Category: Life

I don’t know when it is going to end. The car..it’s showing me signs again.

Started the engine after work to find that the temperature gauge needle is sitting below C, which is not in its normal place. It should be in between C and H. Slowly, as I drove on, the needle went back to its normal place so I thought everything is back to normal.

It was raining and the road is congested with cars. Yeap, traffic jam. A bad one today. As I reached the toll, the temperature rose to H. That was scary! Can cry! Thought of pulling over but I was still stuck in a traffic jam and the first thing that came to my mind was – aircon.

I quickly turned off the aircon and the temperature went back to normal again…so I prayed hard that the car won’t explode and blow me into pieces. I almost suffocated to death too because I couldn’t wind down the window too much, as it was still drizzling and that I do not want any motorist to pull anything or pull me out of the car. And because the cars are moving so slowly, there wasn’t any breeze that could come in through the little gap of the car window.

I arrived home safely with normal temperature reading. I parked the car and tried switching on the aircon again. Within 3 minutes, the temperature rose again…so I really don’t know what is wrong. Wanted to check the coolant level, not that I know how but I’m going to try tomorrow morning because it was already dark and the engine is still very hot.

Will be driving to the service centre to get it checked again. I really hope I can get there in one piece without my car breaking down or whatsoever.

You know, I discovered after almost two years how to adjust the digital clock of my car. After the accident, the clock wasn’t showing me the right time and I just didn’t know where to adjust it. Until today, I parked the car and read my car manual and found the button that I could twist to adjust the time.

I don’t know why I get happy and excited over little stuff like this but I was happy after having adjusted the clock.

The day before yesterday, I went to service the car alone. It’s the first time I went to get the car service by myself because all this while, it’s either Pappy or Mummy that would go with me. And sometimes Pappy will drive the car to get it serviced because he doesn’t want me to go alone.

This time around, they are not in KL and because I just met with an accident, it just felt safe to check the car as something wasn’t right about the car. The malfunction indicator light is on even though I have got enough brake and engine oil. It happened after I got the car from the workshop, so I decided to get the car another check, this time at the service centre which I usually visit.

The sensor is spoilt and I’m not sure if it’s spoilt because of the accident or that during repair, the workshop guy helped to banged it till it’s not crooked. And because I cannot claim insurance for that sensor, I had to fork out RM410, with service charge included to replace it with an original sensor.

So there goes my RM400 but it’s okay. I can earn it back again.

I want to work extra hard this month.

but I cannot tell you why!

;))

I got my car back today. Workmanship wasn’t very smooth but acceptable. I don’t think it’ll ever look brand new anymore. It just doesn’t feel the same anymore too. When I look at the car, I just feel a little sad still. Oh well, at least, she’s still up and running and she takes me to work so I’m going to make sure she has a safe journey from now onwards. Of course, sometimes we couldn’t stop accident from happening but I just need to be careful.

Drive safe. You can make a difference.

I always listen to this tagline on the radio after the traffic report but today it seemed to drill into my head.

I drove very slowly and carefully today. Saw an accident in Cyberjaya(Not when it happened but after that.). The second time that I see the accident at the same spot. Quite serious as the side of the car crashed towards the lamp post. So, I think that is quite a deadly curve.

I don’t know why I always write about accidents that I see on the road. Come to think of it, I have seen a lot more accidents in these few recent months than I did a year ago. Maybe of the route I’m taking now which is more accident-prone and that I travel longer than I used to.

Need to send my car for service tomorrow. Oil light indicator is not working properly, showing empty even though it’s full.

I want to go for a movie very badly. Watched Protege last week and it’s yummy!

Want to watch Music and Lyrics, Dreamgirls, Bridge to Terabithia, Charlotte’s Web, 300, Mukhsin, The Pursuit of Happyness. So tell me, where do I start? If I watch 3 movies in a day, can finish watching them during the weekend. But am I crazy enough to do that?

The workshop called me today and said the car is ready.

I have been car-less for a week. It isn’t too bad after all because I get to be a passenger for the past few days.

Tomorrow before I go to work, I’ll go get the car and I’m going to hug her! Cos I miss her so much!

I still love this lion dance picture taken by Pappy last year. He took this picture while I went visiting with my friends. Knowing that I wasn’t there to watch the lion dance performance, he snapped a few pictures for me. So nice!

Click on the lion picture above to see what I did, what I saw, who I met this Chinese New Year!

Before the new year ends, let me wish you Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Gong Xi Gong Xi! 😀

My next door neighbour is chanting. So many of them chanting. It has been going on for about an hour or more. I couldn’t take it anymore, I closed the doors and windows, blasting my Chinese New Year songs.

Talking about Chinese New Year songs, that was what I was listening to when I was driving before the accident occured because I was moody and down and restless the whole day at work. It has been such a long time since I felt that way. Am sure the long holiday contributed to it but it was also because of the work I was doing at work, was pretty boring work I did on the first day of work. It’s always like that, before something bad happens, you feel very very restless and then when the accident happened, you understand why you’re feeling restless for the whole day. It’s a sign.

To cheer myself up and put a smile on my face again, I played some Chinese New Year songs in the car. And then it went crash boom bang!

The funny part is when the workshop guy who drove my damaged car to the side of the road asked,

“Leng lui, you listening to Chinese New Year songs ar?”

“Yalor!”

It was supposed to be a joke or a line to make me loosen up a bit.

Apart of me jerking to the front as I braked till I knew I couldn’t brake in time to stop hitting the car, my eyes closed as I pressed on the brakes harder. My bag flown down to the floor of the front seat, my coins are all over the place, the Mandarin Orange which I brought back from work flew down too, my house key and my red Patrick dog which is on the dashboard, flew towards the windscreen. I put him to my bag as the workshop guy asked if there was anything I wanted to take with me before the car is being towed away.

Patrick the red toy dog, followed me to the police station and then home. And when I came back, I hugged Ducky and then after talking to Pappy on the phone, I sat on the floor in a corner and cried.

CNY Day 15 entry is going to be a happy, photo-filled entry. Enough of sad stories already!!!

After taking a day off from work yesterday(yea, another precious annual leave burnt) to submit all my documents for third party claim and to visit the workshop and my car, I’m back to work today. Brought some cookies for everyone in the department to eat. They loved the chocolate cookies and I immediately sent an SMS to tell Mummy about it. She’s been worried sick after listening to what happened so I just wanted to make her feel a little happier.

Thank goodness I’ve got kind souls to drive me to work. A friend of mine takes me from my house to the LRT station and then a colleague of mine would pick me up from the LRT station and head straight to the office. I don’t know how long I’m going to be car-less. The workshop guy said it’s going to take a week but I doubt so..because it would take longer than that.

On my way back home, there were 3 accidents along LDP. I’ve never seen so many accidents along one stretch of road. So, for those who are driving, please, please drive carefully.

This Chinese New Year isn’t anything like how I expected it to be. All these years, they have been a jolly good one for me. This year around, it started off good but I just felt that this Chap Goh Meh may not be as jolly good for me, based on what I’m feeling right now.

Whatever it is, I’m going to try my best to make this year a good year for me.

I’m crying writing this. I was very calm before this but I guess the effect sank in after 3 hours.

While on my way back home from work about 6:40pm, along LDP, just in front of IOI Business Park, one car was trying to get from the right to the left lane, the other from the left lane to the right and and they were cutting into the same lane at the same time.They tried to avoid one another, one car carried on driving while the other lost control, spinned and landed in the middle of the right lane. Unfortunately, I was the first oncoming car on the right lane and I braked so hard but still wasn’t able to stop in time. So, I crashed into her car.

The water tank or whatever it is called, burst. Front park kemek. Car registration plate broke into two but still hanging on the car. Breaks my heart really, just looking at my car. The other car, the driver’s door was dented, tyre a bit lari. Luckily, none of us was injured. But thinking back, if I would have drove faster, I guess it’ll be a totally different story, given the fact that the driver’s door was facing the direction of the oncoming cars. So if I would have drove at a higher speed, I don’t know if she will get hurt. Likewise, maybe I would be hurt too.

Both cars had to be on tow. Mine because the water tank burst. Hers is because of one of the tyres.

Another thing I felt grateful for was that coincidently, a guy who works at the car workshop was just behind me when the accident occured. Before I could even get down from the car while thinking to myself that why I have to be involved in an accident and why during Chinese New Year, he was already busy snapping photos of the cars. Introduced himself and said he could help me.

I really didn’t know what to do because this accident is different than my first minor accident. This happened on a highway and this accident is worse than the one I had back then, which seemed just like yesterday. You guys must be wondering why I’m always getting into an accident. I feel so myself even though this is the second time.

He was a witness also because he saw how the accident happened and told me it’s not my fault…but then I wouldn’t know if the law would say it’s not my fault. Anyway, he sent me to the nearest police station, brought me straight up to meet the Sergeant. Then, went down again to get my report done and then up again to meet the Sergeant. Most of the time, the guy did the talking and he seemed well-versed with all these procedures and stuff.

After making the police report, he sent me home and we talked a bit in the car. He asked me how I’m going to work tomorrow, why the first person I called immediately after the accident was my dad and not my boyfriend of which I replied, “I do not have a boyfriend so obviously I couldn’t call one.”

He laughed and replied saying, “Yea, relationships can be very complicated.”

He also asked why I looked so calm and said the other girl was so frightened. If I were the girl, I would be frightened too, imagine your car spinning and then you stop in the middle of the right lane and then you see Grace coming and knocking into you. Scary, kan?

I was surprised that I was calm too. I expected myself to be buried in tears at the accident scene. But I was just looking very cool and for a while there, I thought I had turned into a stone.

We forgot to take down the details of the other car owner so I just left a note on the windscreen as her car was still there by the roadside, hoping that she’ll give me a call. She smsed me and said she was sorry. I replied telling her it’s okay because I know she didn’t wish it to happen and it wasn’t entirely her fault. Shit happens. Accident happens.

I don’t have the energy to think or do anything tonight. I just want to go to bed, wake up the next morning and study the technicalities of car insurance and stuff like that. And as I’ve mentioned in my previous accident entry, after each car accident, we grow up.

I am thankful that there was someone to help me just now.

And I feel lucky that I’m still alive!

This is my first challenge in the Year of the Pig. Still cannot believe that I met with an accident, on my first day of work, after coming back from Sandakan, after a nice, long holiday.

Oh well, it started with a bang!