i. Cuci, the musical.
Ja, Lisa & I went to Istana Budaya to watch the last show of Cuci the musical at 3.00p.m. It was hilarious and we enjoyed ourselves tremendously. We have never laughed so much watching a musical prior to this. A special mention of Awie and Adibah Noor for being simply adorable and cute, Hans for oh his so macho voice. I have never liked to watch AC on TV but for this musical, I found him bearable to watch. He was funny but I suppose I can only take a small dosage of him.
We left the theatre at 7.00p.m and Ja decided to take the Taman Tasik Titiwangsa route and the traffic jam really spoilt all of our good feelings. Maybe there's some truth in the old saying that we shouldn't laugh too much, something bad's bound to happen...
ii. Last Sunday, we went to 1 Utama and entered through the old wing using our One Card. After having late lunch and looking around and buying things we decided it was time to head for home. It was not meant to be an easy exit, the machine couldn't read the card. So we re-parked the car and Ja walked all the way to the new wing to the One Card service counter. The card seemed to be in working order but the machines at the old wing apparently are known to not recognize One Cards every now and then. We were advised to drive to the new wing via the two carpark links either at the roof top or basement and exit through the new wing. Both the rooftop and basement links were closed. Fly fm had a concert going on at the new wing so we kind of expected the carparks to be full.
We also discovered that the One Card that Ja used to enter I U was mine and the one that I thought was mine and in my purse was invalid. His One Card was missing. Anyway, we finally left after an hour in the parking lot, with a lot of thanks to the carpark security.
iii. Today, Friday- Ja went to the One Card service counter to check my One Card again and to find out what happened to his own card. Their machine detected transactions by my One Card and also his on the same day, mine through the old wing and Ja's the new wing. We couldn't have entered both wings within minutes without exiting first. Their deduction: Ja must have dropped his card somewhere and somebody picked it up and shamelessly used it instead of handing it over to the service counter. So they issued him a new card and will share the credit with his old card.. (to transfer, Ja needs to hand over the old card)
iv. Left house to fetch Lisa at the Gym around 12-ish. Just as I was reversing my car out to the main road, a lorry stopped opposite my house. Three men came out and and as I drove off, crossed the road and walked to my tree which is just outside the fence. Feeling uneasy, I stopped the car and saw them painting the TNB pole near the tree. Called Suki and Bibik and sought their help to observe the workers.
On the way back, I checked out the other TNB poles along my road and noticed none was repainted. Curiously enough, I was told they left after painting the pole at my house. Later after sending Lisa to college, I drove to the other roads in my neighbourhood and detected another 'solo' pole painted silver and only on SS 2/43 road. I hope it was just that, they were marking poles to indicate future work to be done and not like the Ali Baba and the 40 thieves where they marked the outhouse as the house to be broken into, and in my case, mark the TNB pole.
Our house was broken into on the 4th day of Eid Fitri 2008. Lisa and I were at home and no, we don't want to have to go through that again.. May God protect us, Amen.
