Outstation... To north with my cousin brother! Day 3... (Wednesday 27/9/06)

*Yawn*

Rise and shine at 8.30am. I'm not so sure about today's turf. I'm quite nervous of going to Penang... I don't think we'll be going to the island, i asked Jordan and he told me it's nearby. I'm just afraid that the meet up might be difficult for him to travel, as though it's like he had to, by inconvenient situation. Anyhow, it's fine that he agreed in the first place.

My cousin brother woke up later than me. I was at the living room smoking and watching Astro. Today we had to check out from the hostel, gonna meet a few more clients here and we're off to Sungai Petani...

(At first, i overheard my cousin brother mentioned 'S.P.'... I really forgotten that usually people call Sungai Petani in that initial, eventually i assure it as Seberang Prai...)

So we went to a client's place around the town area. The boss was in a very smiley mood, he invited us to have breakfast with him. I was quite lucky to have a ride on his Honda Accord new version. All leather seats and mostly the beauty applied on the dashboard. My oh my, it's like competing other luxury cars' design. Perhaps it's already enough for the boss who owned it, rather BMW or Mercedes. (He's fucking rich, and he could really afford those. Just a matter of his own preference, those were not essential.)

Every food sold cheap here, and i'm glad to meet a boss that never felt uneasy to eat such cheap food. All three of us, with food and drinks, only paid not even RM15 or more less.

After breakfast, we went back and back to our main business topic. I notice that the lady in front of the boss' desk wore sexy attire. Sure the way it looks quite alluring, but her looks... Old and... You know, it's no good to reveal here, as long as you know what am i talking about. Also, there's a twin male working together. One thing weird, they could smile like there's no miseries. I mean, it's not even natural at all, it's like they've mental problem though. I'm not too sure, people have they weird way to express themselves... Seriously, their smiles... (bla bla bla...)

We left after half an hour of conversation. I called back to office to make orders. So my cousin sister in law mentioned the boss, that if he treated us breakfast. I said yes, and she asked if he looked like a pervert guy. Man, i did noticed that on his lips' upper right, there's a small limb. Combining his smiley face, maybe for a lady's judgement could be an insult. Anyway, i guess maybe she's right, he did looked like a pervert... Heh...

We left the town and headed to Jitra. My cousin brother said this client are a rich man. Every payment he made, he'll put the exact date of the collection due. If you ever play terms on payment, you'll notice much of the clients you have could jot the date few days later of the collection date. It's part of their game, just to remind them to get their money ready before the cheque bounce.

The boss was quite a happy go lucky guy, he's the one started out conversation with us, mostly on eyes and optical issues. Somehow i learned much from him, that things i never heard before.

After doing business with him, we headed straight to Sungai Petani... My old memories came back...

9 years ago, i was here. All the way from Johor Bahru, 10 hours of bus trip, i reached here in the morning. My ex's mom came to fetch me to her sister's house to have a short nap, until my ex came back from school. She's just form 5, and it's a common thing for the daughter to get to know a guy was coming to meet her, as though in our schooling young ages, we're in love. I guess her mom would have been the same when she's at her young age.

I stayed at her place for 3 days 2 nights. We did went to Penang clubbing and had so much fun there. She really gave me so much of sweet memories, that i can't be easily forgetting it. Only after 3 years later, she came and met me up with her parents. Just got unlucky that a friend of mine was desperate to use money and he had to ask me to lend him. By then, i've promised to go out with my ex but i cancelled the plan. She got angry and caused us quarrel. I don't remember what she said to me, but the way she threw at me was breaking my heart. All the time through the phone call, she kept saying about money, money, and money. I got really pissed off and asked for a break up. Till then, we never really contact each other.

Sigh, alright. Back to my current topic.

We reached the client's place after few distance from the highway toll. Once we reached, i spotted a damn ugly modified car. Damn, it's real ugly. It was lunch time and we went for a meal, then we paid the client a visit. But then there were salesman around, so we hitted the road again to our next client's place.

My cousin brother told me this next client had given him hard times on taking orders, and even shown snobbish looks at him. Still, we didn't get any orders from them. And we left, back to the previous place.

There again, the ugly Waja... The client was very busy, all alone serving customers. We waited, talked a little and spent most of the time sitting there. My cousin brother said this might be delaying our time to go back to KL, only if we did finished the whole turf, by Friday night we'll go back.

We went to another small town, one stretch of road full of classic 70's shops. Yes! Let the old memories alive!

We found the owner hiding himself at the restaurant few blocks away from his shop. We had drinks and a plate of Rojak (same as in KL but cheaper...). Then we went back to his shop and do business. Later on, a salesman came, which was my cousin brother's friend and supplier. We did talked about relationship issue, that mentioned by my cousin brother about a conflict between his salesman friends. Soon, we left to another client's place nearby a specialist hospital. The owner wasn't in the shop, so had to postpone till tomorrow. Sigh, i'm worried that i'm going back on Saturday...

Then we took the main road, there's a shopping mall where i used to be at with my ex 9 years ago... Not to worry, i won't say anything more about my past.

This boss is quite sceptic about our pricing. His stocks still full and nothing we can do to convince him to order some. The salesman from previous shop came and we left after an hour conversation.

We ate dinner nearby the client's place, my cousin brother said the mee rojak goreng very nice and famous. Yup, it's not like those typical mamak mee goreng, this is exceptional.

Lastly, we made a stop at my cousin brother's friend's shop. After meeting up, we went to have dinner... Again... Damn, 4 meals per day already and i can't purge my disposals almost 3 days. I found none of any stalls selling fruits. I'm in vain to ask my cousin brother, as though his way much on schedule to work only.

The restaurant we went selling famous Thailand Tom Yam Soup, cooked by a chef from Thailand. Again, they talked about the relationship issue. I was on phone call with my girl who missed me so much and eager to have me coming back to KL sooner. Yes darling, i would like to but i'm working...

(Don't ever predict that i'm flirting around. Even without my cousin's surveillance, there's nothing much i could do here... No friends and places to go from here...)

After 'second' dinner, we went to another specially built hostel... Hotel SMS, Taman Sejati Indah, a Banglo (Hotel or Hostel?). I heard next to the hostel, the house was emptied. Due to their story, a Malay woman committee suicide there. The house can't be purify and most of the residents nearby moved out from the place. After checking in, i found the room was even better than the previous one in Alor Setar. 3 beds (an extra for another salesman.) with 1 'First World's' toilet. No hanger to hang towels and clothes, and stiffed area to put shampoos. Even the door knob came off when i lightly touch it. Luckily, we had our own private tv, with Astro.

After refreshen ourselves, we headed to town to grab some DVDs. Not much to select, and can't even help cy to buy some.

Since it's still early to rest at the hostel, we had drinks together with another salesman that came from our last stop. He's the only one who spoke Cantonese dialect in Sg Petani (the rest in Hokkien or Chinese dialects).