Saturday, November 25, 2006

Being Helpful

I was at on KTM on my way back home from Subang Jaya. My mind wandered around. It was blurred for awhile. The Malay guy with long hair sitting next to me; his phone rang. I heard, 'dan mungkin bila nanti, kita akan bertemu lagi.' It was his SMS tone, he has got SMS. For a sudden I wanted to sing and listen to that song. 'Mungkin Bila Nanti' by Peterpan, a band from Indonesia.

I was holding a book which I wanted to do for my OS research, 'Multiprocessor System Architectures: A Technical Survey of Multiprocessor/Multithreaded Systems using SPARC®, Multilevel Bus Architectures and Solaris® (SunOS™)' by Ben Catanzaro. I opened the book at its first chapter. I wandered away. I was feeling tired, too tired to read such a technical book at that moment. It was evening, reaching 6pm.

I then turned to my tiny bag, which holds some of my belongings, such as my water bottle, my headset for my W800i, some kacang-putehs... Aha! My headset! I patiently untangled the wires, which I wondered why it is always tangled, plugged it in to my W800i, and listened to my favourite tunes. I wanted to play that song, but I saw my favourite song paused on playing, 'Loveletter' by 2Shai, a Korean band. This song is not so famous, but I think it was featured in some Korean drama. I got the song from an old friends, which has been my favourite since then. Very nice bass and nice vocal. I don't understand the song though.

I sat comfortably on the train, did not really notice my surroundings, and I listened to the songs. I saw MidValley through the windows, and it was reaching to Angkasapuri station. Its time for me to get ready to change to the Seremban-Rawang line to go home. I switched my focus back to my music, and slowly I got drowsy...

I was woken by a lady speaking fluent Chinese, and asking me direction, when the door opens at KL Sentral station. '请问去蕉赖马鲁丽是这里下车吗?' she asked.

Turn out she is a Chinese Medicine Practitioner, or a doctor in short who is serving in Malaysia for awhile. She is from Harbin, China. Interesting. Hehe...

Just to remind myself that I have helped someone here.

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