eid day 1

We touchdown today at about 6.13am. By the time we left the aircraft it's about 6.30am. Bebet picked me up at about 6.45am. Drove on a desolate road to home. Kinda sad actually. I'm numb. though I admit I'm not into all this, but after doing it for 36 years, the routine is kinda stuck there somewhere at the back of your head.

Had a simple salam with Bebet. After that a quick nap. Woke up, quick shower and then I thought of surprising Bebet, but Bebet is napping nicely downstairs. Poor Bebet. I bet she wanna celebrate. Our place is unchanged from what we use to face. Same piles of books and what not. I really need to pull us up from this mentally sapping garbage lifestyle. It's not a matter of choice now. It's a must.

Took a drive through KL. God, it's a fucking third world citizen day out. I don't even feel safe in my own land. Took the long way out through Ampang-Ulu Kelang-Kepong route. 1 hour later we took the Penchala exit to The Curve.

We did some window shopping for our so called jogging shoes. God, nike is like 380 a pair. No wonder people are fat all around. They can't afford a decent jogging shoes...yeah right. Had dinner at The Gardens and then home bound. Oh we bought a few CDs too.

So that's Eid's first day for you.

It's deepressing, I know.

Sigh

Eid Mubaraq

Eid Mubaraq in Malaysia is called raya. Hari raya aidilfitri. As usual since before Mobet it's a hit and miss for me. As far as i can remember it is just a romantic idea of a celebration. I won't say it's a Muslim version of Christmas for fear of crucifixion by my fellow muslim extremists but that's the general idea. Oh forgot to tell you, you gotta fast for 30 days before the celebration.

The first week of ramadhan will be full of sighing and 'trying' to be funny comments of having gastric, uploading pictures of food in the middle of afternoon on facebook and showing videoclips of porn to your fellow friends. as the days goes by, the said jokes are not that funny anymore and people will untag themself or in worst case sceanario unfriend you. nothing personal just that probably you are just too annoying.

The second week usually goes by without any big hoohaa as the fasting hits plateau. If you open up your facebook stat you will see people whining and sighing about their Raya leave has been rejected and what not and that's it but wait till you see the third and last week of Ramadhan

The third week you will see people tagging you left right and center pictures of Biskut Raya and that's Raya biscuit or cake whatever you wanna call it. You will also see people uploading their flight ticket home and baju raya. Baju raya is something like hmm a wedding dress but it's not...duh what kind of explanation is that! Oh and still whining and sighing from some quarters about them not be able to make it home bla bla bla enough already!

The final week is the worst. Forget about shopping. You can't buy shit. It's like the end of days is tomorrow. People spending money like they're shitting gold...ya a bit dramatic I know but that's the truth.

Me? hm I dont buy Raya shoes anymore, it's a Malaysian tradition. I'm using my past year's Baju Raya this year. The bloody company rostered me to arrive at 7am Raya morning. Great. I can't go back cos Bebet is working. It's okay. Bebet IS family though it's only the 2 of us and lil Bebet of course.

When I was a kid, my sis and I, we will wait for dad's Raya allowance. rm 300 and that's it. Imagine juggling between buying shoes and clothes. It ain't enough baby. Watching my friends rich dad buying em kids Reebok pump ( hehehe ) god that is so oldschool! is such a pain sometime but somehow it doesn't bother me. Not that it will leave me emotional scars and become a serial killer or something. Duh that is like so overrating . I'm fine. Promise. God... I missed Dad

That's raya for me. Mom and sis is celebrating in Kuching. Hope they're all well.

So selamat Eid Mubaraq and Happy Independence day. God bless Malaysia.

* b l o 0 d y h E L L *

Bloody hell !!!!



After I uploaded my last entry, the roster for August came out. Guess what? I got my freaking leave. The whole load of it and I don't quite know what to do now. You see, the birthday plan is on the 7th that's like less than 2 weeks to go. What the hell can I plan? Sigh.

Do you know how fucking hard it is to plan a holiday wait, rather a getaway on a short notice and limited budget? here's the story...

By default, Mobet's getaway would be Bali. Since I'm not sure where to go I checked Bali. So opened Google chrome, type malaysiaairlines.com and select the dates... What the fuck? The bloody flight is full! Not good!!! So I checked the hotels reservations just to be sure. Yup. It's full. So I dig deeper. Running through a few websites later I managed to get hold of this one site that do reservation for a hotel that you can't do online. It's called Puri Asih. I brought Bebet there to look see look see last time but unfortunately their booking system is by Fax only. Ya, tell me about it. In this electronic age we can e-manual, e-fuck, e- my brown ass...they still use fax machine. Get a bloody email la fucker. Aisey.

So I then had a brainstorming session with Bebet. Bebet suggested Koh Samui. I was like...why on earth didn't I think of that. Since our buddy Lan went there early July. Might be a good idea to check with him.

Feedbacks from Lan regarding Koh Samui is not that encouraging though. I asked him to rate the trip out of 10 and he gave it a 6. Asked him to explain and he gave a lengthy explanation of how difficult it is going around without transport. Average cab fare is about 500 bhat one way and the paradise is full of whites. That reminds me of Mobet's trip to Krabi where the waiteress took our order by mistake and refused to take charge and gave us a 'face'...well, Fuck you fucking she male arsehole! So in a way I think I know what Lan meant bout having too many whites. I checked the availability of hotels during Mobet's so call holiday unfortunately on the 12th is the Queen of Thailand's birthday and most rooms are taken. Long holiday in Thailand I guess. Anyways it's the norm nowadays where the whites are the price of things will increase many folds.

How to get there? Firefly air and airasia. Checked Firefly, and they only do 1 flight a day...what the fcuk? One of the privileges of being an airline crew is you get flight tickets discount. Most if not all we only pay10% of the full fare plus taxes and fees. Okay...let see, 1 flight a day, about 70 seats, standby ticket hmmm what are the odds of getting on board. So I called Lan and asked him, he actually went for the standby ticket, called Firefly everyday to monitor the seats and he already booked the hotels. Great idea...NOT!

The so called booking agency- baliwww.com is full of shit. I booked a hotel through them, gave them my credit card details and I still have to do follow up to check availability. In the end they just shoot me an email saying, sorry we are unable to book the hotel you wanted but how about hotel B. My ass. They try to book me Bali Bungalow. I read the review and most people rate the hotel as 1 star. Rats everywhere and what not. I think the 1 star is the minimum that people can rate. If they can rate zero, I think they would. In the end, we scrapped Bali off the board.

So we are back to square one. Dissecting our options and not so deep thoughts later we decided to revisit the idea of going to Koh Samui. Bebet is the one who spotted this nice resort to the east of Samui airport. Journey, according to the write up is about 45 minutes. I hope it will be a shorter one. Then, in the midst of anxiety fueled frenzy, I 'accidentally' booked us for the whole trip the jacuzzi pool villa. After I paid for the thing then I realized I should've book us on a 3 + 3 basis where the first 3 days stay at the normal jacuzzi room and the final 3 days the pool villa. Sigh. It's okay I guess. It's my birthday but then sooner or later we have to tone down our celebrations. Maybe once a year should do it with small local trips in between.

As I was wondering what is gonna happen to my anniversary leave, I received an email from the company saying the leave is already out but unfortunately mine is again rejected. I won't lie to you I'm very very disappointed...and a whole load of sadness. You see before, this leave shit doesn't bother me that much. I was like, leave rejected so what? That was when I was single. But now, when I have a new hobby ( read Bebet ) I'm kinda looking forward to our trips and time together. The company give me 32 days a year, which I can't do shit about. They should have this bidding system where they give you points for you to bid say, 100 points. If you want that leave so much maybe you can dump 50 on those and see if anybody outbid you and stuff.

Oh did I mention that there's only one flight a day to Samui with Firefly? Yup and I can't risk it. Recap Lan took the discounted ticket and stressed himself by calling the ticket hotline day in day out to check the seat and come departure day with hotels all fully paid for, the flight is full. Bloody hell! Luckily 2 passengers didn't turn up for the flight. You think I'm gonna risk it? Of course not stupid! I bought a firm ticket for Mobet. Guess how much? Rm1700. Tell me about it. Blame it on Idris Jala for all I care.

Yeah I love this company. It's my first job and my first airline. But then this has got to stop. They put old fucked up guys up there to run things. What do you expect when apes running the show? You get a bloody circus of course.

I am beyond mad. Talked to a buddy about this yesterday, you stay here you get fucked, you go somewhere else you gonna get rape big time. Not only that maybe, just maybe by the time you realized, there's a bloody fist up your arse. But then, if you're gonna get that, might as well get raped and get paid for it.

Anyways this goes to you fuckers in the office, fuck you fucking arsehole! You are going to work and I'm gonna have my 5 star holiday with Bebet. May you rot like a fucking dirtbag.

Ahem, Thank you.