Tuesday, April 27, 2004

It is the twenty seven of April, a friend of our daughter, a Bangladesh lady say she is making a stop over in Kuala Lumpur and would meet us..... So we waited for her.... According to her, her plane would arrived at the airport early in the morning and that she would take the fast train to the city.... so we waited and at about ten in the morning she call saying that she has been put up at a hotel in Seremban, a city nearer the airport and south of Kuala lumpur..... Actually when she boarded the bus from the airport she did not know that the bus was heading toward Seremban.... Apparently she got into the bus and slept all the way..... She only knew the hotel is in Seremban on arrival... Well lucky for her that Seremban is not that far from Kuala Lumpur and connected by a commuter train at regular interval..... What would have happen if the bus went to Timbaktoo or some other places, then she would be lost in wonderland.... But then those thing does not happen in the beautiful Malaysian..... So she is safe..... When she phone in..... I told her that she should take the commuter train to the Sentral station in KL and the proceed to KLCC by the LRT and we shall meet her there for lunch....... So we waited again and eventually at just past one in the afternoon she call from KLCC.... Saying that on arrival at the KLCC, she go 'lost' and was wondering around trying to find a phone..... Apparently she did found a public phone.... In this era when everyone in this country carry a cell phone, the public phone would soon be a dinosaur......... Since KLCC is just a three minutes drive from our house.....it was just easy to get there..... and we eventually met her at the destinated place...... It was indeed a change of plan..... Well we can only plan and sometime even good plan would get haywire.... Anyhow happy that we found her, we went to have lunch at the food court....... She crave for 'Nasi Ayam' Chicken Rice' so She and my wife had that while I took a chapatti meals..... We chat and since she had to get back to the airport but six in the evening.... We had in a way to rush things up......She wanted to buy a memory stick for her camera.... So I told her that she should visit our computer 'mad house' at the Lowyatt Plaza.... I then drove to this shopping complex at one end of the Bintang Walk.... The traffic was heavy and it was indeed a slow drive...... We inch away and eventually arrived.... went straight to the shopping area where she and my wife for the first time are exposed to this computer mad house, where everything on computer are available here under one roof..... To me it is an interesting palace to be if you are looking for 'things' computer .... The whole complex on all floors were full of vendors selling all brands of computer, computer parts, cameras and of course cell phones.... It is a paradise of a sorts for those computer nuts....... We scout around for those memory stick she wanted... but unfortunately the one she was looking were not available.... She was looking for a 512mb chips for her camera..... Well ordinary person would just do with a 64mb memory, so memory stick with that amount of memory would not really sell at a place like this, anyway we scout around and eventually found one that it cost about three hundred dollars.... and then we continue to look and since time is not on our side and it is almost five and she decided not to buy any and that to proceed back to the Sentral station for her train to the airport....... So I drove to the KLCC and park my car there and together with her took the LRT to the Sentral Station..... in a minutes we arrived and she check in at the Express train to the airport..... Since this is the first time that my wife and me had visit the Sentral station......We decided to brows through and see the place..... It is indeed a huge station and the whole place were crowded with people..... A transit point for trains to other destinations in the country, a commuter hub, as well as the LRT hub as well..... It is a place where transportation are well connected.... It resemble the Grand Central station in N.Y city........ well being at this Sentral one would not feel that we are still in a country that the west call the third world.... We are actually a develop nation in this part of the world..... Come and see and you would agree that Malaysia today is a well develop country comparable to any countries in the west......... After browsing around, we had coffee and then took the LRT to KLCC.... Took our car and then drove back home....Oh! What an interesting day.... Hectic.!!... But enjoyable..... She must be wondering in Sydney by now.... Hope that she did not get into the wrong bus again and landed in another city..... Australia is large.... Another city means thousand of kilometer away...... Well I supposed she has learn from the incident in Malaysian..... She is a smart lady..... Shimo Have fun..........

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