Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Variety of people
I'm again taking about a cabbie, not coz I have a fixation with cab drivers or something, just that they're the only people I think I'm interacting with on the daily basis, other than my work colleagues.
Took a cab back from Damansara Uptown to my house, and this cabbie was with a friend of his, and agreed to go to my destination. We reached in about 10 minutes time, and I couldn't clearly see the meter reading, from the back seat. Asked him how much was that, and he mentioned 4 RM. In my attempts to see the meter, all I could see was something after decimal point, which was .10, so I gave him 4 RM and said, I'd give you 10 sents change. He said, "its Ok", 4 RM only. That brought a smile on my face, not coz I saved 10 sents, but coz I met a nice person, who understood "customer service". Guess I'm overdoing it, but yes, that's what it says.
Now, involuntarily, this experience got compared with another one I had couple of days back, coming back from the same route around same time. The meter reading read RM 5.20, when the cab stopped, and I glanced over the meter reading. This time I was sitting at the front seat. The meter was on, and was not turned off. While I was taking out the moeny with the change, the meter turned up to RM 5.30. When I gave him RM 5.20 for the charge, he looked at me, pointed at the meter and said RM 5.30, 10 sents more please. I had a disgusted look at my face, and wanted to give him a piece of my mind, but he didn't know my language and vice versa, and he pissed me off to the point of no argument. Gave him his 10 sents, which he did not earn, and walked out of his cab.
Two different people, similar situations. Just a thought, that no two people are alike. By coming across bad people, we shouldn't think that the rest of the people are bad, and vice versa. Taking everyone for who they are, as they come, is what I believe the right thing to do. But yes, at the same time, respecting our own experience in certain situations, would definitely save us from the hassles that we might get into.
Took a cab back from Damansara Uptown to my house, and this cabbie was with a friend of his, and agreed to go to my destination. We reached in about 10 minutes time, and I couldn't clearly see the meter reading, from the back seat. Asked him how much was that, and he mentioned 4 RM. In my attempts to see the meter, all I could see was something after decimal point, which was .10, so I gave him 4 RM and said, I'd give you 10 sents change. He said, "its Ok", 4 RM only. That brought a smile on my face, not coz I saved 10 sents, but coz I met a nice person, who understood "customer service". Guess I'm overdoing it, but yes, that's what it says.
Now, involuntarily, this experience got compared with another one I had couple of days back, coming back from the same route around same time. The meter reading read RM 5.20, when the cab stopped, and I glanced over the meter reading. This time I was sitting at the front seat. The meter was on, and was not turned off. While I was taking out the moeny with the change, the meter turned up to RM 5.30. When I gave him RM 5.20 for the charge, he looked at me, pointed at the meter and said RM 5.30, 10 sents more please. I had a disgusted look at my face, and wanted to give him a piece of my mind, but he didn't know my language and vice versa, and he pissed me off to the point of no argument. Gave him his 10 sents, which he did not earn, and walked out of his cab.
Two different people, similar situations. Just a thought, that no two people are alike. By coming across bad people, we shouldn't think that the rest of the people are bad, and vice versa. Taking everyone for who they are, as they come, is what I believe the right thing to do. But yes, at the same time, respecting our own experience in certain situations, would definitely save us from the hassles that we might get into.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Why?
Everyone does ask certain questions, once in a while, but in a while, if they don't get answers to what they want to know, few just give up, few change their questions, and other few just accept the things the way they are, but there're very few of 'em who really pursue their quest to finding answers to their questions.
My Blog is not about giving kudo's to those who keep their quest on, or showing down those who don't. Its just my interprettation of my life, the way it goes, the way it turns, and how things seem on a daily or incident basis. Not sure what all will be part of this blog, but something surely will be. Not sure if this would interest you to read it, well it isn't meant to interest anyone as such, else I'd be writing a best seller.
Just few random thoughts, random questions, and the answers that I understand from how the world works.
My Blog is not about giving kudo's to those who keep their quest on, or showing down those who don't. Its just my interprettation of my life, the way it goes, the way it turns, and how things seem on a daily or incident basis. Not sure what all will be part of this blog, but something surely will be. Not sure if this would interest you to read it, well it isn't meant to interest anyone as such, else I'd be writing a best seller.
Just few random thoughts, random questions, and the answers that I understand from how the world works.
Saturday, March 26, 2005
The Cab Driver
Last night, while returning from movies, I took a cab to home. The first thing that hit me when i boarded the cab was hindi music, which was playing in it. I looked at the driver, and I think he was chinese. Hindi music in a cab, in Malaysia, after being here for couple of months, was fantastic. Even though I wouldn't listen to it, when back @ home, but here its become a delicacy, a representation of my country, which I enjoy.
The time was passing by, I was looking outside the road, light drizzle was going on, and we're getting closer by the mile to my destination. Then from the little recent, the song goes to a Hindi Oldie, which was .. if i remember correctly .. "bheege chaman ke tale" .. Had I been back home, I wouldn't've been listening to this channel anyway, but here I enjoyed listening to those words. They kind of gave me peace. I put my head back and relaxed while looking outside. Suddenly, this gentleman driving the cab, puts up the volume. I turned to see his face, and saw a smile, which meant, he was enjoying the music. I asked him, "do you understand these songs". He said "no". I smiled, and asked, "do you understand the language". He looked at me, and simply said, "I just love these songs. Don't know what they mean, but I like listening to them", and after saying so, he got back to concentrating on the road, to drive ahead.
Well what I learnt from that little time spent with him, while he was driving, was that, we may not value what we have, when we have abundance of it, but there're many people who look for peace and do appreicate what others have. I personally listen to a lot of other music, rather than Indian contemporary, which is once in a while only, but never got them related that closely, as I felt last night.
The time was passing by, I was looking outside the road, light drizzle was going on, and we're getting closer by the mile to my destination. Then from the little recent, the song goes to a Hindi Oldie, which was .. if i remember correctly .. "bheege chaman ke tale" .. Had I been back home, I wouldn't've been listening to this channel anyway, but here I enjoyed listening to those words. They kind of gave me peace. I put my head back and relaxed while looking outside. Suddenly, this gentleman driving the cab, puts up the volume. I turned to see his face, and saw a smile, which meant, he was enjoying the music. I asked him, "do you understand these songs". He said "no". I smiled, and asked, "do you understand the language". He looked at me, and simply said, "I just love these songs. Don't know what they mean, but I like listening to them", and after saying so, he got back to concentrating on the road, to drive ahead.
Well what I learnt from that little time spent with him, while he was driving, was that, we may not value what we have, when we have abundance of it, but there're many people who look for peace and do appreicate what others have. I personally listen to a lot of other music, rather than Indian contemporary, which is once in a while only, but never got them related that closely, as I felt last night.
A look @ the life gone by .. while lookin at everything that's laying ahead
