LOS TEROPONG: Malaysian Style Forever I

NST Online - 02 January 2007 - Here we go again, and again, and again and forever more ... I honestly believe we will never be able to change, never! Youths going for National Service training had a taste of a recurring problem — a foul-up over transport to the camps;

In Kota Bharu - more than 1,000 NS-bound youths returned to their homes after buses arranged to transport them to their camps failed to turn up at the pick-up point at Sultan Muhammad IV Stadium.

In Penang - 352 trainees were stranded when eight schoolbuses chartered to ferry them were "grounded" by Road and Transport Department officers for not having temporary permits.

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Thousands of parents who had accompanied their children almost had a showdown with NS secretariat officers after having waited for more than three hours from 7.30am.
"I cannot understand why they only opened seven counters despite knowing that there will be 800 trainees reporting at this pick-up point. We arrived here at 8am and my son took almost three hours to register," said Alias, from Jelutong.
The trainees and their parents were also confused as there were no signboards at the counters to guide them.
They were told by the RTD officials that eight of the 15 buses did not have permits to ferry the trainees.
The officials claimed that they had told the operators to apply for the permit a month ago but the latter claimed that their services were only sought several days ago.
Abu Bakar Mohd, told them the NS secretariat officers were there only to register the trainees and that the transport was arranged by a contractor who had not shown up.
The buses were also in poor condition.

Aiyaa ... we will never learn, never learn .. why was prior arrangements not made and checked. Talk about quality management, work ethics, planning and responsibility ... all down the drain .. this is so typically Malaysian ... tak tau lah ...

LOS TEROPONG

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