Mystifying Valley

If you want to see how bad my car condition was, simply click here and here, pics were from Ray’s site.

Regarding yesterday’s post, thanks for concerning.

At least no one was hurt. The car was towed back to Ipoh yesterday for mechanical diagnosis since my brother doesn’t trust any garages in KL and it will be fixed there.

 
The only inconvenience is that I’m car-less for the coming 2 weeks.  Shirlyn called in the evening offering to help but I was already in my sis’s car. Thanks dear. Appreciate that.
 
I really don’t know when is my Myvi ever going to arrive and I highly doubt it’ll be in by Oct as written on the paper. Darren told me you just need to fork out a standard market bribing rate of ‘tiga ribu’ (3000 ringgit) for a faster release but you know it well I won’t do that. Darren then said I’d be soo lucky if I get the car by CNY next year.
 
Tim is being really sweet. He said when his car is back from service I can use his Waja for the time being during this difficult period.
 
It’ll be a long day for today. A few deadlines to meet plus a presentation at 3pm. Still looking for a lift home later.

Me, senior colleagues and my boss went for a meeting at one of the most prestigous banks in Malaysia yesterday morning. It was a fairly boring 2 hour meeting and during the session some refreshments and coffee were served on the table. Since I was so bored as my role isn’t ripen enough to engage in the discussion yet, I kept eyeing at those crispy looking curry-puffs and ikan-bilis tarts on the plate and started drooling away. Then I was caught absolutely offguard by our client, Denis who suddenly looked at me and smiled. ‘Hey UK girl, these are some of our local delicacies and I’m sure you haven’t had it in a long time! Don’t be shy!’ I was dying to hide myself under the table.

Everyone started helping themselves with the refreshments and Dennis called an assistance to get some tissues or serviettes for everyone. Half a roll of TOILET PAPER arrived. My boss joked that it probably just came out from the toilet. Dennis was somewhat embarrased and called his secretary again. ‘Kasi saya BETUL BETUL punya tissue ok?’ (meaning: please bring some REAL tissues) Couple minutes later a bigger roll of TOILET PAPER was put on the table. We just burst out in laughters. Dennis said, ‘ Ok folks, I can guaranteed this roll didn’t come from the toilet. It’s brand new. Absolutely hygenic if that’s what you are concerning.’

Boss whispered into my ears, ‘Welcome to Malaysia.’

It’s Friday!

Today is my first Friday since job commenced. I got my first payslip too. In Ringgit that is. But I’m not complaining, I’ve enjoyed my challenging week so far.

Anyway, it’ll likely be an intoxicated weekend for me.

Have a jolly good weekend yourself!

 I’m currently blogging from Starbucks in Mont Kiara. It’s a lovely Father Sunday and it’s crowded with family outings in the market, a market that looks a bit like a concoction of Camden Town and Covent Garden to me. They’ve got this open karaoke thingy in the middle of the square and some of them were singing hokkien songs.

Hmm… I hate dialect songs.

Today I’m three days old into the working world.
Thank you for all the greeting smses, especially the calls made all the way from UK. I’m deeply touched. And I’m doing really fine. So far.

I was looking out from the office window and my mind wondered off. This is really Malaysia. Infamous KL.  Strangely enough, I’m starting to like it. I’m not talking about the traffic jams. or the unbearable weather. or the rude citizens. or the mad drivers. or the social norms. no I’m not talking about all these typical vices that you hear all the time. If you want to live in KL you gotta accept them as part of the package and if you can’t, you’ll gain nothing but only present yourself as some arrogant people who think everywhere else in the world is better but home.

I love my life.

It’s a stressful job having revenues to meet but I love the suit I’m in now. It’s something that make me feel good about myself and more assured that I won’t look back. No more waitressing uniforms. No more terrible food stench at end of the day. No more belittling by customers who think we can’t do anything better in life. 

I love those firm hand shakings with clients and prospects doing presentations and negotiations. I’m still in the learning stage and my boss has been looking after me pretty good. She’s a really knowledgeable and good with people. Lucky she hasn’t gotten fedup with my inquisitiveness yet. She’s been tagging me along for all the meetings and introducing me to our suppliers and prospects - those big guys in the corporate world.

Now I’ve got another meeting to attend at Tropicana. And a half day training in the afternoon.

*nervous*

Just came back fro aunty’s place and brought back few ‘chang’s for lunch tomorrow. Homemade ones summore. Couldn’t remember when was the last time I had it prolly half a decade ago. Anyway it was good to meet my cousins whom I haven’t seen for some time. .

It’s such an early night today. Can’t believe I was already home by 11pm. Guess it’s time to read up a good book and be an early bird tmr morning in the pool if I can wake up in time. Tmr’s plan is to check out True Fitness at Mont Kiara. Really need to buff up stamina.

 I’ve made some achievements lately. In the past few days I managed to learn about 3 routes: from Mich’s place to my workplace in KL, Mid Valley, One Utama as well as neighbourhood Sri Hartamas.

3 events which happened today: a) I saw a snake while jogging alone yesterday evening. Didn’t wear glasses and thought it was a rope from a distance until I jogged nearer to find out it’s a bloody slimy creature wriggling its body towards me and its head pointing at me. God.

b) I was driving and witness a car accident. A car has bang into a motorist and both of the vehicles were really badly damaged. The motorist lied motionless on the road and his body beside the car wheel. Hospital Fatimah was just around the corner but god knows why they still took 15 mins before the ambulance arrived. Dare not imagine if the man was still alive and I was too scared to get down the car.

c) Hate to admit. Lightning and thunderstorms are no good stuff to me. The heavy rain over here is scary as hell. Parked my car at the rooftop in Jusco just now and didn’t have an umbrella so I had to run under the rain and into the building. The ground was slightly flooded and in a split second came a lightning which felt so close. Before I even had a chance to compose myself a loud thunder which almost took my soul away. Terrible.