Monday Reds

... I am officially changing Monday blues to Monday reds!

Ok I know it is now Thursday but the reason I am putting it up today is that so all readers thinks that today is Monday for a while, and when they stick their head up out of my post, they'll realise its Thursday and closer to the wkend and well, yaaaayy :-)

Anyways...

Today was a typical red Monday. Period woes aside (which include cleaning the bathroom :p), and blood from my nostrils (cos I was blowing my nose too hard), my poor Gorgeous couldnt start!

I mean, I went all the way to work and it was fine. I parked and that was ok too. The whole dilemma starts when I wanna drive out for lunch. My car DOESNT START! Try punya-lah try sampai 4 or 5 times and it still remains stubborn.

So my colleague drives out for lunch and on the way back brings back one of them mechanics who brings along a new drycell battery (as usual assuming its the battery)! So he comes, tries to start the car, doesnt start, decides its the battery, and proceeds to change it.

Tries to start the car after that, and voila, dear Gorgeous still doesnt start. Tries again. Na-ah. Then after some testing and humming and ho-ing, he says he has to go back to the shop and bring his sifu. Sifu says could be the cam-sensor (been driving for years and never before heard that term in my life - crankshaft got la!)

Then he goes back, and comes back again with his assistant and a second hand cam sensor to see if that was what was causing the problem. True enough, that was it. Then he said I had to tow the car back to the workshop so he could work on it and the charges would be RM170 for the battery, RM90 for the sensor and RM40 for labour. I told him the battery wasnt at fault and he said too late. He said he could take it out and re-install my old batt but the charges would be RM30. I was like "for WHAT" - i didnt even USE it. And he said no one would use a new batt for testing, and I said well, you should hv tested it first before putting in a new batt and the bloody bastard refused to budge!

Anyways to cut a long story short, I agreed to install the new batt cos my old one was 2.5 yrs already and I called the towing service from my insurance to assist. THEY tell me that my car number is not included in my life policy and I hv to pay for it. I WILL give my insurance agent a earful when I get him on the phone (he hasnt been picking up)!

The mech then installed a second hand sensor and I drove back to the shop where a "one hour boleh siap" job became 2.5 hours. DAMN PISSED. They rip you off AND you have to wait! And I had to pay THEM. They should be paying me since I am giving them business.. hahahaha!

So yeah Monday was crappy! And I am RM300 poorer!

"In an Open Relationship"

Eh look, if you're in a relationship, you're in a relationship la. Whats all this about being in an open relationship?

At first I didnt even know what the term meant, until I googled it. My my..

For the definition, check out this link:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=open%20relationship

So my point is, if you want to be in an open relationship, why bother having a relationship in the first place. Just say "Oh, I have friends with benefits!"

I personally dont think there is anything worth salvaging in a relationship if you both can agree to date / sleep with everyone else. So does it mean you can have an open relationship with 18 people at once?

And apparently that term is official now huh? I mean, if FB has that option in the "relationship status" column, thats like biblical truth!

So you think you know me now?

So you know me now? I am just one among a million customers that you serve everyday so why pretend that you assume to know what I like?

I am referring to McDonalds delivery service.

So in order to let you readers know why I couldnt go out and get my own lunch (lest you think all I do is sit in the office and allow people to serve me, or god forbid, work!) - basically my car has been hijacked. How: My friend's car got stolen and he hijacked my car while waiting for a replacement. The good part - I have a chauffer. The bad part - I am not mobile anymore. Sigh...

Anyways.

So since no one is going out for lunch today (everyone else is strangely dieting although I am the fattest person in the office), I call McDs delivery and place an order for a Chicken McDeluxe medium, changing the Coke to Iced Lemon Tea, and adding a chocolate sundae for good measure :-) In fact, I almost forgot to ask the customer service rep for a change in drink; when she repeated my order and mentioned the word Coke was when I realised that I wanted an ILT instead.

So then the food arrives and I'm bloody starving so I take it straight to the pantry and unwrap the burger and put the fries out. Lo and behold, the dear packers at McDs ASSUMED that I, just like all the countless other Malaysians out there, like chilli sauce!!! I DONT! I have always preferred tomato ketchup with my fries (biasalah - mat salleh :p). If you can repeat your order about Coke, cant you include an additional sentence along the lines of "Would you prefer chilli or tomato, maam?" Kan senang. Instead of incurring my wrath!

I am NOT like the millions of people who like chilli sauce so dont assume you know my taste. Thats why you have a choice of chilli and tomato for customers. Its bad enough you dont have mayonnaise, so the least you could do is give your customers a choice, not only when the dine in but also when they call for delivery.

Another alternative would be to chuck in equal amounts of chilli and tomato sauce when packing customers' orders, but that would be a waste. Bottom line: JUST ASK!

Some people are SO dumb...

Caution: If you are overly sensitive, pls go to another site NOW.

So yeah these past few mornings, I hv been listening to the radio and there are some contests on air which I regularly listen to. One of it is Red FM's KFC AM challenge, where the contestant is supposed to answer 10 qustions in 1 minute. The first 2 questions are usually given out by JD / Dilly even before the contestant is on air (something like a bonus la) - you can sometimes almost tell that KFC and Red FM just WANT to give the money away, especially the '2010' version (one question was "what do you get if you add 1 to 2009)! And they even give out clues if the contestant gets stuck!

So anyway, one of the questions yesterday was "Complete the sentence: The early bird..."

Yes, I hear ALL of you shouting "CATCHES THE WOOORRRRRRRMMMMMM!" Exactly. And the contestant didnt even know! And she's not the only one, there are so so many that really rile me.

Today I was listening to Mix FM's Gender Bender (basically the same old Battle of the Sexes that has been going on since Richard and Syazmin's time), made up of 2 questions for each contestant, with a tie breaker if necessary.

Today, the contestants had to go to a tiebreaker round. The first tiebreaker question was something along the lines of:

(DRUMROLL PLEASE) Who won the football finals in the recent SEA Games? And NEITHER one of them knew the answer!!!!!!!!!

The second tiebreaker question was:

Where is the World Cup going to be held this year. Again, NEITHER one of them knew this.

I dont get it. Whats the point of the newspaper, TV, radio, and the Internet when many of us dont even know the simplest general knowledge questions? Whats the point of having the world at your fingertips and complaining about Streamyx horrible connection when all you do is use it to play online games?

Or maybe my expectations are too high cos if I were stuck on Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader, the first person I would call is my sister, who like, knows EVERYTHING. Ok, almost.

I think the world as a whole is no more bothered about goings-on around. It's becoming a very selfish world where no one cares about whats going on where anymore. I'd understand if you said you steered clear of politics (even I dont bother, cos politics in Malaysia is mostly about who's doing who, who's being investigated by MACC, and which God is more important than the other in print space), but general knowledge is so important!

So what do they talk about in mamak shops nowadays? How short the girl's skirt is? What are the features of the latest handphone? MU and Liverpool's score last night?

SIGH...