Bear, Diah and Pasha

30 minutes

Posted on the January 18th, 2010 under Bear time by Papa Bear

So what can you get for a 30 minute stop at the Shah Alam bound Dengkil rest area? Read on…

I hate having to drive after lunch especially when it’s a long drive. I would get very sleepy behind the wheel and nothing could really keep me awake… Ngantuk giler! On the way back from the project EsPeeDee meeting at IPDA in PD, I only managed to drive as far as the Dengkil rest area before I started nodding a lot behind the steering. Macam cerita Noddy jadinya….

So, I pulled over…

Hand phone, sunglasses, branded watches for sale…

The first thing that happened as I parked the car, a man, who I noticed loitering at the parking area approached me and showed a Nokia phone. He was selling and I was not buying… As I looked around, there were at least another two moving around the parking lots approaching one vehicles after another…

I am sure that some of you might have been offered something by these fly-like people. I wonder if there were really anyone who would buy those things and I wonder where did those things come from in the first place… Anyway, I refused to trade with people who buzzes at parking lots… Terimakasih aje la…

Tea Time

I settled in at a kopitiam there. The name was D Toast or something… Lupa dah… I went over the menu looking for a cup of hot coffee and the waiter suggested me to try the Kluang coffee. So I did… I was not that hungry but just felt like munching something so I ordered a beef burger…

There you go. A nice clean place for a rest. A cup of black Kluang coffee. A beef burger. The food was nice and the price was… Well the coffee was a bit expensive at RM 2.20 a cup but the burger was okay at RM 2.80… Anyway, all in all, it was quite good…

Can’t you read?

Before I left, I saw a taxi parked at the disabled person parking bay. I have always thought that Malaysians have very little respect for the disabled and what I saw just affirmed it. When I look around, I saw at least another two bays reserved for the disables were taken by unthoughtful and selfish people…

What a shame…. Buta huruf kah dorang tu  eh?

Anyway, that was what I got for a 30 minute break…

Do You Want Flies With That?

Posted on the May 28th, 2009 under Life by Papa Bear

Do You Want Fries With That?

That would be one of the most asked questions at some fast food restaurants but that would not be the case if you are buying something to eat at the Machap rest area. Over there, the question would be: “Do you want flies with that?”

If you are travelling between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru on the NSE, you would not miss a rest area called the Machap R&R. Last week, while driving back from Johor Bahru to Shah Alam, we had the “luxury” of stopping over for a short break at this rest area . From the car, everything looked great as the rest area was recently renovated by PLUS.

They Are Everywhere!

However, once I stepped out of the car and went to one of the stalls there, I was greeted by hundreds of flies. While the few hundred of them were doing the welcome to rest area Machap song, there were few thousands other flies were busy “promoting” the food and goods for sale to travellers… What a sight!

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Update: 06-10-2008

Posted on the October 6th, 2008 under Blogging,Daily Living,Family by Papa Bear

Eid Mubarak, Salam Aidil Fitri, Salam Lebaran: This Raya has been mostly about driving here and there for my family and I. On the eve of Aidil Fitri, I drove to my office and then back to my house to pick up my wife and son and then we drove to Malacca to pick up my in-laws.

On the first day of Aidil Fitri, I drove to the mosque and then to Tesco, both in Shah Alam. On the second day, I drove to KL to pick up the MPV and then drove to Central Market looking for some buttons and then drove back to Shah Alam followed by a drive to Port Dickson for a picnic and then back to Shah Alam.