Malaysians On Giving Directions

 

Sometimes we can just tell the capacity of one’s intelligent by the way one explain directions. Sometimes one must be able to be empathetic. Often enough not empathy that prevails but stupidity rules the day…

An experience i would like to share:

Q: Camna saya nak pergi ke rumah En.******* bin ***** ?

A: OK..dari Tol Damansara, awak pegi terussss.. lepas tu 2 flyover awak belok kiri..lepas tu awak terus. Pastu awak masuk kiri lepas tu masuk kanan. rumah dia yang ader pokok cheri kat tepi belah kanan!

Hmm.. Good one! As if there are no buildings or landmarks to make sure i am on the right track.

It may sound a little better if it was like this:

Q: Camna saya nak pergi ke rumah En.******* bin ***** ?

A: OK..dari Tol Damansara, awak pegi terus. Awak akan melepasi 1 stesyen petrol di sebelah kiri awak. Jangan bimbang. Awak teruskan saja.  Awak akan naik 2 flyover. Bila awak turun fly over ke dua, cepat cepat awak ambik lane kiri sbebab nanti awak akan belok kiri. Ok, awak akan jumpa kubur di sebelah kiri awak selepas awak turun flyover tu. Lepas saja kubur tadi awak akan nanpak ada jalan belok ke kiri. Ambik lorong tu. Awak terus lagi, lepas tu awak akan melepasi stesyen Carltex di sebelah kiri awak. Sejurus selepas setsyen Carltex tu awak terus belok kiri kat junction tu. awak pegi terus lepas tu awak akan jumpa satu junction. Awak masuk kana dekat junction tu. pegi terus sampai awak nanpak ada pokok cheri di depan salah satu ruamh di sebelah kana awak. haa..di situ lah rumah En.******* bin *****!

Directions without landmarks, without indicator or even without cautions can be mind numbing and stupid. you are also gonna be wasting your time following those directions. But that’s how majority of Malaysians are.

Please remeber to be empathetic and mindful and always put yourself in the shoes of the person who is looking for directions! they might get lost. caution them on when they will see..they will drive pass or they will encounter! Don’t think that we are all like Matt Parkman from Heroes that can read minds!

STUPID!

If i am not mistaken, when we were in school, there was a specific topic in the syllabus just on giving directions! 

As you can guess, i’ve wasted nearly 1/2 an hour going for a wild goose chase because one stupid samaritan gave bad directions. Hmm.. well, im stupid too for not asking another person though.

Maybe i should start making a list of stupid Malaysian behaviour? no? well, we have bad bad directions, que cuts and lateness for a start right?

An Unexpected Crowd

“I don’t care.. tonight you and me are going to have a quiet dinner at Alexis BSC for your birthday. I’ve made reservations!”

“But why do you insist on having it tonight? My birthday is on Monday.”

“Well, monday night won’t be that pleasant as on Tuesday we will be working”

“hmm.. fair enough..hmm..what’s good eh at Alexis?”

Then there was THIS:

I had the shock of my life..well, not exactly of my life la.. i’ve seen things that are more shocking before.. but it was shocking as well la.. 

“Oh My Goat! you didn’t!!”

“Hahah.. well, SURPRISE!”

From a quiet dinner with me wife.. i was surprised by the pressence of Putri, Af, Khaleed, Nikk, Koi, Luke and Jessica!

Khaleed had to drop his friend’s wedding invitation to come for the surprise, Putri had to rush back from her boss’ wedding earlier to confirm the bookings, Luke sacrificed his last night with Jessica and his cute lil’ dotter Cassandra before he fly off to China the next day.. Koi finally had time to meet up after soo many cancellations and Nikk.. hmm..well, Nikk is err..Nikk la..

Anyway, It was superb. Really enjoyed the conversations and food. I had the Roasted Duck breast. Excellente’ i must say. I recommend it to all of you!

Oh! The guys bought this for me:

It’s Reiner Kniziar’s 1998 SAMURAI! Thanks a bunch y’all! though i was actually looking for:

Hahah… It’s ok.. I would have be confused myself! Shogun! Samurai..all comes from JAPAN! Right? But nonetheless, it’s another one for my collection! Thanks a lot guys!

I’ll save my review on the Samurai game on my next post. Promise!

Anyway, here are some pics for those of you who missed it:

 Speech! Speech!      

                                                 

 Af, Putri and my wonderful boo!

Trbute to N.K.O.T.B! Haha!       

Of course the name is Yong!, James Yong!

All and all…thank you so much to everyone. Like someone said that night.. “This is your last birthday bash as Yongster the hubby… next year it will be Yongster the daddy!”

 

Alhamdulillah…

Alhamdulillah..

It’s  boy..

Alhamdulillah..

But that’s just based on the ultrasound … Allah is great.. it might change..

What ever it is, both of us will redha..

Alhamdulillah…

Days of the dogs

Went through my Laptop and found this pic.

This was nearly 1 and a half years ago. ..still feels like it was recently..

kinda miss hanging out with the boys now…

 i believe married men still need their dosage of boys night out..get wasted at a pub and argue with the boys over stupid little things..

Shuq, Koi, Atom and Bigg.. u guys truly are the macho macho man!

so when is our next drinking session?