After a two second growl, as normal, Trixie sprang out of bed this morning. Why? Well in her own words, “I’m really excited because I am going to Kidzania today.” Kidzania, so I am told, is a children’s activity place where little ones get the chance to role-play all sorts of different jobs. Trixie was buzzing with anticipation about going. More of her day later.
My day was somewhat dogged by technology again. At 8.20am, yesterday, the fourth laptop that I was given to use died and so I took it, once again, to the marvelous IT people at my school. The technician assured me that he would be able to fix it for me and that it would definitely be ready by 10.00am. At 4.15pm I phoned and was told by a different technician that technician number one had been called away to do something else. Could I come back again?
I went back again at 11.00am this morning and once again was told that it was not ready and was this time assured that it would be done by 2.00pm. Expecting that it would actually be three weeks next Thursday before laptop and I were united I was amazed when the machine in question was delivered to me smack on 2.00pm. It also worked, apart from the Outlook emails. The whole experience was a reassuring one though. Human beings are the same the world over. We often set ourselves ridiculous time targets that we know we haven’t got a hope of achieving, and Malaysia is no different.
On way to Gloria Jeans today I almost had a brush with The Law. As I exited GJs and walked the few yards to 7/11 a Police Car, with blue lights flashing, pulled up outside. An officer ambled in to 7/11 behind me and I began to fear the worst. I did my best to look inconspicuous and carried on buying my tube of mints while keeping a weather eye on the officer. It appeared that the officer was making for the top shelf of the magazine stand. His roving eyes looked along the shelf in question and finally stopped at a certain magazine that he fingered suspiciously. What was happening, thought I. Was this some sort of state sponsored crack down on subversive materials? Could it be an anti-pornography drive? Were there anti-Government pamphlets on the shelf that needed hunting out by the police? I looked at the officer carefully. He was studying a copy of Malaysian Motor Trader. A blue-light police raid on 7/11 so that one police officer could look for a new car.
Edwin has had a good day today. He spent most of the day making a stop motion film on an ipad at school and also managed to enjoy PE, gymnastics today, and a violin lesson. Not bad really. How school has moved on since I were a lad.
Trixie’s Kidzania day was also a big hit. The big news from the day of trying out different jobs was what happened at The Beauticians. Trixie was used as model by another girl in her class. She returned home looking like an Abba wannabe complete with shocking sky blue eye-shadow. Agnetha: eat your heart out.
Final bit of beauty news. We took Lexi’s car to Elegance Car Beautician again this evening for its irregular wash and vacuum out. As always an excellent job done for RM10. If a Proton Saga can be made to look elegant and beautiful then the lads at Elegance Car Beauticians really know how to do it.