Excited and frustrated

Can't wait Can't wait I just can't wait!!!

Can't wait for my brand new life to start!

I'm in the countdown phase right now. Hope everything will go well...the medical in Dubai, my training, exams, some personal stuff and finally the probation. Looking forward to the day when I can proudly tell myself in my Emirates uniform that I am officially one of them.

Also anticipating the Taiwan trip with my 2 sistas. Was just discussing with them over MSN and phone about who'll bring what to lighten the load.

Sold my quaint little study table last night. 5 minutes after I finished putting up the notices and was walking outta the lift, a guy called and I asked him to come view it later.

My notice looks like this:

The guy came with his girlfriend, I assume. They were pretty friendly and the guy is from Batu Pahat, so technically, he's from the same home-state as me. He tried to bargain, I was selling it for RM20 and he asked for RM15. But it was so new so the lowest I could go was RM18. To my delight, he agreed and took away the table immediately. OOOOH...only then I felt the sadness creeping up at me. That I was giving away a table that's been with me for 5 whole years!

But gosh, how I wish that couple are the one who's gonna rent my room! Cos they are so friendly and nice! Surely they won't have any problems fitting in with my current housemates...unlike me hahaha. Not that lucky though, I haven't even met the guy who's gonna rent my room!

He's currently in Sarawak taking care of some legal docs for the sale of his shop (or so he claims). He also has another shop in KL. For gracious' sake he's only 21! Yeah I know there are lotsa young entrepreneurs out there but well, over the phone, I still feel dubious about it. The world is a scary place nowadays ya know. Moreover, another one of my housemates is a girl. She will be living under one roof with this guy in the future so it's better to be careful.

He told me he would come down to KL around 28th or 29th of July but later told me he couldn't make it so have to wait till 8th or 9th of August. That BUGGER!!! However, he was OK with all the payments and was willing to pay me ASAP. But I dare not accept it! Cos we haven't seen him yet, how to rent to him like that ar!?! He was gonna ask his GF to send the money over but after much thoughts, I asked him to pay on the day when he comes to view the room.

Hope everything goes well...

Manhattan Fish Market, Midvalley makes me barf!

Went to the ever-crowded-on-weekends Midvalley Megamall with Shyan yesterday. Made our way through the ocean of weekend shoppers and finally stopped in front of Manhattan Fish Market.

There was a sign stating,"Please wait to be seated" at the entrance. So as obedient as we always were, we just stood there and studied the menu while waiting for their staff to guide us in. 3 minutes passed without anyone taking notice of us and we were thinking,"Hey, am I invisible to you?!". Most absurd thing was, a few of the staff had actually made eye contact with us but simply chose to ignore us! Man, do we look like paupers who can't afford to dine in your majestic fishy market?!?

Outta no other choice, we sauntered into the restaurant and seated ourselves. Cool, I'd never known MFM practices self-service. Woulda gone to the Long John Silvers next door if I had decided to serve myself (-_-). So we were expecting the staff to serve us after the initial disgust. But all we observed was the staff still walking to and fro' all over the place, carrying only a few serviettes, forks and spoons, a glass of water, etc without ever really accomplishing anything! A Malay couple in a corner were already showing disgusted and impatient expressions because no one served them too for God knew how long. It's interesting to note that 80% of the staff there were Malays too. I've always been fascinated and amazed by their efficiency - or the lack of it to be exact.

Finally, we managed to call over a waitress and gestured to her that we wanted to order. She came over and asked us about our orders. I was lamenting silently,"Gosh you should really go to an ophthalmologist to get yer eyes checked cos they look pretty blind to me! Can't you see we don't even have any menus here?!" With tension building inside me and Shyan, we politely requested for menus.

She came back with only ONE menu. Smart girl. I guess she was expecting me and Shyan to have a romantic moment by huddling closely together to read the menu. How sweet. Unable to stand her stupidity but still keeping my cool, I said,"Can you give me one more menu please?"

After that was settled, a waiter came to take our orders. We asked him something and it took him forever to understand us. We asked in English twice then BM 3-4 times but he looked like a blur sotong to us because he couldn't give us a definite answer. By now I was really getting high blood pressure. Would wanna throw him into a pan and fry him if possible, but no one must eat him in case they become as peabrained as him!

After much difficulties, we finally finished ordering. A bowl of soup and some garlic bread later, our maincourse still wasn't here. Looking around, even people who came in later than us were already happily enjoying their food. The staff even served other patrons quite speedily in terms of handing them the menus and taking down the orders. So why were we the ones getting hell?!

Thus, we asked the waiter who took our orders to check for us when would it be ready cos obviously ours was really late. When our seafood platter finally came, we decided with resignation that they probably gave our order to someone else by mistake. See, we've seen at least 4 or 5 platters with the exact same content go to other tables. If they didn't serve it to someone else by mistake, tell me why were we served 5 minutes later than people who came in 10 minutes later than us?

We were definitely extraordinarily full after the meal, mostly thanks to the anger and frustration we felt, not because of the food we ate. Even getting the bill from them took forever. The bill came up to a total of RM82.xx - I can't remember the last 2 digits.

We would be more than willing to pay that price if the service was good because honestly, the food was just so-so. And what's more, with average food and CRAPPY service, we really thought it was a rather expensive meal.

In fact, it's one of THE most horrible meals I've had in years! Basically, it was nightmarish because all I felt was the angry "qi" building inside me throughout the meal! Man, I felt so damn bloated from it!

So people, if you are reading this, NEVER EVER go to the Manhattan Fish Market in Midvalley unless you wanna pay them to get pissed! I dunno about other MFM branches in Malaysia, they might be a hell lot better but the one in Midvalley is really a hellhole in itself!

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A round up

It was a whirlwind of hospital and clinic visits, a case of flu and subsequently menses but praise the Lord I survived through it all and let's hope that the future will be promising!

I submitted my medicals to Emirates last Friday and they replied on Saturday saying they'd received it. Weird...I thought over there, they don't work on Fridays and Saturdays? And on Monday, they replied again telling me my medical has been approved! Yay~~~!!! Their efficiency is truly commendable!

Prob here is, they only said that it has been approved but there's no further instruction regarding the employment. So does it mean I can resign already (I already have haha)? Or I just wait for their email? Due to these doubts, I sent them an email voicing my concerns 4 days ago but I have yet to hear from them. Oh well, maybe they still have other things to settle before giving me the greenlight. Wish me luck!

Before you start thinking I'm an assuming swell-headed stuck-up bitch for resigning even before they ask me to, because I am probably too confident about the whole thing, allow me a chance to explain. I was gonna resign anyway, regardless of the outcome. If I don't leave this company anytime soon, I don't think I can do it later. So might as well take the risk.

In between this, I had to make the huge decision of declining Paprika's offer to work as a copywriter. It's an experience in a 4A's advertising agency which I really look forward to. But at the time, I was due to go for Emirates' medical checkups and I assumed it would take up at least 2 weeks' time for everything to come through. And I was down with flu so I couldn't proceed with it so imagine my stress then!

Paprika had been really kind in offering to pay my 2 months notice compensation for me, on condition that I'm bound to the company for a year. It was a pretty fair deal, which was why I felt extremely guilty for stalling their time for so long. Realizing I couldn't drag it any longer and their sincerity really doesn't allow mw to do that either, I decided to come clean with them.

Andrew fom Paprika was quite surprised when he heard it. However, he said that he really appreciated my honesty. Geez, glad would be putting it mildly...I was RELIEVED!!!

After a coupla days, I proceeded to handing in my resignation letter to my boss and told them the truth as well. Another reaction of surprise. But they were cool about it and granted me the leaves I needed to do my medical tests.

Glad that I made the right decision! At least I didn't need to worry so much since then! It was killing me holding everything inside!

So right now, I'm looking forward to the trip to Taiwan with my 2 elder sistas. Simply lurrrrrrrrrrrrve Taiwan! Just hope I'd have enough time to pack my stuff, rent out my room, move out and spend time with my family and friends after I return from Taiwan to prepare for Dubai!

Thank God and please guide me all the way!