Bad Day

Yesterday has been a very bad day for me, hubby, and also our little Carmen. At the beginning, we thought that it will be a free and easy, happy morning for us, as we all decided to go back Ipoh, bringing our little Carmen along. Hubby is quite free today, already done his work arrangements at the site, while i always free at home after sending Carmen to school. As a result, i picked up Carmen again from her school, to bring her back Ipoh with us, as we are afraid that we cant make it in time to pick her up from school later evening.

Hubby has an old car that he uses to drive his workers to work everyday, now, he needs to send the car back to Ipoh for sale. He has bought my sister's Kelisa, now the car is at my parent's house, so, we are going back to get it. At the same time, we can visit my parents also, after not seeing them for quite sometimes after my delivery of my baby Jeanne.

The moment we start our journey, we checked the car, found out that 1 tyre punctured, so we tends to change it for safety reason. End up, we changed 2 tyres, as both tyre punctured. We proceed our journey, and the car suddenly stop working after 1 hour journey, upon reaching Bukit Tagar exit, we have to stop by the highway, waiting for the assistance from the highway authority.

Some towing company people pretends to give assistance to us, free of charge, claiming that the highway authority called them to give their assistance, towing our car to the nearby workshop at Bukit Beruntung, said to be owned by their boss, so we followed. Upon reaching the workshop, the man, asked for money from my hubby. We also pay, as we are already brought to the workshop. No point argue with them also.

The workshop owner charged us sky high price to fix the car, so i called up my uncle for assistance, and managed to get the estimated amount of towing and fixing the car charges. After a series of discussion with the workshop boss, he lowered down the price, and even asked us to sell him our car. We end up, selling our car to him at the offered price, and we wanted to leave the place ASAP to go back Ipoh to get our Kelisa. There will be another one and a half hour journey for us to reach Ipoh.

I believe when a businessman do business, he must be in a genuine way, only will gain thrust from customers. The reason i said this is because i notice that the boss of the workshop is not treating us in honesty. By the time everything is confirmed, and even after his own inspection on the car, he revert and claimed that he still have to test drive the car after he fix it, if the condition is not satisfy to him, he may reject the car. In such a way, he gain business, while we are at the losing end! I just wonder why people do business in such a way.

The boss, making us waiting there for more than 1 hour, as he promise to send us to the nearest bus station in Tanjung Malim for us to board a bus back Ipoh, and he even demands money from us to send us to the bus station. I feel bad, as he is really a pure calculative businessman, not giving any service to his customers, everything also talk about money. Well, we pay him for the service as well, as we do not want to argue with him, our main purpose is to reach Ipoh fast.

It was a coincidence that hubby's brother is working in Tanjung Malim, so we end up waiting for him to fetch us, we dont have to take bus home, at least, Carmen can have a good sleep in the car. We waited him at a restaurant nearby. On our journey to the bus station, hubby receive a bad news from his company, one of his worker collapsed after inhaling toxic gas, and his body being poured by acid. The worker was being rushed to hospital. Hubby was so worried, not able to eat well, and headache the whole day, as he was not around there to help out.

We reached Malim Nawar, my in-laws house, around 8pm at night, after accompany hubby's brother to work in Tanjung Malim. The journey for today is really very hectic for us, while our little Carmen already so exhausted and throwing tantrum. The old couple is very happy seeing us arrived there with our little Carmen. We all are very hungry, i eat a lot that night. After our dinner, we take our bath, rest a while, and head back to Klang straight away.

We started our journey at 9.30pm, reaching Klang at 12.00am, it's a full day journey for us! We began our plan to go back Ipoh as early as 9.30am, till 12.00am the next day only we reach our home! Carmen sleeps thru all the way back, without waking up, while hubby stop by Ulu Bernam R&R to buy some coffee, he highly recommended the coffee sold there to me, freshly blend from coffee beans. It is consider cheap, below RM5/cup, and the taste is not bad! At least there is something i can say "good" happen to my taste bud on that day.