Outstation... To north with my cousin brother! Day 5... (Friday 29/9/06)

Outstation... To north with my cousin brother! Day 5... (Friday 29/9/06)

Going back to KL today, or the next day?

Man, i'm suffering from not purging fully from all the meals taken. I never got myself to sleep early and peaceful each day during this outstation trip. I guess is time to flock out some money for medical check up. I'm old already, things getting twisted in my body...



I woke up earlier than my alarms, my cousin set his own alarm earlier to move his car away from the restaurant nearby. Since we all awoke, we got ourselves prepared for Penang's turf. We had our breakfast nearby, then took ferry trip to Penang island... I mean, it's my first time of my life riding ferry. The smoking section was isolated from the passenger seats, specially made room for smokers. The ferry moved slowly towards the island, i can clearly see ferries and boats on sea travelling, and the weather's perfect for photo snapping.



Finally... Old schools are back!

We hitted the old school streets, buildings were old, classic, roads were totally just enough for a car's size. Talking about trucks, it'll be very difficult for those trailers to travel here.



Soon we reached client's place... Eh, i don't see where's the place could be?

My cousin brother said, "You wouldn't expect the place could located somewhere here..."



Damn... It's a small route, packed with all hardware and electrical shops along, constructed with woods and zinks, classic feel baby! The owner was an old man, he's son was helping him together with daughter in law. The shop also too small, till we had to step outside waiting for the owner to be free from the customers. Thinking about getting bananas nearby, "another street selling, just walk on the other side and you'll find yourself there...", as my cousin said. Thank lord, it's been 16 meals inside me and i'm so desperate to purge them out.



After finished dealing business, we went to another client's place, partly supplier, partly supporting us. I saw some men on florecent jacket running around the streets. I thought they were those officials to write summons at our discrimination parking, but they were parking fee collectors. Some on bicycles, some on feet. With those on feet, i'm sure they'll be having hard times chasing car owners to pay the parking fees...



It began raining... There goes my cousin again. Without choices, we headed to another client's place. This client's dealing contractors and Industrials. The shop partly a house, also an classic old school building. We caught ourselves wet from the rain, and we hope that staying at this place a few moments the rain might stop.



So my cousin discussing business with the client, while me, as usual, sat there listened to them but had no idea what were they talking about. Soon, a girl appeared from the house behind, quite pretty also. I heard the client called her, 'Yu Xiang'... Sounds like my ex's name... In kampung, they were usually named with names from centuries ago, like those movies you might have seen like Legend of Condor Heroes or Romance of Three Kingdoms. Heh, my name's same to their league, it's just ugly to read it out.



Soon, we left to another client's place again. My cousin said this place also small, no place to sit, also, if we're unlucky, we might spend more than an hour there. True enough, it's fucking small, crowded, and hot! I sweated a lot there, hardly could stay still at a place. After struggling in between, we had some orders taken, the first of the day, as my cousin whined...



Therefore, it's lunch, and my cousin suggested to try the famous Char Kuey Teow and Ice Kacang at the street nearby previous client. A small, stiffed, crowded area, i could even spot some cun chicks around, all dressed like as they were from KL. One of them was tanned skin... My oh my, freaking sexy, the hair's fluffy and curly, the looks could take the men's breath away, and the body figure could take the men's miseries away... Both works on me, but we're in the rush to finish our turf so we could go back by today. The Char Kuey Teow's awesome, so does the Ice Kacang, but it's lot more expensive than KL... Doubt it ain't?



It rained heavily again after we hitted the road. Not far away from the town, we reached another destination. Again, this place stiffed, that it's only enough for my cousin to sit and even so, he had to move a little cuz around his seat, the staffs also had to access there. Also, there's a pretty girl working there too, and all the turf i went, the most cute chicks i saw most were in Penang. I was left outside, while raining, i got no choice but to stay out from the shop, grabbed some newspaper and read.



I called my ex. She was sleeping... Hmmm, i supposed she's working today and she could stay at home having rests. I knew something might go wrong. She knew i was in Penang and we never got any chances to meet each other. I felt sorry for her, as she was desperate. I don't know what she means, i knew i should see her cuz she got prettier than the first time i saw her.



Another hour passed, and i began to yawn...

*YAWN...*

Nervous to finish the turf.



Then, we went to another client's place, and it rained so heavily that we can't even unload the returns to the client. So cousin went to their office to collect payment while i was in the car waiting and listening to music. Soon, we left to another client's place, the very last stop...

(Yes!)




The shop was at the hills of Air Hitam. Since it was raining and it stopped once we almost reached to the client's place... Damn, was the weather fooling us?



Again, i found a cun chick at the shop. Though her looks was quite ok, her dressing was sex appealing... Mmm mmm... I was left aside, listened to them talking business which still i don't understand at all...

And then... We're heading back to KL! I drove cuz my cousin been driving the whole day as i shared his burden. It wasn't that burden, just need to bring back my stamina...



*YAWN...*

Thanks to my CDs, i could enjoy a nice going home journey without finding myself sleepy. My cousin couldn't sleep too, he was way to worry of me at the highway...

Oh well, nobody believes my experience. All the time, i've to keep it for myself rather performing out.



We reached KL at 10.30pm after. I helped my cousin unload the goods, and reached home. Ahh, there's no place like home, and it's still messy since i packed my stuffs before going outstation. My girl was at Sg Wang nearby with her friends. At first, it was a good time to meet some chicks since i heard my girl said her friend would bring some girls along. I called and informed cy, he's on, and in the end, maybe that i arrived late, they called it a day...



So my girl came to my house to stay over. She even brought PS2 for me to test out God Hand game. Yup, i'm quite anxious of the game, with those fighting skills and it looks so cool!

It's late, and the whole trip was... Yeah, quite fun also la, and tiresome. This could be only one time i'll be at the north, and if i've obtained the experiences, i'll be stationed for the south regional states. Sigh, i rather choose the north than south, cuz J.B.'s a boring place, so as the others...



Thank you for reading my outstation chapters all the while. I guessed i wrote too much, i even have my turf log seperated from this post... That's my personal reference, it's convenient to recall any previous actions taken. That'll be easier for me to monitor my cousin's activities as he always in vain on places he needs to go.

Outstation... To north with my cousin brother! Day 4... (Thursday 28/9/06)

Having a few hard times trying to purge, my stomach still growling like mad, and farted a lot. Maybe these days, my most activities will be only...

Sit, talk, eat, walk a little, sleep.

That's sort of dull though...

Anyway, my phone's alarm rang at 7.30am, i'm the first one who wokes up, while my cousin brother and his salesman friend still sleeping with snoring (last night i wasn't asleep at early hours cuz both snored like pigs!). Some calls came from the friend's and he never really bothered to wake up, same goes to my cousin brother. Last night they've agreed to wake up early la, have breakfast together la...

What i'm nervous about, is to go back home AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!


All three of us moved out to the nearest restaurant to have our breakfast, fish head meehoon soup. Then, we left to meet a client afte a few distance.

My cousin said this client is a very snobbish person, he wouldn't want to offer any good deals to him. Therefore, he started to push new items to the client. Wait a minute, what's with his principle again? The way he attempt was like never bother of his reaction, just simply threw the item in front of the client, without making any warmup conversation.

Whenever my cousin flock out the items, the client would ask the price. So my cousin told him the price, and the client never bothered to give feedbacks. Imagine everytime my cousin let him know the pricing, he just looked at the samples, never replied. I was quite angry of this fucked up attitude guy. As far as we went, we only earn zero substance of sales from him.

Once we got into the car and heading towards another client's place, my cousin said,

"You know, we salesman are just trying to push new items, and let them reorder the items to do business. When it comes to a deal, they'll just get our stuffs and sell it. So in the end of the day, they're using our money to do money rolling. I mean, we paid the goods for them to do their business, they receive cash even faster than us, rather our terms had already burdened us. Thus, the clients should pay more respects at us than their ownselves."

True enough, and that snobbish client just don't even know his current status. Without suppliers, they won't get anywhere on business.

After visited the client in a short while (collected payment without any orders taken), we headed straight to Bukit Mertajam. I never expected myself not taking more pictures around Sungai Petani. There's nothing interesting...

Once we reached a client's place at Bukit Mertajam, my cousin told me if i ever buy cigarettes from the grocery store near the client's shop, they'll give discounts. Sure they did, but only RM0.10...

The client was a joker. At his late 40's, he'll take on anyone, including his wife. Even during business talks, he could just flipped through the newspaper and showed us a news regarding a man lost his I.C. A woman who faked herself as his wife declared his death and took more than RM10,000 EPF money. It's been three years he lost his I.C. and for now, he's already a non existence, death person, and whatever he wanted to do for his life are totally impossible.

What a shocking news. Folks, be cautious at your belongings.

Soon, after taken order and some jokes from the clients, we headed to another client's place just few miles away.

We found out the client wasn't at the shop and was at the nearby restaurant having some Chinese tea. We had long chats, headed back to shop and taken some orders. Meanwhile, came a few suppliers waited their turns and flooded the whole stiffed shop. A lot of customers came and purchased goods, especially women... Believe me, all of them came were fucking HOT! Stylish glasses, low cut jeans and tight tee... Um hmmm... My eyebrows tingling madly while watching them dealing transactions in style and sexiness.

I love Penang...

Also, there's a car accessories shop nearby. A Kancil's sound systems were custom mades and blasted fully with Hip Hop R&B songs. There goes the style in Penang.

I love Penang... Seriously...

Moments later, we had nice delicious lunch around the corner, together with another salesman that came before us. From his name card, got to know that he's from Cheras, KL.

Our last stop at Kulim, near exit to Butterworth. The shop's renovated by Jotun, fully sponsored. That reminds me my past's job, the advertising company contracts with Jotun.

Nah, past is past... (very devastating story to tell...)

We spent the rest of the evening with the boss, had tea time together nearby. The salesman friend that joined us last night came too. Just in luck that i remembered last night i bought some DVDs and left it in his car. If he never came, i'll be waiting for his coming in KL, that'll be wasting my time and nervous to watch it.

The boss intent to move his both D.I.Y and Industrial shop into a 4-block conjoint shop few blocks away. He bought those shops and the rest remained in rentals. Considered a big time businessman, his character wise was just as same as my cousin and his friend. They could talk very long time and i got so bored and tired. My cousin's friend called and made orders from my cousin. The orders had taken up much space of the car, and i doubt that i could use the car and meet my ex. Oh dear, what would've went wrong? Shits don't come when i want it, but it happens in technically, not practically...

*GROWL~!*

...... Sigh......


I called my ex which stayed in Penang. I promised her that i'll be seeing her there. Only matters that my cousin was in vain to plan out his destination, can't use the car and stucked up with the client.

From yesterday, he made out his decisions. Then, by today, it's another plan. He was nervous to go home too, same as me. He knew that he's running out of cash to pay hostel rental, and it's not even worth to stay one more day at Penang. I'm running low too, since i bought much of cigarettes, a table lamp and 2 DVDs. (i didn't finish my money, just worried that when i'm back in KL, i've to prepare myself before receiving my salary...)

My ex wasn't happy about my uncertain plans. She hung up my call after she heard that i'm immobilised. Yep, i nicknamed her, 'Princess'. A sophisticated type that hardly to be convinced and tolerate. She just broke up with her boyfriend recently, and perhaps i'm sort of like, like she determined me as a spare one. I know the game, but i don't feel like playing it anymore. I got my darling, and i've settled down. Flirting is my past, i'm moving on with my full sincerely heart, for her, i definately WILL! Therefore, i just had to give up meeting her. She'll be very disappointing for few days, but what to do?

So to say, i can't even meet Jordan and I-Meng... Sorry guys, i'm stucked in between!


So we went for dinner at Butterworth, but first we made a stop at the Auto City that was newly developed. The client did mentioned that Sushi King had paid more than a million to renovate the whole semi-D double storey Banglo. I was quite curious of it's generosity, and what i've spectated, a big crowds wandered there looking around the place. Sports and luxury cars parked accordingly in front of the Banglo shops. We saw Starbucks... Hmmm, one or two customers. Then Swensen's... My oh my, filled with crowds... Then Nando's... Em, i never looked at it cuz the cars were much fascinating.




Due to no parking for us, we headed back to our rendezvous, a cafe opened by the client's partner, considered another side income. At first, i ordered a in-house special Mocha Kahlua Coffee and chicken sauced spaghetti... What a small plate! (i'm not in the position to take pictures of it or else i'm getting myself embarrassed...) I ordered french toasts, ate some and eventually allured the salesman friend, he ordered another plate of french fries with wedgies. He ate a big bowl of Tom Yam soup and he still can wallop some more. Even my cousin brother ordered some small Poh Piah (in case you don't know what the hell is that, just check through search browser...) and we ate till we can fill our stomach anymore. I only ordered another Cappucino to soothe my resting time.

I wished i knew what's the name of the place but i guess it's not a necessity though, i know how to get there. (It's dark at night, and i hardly spotting any signs out there...)


You know what? After 4 days, 16 meals by assumption, i get one time purging out already, which makes a balance of 15 meals remained in my stomach. My whole day's activities only sit, listen to others, in the car, eat, drink, smoke, talk, make phone calls... Where the exercise goes? I tried to buy bananas, from places we've been, none of the area selling. We did passed some fruit stalls selling bananas but we're too late to stop by as the cars behind were like closed to us all the time... Damn, i'm desperate of purging, man...

*GROWL~!*

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*GROWL~!*


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*GROWL~!*



...... I'm sick of this...

Thus, we headed back to the hostel, which was another branch of Alor Setar's. This place much, much better than Alor Setar's cuz the room's bigger, 3 beds, but no Astro on upstairs, only on ground floor. Cars fully occupied and none left for us. No fancy dogs, of course. Even the reception also special type, a mailbox not far away from the hostel. My cousin asked me to look for the keys in the mailbox. Hmmm, wasn't it dangerous to have the keys left publically?

I took bath, chatted a little with my cousin and his friend, and i went out to the living room and watched tv, while writing this post. Still... It happened again...

*GROWL~!*

*GROWL~!*


*GROWL~!*



...... Damn it!

While i was left awake at the living, i started to fill that the wave has come...

I sat in the toilet waiting for the big purge. And...

Yes! It came! Finally... Oh my, it stinks like Durians... I remember that i never ate any of those... It's so fucking stinks that i had to smoke a few to dissolve the bad shit smell. Phew!

I sat in there like, an hour? While trying to finish this post, i don't mind cuz it's a seating toilet, i kept purging, and purging... It went on and on, and i felt much, much better...

Ahh... Damn, it feels comfortable already...

13-14 meals to purge... And i won't be having a good sleep at night though... I'll keep trying to purge more when it arrives...

*GROWL~!*


sigh......

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).