Last Minute Lessons

We're pretty much notorious for being someone who does things not only at the last minute, but more likely at the last second. This was especially true for our final year thesis, but that's probably for another time. If anything, we learned quite a few things at the last moment yesterday.

Lesson 1: Government Friday Time Warp
Actually this isn't a new lesson but something we tend to forget everytime. On any other day we can actually get our things done within a jiffy (for a given value of jiffy) but on Fridays it's a different story. Things will take over twice the time if we start out at the wrong time, because a certain department we may want to visit would suddenly be in the middle of a jamuan and no one would be free to layan us. So instead of having things done in a jiffy, it takes ages (when compared to said value given for a jiffy).

Not that we are complaining, of course. Not yet.

Lesson 2: Kinokuniya 30% Discounts
For many many many books. We were actually informed about this, er...the day before? Courtesy of Nyukster, so not so last minute. So as we happened to be in KLCC last night of course we'd have taken the opportunity to take a walk in for a look-see. And finally ended up with this. Large hardback but at 30%! Of course, this means our experiment now heads down a different objective instead - to see when the book appears in BookXcess and how much it'll cost then, the price of irony.

Honestly, if we weren't currently restrained by the (same old) fact that bookshelf space is now full and our books are spilling into our office, we would have been spending more time perusing their 30% titles.

Lesson 3: KLCC Midnight Sales
We didn't know KLCC was going to be open till midnight, but considering that up till now we still have not work ourselves up to begin Christmas shopping, that little fact didn't make much impact on us. Which is a bit sad.

How we knew about it then? Just so happens we were there to listen to a couple of friends performing, lovely choirwork it was. And we were all going, "Why in the world are they only starting at 10pm?" That was a shame because there weren't many people then to listen after their first performance at the concourse area. But then again, that meant that someone got to make a personal request.

Lesson 4: Leather Shoes Have No Traction
This we learn amazingly last minute. Like, the moment our right foot left the ground to mock roundhouse, only to find the left foot sweeping the ground not long after that. Hilarious. Thankfully we didn't land on our iPod nor our Crumpler, just on our left side, that's all. Ego was slightly bruised but that's all right, we can always get more. Of course, it may be the case that we won't know we have a dislocated fibula until much much later.

Sorry la choir group we had to steal some attention!

Lesson 5: Kleptomania Is Showing
Only that the awareness that there were signs of kleptomanic behaviour can only be seen after the deed is done, isn't it? Once it happened it's really considered way past the last minute too. Well it wasn't really kleptomania, just a general reshuffling of inventory. People don't pay attention. Just to say, your inventory likes to play hide and seek too.

Maybe we ought not say more.