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Entries for August, 2008

August 11, 2008

[372] A very short pictorial entry, serious.

by chenyeng2706 | 12:53 PM

What can you see?

See properly ..

Go closer ..

Yea, that guy ..

Chekai betul

Self-explanatory

What happened actually is that, one day, more likely, one night, my housemate came back to the college with her boyfriend driving. He drove into the college, and as usual, helped the friend to carry her stuff back up to her room. Halfway along the walking distance back the room, my friend and the boyfriend got caught and was eventually halted. Then they were asked to go to the guard post where my friend got a fine sounding from the guard and was asked to meet with the college's "boss".

So okay, I guess it's wrong to ask a guy to help you carry our stuff back up to our rooms.

What happened few days later is that I saw that man smoking at the middle of our girls' block, not meaning to help carry things or for not being there for a purpose. So who is he to be standing there with a cigarette? And where are those guards who should appear at that very moment to call him down?

And lastly, there is no such thing as justice in this case and in this scenario.

| music | This Boy - James Morrison
| mood | annoyed

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August 22, 2008

[373] And I've got the updating-itch!

by chenyeng2706 | 09:44 PM

Back in Ipoh for the mid-sem break, just a week's worth of break. So much to do, so little time. The amount of people going back to hometowns were massive this time around. And so, the bus tickets were also sold out way quicker than I thought. We wanted to go back so badly, so we had to opt for the "transit" option. It's just a term used there, which means taking multiple buses at different states to reach our destination.

For Ipoh-langs, the most common way of "transit" when the direct express buses are no more in our list of options is by taking the BP-KL bus, and from KL, we will take the KL-Ipoh bus which is on an hourly basis. Very convenient, and it's RM10 cheaper than the express buses from BP-Ipoh, however double the hassle.

So, this time, a friend who had a car, A, offered to drive us to KL from BP, if we manage to have the car with a full load of people (meaning 4 passengers + 1 driver). The thing is that we did have a full car, so the plan was to carpool to KL and then have someone buy the KL-Ipoh bus tickets for us at PuduRaya without us having to worry about tickets having been sold out.

So joyfully we waited for the day to come to go back Ipohland. Then the day before our balik kampung day, A had us sit down with her when she broke the news to us that she wouldn't be driving us back to KL, because she wants to go to Singapore instead for the week's break. Great.

She said that she couldn't find people to go back with her to Batu Pahat from KL. It would be an RM80 fuel money to bring herself back to BP alone. So she decided it's the best decision to bail out on her friends, who are also her roommate (me!) / housemate (other friend)!

The evening before our balik kampung day. I realised that all my options are exercised. Reality suddenly hit me right on the face while giving me an annoying chant of "You're spending your mid-sem break stranded in Parit Raja with bad, expensive Malay food." *adds in evil laughter*

All she could say was ...

"Dui bu chi! Wo zhen zhen shi bu xiang de! Ke shi, wo zhen de mei you xuan zhe liao!"
(Sorry! I really didn't mean to bail out on you guys! But I had no choice!)
[with a sympathetic face]

All I could muster out was ...

"Bu yung jing la. Wo men ke yi chao bie de ban fa. Bu yung jing de."
(It's okay la. We can find other options. It's really okay.")
[with an obviously faked okay face]

Hello friend. It's obviously not okay. Unless my father is so rich that he could pay RM500+ for a limousine taxi to send me back to Ipoh.

The old saying goes, when a door closes on you, a window opens up.

So the window was from another friend, B, who usually goes back hometown with another friend, Y, driving. Y usually has a car filled with people when going back to hometown. But fortunately, he only had 2 other passenger that day. So, us (a total of 3 Ipoh-lang) had a very intimate journey at the backseat of the Proton Wira with B. The journey started at 12.30 pm.

B and Y stays in N9 and they usually take the Simpang Empat exit. But just for us, Y took the Seremban exit, so that he could drop us off to take our bus to KL. He's rarely this nice. Lol. It was about 3.00 pm already. B, who stays at Kuala Pilah, actually came with us to the Terminal One bus station, because she was not convinced that we could find the bus to KL - take our lunch - get into the bus to KL on time.

So she said she had to be a gracious host and make sure we are all in the bus before she could leave to head back to home. Surprisingly, her bf was also around that area, in which he came along to Terminal One (a place which has been integrated with a bus station and a shopping mall) and treated us all lunch.

Then we took the SKS-KL bus which was advertised to have 120 trips to KL on a daily basis. Tak caya la.

But the buses would be there every 15 minutes, so considering its frequency, it could be possible if the buses runs for 24 hours. We took the 4.30 pm bus. And it was our first experience on a double decker bus. *wee ~*

The jam towards PuduRaya was not that bad. But we managed to get a shut-eye along the journey. Arrived in a place which was near to PuduRaya (but it was definitely not at Puduraya) at about 7.00 pm. We had to walk along a very busy road towards PuduRaya for 10 minutes with my not-very-small luggage in my right hand and a not-very-light laptop in my left hand.

And we finally arrived in one piece in PuduRaya, drenched in sweat. Hunt for our platform and fought for a place to sit. Grew mushrooms for 2 hours because our KL-Ipoh bus (which we had bought weeks prior to the day) was a 9.30 pm one.

Bus was on time. We were glad. Touched down in Ipohland at the stroke of midnight. On.the.dot.

The day was painstakingly slow and miserable. But something and someone made my day.

During the journey from KL to Ipoh, I was restless and I could not sleep at all. Probably I was used to long-distance bus journeys, which is usually 6 hours in average. As I was busy looking at stars and the moon, my phone suddenly rang and the funny thing is that, there's no numbers being displayed as the called ID.

It freaked me out for a very brief period because this month is the month. You know, when our friendly ghosts come wandering in our streets? But I answered it, in curiousity, and all I heard was a very distant static. Even freakier!!

I ended the call as soon as I picked it up. I stared blankly ay my phone, then looking back at the recent received calls list, it showed "(unknown)". Scared the moonlight out of me.

Then the drama continued when mystery caller called me again, and this time, me hesitating to answer it. Chanchoon was sitting beside me, asking me why am I not answering the phone. So I went sei jau sei la, and answered the call.

This time, I called out to the other end with a "Hello?!". I was greeted with the same distant static, but this time, it was followed up with a very faint "Hello?". And the same faint voice went on saying "Do you know who am I?"

Then it got me thinking, "Who asks this kind of question?" "Why are there static at the background?" "Where does the call come from??"

I just don't know where I got the idea. I just went, "Is this Ting??"

And I got it right. I was yelling, laughing and talking as if my father owns the bus. So the paiseh.

We had a conversation which was worth more than half an hour, but not to mention, ending calls and receiving the calls again repeatedly, because the line was very bad.

It was so nice to hear her voice, although it was side-dish-ed with lots of static. I can't believed I embarassed myself by laughing like a hooligan on the bus. When I ended the call, Chanchoon said that I was very loud. More the paiseh.

To dudey: Get a better phone and call me soon ok?? (since you told me not to call you, lol)

I'll update tomorrow for a second part. It's been a long time since I've wrote an entry this long.

| mood | awake

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