January 29, 2012

It's My Party And I'll Be Late If I Want To


There is another farewell dinner tonight, this time with the work leadership team and we’re off to El Cerdo in town for pork. I leave the office at about 5 and plan to go home, relax, shower, change etc and be in town for about 7.30 to 8.

As I leave the office, there’s a terrific storm over KL – the maddest I have seen for a while, and it's slightly typical as the traffic will now be terrible… Still, there are a couple of hours to go, so it may clear.

It doesn't and, worse, I can't get a taxi with the rain, so I make the decision to drive and park in town. Big mistake: the traffic was fucking shit and I was stuck in the approach to that shit roundabout on Jalan Kuching for about an hour. Eventually it clears and I get pretty much all the way into Bukit Bintang and into another jam - so I head to Pavilion to park and walk to the restaurant, worried that I am really late for my own party... 

However, almost everyone else is late too, but eventually we are shown to our private room where we can feast on pork... Lovely!

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