Thank God It's Friday...Not This Week For Me

People who work love Fridays. It marks the end of the workweek. Everyone's looking forward to spending quality time in the weekends doing something they enjoy doing. I was looking forward to have a nice time relaxing and chilling out after an exhausting work week, with the plant start up and all. Well, if it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be.

I was heading home from Ayer Keroh at about 6-ish. I was in the PLUS highway northbound to KL, when somewhere in Pedas, the rain starts to fall. Then it started to get really heavy (wiper no.2 la). I was doing around 90, 100kmh. Plus, the cars starting to pile up, you know, typical rush hour for the weekends. As I reach just after Seremban's R&R (km 275.5, according to what I wrote in my police report), the car in front of me suddenly braked. My quick reflexes triggered me to push the break hard enough, I managed to slow my car and avoid hitting the car in front. Unfortunately (hear comes the sad part), the car behind me could not brake on time and then, Bang! hits my rear bumper. I was shocked my mind just could not process what just happened. I drove my car for further 5 meters and then stopped. It was raining and I was like, damnnn..accident plak dah, and I put on the hazard lights and head out to check my car. Aiyoo, bumper sudah kemek. I grabbed my mobile phone and snapped the picture of my rear bumper, took photos of the car which banged me (btw, it's a white Proton Wira, registration no WMS 1467). Funny enough (although really it's not), there's 5 Series BMW got banged by another car (I think it's a Hyundai). The BMW, driven by a Chinese chap had minor bruises on his rear bumper, but his exhaust almost fell down! We then took our car to the side, chatted about what happened, what to do and all that, and this guy suddenly showed up to ask us to head to Seremban police station report about this. Later I found out that the dude was working for a workshop (kira macam runner la, siap ngan tow truck ready). Damn, they were quick to the scene (more about them later on).

So with my bruised bumper, not properly closed boot and with my hazard lights on, we headed to the nearest police station. Somehow I lost track of the convoy and took my own way to the nearest police station, which led me to IPD Sepang. There, upon asking me where the incident took place, they insist that the location is under Seremban's jurisdiction, so I need to head there to report. I was like 'Geez, takleh ke buat kat sini je?' I was hungry, soaking wet, so want to pee, not to mention fuckin' pissed! So I made my way, driving to Seremban at 60kmh (the last thing I want right now is to have my boot flying off my car, leaving me behind). At about 10:30 ish, I reached Seremban's police station. I parked my car outside the station, headed inside when a bunch of these runners I talked about earlier, starts asking me if 'abang dah ada workshop dah?', while at the same time handing over their business cards. I was like 'do they smell opportunity, do they have insider info of what's going on'? I head inside to find out they are about 20 people reporting of accidents! It was 10:45 when I took my queue number, and only called on at 12:30am! My god, this is just horrible! While sitting, standing, pacing around the station, I observed these so-called runners teaching victims how to write their report', explaining what to do next, bla3, even hanging around with a few of the officers. Haha, talked about networking for your business.

So then comes my number. I sat down, gave my IC and license number and the police lady took my statement. I waited for a while when another officer asked me to show my car, took some photos. The incident investigator then asked me to head home and wait for his call. By the time it all finished, it is already 2am. I head back to KL, doing 60, 80kmh and reach home at 2:45. I'm so starved and I can barely open my eyes....What..a...day it has been.

Some photos after this. I need some serious cheering up. I know! I'll get my 13.3" Macbook Pro today! Sighhh...

When it happened...
The banger...

The morning afterAnother view
My statement...

Malaysian F1 Grand Prix: Even The Bomohs Can't Act God...

So, have you guys watched the race yesterday? To the mat salehs, may we present you the Malaysian weather at it's best potential. If there's such heavy downpour which can stop races, this is it. And with the time shifted later in the evening, the visibility and light penetration is getting poorer by every minute. In the end, safety car was launched, and the race was red-flagged, and Jenson Button of Brawn GP went on his second consecutive victory of this season. Bravo Brawn! The underdogs have done it again! Boy oh boy will the favourites have another rivalry this year.

Well, I wish not to talk much about the race, you can just read it elsewhere. I'll be sharing some of my experience and my thoughts throughout yesterdays happenings. So, my brother and I, and a couple of his friends went together, car-pooling. We happened to have two parking stickers, and unsure of what to do with the second one, we decided to make ourselves an easy fortune; we'll sell it, haha. Upon arrival in the KLIA toll plaza, we begun our marketing strategy. With proper 'product positioning' (that is at the side windows of the car), we managed to attract some looks from fellow motorists. One Indian dude was staring so seriously even after his car went pass us. Looks like more and more people got interested. We then stopped our car at the area where parking tickets sold, and started offering. One by one cars asked for it. One Malay dude asked for a mere 30 bucks. I mean come on! The sticker alone costed 50! and the location is far from the main entrance. What we had is so much better; the sticker with 'SIC' on it, it is like the best parking spot! (after the paddock club, of course). About 10 minutes later, a group of interested Chinese started asking for it. 50 bucks! or you may queue at the line. Without further hesitation, a friend of his started pulling out 50 ringgit note. Ka-Ching! A sale was made! hahaha. Now we got ourselves a free dinner money. Now, off to the track.

One thing I realised this year is the traffic. I know that in the news report everywhere, the police force has given a guarantee that the traffic flow will be smooth. Judging from what I saw yesterday, it seems that nothing much has been done. Cutting queues were still there. And when there are policemen watching over, the motorist started switching to the right lane. And there's a group of ass clowns taking opportunity over police escorts passing to let the VVIPs through. Talk about Malaysian typical mentality. Sighhh, when are we gonna change ourselves eh?

Fortunately, all is not lost with the race stopped about halfway due to the rain. We were heavily entertained by the UK megastar by the name of Jamiroquai! Wooohoooo! He is truly a showman, 90 minutes of fast paced, pulsating tunes that surely rocked the stage and the crowd. And with some string pulled out, we got to party VIP style. There's free food, drinks, the lovely people dancing and enjoying themselves. What a crowd! The only downside is the slippery, muddy surface and the light drizzle. I wore white yesterday, and let's just say, it turned brown. It was that bad. We didn't Jay Kay's performance to be this long and awesome. We kinda expected it to be like a short 5,6 songs. He took the whole 90 minute; it was practically a Jamiroquai concert live in Malaysia, not just some entertainment for Formula 1. And guess what, should you purchase the cheapest ticket (50, I think?), you still got to enjoy the concert. I mean, it was like the cheapest gig ever! To the organizers, good job man! Hope to see more interesting acts next year. And Jay Kay, what can I say, you rock dude!

And after all that just happened, I'm just too tired to work today, so I took a day off! Hahaha...please please don't tell my boss (I kinda told him that I had a fever). Till the next post, Jaane!