Microsoft TechEd – Taxi ride to Sol Melia Hotel Part II
microsoft, teched, techedsea2007 September 21st, 2007Our taxi driver… lets call him Samy, wookay… from the start, he was already stressful… we tried to start a conversation, but Samy seems to be concentrating at the major traffic jam. He was squeezing through at every opportunity (photo at the bottom). He was doing more stunts after receiving a call… he was speaking in Tamil, so we don’t know what the conversation was about… the call did made him doing more stunts… I know KL drivers do a lot of stunts… but Samy is doing more… hongking at every car although he was at the wrong… but thanks to him, we arrived at the hotel quicker, we arrived at the hotel around 2.30pm… wow 40 minutes journey… donno how late we will be if Samy wasn’t doing his stunts…
Hotel said, room not ready… o mannn… I made the reservation a month ago and it’s not ready yet!.. I did ask for non-smoking room… the lady said it will be ready in 40 minutes… we ask them to keep our bag and went for foods!!! The only food I have since morning are the $10 breakfast and the rice on the aircraft.
We walk to Low Yat Plaza and straight to the food court. We landed at Kopi Club… ordered our food… and the service was so slow… after the food, we went back to the hotel… I needed a rest badly. Check with the counter, they not sure what is our room… damm… the lady is gone… now new shift I guess… they dig their documents and found my registration… then told us, they need another 10 minutes to find out if our room is ready… waited at the lounge… at last got our room… room 417.
Stayed here in early January this year… Royale Bintang Hotel.
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To be continued…
September 21st, 2007 at 9:51 am
room 417 alright…not scam 417 hehe
u lucky to have Samy breaking all the traffic laws…
Consider mine 2 years ago…a sleepy and overworked old man taxidriver almost slept while on the steering wheel doing 120 kmph on the fast lane along the KLIA highway. I was alert and grabbed the steering wheel…Scary experience…
since then Rapid Express all the way from now on…
September 23rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
419 scam bah….
Earlier this year, my taxi driver did not know how to reach my (very high profile) destination. All the other taxi drivers knew it, why shouldn’t he???
I myself almost slept not once but 3 TIMES on the KL – Ipoh highway more than 10 years back while doing 120-130kmh. I was driving alone back to Ipoh after a conference at KL. Even after sleeping for a while at 2 R&R stations and consuming extremely bitter superstrong coffee, STILL sleepy. I almost grazed the barrier once and was out of lane at least 2 times. Lucky I made it to Ipoh…
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:33 pm
wow… both of you got scary experience there lah… lucky mine is more on the exciting experience… LOL