… was what I experienced today! 
Well, my dad’s DiGi postpaid line got barred coz of exceeding credit limit (pandai him of using it to call to Vietnam 
) so I had to travel down to KL Plaza’s DiGi Centre to make the payment. Left home at around 12 noon…
Was using the Federal Highway route, but shortly after passing the Jalan Tun Sambathan exit, got myself stuck in a not-so-bad traffic. It’s alright, coz I took a detour via the Jalan Kampung Attap exit towards Dewan Bahasa instead… however, that got me into an even bigger traffic jam before even reaching Dewan Bahasa… so I promptly swerved right towards Sungai Besi/Jalan Pudu direction instead…
And you’d think my nightmare was over by then… nope! Another traffic jam greeted me, this one so bad, I think in 10 minutes I only moved like 500 metres! Like that’s not bad enough, I saw the temperature went up to a dangerous level, so I took an U-turn back towards the Istana Negara…
In case you didn’t know, I’m actually quite blur when it comes to roads in KL - I’m rather a PJ/Subang kinda guy… so while I was driving towards Jalan Kuching I was frantically thinking of another route to the Golden Triangle area!
Realised that I could turn out after the Muzium Negara towards Dataran Merdeka. Made that turn and subsequently went into Jalan Tun Perak - luckily it was not so bad there… and from there I managed to reach Low Yat Plaza’s carpark without much trouble - in total it took me 1 hour 12 minutes (including going down till Basement 5 to park my car…)
Then I walked to KL Plaza, noticed that there’s a digital camera roadshow at the main concourse area - hmm, my Olympus Camedia C-750 Ultra Zoom is still retailing for RM 2,199 - it’s still a steal when I got it so many months back at RM 1,680!
Waited for my turn at the DiGi Centre to pay the bill, and then filled up a form to extend the credit limit of both my dad and my line (both are registered to me) to RM 400 instead - so that I don’t have to go thru the hassle of paying before I even get my monthly bill! Geez…
Walked around a bit but wasn’t in the mood for any xmas shopping since I am still quite broke… nevermind ler, cuci mata 
only ler. Went back to Low Yat Plaza while waited for Bee San to call me for lunch (she works at an office inside Lot 10 - lucky her! ).
Dropped by CyCom - my regular PC hardware shop in Low Yat to say hi to Ken and Wan (the bosses there) and went to get myself the XIII game on DVD format. Was trying to get Matchstick Men on DVD also, but was not available yet…
Bee San called, and we went for lunch at the little Japanese shop that serves okonomiyaki. This is my 2nd time there… nice !
For more details - see Huai Bin’s blog about it here - it has good explanation and pictures too!
After that, I sent Bee San home and we got ourselves stuck in a few more traffic jams… eek! No more travelling down to KL city on weekends for me! This is truly one thing that I would never miss while being in Timbuktu Nilai (another one would be free parking in Nilai! )
Tiring day behind the steering wheel… but at least the food I had was nice and the game I bought is really cool!
December 13th, 2004 at 2:36 pm
This is a query to “auyongtc”, I saw the your days experience on the 13th and I empathise. Is your quote right? “Then I walked to KL Plaza, noticed that there’s a digital camera roadshow at the main concourse area - hmm, my Olympus Camedia C-750 Ultra Zoom is still retailing for RM 2,199 - it’s still a steal when I got it so many months back at RM 1,680! ”
I am looking for camera, was at the road show and thought that prices expensive. Where do you recomment I go to get such a good deal like yours? Was that a typo or is it true?