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Dear Car-lost,

In a few days I will be parting with you. Thanks for being there for me for so long since GABR days and till now I’ve travelled about 238,000 kilometres with you all over the peninsular of malaysia.North, south, east and west.

I may not be a good owner but nevertheless I did tried to give you the best – Mobil1, Meguiars, V-Power, Continental, Ambi-pure, and many more. So many fond memories of us travelling in style and you brought me to every damn corners of the Klang Valley.

I hope you gonna have a better owner than me in the future. We’ve gone through thick and thin all these year… with you involving in multiple minor accidents and me making money extorting the third party at fault. Though I’ve never strike on your registration number… but it did came close a few times. It opened in 1st and 2nd prize for a few times.

Actually I don’t want to part with you but I just can’t take it anymore. Everyone have been urging me to part with you – my szer, my dad, szer’s dad, my friends, my insurance agent friend, my colleagues, my mechanic, etc. I just can’t stand it anymore. Your market value dropped so drastically in the past year. You will be replaced by a Perodua…. to take me to extra kilometers.

Well, hope we can bump into each other next time in town. Please pray for me to strike your registration number ok. I would just buy you back from the used car dealer.

With love and adios,

endrooG

Hei yo, Happy Merdeka and I hope your long weekend was great. Well, I went to Singapore by flight on Firefly budget airline. Got a fairly cheap deal. Visited some touristy place there in Singapore i.e. Esplanade and saw the merlion from afar…. the bank of Malaysia… that is Maybank secured a good location for its building…. and the building is even taller and nice that the Menara Maybank or Dataran Maybank in KL. Geez. Anyway, the latest hype in Orchard Road… the yet another new shopping mall, Ion Orchard among many other established malls along the road…. shopping malls there are quite happening. Singaporeans just love their foodcourts. Everywhere you go, there are foodcourts. Stalls? Kopitiam? They just prefer foodcourt because its cleaner.

There’s another nice happening place… Dempsey Road. It used to be an army barrack during colonial time and now its a place where most of the expats hang out. There are many good restaurants over there. Oh yeah… the purpose of the trip was actually attend one of my szer friend’s baby fullmoon bash at Sheration Hotel. The lunch buffet was nice. Goo bak mi or beef noodles in Singapore is a big thing. There’s one good one in Purvis Street (aka Hainan Street?) called Hock Lam Beef Noodles….  ok well all these happened thanks to the Ang family’s hospitality.

Ok… back to work today…. some weird thing happened about email. Can you imagine working in a company where even the receptionist has an email but you don’t…. how fucking pathetic would that be? The HR manager came over and asked the guy sitting next to me about an urgent matter sent by email from an insurance company to both the director and the chairman. Not to say complant, the email wanted a quick response /reply comment on an issue. After drafting the letter, the HR came and asked EU to email her the softcopy of the letter. FYI, we have no choice but to draft a letter because we DON’T HAVE A FUCKING EMAIL.

E told the HR.. “dei, we have got no email lah (you idiot) !!!”. Then she was like stunned… and said “well, you can use G’s email to send to me.”. I looked at her and then at EU. I was like ” I don’t have an email either. We all don’t have email. dont you know?”. She then took the hardcopy of the letter printed by EU and left.

Now, one thing for sure, the senior management, HR, directors, and chairman didn’t know thst the whole department doesn’t have email except those of managerial post. The company may have won some “the best in Asia”, “the best brand in ____ “, the “golden cow” and other awards (by using money??)…. but they can’t even care to provide tools that are required for our job and maintain staff morale. We have email client (Notes) installed in each of our computer but without an email account.

Like what Munna aka Balram Halwai said, what a fucking joke?