Decide to go to the cinema tonight, and then try to get tickets to see Inception at one of the local cinemas. What a complete and utter palaver!
I went online, only to discover that there were pretty much no seats available for Inception (or any other film for that matter) in virtually every cinema in Kuala Lumpur, and then when I did manage to find some spare seats, as soon as I clicked “buy”, either an "error occurred", or I got a message saying I needed to "Please use the Golden Screen Online e-Transfer system", for which I needed to register.
OK, I reckoned that I was probably going to make use of this quite a bit, so I decide to register. I couldn’t really believe how difficult that was either – you need so much stupid information, like passport number, Identity Card number, two telephone numbers, Race, Nationality, occupation, salary details, inside leg measurement, six professional references…Ridiculous. Anyway, I persevered (giving false information for the majority of the information) and managed to register correctly, only to find that I couldn’t use the e-Transfer system with my Safari web browser and it threw me off, so I repeated it all again using the Google browser, only to find I needed a Malaysian credit card, which I haven't got yet.
Because I haven't been able to open a Malaysian Bank account yet.
Because I haven't got my work visa sorted yet.
Because a lot of things take a lot of time to sort out.
I was beginning to think that cinema is only for Malaysians…and Windows users (fucking Bill Gates again)
Anyway, Ali suggests phoning the cinemas directly, but no luck there either, so we just head to the cinema and try the old fashioned way – queue up. This worked and we managed to get probably two of the last remaining seats in Kuala Lumpur to see Inception – which was a brilliant film and I managed to stay awake and actually understand what was going on!
I still think it was all a dream.
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