Pinball

Wednesday, I took a break from powerpointing. I did quite a lot that day.

First, I finished 24 Season 2.

Later, I went over to my son's school to confirm his registration for Standard 1. When I got there, the clerk there asked me...

"ada bawak birth certificate?"

"eh... itu surat dari kerajaan dan sekolah tak cakap pun?"

"ye ler, tapi mesti bawak birth certificate"

"aku ni tak boleh baca otak orang lain lah. Mesti bawak ke? Saya ni tinggal jauuuuhhh ler.."

"nanti ku tanya gurubesar..."

Then this Chinese woman who looked like she came out of a Lat comic strip came and talked to me.

"mei yeou tai lai birth cert ar? pu ker yi register!"

Niama! Like.. all the way from Sungai Buloh and now she says I need to bring the birth certificate. I felt like supplexing her but decided against it as my son probably has to spend his next 6 years in this school.

So I did my next task then. I braved Jalan Pahang and Jalan Genting Kelang to make my way to the Wangsa Maju JPJ to "batal hak milik". I called up the JPJ hotline earlier (which no one picked up, until my 3rd call...) and the lady (who sounded damn tu lan) said that to do so, since my car was registered in KL, I HAD to go to Wangsa Maju. My god, in this day and age, I still need to go to a particular branch...

When I got there, in the bad haze, I was intercepted by some woman who offered me her "services". No.. she wasn't a prostitute (damn ugly). She had some friends upstairs already waiting in line ready to offer express services for any JPJ related activities! I asked her how much.. she said RM80! Niama! I decided to line up and take my chances.

Took me 45 minutes to finish what I wanted to do. But not before being told to go here and there, take this number, fill this form, that form. There were so many counteres, but each one dedicated to some specific tasks. Some counters were damn busy. Some, the woman behind it could even do her knitting! To sell my car, I even had to get this form "certified" in front of some officer. The funny thing was I had to go into the office area to do so, then another officer said "pakai seluar pendek, mesti tunggu luar". What the...