Rumble in the Jungle : A Navigation Complex

            One thing about living in this concrete jungle is that, it teaches you to be an expert hunter. Not just an ordinary hunter that hunts for animal or whatever preys that you get your hands on, it teaches you to be the ultimate.....shortcut predator. *sniff*

What do you call someone who road rages while hunting for shortcuts? This.

*Hold it* Shortcuts? Yea, or detours or also known as the shortest-yet-slowest-at-times alternative.

           Now, I've only started driving for about 2 years and throughout that duration, I've come to realize that knowing and utilizing shortcuts is a necessary skill needed to survive in this concrete jungle. To know your city, is not to know where to go, but how to go.

           There is a saying, 'All roads eventually leads to Kuala Lumpur.' All you have to do is follow the almost universal road signs. Now I'm not implying that Kuala Lumpur is designed to have countless roads circling around it even when its already so fucking congested (I blame bad city planning). Qhat I'm trying to say is that the roads here are designed like a fucking hedge maze and we're pitted against each other to find our way out of it to our reach our destination.

My city, My rules.

       

              It gets worst when traffic is so congested and slowly starts to "clogged" all the main roads and builds up like fucking cholesterol in an artery. I know, traffic congestion is inevitable in bla bla bla bla. So, what ingenious idea road users come up? Shortcuts. Now let me tell you the process of a route's growth.

           When an existing yet isolated route is first discovered as a shortcut, the initial "shortcutters" (What I call em) will utilize it. Eventually, as the number of users increases on the route considering the fact that more people got to know about it, the route becomes known. Now, the number of those who uses the shortcut will eventually increase and be equal to those who used the original route. (You know, like migration? Displacement? Ah forget it) So the shortcut eventually turns into an ordinary route. Its no longer a shortcut because the commute time is just as bad as the original route. No difference see?

           So what do shortcutters do when that happens? FIND MORE SHORTCUTS OF COURSE. You know shortcuters are like some sciency spacey galaxy explorers charting unknown planets and galaxies routes.

 If they clogged off one shortcut, two more shall take its place.

          

       Though if you have some sort of NIDS (Navigational Inferiority Disorder Syndrome) which I simply put, the inability to recognize roads (I feel sciency already), I suggest you start by charting your shortcuts. As far as I'm concerned, the cars will never stop increasing, while the number of available roads decreases.

OR TAKE THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT.

            I myself am a shortcutter. Though, at times certain circumstances impedes me from exploring more shortcuts. Circumstances like road shortages. Whatthefuck can you believe that some places have road shortages? If there is no road, how am I suppose to chart a shortcut?! Some of the shortcuts, are traps. Like how they put shortcuters in a hazadous situation (Yep I'm talking about those illegal turns you make to save commute time)

When a shortcut is nowhere to be found.

              So next time when you are in a hurry, a shortcut is there as an alternative to cut short your commute time as its name implies, a shortcut. (Thank you Capt. Obvious.) So go out there and chart those shortcuts of yours and put Christopher Columbus to shame. Until then, ciao.

What? Someone found more shortcuts to the West? 

puta mierda.