It's a MelloYello Life

Here in the Philippines, the MRT has a special car in the front just for females, pregnant women, women/men with kids, and the elderly. You'd think it was a really good idea (if you're a girl) until you try to wrestle your way onto the train in the middle of morning/evening rush hour. I've experienced all sorts of frustrations while waiting for my turn to get on the train during rush hour: 1. When guards stop the passengers from entering the platform area because here are too many people on it. 2. Guards take too long to inspect bags, packages, and what not. 3. Once on the platform, 10 trains pass by and you can't seem to get on because of the sheer volume of passengers. 4. Sweating like hell because once you get squished between alighting passengers there's no space in between your bodies for air to pass through. 5. Getting nasty looks from the other passengers because you accidentally blow air on their necks while cooling yourself with your own breath. 6. Once ins...

Riding the MRT when it isn't rush hour is so convenient. It takes the train approximately 25 minutes to travel from end to end. The first car is exclusively for: the pregnant, the old, the physically challenged, and anyone with kids. The rest of the cars are for men or women who prefer to ride with their male companions or women who simply do not run fast enough to reach the first car when they enter the platform area...However, let me warn you, riding the train during rush hour is a totally different story. First, there's the long queue for buying tickets. There's one window devoted to selling tickets to people who can give the exact change. This window is also, more often than not, where you can buy your stored value tickets for P100. The other window/s are for people who haven't got exact change. Then, there's the line to enter the platform. If you're lucky, the security guards won't give the harrassed and impatient passengers ahead of you, any reason t...