左右不分 (Can't differentiate between left and right)

Yesterday i decided to go and meet up with my friends in Sunway, despite the fact that I would be driving alone and my ahem... usual driver was overseas and therefore uncontactable. So, armed with a road map and instructions on how to get there, I set off.


Everything was fine until the part that I was supposed to " turn left at the 3 tier bridge" I thought I was supposed to go up the bridge then only take the left lane. Whoops...I ended up going pass the turning to Bandar Sunway. The only thing I could do was turn into Subang jaya and find a popular landmark. Ah... SJMC hospital... ok, I parked my car and called my friend, who gave me directions to get to Sunway from there. Didn't seem too hard... Looks like I would reach in another 5 minutes or so.

Ok, I reached Sunway, the giant lion from Sunway Piramid on my right. Hm... where to turn in? I called my friend again and that's where the left and right problem started.


Friend: Keep 左
Me: ok

Continues driving

Me: er on the right isn't it?
Friend: Har, nono, its 左... Left ar
Me: Oops.... pass adi

Friend: Aiya u pass adi ar, ok never mind, in front got U turn
Me: ok
Friend: ok, u go straight ar, then bla bla bla
Me: okok



Friend: Ok later u keep 左, then ar u turn bla bla
Me: Hmm..going down a tunnel liao wo
Friend, Har, tunnel is on the 右 lar
Me: Oops..... go down adi liao wo
Friend: Aiyoyoo... wait i pass the phone to Jack arr
Me: Ok


Jack: Ok now you need to U turn
Me: Ok, U turn is on the left or right?
Jack:左
Me: ......Uh.... ok (brain thinking "左 is left or right adi ar?")
Jack: by the way, I think the U turn is after the road goes down a slope
Me:.... I just passed it by
Jack Oh....


Well, I ended up going pass the toll , going all the way toward PJ old town, then going past the toll again. I actually stopped int he middle of the roads divider in order to confirm the directions. That was when my friend accidentally gave me the wrong directions by asking me to take the leftmost lane. I ended up back on the federal where I went wrong in the first place. Finally I made it to Sunway, and I made one last call.


Me: ok I think I'm nearby already. Do I U turn here? The signboard says bla bla bla
Friend: Ei it does ar...hmm.....
Me:......
Friend: Lemme pass the phone to Jack again.

Jack: What do you seee around you?
Me: Uh... Traffic Light, thats all, nothing else
Jack: Errrr
Me: The sign board says go straight is bla bla, turn right is bla bla, U turn is bla bla
Jack: Err....
Me: aiya the traffic light green adi I just turn lar
Me: Oh, its the right way adi, ok thanks bye bye!



When I finally reached the meeting place


Jack: Next time you tattoo the words left and right, kiri kanan and 左右 on the back on your hand, then you will never go wrong

Me: -_-


Later on my friend was telling me


Friend: Aiya you know lar, since we all so familiar with that road we don't bother to remember what the signboard says adi, so a bit hard to give directions.
Me: Haha ic
Friend: Actually I already realised you can't tell 左右, so all of us were telling Jack, Say left and right! Not 左右!
Me: He kept saying 左右 lar
Friend: Yalor..I think he is not used to saying Left and right la
Me: aih....



On the way home, I actually went the opposite direction.... in a panic i did the most horrible illegal U turn i have ever done in my life. At that point, I was almost ready to go over the divider if I had to, because if I didn't..It looked like I would be heading to Petaling Jaya.... and that was NOT a good thing at 9.30 p.m. Thank God my car is small.....


On another note, my friend's fav hammy and my potential future hammy(right). Cuteness!

Laws and observations

That day I was browsing through a website sent by YSLim. It was a compilation of Murphy's Laws and other observations. I noticed that some of them really apply in our lives.

1. If anything can go wrong, it will
The most well known Murphy's law. All the other laws are born from this.

2. Great ideas are never remembered and dumb statements are never forgotten.
This seems to happen all the time. Chicken with no hands anyone?

3. Being dead right, won't make you any less dead.
Very applicable at work, when something under your charge screws up although it wasn't your fault.

4.Where patience fails, force prevails.
Just ask any mum how this law applies.

5. If anything can go wrong, it will happen to the crankiest person.
Like where a certain someone's order always arrives last or gets lost in kitchen land

6. Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Pirated games, chocolate cakes...... sigh

7.The harder you work the more people there will be to claim credit except when it backfires.
Another law that applies often in the workplace. I can see some of you nodding your heads already.

Observation on Education:
"We can give you a diploma, but we can't give you a brain."
That certainly explains the many diploma/degree holding idiots in the workplace(hopefully I'm not classified as one of them)

Observation on Intelligence:
The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that Genius has its limits.
People doing IT phone support will testify to the accuracy of this observation. ( Reminds me of a certain someone who mistook the power button for the floppy eject button )

Observation on Rules:
It takes forever to learn the rules and once you've learned them they change again.
Its like how we spend the whole year learning up some software then a new version comes out. I think the same applies to law.

Observation on doing things:
You will find an easy way to do it, after you've finished doing it.
Happens often in Microsoft word, programming, household chores and also in the kitchen.

Remember, if you make it through a Murphy Day...you win! --> line blatently stolen from the site