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Telur Dada
Posted by jiunjie in Personal Encounter on December 17, 2009
Blazing hot afternoon, lunch time, in a restaurant lining up in sweaty shirt for my turn to pack my lunch. There is this guy in front of me is ordering his dishes to the kakak at the back of the stall.
“Ayam goreng”, the kakak put one piece of fried chicken into a pack of rice wrapped by brown paper with banana leafs.
“Ubi kentang”, she scoops some potatoes and added on top of the rice.
“Telur dada”
She paused for a moment while looking at this guy’s eyes. Then she looked down and smile while taking a piece of malay styled omelette, telur dadar, add on top of the potatoes she added in earlier and she wrap up the brown paper and put it into a plastic bag.
This reminds me of once a famous politician with his famous phrase,
“Jangan hisap dada” on a anti drug campaign.
I couldn’t agree more.
Cannot Piss and Pissed Off
Posted by jiunjie in Personal Encounter on December 14, 2009
I was at in the toilet of a major shopping centre in Kuala Lumpur, want to release my bladder from holding unwanted pressure within my body.
I went up the this urinate bowl, those type without a divider and stand next to a man whom I assumed he is finishing his business as he was there before me and started flushing the bowl and shaking his long john off.
That’s pretty normal.
As I was “loading” my thing and prepare to release my bladder, this man next to me is shaking. A slow shake or fast shake which last for few seconds is totally fine because I understand this is a man thing, shake it clean before putting it back into the safety net.
Strange Encounter with Strangers
Posted by jiunjie in Office Bored, Personal Encounter on December 10, 2009
I’m working in an IT company, and based at client’s office, so every day I meet many unknown people in various workplace.
Usually I’ll greet or at least nod my head with eye contact whenever I meet these people in office regardless I know them or not, because we are all in the same workplace.
There is this Malay lady whom I guess is from building maintenance management based on her outfit, walkie-talkie in her hand, running from place to place for checkup daily, she came to me when I was playing games working with my eyes staring on my notebook and greet me! I didn’t realize she was around me until she greeted me and I look away from my notebook and greet back to her.
A few more people whom I don’t know and didn’t work with me passed by my cubicle and greeted me and asked me whether I have my breakfast/lunch. Strangely, I barely know them by names except for their faces. It is very kind and friendly of them to someone don’t work for them.
Useful Information from Stranger
Posted by jiunjie in Personal Encounter on December 9, 2009
Somewhere in the middle of October, I was taking the bus to office for work as usual. But that day it was a bit unusual because as I paid my bus fare, the bus driver suddenly talked to me and informs me about tentative information that he received, which by somewhere in month of November, this route for this bus will be cancelled as they will consolidate a few routes and extend their travel journey.
I thank him after I took my ticket from the driver as usual as well as for that piece of information, as I might need to look for alternative way to get to work if this route is going to cancel.
I found a seat in the bus and sat down. Then I started to think, why is the bus driver didn’t tell anybody who were onboard before me from the same station that I took from (nobody is after me as usual I like to queue up last, will explain why next post)?