The other day, after an interview with a candidate my boss came back and told me " we found someone that can get lost in KL! I think if we get her in, you cannot travel together with her!". I wonder if I should take this as a compliment or......
Well anyway, me getting lost is not something "new" especially within Selangor/KL. and ever since I started driving around KL. Seriously, I can't count the N number of times I got myself lost - had to S.O.S for directions, or took the wrong turn and ended up taking the longest route instead of the shortest route. And the irony of it is... I have a GPS or a smartphone Google Map with me. (@_______@)"
One of my little "get lost adventure" was with a moderator on the way to Kuala Selangor for a group. Well, I had a GPS with me (borrowed from the boss) so I set the POI on it to "De Palma Hotel Kuala Selangor" and the address seriously stated Kuala Selangor on the screen. So with that in place, of course I will happily drive in accordance to the GPS!!
BUT! Now I know better than to trust the POI function for GPS because it started leading me to "De Palma Hotel Ampang"! FML! Thank god I have been to Ampang/Chears many times to notice that I am going towards that direction!!!! Well eventually I did got us to Kuala Selangor (10 mins late for our group) after re-setting the GPS using the address. Boss number 2 was laughing at my little adventure and feeling proud of herself because she got lost coming back from Bangi WITHOUT a GPS. So me worse off than her... such competitive spirit. Tsk tsk...
Well that was NOT the only "getting lost adventure" within the last two weeks. Another more Dramatic getting lost session was from my office in Bangsar to Changkat Bukit Bintang with my MD in the car! TMD this is really damn embarrassing. The drive was supposed to be just 10mins and we ended up using about an hour to get to Changkat!
I missed a turn that I was supposed to take. re-calculated my Google Map took another route and miss another turn and then another turn and another turn and ended up going towards Cheras again (I wonder what's me with Cheras? - my getting lost direction always seem to point over to that area)... ended up I had to watsapp my location to a friend/client, call him and ask for directions. :( Boohoo!
Thank god that my MD knows how to read a map because my sense of direction on map suck big time with the major issue of me not being able to differentiate left or right on the map unless I turn it around. :(
Well those two were the two most significant/dramatic get lost cases in the past two weeks with a few more minor ones.... :(
Seriously. I think I really need a Garmin GPS.
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