Thursday, September 11, 2008

Different side of msian life

Normal Malaysian.
6.30am: Wake up. Prepare for work.
7.00am: Leave house to KTM station for work
7.05am: Reach KTM station. Wait for train
7.30am: Train not here. Panic..
7.35am: SMS boss to say that will be late.
7.40am: Train arrives. Board train together with 2,347,976 other msians.
8.20am: Reach train station near office. Run as fast as Bolt to the office.
8.35am: Reach office. Sneak in to prevent boss from seeing.
8.36am: Boss was waiting for me at my cubicle. Got taekwondo-d for being late.
8.40am: Boss causes cronic injury to pride. Work begins.
12.00pm: Hungry. Lunch time. Went to nearest foodcourt for food. Paid RM 5.00 for chicken rice.
12.05pm: Realised chicken rice only got 3 pieces of chicken and each piece is as small as my thumb. Asked for more chicken as this plate of shit cost me RM5.
12.30pm: Asked for extra soup and extra chilli to maximize RM5 paid. Charged RM 0.50 in return.
1.00pm: Back at work.
3.45pm: Want to take a break but boss is around. So, continue with work without break.
6.00pm: Finish work. Prepare to go home.
6.05pm: Boss gives new assignment. Deadline, tomorrow morning 9.00am.
6.06pm: Back at work.
7.30pm: Finish work. Check and make sure boss is not around before rushing out of office.
7.45pm: Waiting for KTM train.
8.15pm: Train arrives after 30 mins of waiting time.
8.55pm: Reach destination.
9.20pm: Reach home. Have dinner, shower and watch TV. Wife gives dirty look as I havent give her household money.
10.30pm: Went to ATM to withdraw money for family expenses. Withdrew RM 1000. Left with RM 200. Its only middle of the month. Shakes head. Goes home and look forward to next payday.
11.00pm: Prepare to sleep.
11.05pm: Woke up from nightmare of losing job to a better educated candidate. Then continue to sleep again.

Special Malaysian
6.30am: wake up and slam the alarm clock. Continue to sleep
7.00am: Wake up again. Wash up and prepare for breakfast.
7.15am: Eat breakfast
7.30am: Finish breakfast. goes to bed for a short nap again.
9.00am: Wakes up and realise that already late for office. SMS deputy to cancel morning meeting. Wash up again and prepare for work
10.00am: Driver already waiting outside. Hop into car and reads newspaper.
10.05am: Found news about ownself. Curse and swear at reporter for not making self look slimmer. Stuck in heavy jam.. took a nap
11.05am: Reach office. On PC. Starts playing 'lemonade tycoon'.
12.30pm: lunch time. Call up prominent businessman to have lunch with.
1.00pm: Proceed to 5 star hotel restaurant for 'fine lunch'. Businessman paid. Asked businessman for balance of commission due for helping in securing project.
3.45pm: Back to office. Continue playing lemonade tycoon.
6.05pm: Notice that office hour is up. Quickly grab some paper that need to be signed.
6.15pm: Finish signing 15,893 papers that needed approval. Proceed to car for meeting at city. Forgot what's the agenda of meeting. Called P.A. to ask for detail and what to say.
7.30pm: Reach destination. Proceed to meeting. Say something stupid and try to cover up by saying how everybody has done a nice job.
8.55pm: meeting ended. Called deputy to have dinner. Forced deputy to pay.
9.30pm: Finish dinner. Proceed back home.
10.30pm: Went to ATM to withdraw money for OWN expenses. Withdrew RM 1,000,000. Left with RM 200,000,000. Its only beginning of the month. Smiled. Goes home and look forward to next office day.
11.00pm: fell asleep in car on the way home.
11.05pm: Woke up from nightmare. Dreamt about losing job to some guy from penang. Then continue to sleep again.

No wonder people at the bottom of the food chain is suffering quietly....

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