Last Saturday, 29 May 2010, Burnout 360 Sabah Drift Challenge was held at the Kota Kinabalu Port, next to Jeselton Point. The event was organized by Casero Events in collaborations with KK D1 Club and jointly co-organized by  Dewan Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu and supported by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Environment and Ministry of Youth & Sports.

Entrance fee was RM15.00… not a problem if the show was an explosive… and the entrance gate is unbelievable… it was just a cut out of the fence… How on earth did DBKK allow this?… can’t they just put a proper gate there??? Anyway, it says shows from 8AM – Midnight… but too bad, I… we… feel conned… went there with 2 friends around 11AM… was hoping on that time, the drift show will be steaming ahead… but nothing going on except for some Volkswagen car displays and car audio show…

From time to time, a car will screech around on the track… but nothing spectacular… we got bored and steaming from the sun heat which is more like body fat burner… the next few days I have to bear the sunburn… and this is the darkest skin I ever have… well it was from the paintball game the week before and made worse by this event…

Then we found out the actual show will be held at 4PM!!!… since it is already around 1PM, and except for one stall selling drinks and some foods… we decided to eat outside the area… and we end up at the Cock & Bull Cafe (Bar – Gourmet – Asian Cuisine – Music)… and I had grilled salmon. Then it rains heavily… and we went back to the track around 3PM… around 4PM, still nothing happen except for some competition results at the main stage hosted by DJ Othoe… Then Othoe announced that the drift competition will start at 6PM!!! Damm… we wanted to go home… but decided to stay since we have waited since 11AM… come 6PM still nothing… only around 6.30PM the shows started… but it was already dark… and nothing to see much… so we decided to go home around 7PM…

I hope, in future, when events like this are organized… put as 8AM – Midnight… the organizer will not be so stingy or poor enough to print a show schedule on a piece of A3 paper and put it at the entrance… so that the spectator can arrange their time when to come… we have no problem paying the RM15… but don’t tell me you can’t print a show schedule on a piece of A3 paper with RM15…

Thinking that it will be difficult to get parking near the DBKK HQ office at KK, I decided to try the DBKK’s One Stop Payment Center at Luyang.

I pick my friend at Damai and headed to the one stop payment center. I missed the junction… the only junction to the center from the main road. But lucky there is some space for cars at the side right of the main road in front of the center.

I stopped my car there and proceeded to the center… but it looks deserted. I try to open the door but it was locked. I look at the signboard… Ooo no… it open up to 12.00 pm only… and the time was 12.30 pm… Ooo well… that mean I have to go to its HQ… about 5 km away.

When we reach KK, I was lucky to find an empty parking space in front of DBKK HQ office… that was cool… I went into the office and was greeted by an officer, probably the information desk officer. I was here about 5 years ago… if I’m not mistaken… the place looks very different now.

The officer approached me and asks if I need any assistant… emm… weird… instead of me going to his desk and enquire, he approached me and gave assistant… maybe it’s the new way DBKK handling their customers… OK, that’s good.

I told him I came to pay my ‘hutang’ jokingly as usual… He guided me to counter number 4… all the counter are vacant… I mean no customer… except counter 4 but a lady, customer I guess, just finished her business there.

I told the lady at the counter I came to pay my ‘hutang coz my house is going to be locked by DBKK’ jokingly… I gave her my receipt which I received through mail a few days ago. Both of them are very friendly and laughing with my ‘jokes’… hahahaha…

‘Wow so much…’ she said… then I replied jokingly… ‘Got discount kah?… Hari Kebangsaan discount kah?.. Give lah 50%…’

She replied ‘got’ but not much… so instead of paying RM1,153.40, I only pay RM1011.60… woohooo…. I got RM141.80 discount… LOL

While waiting for my discount calculated, I noticed others have to get a queue number… but I did not, I was guided straight to the counter… wow this is my lucky day… or izzit I look like a reporter or ‘taukey ikan’ maybe… wearing 3/4 Camel cargo pants and carrying backpack at my back…

After paying my house assessment, we headed for lunch at Mint, a Vietnamese restaurant, about 600m from the DBKK. I was getting slight headache coz I did not take my breakfast

Then I spend the rest of my day playing games… instead of studying for my MCSE exam… which was postponed again