30th Sept 06 - A memorable day!

hi all!

I don't think i'll be fined, right? Since i posted 2 posts in, what, 3 days? haha. Spare my pocket guys and gals! ^.^

Wow, where do i start to tell you guys how was my 30th of Sept 2006? A long long day indeed. Anyways here goes..

A great buddy of mine (and ours) will be 'flying on a jet plane' to London for a MEng in Chemical Engineering in Imperial college (gulp.. ), and his fees alone cost his dad a bomb! haha. The plan was for CK and me to send him off at KLIA. The first unfortunate thing that happened in the morning was my bloody alarm didnt ring! I woke up when CK called me (and you know CK aint that punctual as well, hehe). I woke up and found out we need to leave in about 15 minutes to have approx an hour to spend with XL before he had to board the plane. I had to wait for CK to come to my place first though because we are going in 1 car. CK arrived and we head off, about 25 minutes behind schedule, hehe.

We got on the Kesas highway and turned into the 1st exit to KLIA. After the toll, i was paying too much attention into choosing a song on my iPod and took the wrong exit! And we (me actually) accidentaly head to Shah Alam, which is the direct opposite way. We later found a u-turn and manage to head back the correct way, after a huge huge round, and another 10-15 minutes later.

After we got back on track, we were enjoying our music and car ride until we got to the KLIA toll. Upon reaching the toll, i notice my car isn't accelerating off as it was suppose to be, so i checked my gear because i thought i had put the car into another gear. The gear was in the correct position (which is D, drive). Later i somehow noticed that the temperature gauge was shooting off its red mark, which meant that the car was overheating!!

I immediately stopped beside of the road, and since it was right after the toll, it was safe. We got down and notice that the smoke was coming out beneath the hood. We didnt know what to do so i called my dad, and he said not to drive it because it may burn the engine! I was soooooo frustrated because i didn't expect this to happen, and we were only 15-20km away from XL!! (which is about 5-10 minutes drive, for me at least, hehe. Anyways.. .) ARGHH!! !!! !! =(

We tried to stop a cab to the airport so we could meet XL before he left. Finally one china ahpek stopped for us, i locked the car and jumped up the taxi. He was trying to slaughter us by asking for 30 bucks for a short ride, but manage to negotiate with him and we got off with a 20 bucks ride. It wasn't much seeing that we were in a desperate situation, hehe =).

Reached airport and after sending off XL in part II! Have to go out for dinner! hehe.

Tata Pee-ps!