Crapatography

Monday, January 31, 2005

Another 'something' to do with the car... incident

Well as usual with my perfect driving skills I got stopped by a what i thought was a 'postman' on a motorcycle! hehe....
I was rushing to BSC (bangsar shopping complex) at 1.30pm to meet Sue and her friend, Kah ming and i missed the turning to go into the parking, that was because it was my first time going there by myself and on top of that I never go there at all!
So instead i went on straight and tried to look for somewhere i could turn to make a U turn. Down the road at quite a busy street i took a right turn where there was a huge yellow box drawn on the ground and stopped right at the first house I saw to take a u turn back to the mall. Sounds complicating I know.... Well when i stopped there was the policeman in blue on a motorcycle and he stopped asking me to show my licence... Well thank god i did have a licence if not that would b triple the charge... And he said that I have broken 3 rules of which until now I havnt figured all 3 out because he was speaking sooo fast in malay and something i couldnt make out in english... All i heard at the end was that Satu charge Rm300 so Three charges is rm 900... I was like what the ***k is this for real!???? I was soo scared and i kinda tried out fake crying that didnt come out right... Probably if there was anyone with me he/she would be laughing out loud at the expression on my face!
Well to continue I was like asking him for another chance etc but he just said in malay 'How do u want me to deal with this then'?? I didnt know he wanted me to bribe him so I said 'I dunno' haha and finally after about 4 times of repitition i said i have rm 60 with me now and thats all... He said 'get into the car dan bagi saya rm 50'.... and i was like wow that was easy.......

Soon after he just ran off and I was still scared shitless! I thought to myself he was definitely cheating me with the charges and he also knew that i wasnt from around here. Well lets just say that was all the money i had and its gone ! :(

One thing though that i didnt understand was why was he talking to a guy on the walkie talkie about my situation. Like: 'Dia on holiday sini dan dia break 3 rules', 'dia boleh bagi rm50 saja'... Actually I was thinking it would be a better idea for me to have checked whether he was a real police man or not! Well thank god I got my licence back :)....

This is still nothing compared that being a victim of a snatch thief!

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Amusingly enough the weighing scale pointed towards the higher end than as normal and there I was waken up and taken away from my comfort zone. I realised today was a day to do abit of exercise and in my dictionary that meant badminton or basketball.... All that brisk walking and swimming is tooo boring for me... or more or less I'm lazy to perform 'those' kind of exercises...

Having called up 3 buddies, i roughly planned wat i was to do for the day. We met up in TTDI and went to Bukit Kiara Club to carry out our usual ritual of losing or winning to the team which had that 'lets say proffesional badminton player in it'- jenny

After 2 hours of trashing and winning we decided to go to Sri Hartamas for lunch at 4pm and all the cheap places were closed so we resorted to going to a restaurant that sold food that was equally the same in quality but more in terms of price: Penang Village/Kopitiam.

Ok folks here comes the interesting parts. After lunch my friend allowed me to drive his car.. an old manual alfa romeo... having started driving manual after 1 year i decided to take the chance and so off we went on our cruise back to TTDI. On exiting Hartamas there was a devider with those orange poles in the middle of the road and last minute (really last minute) I decided to turn left so I turned the signals on and started sliding onto the left side of the devider and bang!! The poor kinda new Van/MPv scraped its front right bumper against my left car door and rear. Moreover he swereved to the left which resulted in a probable "dent" on his door or rear because he collided with a small, quite new looking kelissa.

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THE AFTERMATH

I was soooo scared... Usually i stop to look at the damage but this time, being selfish I just drove on as fast as ever and tried to get away without being chased after.... Trust me this was not my decision. I really wanted to stop but a 'voice' hehe told me to Go on and "GET OUT". My friends just urged me to get moving.. I suppose it was a wise decision because then we didnt have to face any more headache...

When I arrived at one of my friends house we got out to check whether there was any damage on the car I was driving and well it was scraped, mainly the other vehicles paint but there was also some paint scraped off this car. I was really feeling so guilty and apologetic. My friend just told me not to worry and just leave it be. I was like 'wow' am I living in reality or wat???
I am still so happy that there was no tension because of wat I did to his car.... Still I am sooo sooo sorry.............................:(