7-Eleven

I had this strong urge for a Slurpee after watching a marathon of Glee. So I went to my nearest 7-Eleven. I went to 3 of them actually. All for the search of a Slurpee.

Yes, that multicolor, sugar loaded, frozen blended drinks. I was desperate for it, which leads to 3 different 7-Eleven shops in Kajang. There are five 7-Eleven stores in Kajang, and more is appearing. Alas, my search failed. The first store shuts the Slurpee machine at 11pm, although the shut off time is at 12 am, the second store machine was broken, and the third store had no Slurpee machine at all.

A poor substitute is a Big gulp, but the machines are either out of ice, or broken. The second store cups were soiled with spilled strawberry soda.


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All hell breaks of loose of course. I wanted to burn down all three of the 7-Eleven stores. I was mad as hell for the poor service and quality of the stores. I decided to have a BF, a bitchy fit, and wrote a complain letter on the 7-Eleven website.

I thought it would takes weeks if they even read those letters, but surprisingly, the next day, I received a call from the Boss of all the 7-Eleven in Kajang. He apologised for his employees mistakes and the poor quality of his 7-Eleven branches. He promised to fix all the problem I stated in the letter. Now that is what I called quality customer service.

When Things Gone From Bad to Awfully Worse

I am tired, I wanted to write so many things that happened instead I just try to keep it simple. This is a scene if my father was not in the picture.

Sister: eh my car got into accident
me: how? where? who?
sister: a man driving a Kelisa hit me from behind, near BP velodrom
me: so how? is he paying or going to report to police?
sister: i asked to pay me, he said he wants to pay only 150
me: okay lah, gi report police then
sister: come lah, accompany me
me: sure okay, i want mcD
sister: ye lah

then drive to the police report, lodge a report, give insurance details, take picture of the car, write a report, then have mcD drive through. a few days later insurance come, tgk kereta, then claim.


however.. my father was in the car when she called me, and he overheard what happened, and he willingly without anyone forcing him, to go to the scene of the crime to "save" my sister, and hell breaks loose. The situation became so long, that I don't think I could put a dialogue in. Here is a summary of what happens

Father comes, inspects the car, demands money to repair, Kelisa guy (KG) said he has no money, wants to report, father argues and argue with KG, i kept quiet and avoid eye contact with KG, father gets furious, KG looked pissed, father yells at us to take KG details, KG is so pissed off that he just wants to talk at the police station, we tried to follow KG, but father told us to go home right away. Father kept yelling and screaming in the car and almost hit my mother. Sister was yelling and screaming in the car, but I was driving. Father kept yelling and screaming more since the TnG card was in my possession since I went and reload it since it was low on credit. Sister cooled down after I kept quite and calm, while offering her a cool can of Coke Light. I had to find out where the police station, where they will report the accident. I Google Map, I called and called again till I ran out of credit. KG did not report the accident yet, probably went home to send his child that was in the car during time of accident. Now at 12pm the next day, I have to meet my sister at KLCC to go to make a police report during lunch at Tun HS Lee road.

So yes, this gone from bad to awfully worse, thanks to participation of my father. Btw I haven't written down, things that happened BEFORE this accident. He freak out because his coffee came late and that he got mad that I won't go to the counter and DEMAND a cup of coffee now, instead I ordered and waited for my turn.

A Dream

I had dream that woke me up today to study. I dream't that I was in a Petronas green proton Saga, that was involved in a bumper to bumper accident. We were all driving on the highway, when suddenly the front driver braked, I braked but my car still lunged forward and I crash to the car upfront and then another car crashed my behind, we were still moving at high speed. I swerve to the right and brake again but only to hit another car up front and another car hit me in the back again. I started to pump my brakes so I would warn the drivers behind me that I was braking. I stopped, got out of the car and reviewed the damages. The front bumper was half missing, and the rear was damaged. I made it to a gas station where this one staff was being so Diva because I could not talk to him nicely. Come on my car was damaged of course I am easily aggitated. I was like who need his help, I got the insurance helpline on the windshield. huhu that is why i did not get a Proton Saga BLM, it does not have anti lock braking system (ABS) to prevent the wheel from locking up during emergency braking.

After that the dream gotten weirder. I saw ademonic dog that was raping a woman and then an old grandma walk walked to the that scene. When she turned the women head around, it was not a woman but a demonic cat. Then, the old grandma was feeding the demonic cat lady, kittens..

Demon cat.. (actually a cat that is yawning) I got this picture from here

Good car, but does not have the option of ABS.

Then I woke up.....and another nightmare happened.. but this time, I am awake and the threat is real..

Teenage Anguish

I just noticed something, if I am not mistaken most of the blogs I read and the blog readers that I know are either single, not married, married with no children yet, or married with children that is under 15. So basically no one is raising a teenager yet. Well I am, for 1 month I am in charge of 1 teenager. Lets see his stats, 18yr old, has a driving license, doing his diploma, plays the guitar and in a rock band, likes to go out and goes to gigs. Does this scream teenage anguish cum rebellious? It does, you can't yell at him or he gets all emo or scremo (emo is a song genre and so is screamo). I am going out of my mind actually on how to deal with him. At least now I know how my mother felt when dealing with him. I wish my dad was here, at least with his authoritative power and the right to give him a good smack would deal him good.

Service, Mice, Petrol, Travel and Worry

Popular Bookstore. I used to go to its branch in Sg Wang 10 years ago to buy music since I obtained their discount card. Now very rarely go here. However I like to point out the bitch.. oppps I mean store clerk is a total bitch. She crumpled my magazine to scanned it and did not smile or even make an eye contact when she dealt with me. I will banish this store forever from my list. I should come back and check if there is any complaints form available there.

Finally some of my female mice got pregnant. According to her size, she should have a good batch of litter. No need for me to buy new mice.

Hmm while fueling up today on my drive to Perak, I noticed the fuel price went lower again, which is good news. The bad news is even though petrol prices are down, none of the goods that went on a price hike, lowered their price too.

Online Check in, the next best thing since cheap mobile cellphone rates. Emirates has an online check in so that one does not have to come 3 hours early or que up to check in. You only have to come in 90 minutes early from your flight to check in your baggage and the online check in counter has far shorter que.
We sent my mother to Sudan via Emirates airline at KLIA. She will be staying with my dad for a month in Sudan. Which means just us 5 siblings in the house for the whole month. The irony is today is the exact same date my mother left us when she performed Haj last year. Strange though I feel sadder now and felt even more worried than I did last year. Heck I been worried and paranoid all week long. God knows where I got the strength to drive all day today. I been driving for about 8 hours today, from Kajang to UiTM Seri Iskandar Perak and back and then Kajang to KLIA and back. I was flooring our MPV to Perak and lucky enough we did not get a ticket during a roadblock that was held a few kilometers before the Tapah Rest area. Funny enough the people who were driving fast on the highway were those driving MPVs with big engines (Naza Ria, Estima, Alphard, Oddysey. etc). The big capacity engine in these vehicles, makes driving feeling very relaxed at 130km/h.

Hmm almost end of the year already, 3rd semester is over. What have I accomplished? Bad dreams began to appear, getting sick more often, feeling paranoa more often....

No Entry

Blocked

Filled

No trespassing.

This a new security system in my house developed by my lovely oldest sister. She parked her car so that all normal entries to the front door is inaccessible. The only way you can walk to the front door is to walk outside the house all the way to the back of the house and to the door and hope it is unlocked and then walk all the way to the front door and enter..

4 days of pleasure or pain..

These past 4 days (Sunday to Thursday) was full so many activities from morning till night. I meant to upload it but I just could not stay awake :D. So as usual, these lazy days require only pictures and a little caption for all to enjoy :)

The picture above was stolen from Abg Bears site. My wondrous week started with an invitation to join a dinner at Williams, Danial Ma's first visit here. It was the first time I tasted the dish abg bear loved which was the Pastra Arabiata Seafood special. He said it did not taste as good as before, but for me it was really nice :)

Monday was my friend's Zuk, convocation. My lab friend decided to take pictures with him and give him flowers to congratulate him for being able to graduate and further his masters.

Zuk's dad on his right, his girlfriend on his side and his mother on his left. All of them looked very cute with their Maroon outfit :).

After my friend's convo, it was time to take a visit to the animal house and check on the animals. There I met, a good friend I knew since my diploma years at Arau, which is Ana. She is doing an experiment with Dragon fruit, so she is testing the fruit on rats. Ana has to force feed the rats so that they will consume a controlled amount of the fruit.

See, they are okay, if you know how to handle them :)

On the same day also, I happened to stumble upon a chat friend, Kuzid.. His older brother had his convocation too on the same day. We managed to bump each other during lunch at a restaurant nearby. We made plans and met up for drinks at night.

He is a a cat owner too. Kuzid's friend named this cat Kuzid also :D. Its an America short hair according to them :) judging by the size and pattern on the fur

This picture was stolen from Hamdi's facebook account. What are we doing?

We were having a birthday dinner for a local blogger and friend, Saharil Conteng on Tuesday.

The birthday boy was bullied for little bit by the sporting staff of TGIF.

After the meal we headed to Coffee Bean for some hot drinks.

I very rarely stepped into coffee bean and tea leaf. I wanted some tea so I chose Moroccan mint. It was the perfect choice since the medium strength tea and cool peppermint was soothing for my full stomach :).

On Wendesday, I accompanied my mother to the Jusco Sale. Can you imagine, we arrive at 9 am. The parking lot was already full..

So we had to park at an empty land beside Jusco Cheras Selatan.

The congestion continue on inside the store, since people were lining up to by really cheap stuff. Dynamo 5 liter was 10 ringgit cheaper than usual.

Soo many people :(

Even existing the mall was quite the hassle. I had to drive into the mall parking to pick up my mother because we had so much stuff.

My back seat was full with all the stuff my mother bought.

At least there were the guards to take control of the traffic.

On Wednesday I went to see a movie with a friend.

We bought the premier tickets. This is the first time I set foot in these type of cinema. They have couple seats for couples to sit and snuggle. Very comfortable.

The place we went to, was called GSC signature at The Gardens midvalley

I forgotten to take my laptop along, only after 45 minutes into the movie I realised the horrible mistake I made. At least the laptop was safe. I saw Max Payne and thought the movie sucked. Its a movie based on a video games. Since I know the video game, I can't helped to biased against this movie.

Today on Thursday, I finally went ahead to do my SDS PAGE electrophoresis.

This the first tiem I am doing this, and I was kinda of nervous

Hopefully it will work..

Please work :(

Kereta oh Kereta

The Mercedes need its rounding service. This time I am going to another workshop, my dad use to go to this place when it was in Cheras, but now they moved to Kajang. They are specialist at European cars.

Using mineral oil now instead of the semi synthetic. From my point of view, older cars such as mine better suited with mineral oil. Its thicker so it can protected the worn out and loose part better than the semi. Beside instead of 7000km interval of the semi synthetic, I think the 5000km interval is better, so that the car can be checked more often.

I saw this lime green Volkswagen beetle at the workshop.

It has nice chrome rims and tyres combination.

My Vivi was injured today :(

One of the lamps was scratched.

Parts of the front bumper was also deeply scratched.

The room came down after the worker my mother hired to paint our roof, came crashing down with the roof. Pieced of the debris hit my car.

This the part of the roof that cam crashing down. I am not sure who to be pissed off at today. Is it the workers fault for stepping on the weakest part of the roof? My mother's fault for not telling me people were painting the roof this weekend? My fault for not waking up earlier? The contractors fault for using cheap ass wood to hold the roof? I was pissed off more when I told my mom I kept my cool when they crashed on my car and she told me its just physical objects. That guy also crashed down. Gee mother, what if the new 3 time more expensive Accord got hit, or your new leather pursed is destroyed, will you say the same thing..

In the Lab... again.. ON A SATURDAY!!!

I am in the lab, on Saturday :(.. all alone.. on a Saturday!!!!! Its 9 am and I am awake... in the lab on Saturday :(..

What does one do? Build twin towers of a measuring cylinder filled with distilled water?

Shhh... I am armed with a batery operated pipette filler and I am not afraid to use it. I am hunting liquids that needs exact measurements in it volume..

What about baking, its almost raya anyways. Glycine anyone??

Shaken, never stirred, just like how James Bond likes his Martini. Maybe he appreciates a shaken 5X running buffer for his SDS PAGE??