wait for my update next week !! see ya !

Happy Weekend !