so long, desert
July 26th, 2006 by boon
I’m finally moving out of Cyberjaya.
The first thing that comes to mind is the journey. I really hate travelling to Cyberjaya. No doubt the traffic is worse the opposite direction, but I still hate the fact that I have to get past two tolls and cross 55km of road every day. Good riddance to that.
The other thing that comes to mind is how much money I will save. My wife will be driving me to work since she needs the car. Not only will I not need parking, I won’t have to pay tolls and all that burned gasoline, and I should have gained some joy in marriage from conversations in the car. The ride to Cyber has mostly been a lonely one, no offense to my carpool partner who needs his catnap in the passenger seat (this guy can sleep standing or in an event of a war, for that matter).
The third thing is the crap food I’ve been consuming all these years, save for the Dengkil food courts, of which I have much praise for. Cyberjaya is a landlocked haven for bumiputra food vendors. Licenses given to non-bumis have seen more light these days, but I can count on one hand the number of Indian and Chinese stalls in the whole of Cyberjaya. Again, not that I hate malay food. I just hate the price vs. quality of food there, overall.
I don’t care much for Puchong, either. It’s like it’s trapped between a few dozen tollbooths. I wouldn’t want to live there. It’s like purgatory.
So, what’s waiting at the end of the tunnel? Ah, there’s light!
I’ll be moving to KL Sentral soon. Plaza Sentral. In Brickfields. Where banana leaf rice is. So much so, I feel I’m going to be eating that everyday. That, and the chinese corner restaurant near the traffic lights, which also incidently has a store that sells banana leaf rice. But that’s much much much better than Cyberjaya.
If I like, I can hop on an LRT and head to the city. And there’s no banana leaf rice there. Or head back to PJ.
And the new office is a lot better, although I haven’t seen it. There’s going to be a whole wall made of glass and we can doodle all kinds of Google stuff on it, and pretend that we’re cool geeks.
So, we’re packing up tomorrow, and by Thursday everything should be out of the old office. I think we’ll be in the new office by Friday or Monday at the very latest.
I can’t wait.