Of being Lost & Blinded

I'm working now!

Monday was officially my first day of work and while the Bossman is off to Bangkok, I was supposed to go visit the office with Ah Bak, my former uni-mate and now colleague. He handles the Motion Graphics department* and I handle the Animation and Web department*. (*When I say department I mean just one of us each. makes it sound more important.)

Now, Bak has been to the office 5 or more times so I was pretty sure there wouldn't be a mishap. I heard from the Boss that the first time Bak drove to Cheras to look for the office, he was lost for a grand total of FOUR HOURS! He gave up in the end when he noticed the road he was on was leading to Penang. In honest truth, 4 hours CAN bring you to Penang.

All was well, I picked him up from Sunway and we were headed to Cheras. New office equipment in the back and a map in our hands leading to my future place of employment. We were off to green pastures!

Nearing Cheras, I saw a road sign pointing to Jalan Cheras so I looked over to my navigator who was closely scrutinizing the map. Left he said and Left I exited the highway. We came to a Roundabout where I once again questioned him,"Eh, Which direction wei?" He was in some sort of delirium when he replied left again, past MAKRO hypermart. So Left we went...... we were soon deep in the belly of Cheras. Little was I to know what was coming my way....

Then Ah Bak starts yelling,"Oh Shit! Oh Shit! I dunno where is this!"

I was dumbfounded. He's been to the office like 6 or 7 times already and yet we were lost again. Bak was soon gibbering in the passenger seat totally confused about the roads. We passed GIANT hypermart, missed turnings, took off road shortcuts and finally I figured it out 2 hours later. In that time we were stuck in the same Traffic 3 times, we stopped at multiple petrol kiosks, we passed Makro 3 times.

I practically visited every road in Cheras (slight exaggeration) but truly it felt that way. We reached Shimelin Perkasa (Shimelin or shimmeline or something,..) without no further major mishap. Bak snaps out of his stupor and remembers the place so he leads me to the office blocks. I park the car and then Bak delivers the ZINGER of this story.

HE DIDN'T BRING THE OFFICE KEYS!

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On other news,..

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