Adebelle

I couldn’t believe how bad my sense of direction could be on a faithful Friday night weeks ago. If not mistaken, it was the Friday before Christmas. You see, Adelynn and Adeline (me) were on our way to Midvalley Mega Mall after work. Well, she took LRT to work and hence the important task of driving there fell on my shoulder. I’ve drove to Midvalley a few times from Menara TM and getting there shouldn’t be a problem at all. At least that’s what I thought.

I was more than happy to have Adelynn in my car. We are known as the twin sisters back in our office. Not that we look alike physically, it’s just that our names, they sound the same though it spells differently. I’ve grown very fond of her as I spent longer time in the project. She’s a very easy going person who has a cute way of laughing. It’s really infectious, mind you! Smiling, she is always smiling too

Anyways, like I said, getting to Mega Mall can’t be that hard… A few minutes stucked in the jam and we were sort of in front of the mall. Now, I always use one of the entraces to get to the parking lot. That night, somehow, my eyes were blinded or perhaps was too engrossed in the conversion, I missed the entrance. Now, now… I had my bearing perfectly functioned, so I thought. I decided to go round the mall and get back to the usual entrace I use. Even a moron knows how… In my case, not quite… As I intelligently drove round the mall, like I said, my brain perhaps wasn’t at it’s sharpest state, or, the roads there are very misleading, I somehow landed on a completely alienated road. At this point, I couldn’t try to appear calm. I was squeaking in the car and I looked desperately at Adelynn, hoping she knows her way well round KL. Apparently, that’s where we were heading to, KL city centre, I read the sign board.

O.H.M.Y.G.O.O.D.N.E.S.S!!! As it turned out, Adelynn was just as clueless as me! Both of us had never ventured beyond Mega Mall. I was really panicked. We were searching for the signboard frantically, hoping we would find some direction which leads us back to Midvalley. There ain’t any sign board to be seen. I couldn’t stop yelling ‘oh my goodness’ as I saw Twin Towers getting bigger and bigger. It only means we were further and further away from Midvalley. Bad news!!

Ahh, I almost forgot to mention about the drivers. Geez, I’ve never encountered such mean drivers before. No one seemed to willing to let me through when my right signal was left flickering for at least a good 5 minutes! I had to turned my head and threw the driver behind an oh-so-sweet smile to get my way out! Gooodness… I was glad that the driver was a male species. Just imagine if it was a female species… I also learned that there’s no mercy on the road at peak hours, especially when you have a big P pasted on your car!

Very quickly, I reached for my mobile phone and started to call some friends for direction. So did Adelynn. The ultimate blur sotongs’ were desperately seeking help. You see, it probably take no less than 2 seconds for our friends to guide us back to Midvalley… except, they didn’t know where the heck we were at. Like I said, there wasn’t any sign board in sight. The closest landmark I saw was a tall building with many many little windows. ‘I’m in front of this building, very tall building with lots of little windows. I think the building is blue!’, I told Terence when he asked of my whereabout. Then, I heard Adelynn cracking up almost the same time Terence did. Just when I was puzzling over the cause to this abrupt outburst, I realised there are so many sky scrappers in KL with little windows!! How very ‘clever’ of me.

Without wasting another minute and since Terence couldn’t very well direct me out and away from where I was, I dialled another number. When it got connected, almost half crying, I told David that I was lost, AGAIN. He’s such a sweet guy for not trying to laugh at me. And you know what, after describing 5 minutes or more to him on my whereabout, he roughly made up where we were and asked me to look for a round about to make a U turn. You see, I wasn’t a totaly idiot. I knew I had to find a U turn. The thing is, I couldn’t very well see any U turn!! Heaven knows that round about also serves as a U turn! Good gracious.

Finally, Adelynn and I were on the right track once again… I would be really really scared if I was alone. Poor Adelynn… She had to go through that with me. Both of us, however, did feel a very strong sense of satisfaction and maybe pride when we finally found our way to Midvalley. That’s hurrah and thumbs-up for the us Pheeeew, what an experience. Poor Vicky, she had to wait patiently for Adelynn and I at Midvalley.

You might think this is the end of the story. Well, not quite right… I know, you must be rolling your eyes… but… but… YES, ermm, on our way back to Menara TM (sending Adelynn to LRT station) we… or more accurately I, ADELINE ummm, missed another left turn… This time it led us to Bangsar. You must know, the places I know how to get to can be counted with 5 fingers. Bangsar, obviously is not one of them… Uh-oh, we are lost, AGAIN…

I felt so bad when I took a glance at Adelynn. She’s grown increasing worried. It’s getting really late and she’s taking LRT. I saw a police car and decided to pull over and ask for help. As I slowed down my car and wind down the window, I saw these policemen were arresting an indian macha. The situation wasn’t a pleasant one. Seeing this, Adelynn nudged me to drive away… Honestly, the policemen looked somewhat dodgy! It’s a good idea to drive away. Now we were at some housing area. That was it. I couldn’t afford to go around when Adelynn was rushing to get to the LRT station.

Suddenly it occured to me that Agnes might be able to guide me back to Menara TM. After all bangsar is like her territory and she lives nearby! Ah ha!! It’s the best decision I’d made that night. Agnes knows her way really well, in fact, beyound well!! She knows how many traffic lights I’d pass, how many bumps and all that. Brilliant!!!! Just what I needed the most, a very precies direction!

In less than 10 minutes time, with Agnes’ help, voila, were were finally hitting the familiar road and got to Menara TM I must have said more than 10 times of sorry to Adelynn. Maybe that will be the last time she sits in my car. Haha

That was quite a night to remember, don’t you think?

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