Just came back from a work assignment in Ipoh yesterday...
Ipoh + me = not compatible, maybe? Let me count the ways...
The trip up to Ipoh on Wednesday was quite uneventful - no embarassing narcolepsy moments, lolz! Perhaps I've been getting enough sleep lately since I've been feeling under the weather, bordering to actually falling sick, for the past couple of weeks already... (To sidetrack, it's actually amazing that I've not actually fallen sick since everyone else around me have been succumbing to a bug or two!)
By the end of my work assignment on Wednesday, I was already starting to feel ill. I was looking forward to getting back, getting some rest and preparing for another work assignment the next day (Thursday) before making the trip back to KL. I got back to where I was staying, looked down and discovered that I was wearing slippers that did not belong to me - I forgot to change back to my shoes, which I had to remove to put on the slippers, as per the requirement of the place I went to. =.=" So, had to go all the way back to swap shoes, sighz... It didn't help that I was already having a splitting headache and felt like throwing up. (It was good that my parents accompanied me to Ipoh, so I didn't have to do the driving back to retrieve my forgotten shoes)
Sadly, the state I was in made the delicious dinner laid out before me quite unbearable indeed... sigh... Gotta try that claypot rice place again next time - if I can manage to find the place on my own, that is... grrr...
The good thing about Ipoh, however, is the lack of traffic jams, haha! So, the next morning, I could sleep in a bit more before having to head out to work. Had a very delicious nasi lemak breakfast at Simpang Pulai on the way... Had quite a ferocious appetite since I barely ate the night before, haha!
After ending my work assignment, the company offered to take me out for a late lunch. Got into the car, unknowing that I was about to be molested... gah! Here's a picture *shudder* of the culprit:
Erm, what were you thinking, har? This not disgusting enough meh? Eewww... *shudder* This is the account of what happened:
Got into the car and after a bit of the way towards the lunch location, I felt a tad bit uncomfortable. Thinking it was probably a bra strap that got twisted, I discreetly attempted to straighten it while talking to my hosts. Oddly, it seemed to have worsened the situation - now I felt something wriggling in my shirt!! Since I was wearing a cap-sleeved work shirt, I summoned my discreet abilities to reach in and pull out what I thought then was a worm (although I had no clue how it was possible for a worm to find its way into my shirt!). It was still wriggling as I pulled it out - the tail of a lizard!!! How gross, I thought, that the detached, wriggling tail could fall into my shirt - perhaps a lizard got spooked when I got into the car!
Oh, but wait, there's more surprises to come!! I was already distracted and wrapped up in the sheer disgust from discovering the wriggling tail, I tuned off from the conversation as I stared blankly at the tail as it wriggled through the crack of the car door. Thinking it was the end of my harrowing experience, I wondered why I was still feeling uncomfortable. It took me like a whole TWO seconds later before I considered that the discomfort could be due to the other half of our friend, the
cicak (
Malay for "gecko"). My eyes widened as I shook my shirt about, forgetting about being discreet anymore at this point, and true enough, out pops the other half!! =.=" *faints* Surprisingly, neither of my hosts seemed to have noticed my panic - or maybe they were being courteous?
Thank God, no more surprises after that and I had a good lunch. However, I was haunted by harrowing deja vu moments of the
cicak incident throughout my drive back to KL, which became even longer than expected as it was raining quite heavily at some stretches of the highway...
I was glad to be home, though, where the
cicak keep to themselves!! ^^
