it's freaking 6 am and i didnt even get half an hour of sleep. i'm already in the airport, waiting for my boarding time which is in an hour. managed to fax my complaint letter to the relevant parties and leave for my disrupted holiday.

there's nothing to eat here unless i want to eat expensive chocolates for breakfast at 6am. no thanks. i'll update when i reach bangkok or south korea.

so far, still alive.

mother fudging bastards. I hate Maxis. I converted my prepaid to postpaid on tuesday and they said i can activate my line on wednesday. it's thursday and it's still not activated and i had to call them 3 fudging times to find out what on earth is going on.
here's what i found out:1. they do not have a record of my application which I did it at the booth in Carrefour Wangsa Maju.
they apparently cant do anything because it's too late and asked me to go to Maxis Centre to get it done tmrw morning. bast*rds... i'm checking in at 5.50 in the morning, are u going to open your centre to give me the line? freaking idiots. imbeciles!
then i called again and found out:
My application for a postpaid line has been REJECTED of which they were supposed to CALL the primary line holder (i'm a supplementary line holder) to inform her regarding the rejection. They didnt call.
So, I'm now stuck, without a ******* phone line overseas for almost 2 weeks. I'm PISSED, and YES, i am really feeling that I am GOING TO BOMB maxis for this. what if there's any emergencies? i think everyone will now KNOW what is going through my mind, apart from all the ideas of torturing and cussing at incompetent disgrace to mankind.
I've writted a complaint to the Commission of Multimedia and Telecommunication(with c.c. to Maxis, and Malaysia COnsumer Association) and will fax it over NOW at 11.15 pm, so that everyone in the whole world knows how stupid idiots work. thanks to them I dont have a line to call home NOR make calls to meet my contact in Korea and confirm my RESERVATIONS. that's for pissing me off.

DIE!!!!!!!!! THANKS TO THIS INCIDENT, I HAVE NOT EVEN PACKED MY BLOODY BAGS! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I AM SOOOOO ANGRY

Counting down...

So... the news is out to my family that I'll be going to South Korea alone, and then leaving to China on an 18 hour ferry + 5 hour train to Beijing. Concerned friends gave me their numbers in case of emergencies, and i'm honestly very grateful. If my phone is not stolen, and if there's such emergency, if my credit card fails me, then I'll call.

Beijing sounds like a tricky and scary place already. Majority of the people in Beijing are scammers and I am told not to speak to anyone. I think I wont be able to talk for the entire 3 days in Beijing and also another 3 days of traveling to and fro Beijing. Cant imagine being silent for 6 good days. It's gonna be an 'interesting' experience. Considering I have crappy Mandarin proficiency, I'm afraid i'll be scammed while taking a taxi as well.

I think taking photos in China would be a problem because I dont think I can just pass my camera to anyone else to ask a favor to take my pics in front of the Forbidden City or any other exquisite world heritage site. Sigh... Maybe I could find other tourists to help me do it. Hopefully my camera doesnt get snatched and sold off because i'm still paying the damn installment and i've only owned it for less than 6 months. I might just go demanding for an air strike on Beijing if that happens. :P yeah right.

At the moment, I've just realized that I am still not ready to go for this trip just yet. I've really picked an unfortunate time to run off. my workload just piled up and I've not finished my ultra high priority task which is to submit a paper for publication on my research. It's still in construction.. i am currently cursed with distractions from this trip and other random events.
on the upside, my contact in S. Korea said I could stay at their home when I'm back from Beijing, and that totally saves me around RM250 on accommodation (if the guesthouse is okay with my cancellation without needing to compensate them). Tomorrow, I'll be settling EVERYTHING, buying whatever last minute items and getting my money exchanged. I'm still wondering if i should be carrying my handbag while touring in China. If one has to be soo paranoid, i might not even sleep soundly the entire time in China since there might be chances of people robbing me in the hostel or break into my locker and steal my stuffs.

sigh.. i shouldnt let other ppl's imagination affect me. the trip has already been paid for, with my own blood and sweat. i should just go and enjoy it despite everything and update my situation over there. But of course, I will be careful. VERY careful.

Not ready to go...

Good god.

My flight is on the coming Friday and I didn't know I printed out the flight itinerary instead of the eticket. it's a good thing my mom mentioned it and I called up the tour agent. They faxed the ticket to me and I saw two transits, one in Bangkok and the other in Hong Kong. Cool.. I've never been to Hong Kong before.

Apart from that, I haven't booked my ferry tickets, and my train tickets in China and Korea. Dont ask me what is wrong with me, this is just how I function. If it's not the eleventh hour, nothing will move. Not to mention, I have not gotten any disposable panties yet.

I haven't inform my Prof that I'm leaving on Friday. I also do not have the international adaptor for traveling and I will cry if I cant charge my camera batteries. I dont care about my handphone, but my camera HAS to work at ALL times. The pictures are my only treasure.

Before I drift away to my trip, I have to settle 2-3 reports/drafts for publications so that I'll be allowed to go on a holiday. Yeah right. As if that's possible.

Anyway, I've got a wedding dinner to attend tonight, and even more work to do tomorrow because my sister is moving to a new house on Monday. why does everything has to happen at the very last minute?

Disposable ones...

One would begin to WONDER, when she has drove all over town, to 3 different locations to look for pharmacies selling disposable panties. Yes, disposable panties.

The pharmacies in my neighbourhood only have S size and let's not EVEN TALK about Size. it's the same for the other pharmacies in two other supermarkets that i went to. I really wonder if pharmacies are taking disposable panties for granted and do not keep stock, or I've just realized that maybe the women this society prefer disposable panties over anything, or it must be some sort of unwritten rule to keep stock of disposable panties for 'emergency' purposes or everyone is traveling too.

I am tempted to make a 'reservation' for my stock of disposable panties because I am traveling next Friday, for 12 days, and God knows I dont have enough panties to bring along and do laundry for the entire 2 weeks of traveling. I would hate being caught washing my undies when traveling and staying in backpacker's dorm. It's be so mortifying.

Speaking of traveling, I'm not entirely ready for this trip. It's the farthest I've been and alone too, plus, I have just realized that it's really my first time on the plane alone. Oh well.. there's always first for everything, and not to mention, my first winter experience too.

I need to make the reservation for the ferry to China AND my stock of disposable panties first. :P