| | Today (10th) was a total chaos. I was at work and in the middle of watching through some tapes for editing in the mini studio, which is on the 1st floor, the fire alarm starts to ring. I thought it was a fire drill and when I went out, I saw people walking towards the stairs and thought maybe i'd better go too. I only had my mobile phone with me then, my bag and keys and things are all in the office, which was on the 3rd floor. As I was running up (coz I still thought it was a drill), my collegues were coming down and telling me to go down because something, somewhere really is burning.
As i got down to the evacuation point, I realise that the fire was actually happening at the construction site opposite the station. The fire was huge, apparently it started with an explosion of some sort, and it was spreading. I panicked because my car is parked on the road just next to the construction site.
Against the crowd, I ran up to the main office, got my bag and car keys and ran towards my car. I was halfway there when, to my surprise, my car was already in the middle of the road. The firemen had smashed my driver side window and pushed my car away to save it from the fire. Although I was grateful that the bulk of my car was ok, I was so shocked, I didn't know what to do. There were glass everywhere, on the seats, on the dash, on the floor.....I just stood there, about to cry, not wanting to believe that this is happening on the second day of me driving the car.
I called my parents, who told me that they'll be on their way, and my boss helped me drive the car to the nearby petrol station to vacumn up the shattered glass so that I can drive it to the nearest workshop. But the people at the petrol station didn't allow us to use their vacumn for glass pieces. So my boss called his friend from a workshop nearby, and one of the worker came and drove the car away.
Anyways, to cut the story short, everything was fixed by evening and I went back to work. I am so grateful to my boss for handling it all for me because i really didn't know what to do. I felt so much like a kid just then, so lost, and it made me realise how dependant I've been on Joe. If he was still in KL, i would've called him up in the first instance and he would've settled it all for me. Now I'm so tired. Just got back from the live show. Sorry if none of this make sense, I just wanted to blog it so that I'll be able to remember it the next time i read my blog again. Memorable day indeed.
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