Trip to Ipoh and Lumut

[15042009: 20:00]

This is one trip which I was not really looking forward to. One of our customer is to come home permanently. In fact, the whole company was affected too. My task is to go there, dismantle their phone system as we're going to buy it back, and along the way, take her back to her home in KL too. But the first stop would have to be in Ipoh. Nothing much to blog about, really. Just the usual routine programming, making sure the phone system there is OK and did some small chit-chats with the customer to try to lighten my mood before I continue the trip. On the outside, working in that company is bliss. But however, internally, its not a nice place to work in, due to the "demands" and politics demanded of them from their so called clients. And so, rather than give in, they decided to just stop everything altogether. This is what I deduced as none of us wanted to talk much about it but to just get on with the job at hand.

And so, just for fun, I used the Garmin XT Software with
the latest MalFreeMaps (and not MalsingMaps). I am not
sure what is the problem with Malsing but seems like some
have split and formed MalFreeMaps which gives you what
you need and none of that, "If you do not contribute..."
crap and leaves you with an outdated map. With such
even stupidity, even if I want to contribute, I would prefer
not to because there is a lot of unknown stories here.

From Ipoh, I used the back roads to reach Lumut instead
of going back into the Highway and exit at Tampar or so.
This would mean a very big go-around. The trip is not
so bad, even when the Nokia 5800 goes haywire when
I was using the GPS. Still, I am thankful as this really
keeps my mind off what I am going to face when I
reach there.

And so, within half an hour, this system is
off the wall and whatever lines still active,
is rerouted to the only functioning part of
the office in there.

And so, one final look before we leave Lumut for a long time.

And this is her part of the office, now stripped bare and so gloomy.

I was so tempted to take one of these flourescent housing but
knowing how its mounted, it would be very difficult to do so,
as nothing is what it seems here.

I am not sure what it is, but its quite tough to withstand
a lot of abuse.

We stopped by Teluk Intan again. This time, I will treat her
to dinner. The last time we did this years ago, we made the
mistake of not stopping and went through to Bidor, where
by the time we arrived, most of the shops have closed. Yeah,
I got more chee cheong fun with whatever money left despite
my Wife's objection since my salary is still not in yet.