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posted : Monday, January 28, 2008
Its monday night and im feeling blue. I can't wake up in the morning and in the afternoon im still feeling sleepy and tired. Last Friday and Saturday was crazy. I was in school at 9am on fri till 8pm at night.
But of cause i wasnt in school at 2pm-6.50pm, was shopping in town with Matilda. Did not buy anything except a dumb legging which is been scratch. Rush back to school after shopping for Accounting test at 7pm. After the test i went home, bath and im out again. I went dragonfly with eli on friday and meet up the dragonflyers there. Supposed to relax and chill there but end up drinking quite alot and vomitted in eli's car (with plastic bag of cause). I ended up with bad hang over for the whole of Saturday. Even tho im down with bad hang over i still went to school for project meeting at around 3pm. We took videos in the sch library for our POM projects and went home at 5pm. I have a nap from 5plus till 7pm. After the short nap, i take my dinner and get ready for the night out. I pick up Matilda from marine parade and dash down to Zouk. The whole journey took an hour ==" all thanks to the great taxi uncle who dunno the road and have no idea what is zouk. Worst of all he doesnt know how to use the little device in his taxi to locate places. I really feel that im down on my luck when in his taxi. I have never ever spent one hour in any taxi before, moreover its around 9pm at night, which means there is not much traffic. (My experience in the taxi) Me: Uncle to Palm ave and then to Zouk. *Uncle stop his taxi at the road side and start checking his directory book for Palm ave and meter still running* *Uncle finally found it after like 3-4 mins* *Uncle start his taxi* Me: Uncle after Palm area im gonna go to Zouk Uncle: Zouk? Whats that is that a street name or shopping mall? Me: Err no its a club. Uncle: Aiyo u tell me the name of a club for what. U must tell me the street name ma. Theres so many club in Singapore how i know which one u talking about. Me: Hmm okok nvm, Later when reach Marine parade i'll tell u where is it. Uncle: Ok ur friend better know the exact address or i don't know how to go, cause i need to check the directory book Me: hmm ok. Oh and he stops his taxi by the road side thrice to look at his directory book trying to locate Palm ave even tho he have looked at the Palm ave map for many times. But even tho he looked at the map alot alot of times he still go into the wrong alley =='' making lots of U-turn and in the end we went into a dead end. So ended up going a long long way before we reach Palm ave :[ After asking everyone i could i still don't know the exact address of Zouk. All i know is that its near Holiday inn and Great World. So after picking up matilda i tell uncle its near holiday inn and Great world. And matilda tell the uncle its near Grand Corpthane. So we tell the uncle to get to Great world first and we will know the way later. Then sadly, uncle stop his car aside and flip thru his Directory book again. But its useless cause he doesn't have the exact address. SO we INSIST that he just go to Great world first. But unfortunately uncle really dont wish to start the car. He said: I know where is Great world and Holiday inn and im sure its not there cause the two places just not right. Then we said, what about Grand Corpthane. He said: i know where is Grand Corpthane too but i know its not correct. Then he start saying lots of things we dont understand... (Sigh). Only after lots of forcing, the uncle start his taxi. I called Angie after he start his taxi and the good news is Angie know the street name. Its Jiak Kim street 16. So im being kind by asking the uncle to pass me the directory book and i can search the map for him. Finally i found the map and show it to the uncle. BUT.. the uncle say the map is too small he can't see (rawr). So i point the exact street to the uncle but he still cant see. >.< (sobs) So we have to tell him where is the street, where to turn in and stuff. When we finally see Holiday inn the uncle said: See its near Hoilday inn, its just there only ma. Haiz yo. (say as tho we dont believe its near holiday inn). Then we see great world and uncle said: NEh great world, its just at the opposite of great world ma. ( its as tho he make a great discovery). So me and matilda thought that finally we are reaching. :] but... uncle nearly turned into a wrong street before Jiak kim street and luckily matilda stop him. Then the uncle stop infront of Mirage Tower and say : Infront got no way to turn already leh, and blah blah blah. (as tho we are at fault). So we stoned inside the taxi and meter still running. With no choice Matilda called her friend and ask if her friend know whether how to find Zouk from mirage tower. And yes! Her friend say turn left. So we ask the uncle to turn left, And Dadang its Zouk! Wow finally. But we seriously don't know why uncle must stop at mirage tower when zouk is just less infront =='' The fare come up to $20.80 and the uncle was 'nice' enough to only get $20 dollars from us. Seriously, if we got into a cab with a taxi uncle who know where is zouk the fare would definitely be a lot cheaper. Ok its not about the money, its about the attitude of the uncle and the time i wasted taking the cab.. I bet i can reach eariler if i were to take the MRT. Matilda and i decided to take a cab cause we wanna reach around 9.30 but ended up we reach around 10pm. ~Its a long and angry taxi journey~ *above is just a brief description of the journey* (end of taxi story- arghhhhh) Oh well, the good thing is we had fun in phuture on saturday night. We got in for free and theres free flow till 11pm and theres friends buying us free drinks. After clubbing at phuture we all went for breakfast with angie, geraldine and their friends. They got car so we dont need to worry about transport anymore. After breakfast at jalan kayu, angie's nice friend sent us home :] So basically me and matilda each spent $10 on taxi fare. A good time in phuture makes me forget about the bad experience in the taxi. But... im still blogging it here cause i wanna share :] |