A VERY suay day
May 6th, 2007 by lala85The day (5th May) i’ve been waiting for finally arrived! After months in Bangi, i can finally go home hehehe.. Miss my family so much! I was still very active and excited eventhough didnt have rest and sleep on the previous day because of exam. Stupid BioChemistry.. it was darn hard. When i went in the exam hall and when i flipped the exam paper, my mind goes blank. Everything that i studied the night before, all the effort i put while burning midnight oil went futile. It was a very hard exam. Anyway its over already and its holiday time now hehe. Me and my friend waited anticipatedly for this day to arrive but both of us never imagined it will turn out this way.
Time: 2am
I was busy packing my luggage and cleaning my room. Then went to the living room to have some chats with chu chu and siew wai. Tiew mee was in my room playing some computer games and then she went to sleep.
Time: 4am
I was still packing my bag. There’s a lot of clothes i want to bring back and Tiew Mee wake up to morning call the taxi driver (he ask her to do so coz afraid he’ll overslept) that will bring us to airport for our 7.05am flight.
Time: 5.15am
Phew.. finally I’ve finished packing. The taxi driver still havent arrive. We called him and he said he’ll arrive soon so we moved our luggage to in front of our house waiting for him to arrive.
Time: 5.30am
The taxi driver still havent arrive. We call him and call him but he just keep saying he’ll arrive soon. Both me and tiew me are getting impatient and furious but because we have no other transport option, all we can do is just wait for him.
Time: 6.00am
Oh great, finally he arrived. He’s late by 45 minutes with excuses that he’s lost. We told him we are really really late coz the flight counter will close around 45 minutes before flight. But he still look very calm and keep telling us we’ll make it. Then both of us put our things inside the taxi and rushed to the LCCT airport. While on the way, he took a different path than the one i usually took but i thought maybe it’s a short cut so i ignore and didnt say anything. The journey felt like the one in Initial D the one starred by Jay Chou and it was a winding road. Both me and tiew mee felt dizzy and car sick.. euuugghh terrible feeling..
* Now i realized actually its a longer route but there’s no toll counter on the way. The toll normally cost RM5 for 1 way trip to airport.
Before we arrived tiew mee told me " later i go in the airport to check in and you take care of the luggage" and i said "ok call me later, if the counter closed i’ll hold the taxi driver"
Time: 6.40am
We arrived at the airport. Most likely the counter is closed already but tiew mee rushed in the airport to make sure while i handle the luggage. Tiew mee then come back with sad face and tell us "Yes the counter is closed".. I can see her eyes are watery. But things is clear, it’s the taxi driver’s fault and he should be blamed. I walk to infront of his car and recorded his plat number in my hp.
Then i look at him and said "ok, you told us you will arrived at 5am but you arrived at 6am instead. Because of this both of us missed the flight. Now how? You are going to be responsible for this"
Then he replied casually "Aiyah this is normal la, you go in beg beg them they will let you pass, or you change the flight time, very easy one, i also fly before.."
We were getting mad, as we know if we missed the flight we have to buy new ticket and it’s not cheap but i want him to be responsible for the damage done.
I said "No matter what it is, i want you to go in with my friend and settle this thing. You said its easy right? Then you go in with my friend now. I’ll take care of things here"
He said "No, no.. later people will scold me. Cannot simple park here, people will scold one"
Listen to this makes my blood boil and i replied "Don’t worry i’ll take good care of your taxi, if kena saman or what i help you pay! Mister I want you to go in the airport with my fren now"
He still refused to go in and insist that it’s easy matter but we just keep force him to come with us. Finally he gave in and said he want to park his taxi at proper parking place first but somehow i sensed he’s trying to escape. To prevent this, i asked an uncle (who don’t understand mandarin so i have to talk to him using my SUPER lousy cantonese.. very paise) to take care of our luggage for a while both me and tiew mee get into the taxi and followed him to the parking area.
Finally we are in the airport with him.
He said "Don’t worry, i pity you girls coz see you two are students, i’ll take care of things"
I put a "Whatever.." face then he followed tiew mee to the counter to buy us new ticket and i near the counter, take care of the luggage.
Tiew mee later come back and i asked "How? everything settled?"
Tiew mee replied "No, we went to the counter and the operator already input every detail of the flight but then he look around pretend dunno anything and then said he thought you will pay for it"
I was like ‘what the?!!’ With shock i replied "Me??? I expect him to pay! darn it.. How much are the air tickets?"
Tiew mee told me its RM550. Then i said to the taxi driver "Hey mister just now you told us you gonna settle this thingy and now what? you ask us to pay?!"
The taxi driver replied with the ‘its not my problem’ tone and said "It’s ok, you gals use your own money pay first. Now i don’t have money but i live here one, you can easily find me. When i have money then i pay you k?"
I told him both of us don’t have money enough money with us but he asked us "Your ATM leh? Or you ask your family or fren help? They can bank in your account what.."
Walau eh, this really makes me mad and i told him, "we saved our money just for this day, this flight, most of our fren went back already and our family is not rich. Now you make us missed our flights and you should be responsible for it no matter what"
Then tiew mee said "Now you have how much money with you? Any amount also can, got ATM card?"
He replied taxi drivers dun carry money with them coz afraid get robbed or what and he don’t have atm card with him.
Then he showed us a small card holder with his identity card saying "See i live here, very near only, easy for you to find me next time, you wanna live with me also can, i won’t go anywhere one"
Tiew mee’s keen eyes spot something in the card holder, a Maybank ATM card, hiding behind another card. Both of us look at him and tiew mee said "What is this.."
He replied nervously "Oh this, nothing inside one. Its for insurance.. empty one"
Both of us show a ‘dun try to fool us, we are not buying it’ face and then he gave us his ATM card number. Inside got RM150 and we withdrawed all of it.
Then i said "ok mister we now still lack RM400, now how? Why don’t you ask your family or frens for help also?"
Then he smsed a fren but that didn’t help much. He just keep tell us to use our own money first eventhough we told him we don’t have. He even said "Just now you said you will pay for the saman, then you should have money to pay for the tickets what.."
My blood was boiling so hot until i cannot tahan to see his face anymore, if not i’ll scold him non stop infront of public. Then he told us he need to go back, with excuses to find his frens and borrow from them.
I didn’t believe him at all and said "Why should we trust you? Do you have anything that can make us trust you? You told us you will arrived at 5am this morning and see what it turn out? Now you expect us to trust you? No way!"
I asked for his IC as a hold on item and told him i’ll hold it until he come back with the money but he refused with lots of ‘bla bla bla’ excuses which i was very tired to hear already.
After a pause then he said something with somewhat threatening tone "Ok what you girls want? You don’t allow me to go back and ask for my frens help. I’m trying to help you girls you know. I can just walk away if i want to but i didn’t. Now i want to help but you girls don’t want. If you want report police also can but you gain nothing. But since it’s that way, i see my help is not needed" and he tried to walk away.
Very tired with this thing already and both of us know we can’t do anything much finally i said to him while looking on the floor then look straight at him "Mister, do you thnk we have other option? You are forced to trust you. Ok i trust you one last time. Our fate are in your hand, whether we manage to go back or not. But no matter what it is i want you to be here before 4pm (coz our next flight is on 6.15pm) ok?"
Then he tapped my shoulder and said "Don’t worry, you can count on me" and he walked away from our sight.
We didn’t trust him at all, after he gone we straight went to the ticketing counter to buy our tickets. It cost us RM180 after minus the (RM150 *the one we took from him* + RM40 *the taxi fare we didnt pay him* then divide by 2 = RM95 for each of us) Sighz.. we are very suay, out of so many taxi drivers, the one we met is a very unreliable one.
Then we went to MacD to have our breakfast. The hotcakes are very yummy! hehe. I ate my first hotcakes in Singapore and to my surprise now finally Malaysia also have it ^^.
Because of not enough rest and sleep for the past 2 days, i fall asleep in MacD. Then fall asleep again on the chairs in airport.
Time: 12.30pm
Tiew mee recieved a sms from him. The content says "I went back and consulted a laywer and the laywer said i don’t have to be responsible of anything because you don’t have a black and white agreement with me. You should pay back the RM150 plus the taxi fare to me"
Bah.. darn taxi driver. I knew something like this will happened. We ignored it and continue to wait for our flight. *more sleeping..*
Time: 6pm
We board our plane and headed to Sibu. I was so tired i slept during the whole jorney.
Time: 8pm ++ (not sure coz didnt check watch)
Tiew mee’s sis and mum arrived at Sibu airport to pick us up. We went to Everise to pass somethings to a fren’s sis and then went to eat at Fat Mum Cafe. I ordered tomyam, but the taste is bad. I still prefer’s Sarikei’s tomyam at Grace Cafe.
Time: 10.35pm
We finished our dinner and headed to Sarikei. On the way there’s police checking. The police checked tiew mee’s sis’s license and found out it’s overdue therefore a saman was issued. Very suay isin’t it? But the weird thing is that there’s a lot of cars the police didn’t check. Then i noticed that other people that also being issued saman are all chinese. I suspect it’s related to racist issue.. sighz
Time: 12am ++ (6th May)
Finally i reached home! Ahh home sweet home. But something’s different, there’s a white Kancil in front of my house. So i thought, so late already there’s still visitor in my house? To my surprise later i found out it’s our car.. Wow finally we have our own car! Haha..
Then after gave my family the gifts i brought for them and chatted about my suay expereince today, later i went to bath and straight to sleep. Its a very tired and suay day for me.
Ps: Frens out there who read my blog, i wish to know your opinion on the taxi driver issue. Are we, the consumer, are so helpless that we don’t even have any law or rights that protect us? Please post your comment on this issue.