Somebody’s junk is someone else’s treasure
I shall never ever go into KL on a weekend anymore!
The trains are late, people inside packed like sardines, the streets are flooded during rains, traffic light’s defective and there are people everywhere!
That about sums up my trip down to Low Yat to dispose of some hardware last Saturday with Louis. Brandon had a ‘graduation’ ceremony so he’s N/A. Unlike previous trips, I managed to come back with more money than I brought there (finally!). Unfortunately, it wasn’t such a pleasant trip.
As you can gather I had issues with the trains, the weather, our lovely ‘First World’ infrastructure and people itself. Trains were late so we had to pack ourselves into them; it rained and flooded the streets I had to walk through from Sentral to the monorail; the stupid traffic lights at the station’s not working so it’s jaywalking Malaysian style and there are people, people and more people! Again, I must reiterate that I’m not anti-social or anything but I was just in an irritable mood that day (I blame that on sleep deprivation). In a place with narrow corridors like Low Yat, people do not have the common sense to move orderly and move out of the dammed way when they stop for something! Thankfully, I didn’t do things like shoving people out of the way or yell at them (I still had enough self-control to resist the maddening urge).
At the least, I still walked away with extra cash and more space at home. A couple of hundred bucks for a motherboard, processor, RAM cards and graphics card. They’re sold for about 15% of its original value, but it’s better than nothing. Too bad nobody wants to buy Pentium II era hardware anymore. I guess I have to donate them to charity or something. If not, I can decide to wait 50 years and try auctioning them. 
The moral of today’s post?
Don’t shop on a weekend.
July 30th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
LOL! You should see KL in the morning - it’s jam packed all the way. The only time you get to move around freely is after the stops at KLCC and Ampang Park.
KL is hell on any day. =P
July 31st, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Heh, thanks for the sobering reminder Sam. But the moral still stands.
At least I didn’t try driving there. That’ll really be Hell!