Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Traffic Jam + Car Parking Phobia

It is really not that easy for me to sit and write on what happened to me recently. However, this one I must write...lol. My big boss a.k.a my dad visited me last weekend. Actually not really visit me but visit his new condo at Jalan Ipoh. I volunteered to be his driver (....XD) so that he can travel around KL smoothly. On last Saturday, I totally forgot it was Thaipusam (Hindu festival). I only remember when is Christmas and Chinese New Year.

My nightmare started after we finished appointment at The Curve. My dad wanted to visit a famous Chinese traditional medicine shop located around Bukit Bintang. As you all know, my sense of direction is "extremely" good. Therefore, I follow my "spider sense" instead of the sixth sense and obviously I was wrong... really wrong. Don't ask me which road I used. I can only say it was the road that passed by the Hindu temple. I was speechless when I saw a super duper cramp traffic jam in front of me. I thought it was the worst jam ever faced by me. I found a way and escaped the jam. Unfortunately I trapped again into another jam in downtown. How bad it was? Can you imagine that you watch the traffic light changed from red to green and green to red numerous times but your car didn't move at all?...

Okay... it is okay. I still can stand it. Now when I think back on the situation that time and I felt it really like the warcraft strategy games, the tower of defense. The challenges came waves after waves. Guess what? I trapped into another traffic jam when I almost reach the destination. Then I tried to be smart and drove to another road and ended up trapped into another massive traffic jam. My mind really went blank...totally blank. My dad kept on repeating... "are we there yet...?" I was speechless... When I was really really close to the Times Square (because I wanted to park my car there), my car died! Yes, it died! My 1 years old car died in the jam!!! How can that be!!! OMG OMG OMG!!! I tried to start it and I failed!!! Haliluyah praise the Lord! God really tested my patience KAO KAO (thick thick in hokkien language). I went down the busy road and tried to ask for help. Then I randomly talked to a taxi driver and he also randomly gave me some suggestions. Okay, cut the crap short. My dad managed to call his mechanic friend and guess what was the problem causing the car failed to start? I put the gear at D. D stands for Drive and I only allowed to start the car at N which is Neutral.

I thought everything is over. I thought my nightmare is over. We manged to find the shop and my dad managed to see the doctor (The doctor who with a very deep China accent that gave some not so useful advices on my dad sickness). After that, my dad wanted to have dinner at Jalan Alor and we had nice dinner. I ate until very full and then only I know God arranged this so that I can prepare for another challenge. Well, it was the last one but also very time consuming. I forgot where did I park my car. I can't even remember which floor. I think that was because I ate too full and I lost my memory. All I remember was I parked my car at basement and do you know how many basement parking they have? B1 to B5. Ho ho ho... Gong xi fa cai! I did everything I can to find my car. I met two security guard who couldn't speak English well. I told them about it and they used Walkie-Talkie to ask help from all the security guards. Wow, at that time I really feel I'm so important. HAHAHAHAHAHA! I used my same old tactics (press the alarm button on my car key) to go floor by floor to find my car. From B2 to B5 and then from B5 to B2. I really don't understand why I never go to B1 and yes...my car was in B1.

Huh...at last I found my car! Then I went to pay my parking ticket. I realized I didn't have small change and I asked my dad for small change and he didn't have either. Then I collected all the coins in my car. The car parking ticket was RM9 and I had only RM8.90 cents. You know what? I really feel like killing someone that time. I had no choice. I went up to McD and bought a coke. I paid the ticket and I went home safely.

Actually there was another stupid jam on the way back home but I have no time to write. It is 2am now!!! I still need to work! Damn it! Ok! Bye guys!

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