Hello everyone!
Greetings from the land of good food and good shopping but scary driving!
I arrived safe and sound in Malaysia on Friday at 11.55am (20 mins earlier than scheduled even though we lifted of 15 mins later than scheduled). I must say, I am quite impressed with Air Asia’s flight. Its the first time I’ve sat in an Air Asia plane all the way from Perth to KL and it was pretty pleasant. Apart from the little kid sitting next to me who was elbowing me most of the way and the people that kept hitting my head while they walked past me. Small price to pay for such a cheap flight. The food that was served was pretty decent too. I opted for the nasi lemak on board, prepurchased so that I had 20% off the price and I must tell you its probably the best airplane food I’ve ever tasted in my life. And that is saying a lot since I’ve always flown MAS and this is my first time on board a budget airline.
I’ve spent nearly a week here already and time seems to have flown by so quick. Its really scary. I’ve eaten more than my share of food, and shopped (though I’d consider that very very conservative shopping.. Its strange even though things are dirt cheap here). I’ve been driven around by my dad (thanks dad! :)) and I must say, I don’t think I can ever drive here again. Roads are so congested and road rules practically don’t exist. People somehow follow an unwritten set of rules and somehow emerge fine, not counting that when accidents happen its usually fatal or really major crash.
I’ve got lots of things to blog about when I get back to Perth, but for now its time to spend the last 2 days with my family. I’ve got lots of TV to catch up on and lots more food to eat. So long for now, I’ll be back to Perth in 3 days!
I’m fuming mad at the moment. Just came back from dropping Sam off at the airport.
Stupid incident happened with the security guard there. I’ve included below what I actually wrote to the Perth Airport Management.
This is what I wrote in the complaint:
Hi, I’m writing in to inform you of the incident I encountered this evening while dropping some friends to Perth Airport.
I must say, in all my years with dropping and picking people up from the airport today has left me with a sour note. So far this year, I’ve gone to the airport about 20 times to pick and drop people off and
I understand that the airport is undergoing some upgrades and therefore traffic to and the airport is affected. I was trying to pull up to drop my friends off at 11pm on the 23rd June and there weren’t any available spots to pull up, which was fine. I was going to make another round and try again.
I pulled to a stop in front of the departure gates as I had noticed a car in front of me signalling to pull out. There was a security guard who was telling me to move on. I pointed to him to show him the car was pulling out and was blocking my path so I could not move forward. This security guard yelled at me that I could not stop here.
I knew that but at that point, I obviously could not move forward due to the car being in front of me. I find this security guard extremely rude and not even bothering to look ahead to see why I wasn’t moving.
I hope you will take this feedback on board and improve your service as this is a poor reflection of your personnel.
Thank you.
Stupid idiot must have thought, “Oh, this is a young Asian girl driving this big ass car. Must be some rich kid who doesn’t know how to drive and doesn’t know she can’t stop in the middle of the road”.
Bastard. When he was yelling at me, I was pointing to the car in front of me, which was already halfway out and if I moved I would have hit it. I know la its 11pm but hell I think you don’t have to yell at me. I was so pissed I yelled back at him (through the window of course). He was so bloody loud that I could hear him through my window with the radio on.
And do you know what the best part was? I had to drop Sam at the rental car place cause there was no place to pull up man. What a day for an airport run. Now I’m too worked up about it to sleep.
OK, so I’ve stayed away from blogging from a while due to the fact that I was so busy. I blame daylight savings. My advice: if there is anything wrong with your clocks and alarms and mobile phones, it has to be daylight savings.
OK, so here’s my daylight savings disaster of the year. As you all know, Perth has been having a trial of daylight savings for 3 years. So for the previous 3 years, we have been turning our clocks forwards by one hour in the summer and turning it back one hour in autumn. We had a dinner party on Saturday night and had some guests over. After everything, at about midnight I set my alarm at 8.30am to get up in time for church at 9.45am. That would leave me plenty of time to get ready and church is only 5 minutes away.
Or so I thought.
After that, I was about to go to sleep when I thought I’d better change all my clocks back an hour so I don’t need to do it in the morning. And I knew my mobile phone clock was not set on auto update so I had to do it manually. I thought by doing it manually, I don’t get confused and I avoid disaster. By this time, it was already past midnight, so in other words it was Sunday already. I moved my clock back an hour to 11.04pm, Saturday.
I woke up at 7am the new time, which was 8am the old time and I thought to myself, “Oh, its too early. Good, now I’ve got another hour and a half to sleep”. And I proceeded to go back to sleep.
When I woke up to the commotion outside my door, I was wondering why my aunty and cousin were being so noisy so early. I looked at my mobile and it read 9.47am.
I jumped out and raced to the bathroom and I think that is probably the shortest amount of time I’ve taken to get ready in the morning. I brushed my teeth, put my contacts in, threw on a dress and ran out the door.
And I got to church at 10am, which is when service starts. Admitedly I missed prayer but was on time for church. I’m never again going to make the same mistake of changing my clock after midnight. Daylight savings is not good.
VOTE NO FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!
Oh, before I forget I must tell you about my dream. I had a really really weird, albeit nice dream last night. I can’t remember the first part of the dream, but someone was pregnant with their 2nd kid and they were married but not legally married so some random priest had to marry them legally before the 2nd kid arrived. And somehow this is in Jordan and I’m the sister of one of the people to be married, I can’t remember who. I have no idea why I have such weird dreams man.
But anyway, then they were having this lavish wedding ceremony and I was supposed to be involved in it but then this good looking guy (think Justin Timberlake cross with Zac Efron) came and we struck up a conversation and I decided to skip the wedding. I also don’t know why but I went with this guy and we went walking around and started talking and then he started to hold my hand. I think I know where this part came from. Someone was talking about Joe’s “testing water” lecture during lunch yesterday and it probably stuck in my head.
Back to the story, we started talking and then he bought me ice cream. And then I asked him why he’s in Jordan, is it by choice? He said no in a gruff way, and he turned away. So we walked back to the wedding and he lifted by the waist over some table. No idea why but everyone was wearing sarees and dancing.
And then my alarm rang. I woke up feeling refreshed, yet so surprised that I just had such a vivid and weird dream. What a dream. If only some nice guy would buy me an ice cream. LOL. I’m too easy to please.
