After-Meal Gossip

Got a letter from Telekom yesterday.

It stated:

Your details will be listed in Telekom Directory. If you decided NOT to have your details published, you will have to send this letter back to TM. Should TM not received your reply by 31 July, you are considered to have approve for the publishing of details.

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Have you decided?
What is your choice?
Should I object to it?

Your opinion is very much appreciated.

Decided to have a look at the last shopping mall, Tropicana City Mall.

Naturally, from the parking bay we would enter through Lower Ground. This was really a mood-killer. The design and decoration really wasn’t done to attract any customer, at least in my opinion. It was so … plain, almost to the state of … thrifty? Reminded me vividly of Atria shopping complex. That place wasn’t exactly doing a booming business, so why would the architect still a horrible design?

The entrance to Carrefour was again another let down. When you finally within Carrefour, the first thing that hit you will be: It was really really cramp, as if they tried to squeeze as much merchandise into a storehouse as humanly possible. Worst still, was … the air felt stagnant, stale and humid. You could almost imagine that every breath had gone through 20-30 pairs of lungs before it finally reach you.

Ground floor was slightly better, but only marginally. You were greeted by a huge display area, occupied by throngs of stalls selling tea leaves. Not exactly a ‘warm and homely’ sight we are so used to in other shopping mall ie Sunway Pyramid / 1 Utama.

Finally, when you reached 1st and 2nd floor, you breath out a sigh of relief. Now this was what we would call a ‘current’ shopping complex. We could find Toy’r'us / Golden Screen Cinema here.

The question that kept haunting you: Why would the designer adopt a yesteryear design to give you such a bad first impression? Mind boggling indeed.

You believe in fate?

Two ladies came for interview a couple of weeks ago (on different day). I promised to call them should any vacancy appear.

I just pinned their contact numbers on a board.

Then my part time nurse decided to quit. At random, I picked up one of the number and started dialling.

She did not pick up the phone. I looked at the number. Oh? That appear to be the 2nd nurse who turned up for interview. Why did I pick the 2nd nurse? No idea.

I decided to call the first candidate then. She picked up almost immediately, and obviously she got the job.

15 minutes later, the 2nd nurse returned my call. She sounded so happy on the phone : You called me to give me a job?

I … I … how should I tell her? Fate not on her side?

I was filling up my Borang B 2008, and I suddenly realized something amiss.

I couldn’t figure out the problem, until I finished the whole process (crack my head / pulled out my hair) and finally placed the stack of forms onto the rack. Eh? Where were the other stack of forms? The CP 500?

Oh shoot. I have to pay at the bank on 1 July. Where had I placed the form?

After looking high and low for it, I decided that it would not be found. I placed a phone call to LHDN, and related my … mistakes to them. To my surprise, the lady on the other end was really nice. She never utter any impolite sentences (which I fully expected)
ie:
1) You are so careless!
2) We will not tolerate your mistake. You will be charged for that.
3) Can’t you even take care of your own property?

Instead, she just requested my serial number with a neutral tone. Then she even ask: You want me to fax it to you?

Wow. I got it within 5 minutes! Talk about efficiency!