a very chee-fee-bai-fai day, but saved by a wonderful karaoke session

Yesterday was a betch.

I got in the office at 8:15 am and usual browsed the morning dailies. Didn't plan to splurge on any sinful mamak offerings for breakfast, so I had a Nestle yogurt, plain. But 15 minutes later, I had this stupid craving for paper thosai from the mamak at the food court. So I finally gave in to my epicurean affection for mamak breakfast. As soon as I finished my second breakfast with Ita and Cake, I bumped into my boss at the lift lobby. Alamak. Mesti dia ingat saya suka melepak kat mamak pagi2 sampai tak sedar diri.

As soon as I got to my "concubine", my boss buzzed me. Standard lah, dah nampak orang gi breakfast tadi, startlah dumping all sorts of shitty crap on me. (oh god, i said dump, shit and crap in one sentence). Then the tough questions came, anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.... A big event is coming up on the 1st of April and a lot of things still need to be ironed out. But as my boss, he sure as hell knows that there's no use in making me more anxious about things that are not done. Boleh tolong jangan bagi saya panic boleh tak? Nangis ni tau.

At 9:45 am I was still in my boss' room, having a discussion on a media release. I had a 10am at KLCC, so I was like ... "err.. can I go now.. cuz I have a meeting in like, 15 minutes?"

Boss: What time are you coming back to the office?

Me: Huh? When the meeting ends lah.

Boss: Ya, like what time?

Me: I wouldn't know, I'm not the one chairing the meeting!

Boss: So you're NOT planning to come back to the office? *smirking*

Me: Of course I'll come back la! Ok lah, I come back at noon. Sheesh.

Persetan. What kind of statement is that, "You're not planning to come back to the office?" Am I perceived as someone who likes to skive off work? I know I'm guilty of long lunches but hey what about the long hours that I've put in? I'm online 24/7 for him and I don't even have a BlackBerry. I will even reply his emails at midnite. In bed. Thank god I don't have a husband. Damn. Don't tell me any of that went unnoticed?

Oh the above was a non-event la actually. What happened after almost cost me my life! Well maybe not life la, but would've cost me a few hundred bucks at least.

After that, I happily drove like a law-abiding citizen to KLCC, as I got into Jalan Ampang (I was in the middle lane), right in front of Wisma MCA, a brown bus swerved into my lane, without even signalling, missing the front part of my car by a few inches. It was such a fcking close call ok. I swear to god if I had gone any faster. BAMMM!!

Kimax! Saya ingat itu adalah Metrobus driven by an Indon bastard, because that kind of psycho driving is so typical of Metrobus kan... Tapi rupa-rupanya.... OH.... tidak....

Right in front of me, in black letters at the back of the bus was "Fiat Sapientia Virtus".

This almost killed me.

Bladihell!

Are they out to get me? Suddenly I remembered this post that I had written about graduates of our so-called Eton of the East (barf barf, puke puke).

I got at the KL Convention Centre car park safe as sound, thank god. The open car park was full, as expected. So I drove to the side entrance to get to the basement car park and as soon as I got there this young chap was putting up the orange cones and a sign that says "Car Park Full". He said, "Akak kena parking kat Suria kak!"

To cut a long story short, I had a field day walking around KL Convention Centre and Suria in my 3-inch heels. And it wasn't Manolos, so my poor feet was just tortured to the max.

In a nutshell - sakit hati, almost mati, sakit kaki...

I thought the day couldn't be saved, but at night we had a fun karaoke session at where else until 3 in the morning. Me likey.

Thank you for saving my day.