A Journal from September, 17th, 2012
#Episode 1: Can I Borrow Your Money?
Time: 6 AM
Place: Puduraya Station, Kuala Lumpur
I was going to Surau. Suddenly, a guy stopped me.
Guy: "Kak, can i ask for your help?"
Me: "Sorry?"
Black Polo Shirt, Jeans, backpack, handphone with earphone. My eyes stared curiously to this strange creature in front. "What is he doing here?"
Guy: (glance at the handphone screen and speak doubtly) "I have to go to Perak at 8 and i don't have enough money."
Me: "Sorry." (smirk face)
"Huh. You think you can fool me? Big city liars!"
After 10 minutes..
"Stupid. Why don't you help him? Probably he really needs money. He doesn't look like a poor liar people. He looks more like a student who runs out of money."
In toilet:
"PLUNG!"
"AAAA! NOO!"
In Subuh Pray:
"Ya Allah Please help the guy. Hope he finds someone who lends him money. If not, i would be happy to help him, ya Allah."
I went downstairs and he wasn't there anymore.
#Episode 2: "Can I Borrow Your Phone?"
Time: 8 AM
Place: Bus Ticket Counter Puduraya Station
The counter hasn't opened yet. So i checked phone to text my friend. I was surprised with the condition. It's dead. Totally. I can't turn it on. Maybe it's running out of battery, i plugged it but still nothing happen. I was panic. It went into water just now. I took the sim card out. Today I'm gonna meet friends that i haven't met them before.
"Oh my, it's dead. How can i contact them?"
I looked around my surroundings. I was looking for someone to borrow the phone. There was a Kakak a.k.a woman accross my seat. I went to her place asking for help.
Me: "Kak. Can i borrow your phone? Mine is broken and i would like to call my friend."
(I offered my sim card to put inside her phone)
Kakak: "I'm currently using it."
Me: "Can i use it just for a while?
Kakak: "Could you please use the phone at counter?
Saya: "Is it allowed?"
Kakak: "Ask them."
I went to the counter ticket and noone was there. The Chinese guy at the back keep watching me. He was doing the same thing from the moment i asked the woman until that second. Before, he sat next to me and i'm sure he saw me trying to charge my phone. Maybe he could help. I walked to his place which is my previous seat.
Me: "Sorry, are you using the phone?"
Him: "No."
Me: "Can i borrow? Mine is off. I would like to call my friend."
Him: "Okay." (give the phone).
"Oh my, Chinese language. Okay just call Mutia."
Type Mutia's number...
Calling Mutia..
"Sorry the number you've dialed is out of service."
"Mailbox. No way."
Me: "Sorry could you please bring me to Contacts? I don't understand the language."
Him: "Okay."
Calling Gloria..
"Glo..............."
Me: "Ups, sorry i pressed wrong key. Could you please bring me back to contacts?"
Him: "I think i need to change the language into English."
Me: "Okay."
Calling Mutia again...
"Buti........................"
"Fiuh. Finally."
Me: "Thank you. Sorry my phone is broken."
Him: "Can't charge?"
Me: "Can't. It goes into water. Where are you going?"
Him: "I wanna go to Sungai Besi. You?"
Me: "I wanna go to KLCC to meet my friend. Okay, thank you."
Him: "Alright."
#Episode 3: "Are You From UUM?"
Time: 10 AM
Place: KLCC Park
This is the day when i will officialy meet friends from The Indonesian Student Association in Malaysia. Today is our first meeting and the good news is...my phone is dead. I haven't met them before. Not even once. I have never seen their faces. How can i know them? How do they know me? I have no idea. KLCC park is still empty at 10 AM. There are only few people around. I was walking to find the people that i wanna meet.
My feeling said that i should'nt go that way. Cuz there are some people with uniforms and each of them hold a piece of paper. It looks like they have a survey and i don't wanna be a part of it. But i trapped..already.
Survey Guy: "Sorry, can i have a few minutes of your time? Right now we have a small survey....."
...............................................................................................................................................................
Survey Guy: "Okay, thank you very much."
Me: "Your welcome. Anyway, can i borrow your phone?"
Survey Guy: "Oh, okay. But the audio is broken so use this external speaker."
Me: "Okay."
Calling Mutia.....
No Sound...
Me: "I can't hear any voices. what's wrong?"
Survey Guy: "Okay, let me try."
Survey Guy: "Oh, it was voice mail."
Me: "Oh."
Survey Guy: "Maybe you can go to public phone.
Me: "Here? Where?"
Survey Guy: "You see that guy? The security? He should know where is the public phone."
Me: "Okay. Thanks."
I walked to the Security but when i arrived he was gone. I was confuse what should i do. I saw the Dome Cafe in front of me. "This cafe must have wi-fi", i think. So i can connect to internet and email Yunus, the head of organization. I looked at the menu price and chose the cheapest one, Heavenly Scone, RM 7.90.
Me: "Sorry, do you have wi-fi here?"
Waiter: "Yes."
Me:"Can i have one Heavenly Scone?"
Waiter: "Okay."
Me:"What's the password of wi-fi?"
Waiter: "Okay, wait."
I opened my laptop and it's out of battery. It is also can't connect to the internet.I was looking for a plug.
Me: "Excuse me, where is the plug?"
Waiter: "Inside."
Me: "Okay."
I charged my laptop. I tried again to connect to internet but still can't. I was desperate. 8 ringgit is gone and i got nothing. I decided to take the food away since i was fasting. And i also asked the waiter to check the wi-fi.
The waiter was putting the food utensils when i ask him to wrap it.
Me: "Sorry, can i take it away?"
Waiter: "Oh, okay."
Me: "Do you have the wi-fi here? I can't connect to the internet."
Waiter: "Okay, i will check."
10 minutes later..
Waiter: "Miss, i have checked but it's normal. Nothing wrong."
Me: "(long sigh) Okay."
I was so confuse what should i do. I can't connect to internet and my phone is dead. How do they know me? I hope Mutia have passed the message already so they can recognize me from the appeareance. My feeling said that i should go out now cuz they are looking for me. So i asked the bill and gave the money to waiter. Oh ya, i gave the tip as well ;)
Outside Dome
I just walked out from Dome when two guys asked me the question that made me relieved, "Are you from UUM?"
I nodded and smiled.
Guys: "The meeting is over there."
Me: "Okay."
I smiled widely along the way.
#Episode 4. "I Am Indonesian As Well" (Part 1)
Time: 3 PM
Place: KLCC Food Court
The meeting was over. It's time to charge the body. KLCC Food court is full of people. It's hard to find the seat. We arrived at the chairs with few of them are empty. A Chinese man sat on one of the chairs. We were looking for other empty ones. But suddenly this man spoke..
Chinese Man: "Indonesian?"
Us: "Yes."
Chinese Man: "Oh, i am Indonesian as well. I'm from Tanjung Pinang."
Yunus: "Oh, i see.:
Chinese Man: "Don't worry. All of them who sit here are from Indonesia. I just wait them for a while and we'll go." (show the four seats)
Yunus: "Okay." (smiling)
Zaki: "Hey Sir, i'm from Riau."
Chinese Man: "Oh, haha."
The Chinese man met his wife and they talked in Chinese. They don't look like Indonesians, totally. Their appereances and languages makes them look different. I saw their shopping bags, they bought many things. They must be a rich family.
Chinese Man: "Okay, gotta go! Bye!"
Us: "Bye!"
#Episode 5. "I Am Indonesian As Well" (Part 2)
Time: 10 PM
Place: Hang Tuah Train Station
I was waiting for train to Puduraya Station (Plaza Rakyat) when an old man asked me: "Is this train go to Ampang Park?"
Me: "No. This goes to Ampang Line. Ampang Park is in Kelana Jaya Line."
Old Man: "Oh. Really? I asked the staff up there she said that i can go from here."
Me: "Yeah. You can go from Masjid Jamek."
Apparently, he was with a friend, a woman.
Woman: "Yeah, we are confuse. We said that we wanna go to Ampang Park. But it's Ampang not Ampang Park."
Me: "Yeah, it's different. No, it's okay you can go from here just get off at Masjid Jamek and take train to Kelana Jaya Line."
Woman and Old man: "Mm-hmm."
Ampang Park is the place for Indonesian Embassy. I was thinking maybe they wanna go to embassy. And.. they look like a real Indonesian. A simple clothes colored with grey and white belonged to the confuse old man. He brings a backpack and a "Peci" on his head. The woman is typically Indonesian workers with work uniform and make up.
Me: "Sir, what do you wanna do in Ampang Park?"
Old Man: " I wanna go to Indonesian Embassy."
Me: "I'm Indonesian as well."
Woman: "Which part of Indonesia?"
Me: "Jakarta."
Woman: "Mmm."
"What is he wanna do at embassy in this late night?"
Me: "Do you wanna sleep there, Sir?
Old Man: "Yes. I am afraid that i won't get the number."
The train is coming. We go inside the train.
Conversation running on mind: "No way. This is so pity. An old man got lost in LRT Station. He wants to go to embassy and sleeps there. He doesn't have place to stay. The worst, he is Indonesian. One of the most beautiful and the richest country in the world. A home for almost 259 million people. A country that i miss and long for. He must be one of the unfortunate Indonesian workers."
I saw the LRT line and told the woman to get off at Masjid Jamek. My destination is arrived: Plaza Rakyat. I
jumped off the train. The Old Man has followed me before the Woman screamed to him, "No. Not here."
So from the door of train i spoke to him with the loud voice and body language:
Me: Sir, you get at off at Masjid Jamek and from there you go to Kelana Jaya Line and stop in Ampang Park.
Old man: "Okay." (nodded)
I'm going home with mixed feelings.
------------------------------------------ ;) ;) ;) -------------------------------------------------------------
Lessons learned:
Lesson 1: Pocket is not a good place to put your handphone when you go to toilet.
Lesson 2: Lowyat entrance is on Ground floor. Do not go to other way.
Lesson 3: Do not torture yourself to bring heavy laptop and stuffs just for one day travel.
Lesson 4: Sometimes there are real strangers who need help and those who don't.
Strangers Episodes will be back soon! x)
Stranger is Everywhere,
Chandini
#Episode 1: Can I Borrow Your Money?
Time: 6 AM
Place: Puduraya Station, Kuala Lumpur
I was going to Surau. Suddenly, a guy stopped me.
Guy: "Kak, can i ask for your help?"
Me: "Sorry?"
Black Polo Shirt, Jeans, backpack, handphone with earphone. My eyes stared curiously to this strange creature in front. "What is he doing here?"
Guy: (glance at the handphone screen and speak doubtly) "I have to go to Perak at 8 and i don't have enough money."
Me: "Sorry." (smirk face)
"Huh. You think you can fool me? Big city liars!"
After 10 minutes..
"Stupid. Why don't you help him? Probably he really needs money. He doesn't look like a poor liar people. He looks more like a student who runs out of money."
In toilet:
"PLUNG!"
"AAAA! NOO!"
In Subuh Pray:
"Ya Allah Please help the guy. Hope he finds someone who lends him money. If not, i would be happy to help him, ya Allah."
I went downstairs and he wasn't there anymore.
#Episode 2: "Can I Borrow Your Phone?"
Time: 8 AM
Place: Bus Ticket Counter Puduraya Station
The counter hasn't opened yet. So i checked phone to text my friend. I was surprised with the condition. It's dead. Totally. I can't turn it on. Maybe it's running out of battery, i plugged it but still nothing happen. I was panic. It went into water just now. I took the sim card out. Today I'm gonna meet friends that i haven't met them before.
"Oh my, it's dead. How can i contact them?"
I looked around my surroundings. I was looking for someone to borrow the phone. There was a Kakak a.k.a woman accross my seat. I went to her place asking for help.
Me: "Kak. Can i borrow your phone? Mine is broken and i would like to call my friend."
(I offered my sim card to put inside her phone)
Kakak: "I'm currently using it."
Me: "Can i use it just for a while?
Kakak: "Could you please use the phone at counter?
Saya: "Is it allowed?"
Kakak: "Ask them."
I went to the counter ticket and noone was there. The Chinese guy at the back keep watching me. He was doing the same thing from the moment i asked the woman until that second. Before, he sat next to me and i'm sure he saw me trying to charge my phone. Maybe he could help. I walked to his place which is my previous seat.
Me: "Sorry, are you using the phone?"
Him: "No."
Me: "Can i borrow? Mine is off. I would like to call my friend."
Him: "Okay." (give the phone).
"Oh my, Chinese language. Okay just call Mutia."
Type Mutia's number...
Calling Mutia..
"Sorry the number you've dialed is out of service."
"Mailbox. No way."
Me: "Sorry could you please bring me to Contacts? I don't understand the language."
Him: "Okay."
Calling Gloria..
"Glo..............."
Me: "Ups, sorry i pressed wrong key. Could you please bring me back to contacts?"
Him: "I think i need to change the language into English."
Me: "Okay."
Calling Mutia again...
"Buti........................"
"Fiuh. Finally."
Me: "Thank you. Sorry my phone is broken."
Him: "Can't charge?"
Me: "Can't. It goes into water. Where are you going?"
Him: "I wanna go to Sungai Besi. You?"
Me: "I wanna go to KLCC to meet my friend. Okay, thank you."
Him: "Alright."
#Episode 3: "Are You From UUM?"
Time: 10 AM
Place: KLCC Park
This is the day when i will officialy meet friends from The Indonesian Student Association in Malaysia. Today is our first meeting and the good news is...my phone is dead. I haven't met them before. Not even once. I have never seen their faces. How can i know them? How do they know me? I have no idea. KLCC park is still empty at 10 AM. There are only few people around. I was walking to find the people that i wanna meet.
My feeling said that i should'nt go that way. Cuz there are some people with uniforms and each of them hold a piece of paper. It looks like they have a survey and i don't wanna be a part of it. But i trapped..already.
Survey Guy: "Sorry, can i have a few minutes of your time? Right now we have a small survey....."
...............................................................................................................................................................
Survey Guy: "Okay, thank you very much."
Me: "Your welcome. Anyway, can i borrow your phone?"
Survey Guy: "Oh, okay. But the audio is broken so use this external speaker."
Me: "Okay."
Calling Mutia.....
No Sound...
Me: "I can't hear any voices. what's wrong?"
Survey Guy: "Okay, let me try."
Survey Guy: "Oh, it was voice mail."
Me: "Oh."
Survey Guy: "Maybe you can go to public phone.
Me: "Here? Where?"
Survey Guy: "You see that guy? The security? He should know where is the public phone."
Me: "Okay. Thanks."
I walked to the Security but when i arrived he was gone. I was confuse what should i do. I saw the Dome Cafe in front of me. "This cafe must have wi-fi", i think. So i can connect to internet and email Yunus, the head of organization. I looked at the menu price and chose the cheapest one, Heavenly Scone, RM 7.90.
Me: "Sorry, do you have wi-fi here?"
Waiter: "Yes."
Me:"Can i have one Heavenly Scone?"
Waiter: "Okay."
Me:"What's the password of wi-fi?"
Waiter: "Okay, wait."
I opened my laptop and it's out of battery. It is also can't connect to the internet.I was looking for a plug.
Me: "Excuse me, where is the plug?"
Waiter: "Inside."
Me: "Okay."
I charged my laptop. I tried again to connect to internet but still can't. I was desperate. 8 ringgit is gone and i got nothing. I decided to take the food away since i was fasting. And i also asked the waiter to check the wi-fi.
The waiter was putting the food utensils when i ask him to wrap it.
Me: "Sorry, can i take it away?"
Waiter: "Oh, okay."
Me: "Do you have the wi-fi here? I can't connect to the internet."
Waiter: "Okay, i will check."
10 minutes later..
Waiter: "Miss, i have checked but it's normal. Nothing wrong."
Me: "(long sigh) Okay."
I was so confuse what should i do. I can't connect to internet and my phone is dead. How do they know me? I hope Mutia have passed the message already so they can recognize me from the appeareance. My feeling said that i should go out now cuz they are looking for me. So i asked the bill and gave the money to waiter. Oh ya, i gave the tip as well ;)
Outside Dome
I just walked out from Dome when two guys asked me the question that made me relieved, "Are you from UUM?"
I nodded and smiled.
Guys: "The meeting is over there."
Me: "Okay."
I smiled widely along the way.
#Episode 4. "I Am Indonesian As Well" (Part 1)
Time: 3 PM
Place: KLCC Food Court
The meeting was over. It's time to charge the body. KLCC Food court is full of people. It's hard to find the seat. We arrived at the chairs with few of them are empty. A Chinese man sat on one of the chairs. We were looking for other empty ones. But suddenly this man spoke..
Chinese Man: "Indonesian?"
Us: "Yes."
Chinese Man: "Oh, i am Indonesian as well. I'm from Tanjung Pinang."
Yunus: "Oh, i see.:
Chinese Man: "Don't worry. All of them who sit here are from Indonesia. I just wait them for a while and we'll go." (show the four seats)
Yunus: "Okay." (smiling)
Zaki: "Hey Sir, i'm from Riau."
Chinese Man: "Oh, haha."
The Chinese man met his wife and they talked in Chinese. They don't look like Indonesians, totally. Their appereances and languages makes them look different. I saw their shopping bags, they bought many things. They must be a rich family.
Chinese Man: "Okay, gotta go! Bye!"
Us: "Bye!"
#Episode 5. "I Am Indonesian As Well" (Part 2)
Time: 10 PM
Place: Hang Tuah Train Station
I was waiting for train to Puduraya Station (Plaza Rakyat) when an old man asked me: "Is this train go to Ampang Park?"
Me: "No. This goes to Ampang Line. Ampang Park is in Kelana Jaya Line."
Old Man: "Oh. Really? I asked the staff up there she said that i can go from here."
Me: "Yeah. You can go from Masjid Jamek."
Apparently, he was with a friend, a woman.
Woman: "Yeah, we are confuse. We said that we wanna go to Ampang Park. But it's Ampang not Ampang Park."
Me: "Yeah, it's different. No, it's okay you can go from here just get off at Masjid Jamek and take train to Kelana Jaya Line."
Woman and Old man: "Mm-hmm."
Ampang Park is the place for Indonesian Embassy. I was thinking maybe they wanna go to embassy. And.. they look like a real Indonesian. A simple clothes colored with grey and white belonged to the confuse old man. He brings a backpack and a "Peci" on his head. The woman is typically Indonesian workers with work uniform and make up.
Me: "Sir, what do you wanna do in Ampang Park?"
Old Man: " I wanna go to Indonesian Embassy."
Me: "I'm Indonesian as well."
Woman: "Which part of Indonesia?"
Me: "Jakarta."
Woman: "Mmm."
"What is he wanna do at embassy in this late night?"
Me: "Do you wanna sleep there, Sir?
Old Man: "Yes. I am afraid that i won't get the number."
The train is coming. We go inside the train.
Conversation running on mind: "No way. This is so pity. An old man got lost in LRT Station. He wants to go to embassy and sleeps there. He doesn't have place to stay. The worst, he is Indonesian. One of the most beautiful and the richest country in the world. A home for almost 259 million people. A country that i miss and long for. He must be one of the unfortunate Indonesian workers."
I saw the LRT line and told the woman to get off at Masjid Jamek. My destination is arrived: Plaza Rakyat. I
jumped off the train. The Old Man has followed me before the Woman screamed to him, "No. Not here."
So from the door of train i spoke to him with the loud voice and body language:
Me: Sir, you get at off at Masjid Jamek and from there you go to Kelana Jaya Line and stop in Ampang Park.
Old man: "Okay." (nodded)
I'm going home with mixed feelings.
------------------------------------------ ;) ;) ;) -------------------------------------------------------------
Lessons learned:
Lesson 1: Pocket is not a good place to put your handphone when you go to toilet.
Lesson 2: Lowyat entrance is on Ground floor. Do not go to other way.
Lesson 3: Do not torture yourself to bring heavy laptop and stuffs just for one day travel.
Lesson 4: Sometimes there are real strangers who need help and those who don't.
Strangers Episodes will be back soon! x)
Stranger is Everywhere,
Chandini
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