Of familiar face & delayed baggage
Hey peeps…
I’m now in Eatontown, New Jersey. Flew in on Monday night and it was a nightmare! Blardy hell, I had a connecting flight from Chicago’s O’Hare airport to Newark airport and my checked-in luggage got stuck at Chicago because of TSA (Transportation Security Administration) holding it up for closer inspection - wtf?!
I had my fair share of TSA (Tourette Syndrome Association) speak especially when my entire luggage was only filled with articles of clothing - the only thing metal inside the luggage was my belt buckle! Grrr! But nevertheless, it got in around 9 hours later, at 7am local time when I woke up to go to office. Realized that a plastic corner broke and the combination lock no longer works - *insert more TSA speak here*
Eatontown, NJ - quite a nice place - a suburb really. The weather’s nice, heck, any weather anywhere better than of Malaysia’s is nice. Had my first ever Philly Steak for lunch.. yummy..
I stopped by the mall last evening in order to get a padlock for my luggage case. Packed some dinner to go, and I went to call for a cab. While waiting for a cab, a chinese man of around 40 years old walked towards me. He was also waiting for a cab, and we got to talking - got to know that he’s Steven and he’s from Malaysia, Shah Alam specifically! What are the odds of meeting a fellow Malaysian in such a small suburb in the United States?! That was a pleasant surprise - we got to chat a lil bit about cars and all while waiting for the cab. We shared a cab since his destination was just a bit past the Red Roof Inn that I was staying in at Tinton Falls.
Alright - that’s all for now, tomorrow I’m headed for Ottawa, Canada for the weekend. I’ll blog again later…


September 15th, 2005 at 8:54 am
welcome to chicago o’hare, the source of all stress in US air travel. heh. did they make u take off your shoes at the security check?
maybe it’s got something to do with your luggage being bright orange in colour. I mean, the TSA ppl probably just needed a few bags to check, part of their routine, and they probably just went: ‘ohhh i dunno, let’s have that orange one.’ They can’t very well say that for black bags, right?
September 15th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
wooo hoooo…. malaysian… more specifically shah alam…. yeah…
September 24th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
Yo…. enjoy your stay there. ohoho Just dropping by. I just reached a civilization here.
September 30th, 2005 at 12:27 am
If the combination of your lock’s not working, how did you manage to get it open? Patiently try each number or just give it a full blow?
September 30th, 2005 at 12:55 am
loft,
in my case, the not working part is that it cannot be locked, it’s permanently unlocked.
i also did try patiently on each number, but that’s on my gf’s broken luggage case, broken laptop security cable… etc