emotional v.s rational thinking
So I confronted the problem with the car with my emotions instead of thinking rationally. Last Friday morning when the car won’t start, I didn’t want to call the Proton workshop because I was still disapointed with their service the day before, making us wait for 3.5 hours with no result and I could also blame them for making the battery low. Eventually I called the alarm workshop and the person who received my phone said that she will inform the mechanic and the mechanic will call me back (but he never did).
On Friday afternoon, me, Radit, Happy & Ditha went to KLCC. First we had lunch at the Asian Flavor food court because the children were starving. Then, our next destination was the money changer where I usually send money to Indonesia at Wisma Central. Unfortunately it was raining hard outside, so we decided to wait for the rain while cruising around Isetan that was on sale. In the children section, we met Ivy (please forgive my rudeness for not recognising you because you look different !). Ivy was very eager calling at me while I was in confusion and trying hard to remember the face.. I’m so sorry… (Ivy, I made my promise to mention our ‘reunion’ in my journal ..hehe..)
Ivy and her family was on holiday from Miri (saba kota..hehe..) Her two daughters were playing with Ivy’s friend while Ivy was cruising around and her husband was waiting patiently ..wow.. how wonderful ! When her children came, they went running around with Radit & Ditha until suddenly Radit came to me sobbing that he lost one of his cars, when it was actually just misplaced and Ditha came holding the car.
Afterwards we tried to cross to Wisma Central again, but it was still raining. So Happy bought a big umbrella (sorry, I don’t want to buy any umbrella because we already have 3 big umbrellas at home) and we went to Wisma Central to transfer money to Indonesia. Happy said that the rate was better compared to Western Union.
Then we went back to KLCC because the children still wanted to play, they were disapointed that they could not go to the playground due to the rain. So they played inside Isetan in the toy section where there were trains etc. that you can play around with. Radit & Ditha were enjoying their time there that me and Happy decided to leave them there while we walked around the mall doing some window shopping and actual shopping ..hehe.. every time we went back to see how our children were doing, they were still playing around and didn’t seem to miss us. It was getting late, but if we tried to go home by LRT it will be very crowded, so we decided to wait for Harry who arrived at 8 o’clock and easily got the children out of the toy sections then we went home by taxi.
When we arrived home, 6 bottles of mineral water were put in front of the door. No, not again ! The last time I ordered mineral water was when the Waslam Family were coming to visit, and when the delivery men arrived, me and Radit were caught in a traffic jam somewhere around KLCC. This morning I did order for water and as usual the lady who received my call said that they would probably send the water on Monday, so I thought that they were coming on Monday, but it seems that that they came while we were still at KLCC. So now we have 12 empty bottles and 6 fully-filled bottles and we haven’t paid for 12 bottles. I guess I’ll just have to go and return the bottles myself while paying.
On Saturday and Sunday, while Frieza was still offshore, me and Radit stayed home, both feeling unhealthy. Radit threw-up during Saturday night and Sunday morning and had a fever. I caught the flu from Radit because we slept together while Frieza is away. It was quite a miserable weekend.
On Monday morning, feeling better and could think rationally, I called the Proton workshop and the mechanic came with a spare battery to replace temporarily our low battery. After Radit came back from school, we went to the alarm workshop to have the alarm unit replaced with a new set because the previous one broke down. The mechanic in the alarm workshop said that there was a leak under the driver’s seat that caused the alarm to break down so me and Radit went back to the Proton workshop to have the car examined, but the mechanic there didn’t find any leak. Oh, well… at least the car is now running and the alarm in function. So that night we could pick-up Frieza at KLIA.
I knew that the car problem could have been fixed on Friday if I was thinking rationally then, but, hey.. now it’s fixed and I can do it !
although… the story continues….
On Wednesday morning, Frieza decided to take the car to the office because he had to return his safety shoes and helmet and yesterday (Tuesday) he had to go all the way to Terminal Putra, hoping that the LRT would be less crowded there but he was wrong so he ended up late getting to the office.
But around five minutes after he went down to the car, he went back up saying that he couldn’t open the car using the alarm remote and when he tried opening the door manually, the alarm was not on. So he just took the car to the office and said nothing happened except on the way home when he was filling up the gas, suddenly the alarm went on by itself and turned off again within 10 seconds. So, the alarm problem is not settled yet..
On Thursday, Frieza took the day off because he was working during last weekend. He went to the Proton workshop to do the routine service and after lunch we went to the alarm workshop. It seems that the alarm unit broke down again because of the leak under the driver’s seat and they refused to replace it again if the leak problem is not fixed.
Frieza called our Proton sales agent, Josephine, to complain, and she said that she will settle the problem by taking the car to the big workshop in Damansara. But that will not be done until Monday. In order for the alarm to not go on and off by itself, the alarm mechanic took off the alarm fuse and now we’re using an alarm-less car.
One funny thing, we noticed that most of the cars in the alarm workshop was also Proton Gen-2, which made us thinking, was there a defect during manufacturing that many cars of the same type have the same problems ? We could only wonder and see what happens on Monday.
