rojak paradise

Had lunch with Hasli, Lyn,Ana and Mrs Pay at A&Z. We were actually supposed to settle the stuff with the guy at Restari for our upcoming staff welfare do, but apparently he closes at lunch and only opens after 3.

I had chicken briyani which was rather good. After that we went over to Hua Hng to get some gardening stuff. As usual the aunties tried to haggle down the already discounted prices and use their being AVA staff to get discounts. sigh...such silly behavior. Sometimes I just do not know here to put my face when people over step the boundaries of decency. With great power comes great responsibility. I do not believe in using my position as an AVA officer for self gain yet these women do it so wantonly it is embarrassing. The thing is they are not even in a position to leverage for discounts but 'mere' CSO's and they go around using their position to get discounts. Luckily the guys at Hua Hng are good natured about it with their eye-rollings and stuff as these 2 miscreants go about their shopping.

After work it was off to the car park next to Specialist centre where I was gonna meet the girls(Natty and Naddie). We then got out of there and drove to Adam Road hawker centre as Nadia had a craving for indian rojak. The place was closed for cleaning! Darn...

So we needed a Plan B and after flipping through my trusty (and by now outdated) Makansutra book we decided to go to Tekka for it. We managed to find a parking lot by the road and then walked to the stalls. We managed to find a stall that served good indian rojak. It did not hurt that he was overly helpful to the ladies.It is amazing where boobs and an ass can get you these days. *muahahaaa*

I also ordered mutton steak which was not too bad (though it lacked 'something'). Me and Nadia had our obligatory Milo Dinosaurs and Natt had her 'booooring' iced lychee. Amusingly Nadia and I had a share of Natt's 'boring' lychee despite our 'cooler-than-cool' Milo Dinos which were rather disappointing to be honest.

After dinner we got back to Sunny and drove around(quite literally at that) to get to Al-Amin where we were gonna get real Milo Dinosaurs and prata. I rather enjoyed this one better. I ordered ice cream prata and the ladies shared a banana prata.

chat...chat...chat....

Like nadia said the lady in the BMW was a real bitch. It is bad enough to horn at the shop owners to come take your order whilst you are IN your car like it was some sort of drive-thru. When that failed she just got out of her car and walked to the counter to place her order. This was while her car was parked in the middle of a one way street and a row of cars had formed behind! The entire sequence took close to 5 minutes.What a bitch! She did not even bother to turn to the drivers behind and wave an apology even. Let me say it again: BITCH! BITCH! BITCH! (ok 3 times...). And then the BITCH!! BITCH!! BITCH!! drove around and came back later to pick up her order. Thinking that good sense would prevail and that she would actually park her car and then dash in to collect her order, but she did the eaxct same thing again! As with the first time, she did not even apologise for the inconvenience caused. I wonder how the drivers behind her did not horn in rage at her. Maybe they did not realise the extent of her selfish behavior. Bravo to them for keeping their cool.

One thing I hate most in this world are selfish people who spare no thought for their fellow human beings.

After dinner natt settled the bill and we were off on our merry way home. I sent the ladies home eventually after some wrong turns and a hair-raising U-turn. We then took a moment to chat about going to the zoo on the first day of CNY. What a delicious scandal it would be...

Drove home...this time by BKE and SLE to home.