Thursday, November 20, 2008

Chapter 4: A Walk under the Horns

After finished the Dung Plus Ass final exam, I decided (with tide in my heart and blood) to go to the Horns of Malaysia, KLCC, to buy the book that I have been long aiming for, while getting a chance to make Blackie's map really useful. Wakaka~

But before that, I have to wait for my friend, as she had reserved some Kuih Batik for me (she made some to let us eat after one of us bought a Kuih Batik at the college students organized Entrepreneur Society Event that tasted awfully bad to them but ok to me...). So I followed a bunch of the other friends here to go to have their so-called "breakfast" first. Until they had done, I followed the friend to her apartment to get my kuih, with her little brother, namely Ah Kid, who came that Sunday handling the tupperware to me. After I got the kuih, and so the journey begin~

I set the GPS to lead me on roads that don't pass through the toll, as the money I brought is not meeting the requirement. So the journey really amazed me because Blackie led me into several Taman and then, suddenly, KL is in front of my eyes. Good job, Blackie! Although the journey full of bends and curves, it still made me enjoying, as there are several roads I had drive through during those site visit, including Cheras Mahkota and Damai Perdana. Unforgettable.

After reaching KLCC, I tried to find a place, more specifically, McD, to settle my absolute hollowed stomach. Unfortunately, the food court I was searching is not there anymore (or maybe it still there and I lost in KLCC). So, Plan A changed to Plan B, I went to find my book first.



I knew I would lost, again, in this Kinokuniya. So, I utilized the kiosk there to get the map for my book (not with my Blackie. He also not familiar with this place). But getting the map is also a useless method because the bookstore is quite special in its design. So I walked around the place first to get familiar with the space. Finally, I found the book, located on a bookshelve, of course. But after further exploration in the level (the book located at higher level in the bookstore), the book I was searching for is actually everywhere there, and it is placed on those big tables which really looks invisible to a new comer. Since I can get a 30% discount on the book I took, and so I try my best to find another book which also could give me another 30% discount on itself while retain its price around RM 30. I looked everywhere in the store just to find such book. There are so many books that I really interested, especially at the Japanese Section, a book which teaches how to sketch your journey while you are travelling abroad. But look at the price, RM 70++ with no special discount. So I think the only thing I can do to this book is to wait for it to become old enough to have lower price. Haiz...

Anyway, the Emperor wouldn't let those ambitious down (whichever Emperor who is good enough la). Finally I found another new book which met my conditions. And so I paid the book as quickly as I can as I had stayed there for about 2 and a half hours (amazing...). Then I walked around again to search, again, my point of interest to have my late lunch. Still, I couldn't find the place. Under this condition, I have no choice but to simply get a meal at the food court I found there which is not the one I was looking for, with this speghetti anglio olio...



After the meal, another surprise was found at the Autopay kiosk (for me la). The total parking fee for a 3 hours is RM 8.00! Nice! I can get another meal at KLCC already with this expense (without taxed).

Talk about the way back home. First, I almost unable to get home with my Blackie exhausted after leading me from Mantin to KLCC. Fortunately, Blackie is as tough as steel reinforced concrete. Finally I was able to successfully reach to Kajang with no obstacles, only that Blackie just left 1 live. Next is a traffic accident occured in Seremban, which I was luckily able to get some photo at the scene.





While on my way home, I found that my friend's Kuih Batik is quite helpful too, as it capable to help settle my "once again absolute hollowed" stomach.



At around 8.00 p.m., I finally reached home, with all my "spoils of war" that cost me not more than my RM 80.00 budget. This is really another surprise for me because I am able to buy things that cost me less than normal price in Kinokuniya while meeting my taste. So, this journey is considered success!



p/s: It seems like I unable to show my journey anymore here as Blackie unable to survive more than 2 hours while helping me to record my journey with Sports Tracker. Maybe after viNe released I will continue to do this (if it could reduce the power usage). Another sad thing is that I unable to find a photo sharing website that could let me share my geotagged photo everywhere with unlimited storage while cost me nothing. So, I will stick to Picasa Web Album first before the limit is reached. ^^

2 comments:

~~wEi sHi~~ said...

u bought tat book 4 how much???

Ah Bear said...

i remember the original is rm 50++. thn tat day got year end discount for 10% or 30% if buy another book. i forgot oredi. thn will get the discount card for the books also. but i no use the card coz i forgot oredi...