Mr Vincent the Part-Time Cab Driver who Used to Work in Australia

Went to One Utama today but not before stopping by Sunway and completing The Sunway Experience by sleeping in one of the condo beds. After a while of "touring" through the college and condo, it got rather painful to be taking in everything that we were missing in Sunway. It can be summed up in one word: Beautiful.

As opposed to IMU. HAHAH!

We, being Steph and I, took a cab from the condo to One Utama. He went by the meter and said he was a Christian and he wouldn't be able to sleep with himself at night if he cheated his customers by not using the meter and overcharging them. Seemed like an honest, family-oriented man. He said he lived in Sri Petaling, then he gave us his card and number saying if we ever needed a ride, he'd help us out if he was in the area so we wouldn't have to deal with the unscrupulous cabbies who overcharged.

We made more small talk. Talked about how he was doing two jobs to send his Form 5 kid to college next year. Apparently her name is Yvonne and she works part-time at the cyber cafe on the 2nd floor of Carrefour. Interesting. I might just check that out one day. So, anyway, he told us to call him up when we were done at One Utama so he could give us a ride home to Vista.

So we did that. And the ride home was really one whole eye-opening, thought-pondering, i-see-the-way-now lecture on life. Politics, corruption, work, family. This guy is good. He worked in Australia in marketing and now he's a cabbie driver in KL. That's one thing I don't get. I know he said that although the living standards in Australia was better, he missed his family back in KL so he came back to be with them. Such a sweet dad. Well, anyway, the thing I don't understand is why with his good English and mindset, he couldn't get a better job than this. He's definitely an educated man.

He set things into perspective. "Once you're done studying and start working, get ready to join the rat race of living a good life." He told us studying would be the easiest time in our lives and we better appreciate our parents for working hard to send us to uni and all cuz the working life is hard just trying to make things work.

He really opened new thoughts to ponder about. Don't think I'd be able to list all of them down. Needless to say, those two taxi rides were the most interesting I've ever been on. Hahah.

Somewhere on the way home, I began to realise how self-oriented I really was. Thought I should try to become a little more selfless. Have any of you ever disliked somebody because of some negative flaw in his character as a person, be it his uncontrollable narcissism or his selfishness or asshole-ness, and then realise later that that person reminds you of your own self and that that was the only reason you disliked that person? I have. Lots of times, in fact. And maybe I've accepted that I don't like it when other people remind me of myself in my worst habit of character. I wonder why.

I'd really like to continue rambling bout the complexities of life and the human mind but I need to start on me leaflet presentation. It's due tomorrow, 8.30am. And now Kah Wei is asking me for "salad sauce" and I'm wondering if that's what it's really called.

Ah, yes, "dressing" is the word. Right...