The series of unfortunate events just had to happen today. I'm exhausted and I've not bathed, cleaned up or neither have I brushed my teeth for the past 24hrs. All because I had to travel unexpectedly.
Earlier plan was to fly down to Singapore the day before but did not materialize after an emergency call for a meeting had to take place. Oh well, all of us rushed down to Malacca instead and had a LONG day with endless discussions and debates going on. Matters can never be cleared easily and we'll never settle anything anyway.
When the boss and I arrived back to KL at midnight and dropped the driver in Kajang to pick up his car, while we head straight to Shah Alam. We had to sit down with our Executive Chairman to discuss matters for immediate plans and decision-making. The outcome is, I've got to go over to Singapore immediately to resolve the mega crisis and authorize whatever requires my immediate approval.
After ending late, we hung out at the club for some midnight snack and lazing around to relief our stress and tiresome exhaustion. Guess what? We hit big and profited too.
Anyway, we left at 4.15am and I decided that there's no need to go all the way home anymore and thus went to KL Sentral, which is nearer to the club in Bangsar. I parked in there and waited till 4.30am for the Malaysian Airlines to open and got the first flight out of KL to Singapore. Air Asia wasn't open till 9am.
I took the KLIA Express but apparently, the first ride is a transit ride. Being mentally tired, I got detoured early and disembarked at Salak Tinggi (one station before KLIA) instead. I stupidly had to wait for another 18mins before the next ride comes by. Then, surprisingly, Air Asia at KLIA also operates from 9am to 9pm. So, my next flight back to KL wasn't possible to be bought at the KLIA.
I tried to make a call and it turns out that my phone is barred. At 6am??? my second phone's battery has already run dry and switching the sim card wasn't helping because I had no idea what was my LOCK CODE for the former phone.
At this moment, I could only think fast and act fast. Thus I made a call via the payphone and had her call me back. Got her to sort out the line and ran to the airport (LCCT) to get my return ticket. Coincidentally, she was down with diarrhea too. Sigh~! Well, eventually it got settled.
I had my breakfast at Oldtown in the main terminal building and started trying to test when my phone would start working. Even before I board the plane, I've try restarting the phone countless times. I was reassured it would work before I leave.
Ok, fine. I arrived at Singapore, tried the phone. Still no roaming and no line and still barred. The only thing I could do was to act fast. I found a power outlet, tried to charge a bit of my second phone. It was also barred! Hopeless because my 're-assured' thingy did not get working. Tried logging in from the Macbook but could not get the wifi access. Alas, found a free terminal with 15mins access limitation.
I hopped onto the terminal and quickly tried to go into gmail and see if I could get any communications with Diana and NO! No avail. Again, frustration caught up as I'm stranded without the next flight details and the counter closing for check-in is drawing near. The internet speed in Singapore wasn't that fast as I suspect there are too many users in the airport. So bearing with it, I managed to get into Facebook and started to dig for people to assist me.
God answered my prayers and cry. I quickly got Emery to call and SMS her. Well, things had to ding-dong ding-dong back and forth for a long time because a simple task wasn't done right and quickly. I can't blame it as not every can react to resolve crisis as quick witty as I do. So, I had to bear with it and kept restarting the terminal to communicate with her via Emery.
Finally, when I got the e-codes, I flew across the arrival hall, did what I had to do and go back into the check-in counters and managed to get my boarding pass back, just in time. Luckily the sky-train and everything else was in synch or I'll be one step late. Back in the departure hall. The Wifi (Wireless@SG) gave me problems. I tried running up and down the entire hall trying to connect to it from gate to gate and it didn't work. Ok, even the ground staff at the info counter couldn't help. So, I gave up and looked for another silly free terminal. Doing the exact same thing again, Emery had to push messages across for us again. I've restarted my phone countless times and STILL had no luck with the phone.
Heck, when I reached back to Malaysia, I still had the same problem after Diana said she already scolded the helpdesk so many times. In the end, I managed to get the phone back up after she attempted to call me. Then everything flowed thru. 12 missed calls and tones of SMSes came in. Including stupid voicemails.
Got things sorted and left for KL Sentral. Was pissed at the first driver for not picking me up despite he knew what time I was arriving back but instead, the smarter 2nd driver came to wait for me. SO? Hmm… good question, I fired the 1st driver after he had given so much trouble to us within 24hrs including the 30 cartons of water issue using our names and reputation. Hard luck, pea-brain.
This is where I finally get to say, HOME, SWEET HOME… Alas, I can rest in my sanctuary and have a good day.
