Going round & round

I’d been dying to go to Big Bookshop X’Mas Warehouse Book Clearance again.

Earlier, I had asked RapidKL’s staff @ KLCC after PC Fair which bus goes to Atria Shopping Mall. The staff gave off several numbers. When I asked the bus drivers, each directed me to take the other bus! Damn shit!

Finally, I ended up back in KL Sentral. I asked the umpteenth RapidKL staff, “Naik bas apa pergi ke Atria?”

“Mana tu? Ikea?”

“Bukan. A-T-R-I-A. A-tria. Dekat Tmn Bahagia LRT.”

“U88.”

I got into RapidKL U88 and ended up at 1Utama. Asked the Info counter lady, she didn’t know. Got into another U8sth bus and the driver said I’d have to change bus at Uptown.

At Uptown, I waited for another U bus – as per the latest driver. At the no-rooftop bus stop along the drain, I checked out the small notice board. No U bus goes to Atria. Instead, T bus goes through Atria.

Unfortunately, no T bus passed by and the bus to 1U came on the other side. Sigh. I ran to the other side and took that bus. Waited for ages for the bus to my housing area.

I was so tired, frustrated, disappointed and sleepy! I was supposed to be getting ready for Gem’s wedding 5 minutes ago!

Thank God someone at home was willing to fetch me home..

Abundance is everywhere

Ever since I started my new job, I got to be treated by colleagues, 2008 calendars & diaries reach us earlier than all these years, I learnt more about people and how to improve myself. Found some nice white tops (obsessed with white lately) at cheap cheap prices!

I’m actually more calm. Except when the application hang for the 30th time!

Though I didn’t win anything in the department dinner, I had fun watching other winners performed in order to get their prizes.

There’ll be more goodies to come :)

I want a handphone, notebook, digital camera, car; not necessarily in that order. Heh.

Give & take

Usually I would take public transport to where I want to go. To save the earth from CO2 :p and money too.

Sometimes, though, my friends would fetch me and we’d go together.

1 of my friends said, “Now that you have your job already, you can treat me. I used to fetch you so much!”

“Mmm..” she pondered, “I want ice cream!”

I raised my eyebrows at her demand.

“I don’t want Baskin Robins. That can get 31%. I want… Haagen Daz one!”

“Sure, sure,” I nodded.

Truthfully, even if she hadn’t voiced it out, I would’ve treated her and other friends who have fetched me so much all these years. I never forget their help in fetching me – even though sometimes it was them who needed company for safety or leisure. I repay in other ways than fetching them.

But since she demanded like that, I was put off by her attitude. Why expect something you claim to give freely? We are friends, aren’t we? We aren’t supposed to calculate so much? Did she/they have any hidden agenda when they fetched me? Did they expect equal or more in return for their efforts/investments?

On the other hand, friendship is about sharing. It’s not about them solely fetching me and I don’t care about them. Friends should treat each other equally.

Other friends scowled, “What kind of friend is that?”

What about love partners then?

Sam’s view is that, “What is yours is mine. What is mine is mine alone.”

Her boyfriend thinks that’s bollocks. “It should be equal.”

“No loh! We are girls and I am traditional. I want my man to take care of me!” She crossed her arms in mutiny. “It’s soooo unfair if we pay everything dutch!”

Then what is love? How much you give the other person? Isn’t it like paying for love? The more you pay, the more the other person would be happy to please you? Equal give and take? Free will?

Ever since she said that, I think I would only hang out with her after I get my car to fetch her or treat her ice cream.