Love from Muscat

Its my 2nd day here in the Sultanate of Oman. They have checked me into Ruwi Hotel. Ruwi being the name of this area in Muscat, and 25 minutes from the airport. 8 hours of Gulf Air from KL to Bahrain, and another hour half to get me to Muscat City.

Buat lawak btol aku ni, I found out at 1am on Tuesday morning that my flight was at 1140am the same day and not at 1140pm. Crap giler. So I had to pack like a crazy person. I brought 7kg too many tp wadehel baya je la.

Tomorrow I am supposed to leave Muscat for the village of Fahud. I called the hotel reception and asked them if Fahud has telephone reception but I don’t think he understood me. I bought an Oman Mobile # for 3 rials. 1 sms to Malaysia is about 50cents. Better than me smsing using my maxis #.

The currency here is pretty high. 1 rial is equivalent to RM10. So my hotel room which for me would be about rm150 in Malaysia is priced at 60 rials per night. Do the math. It’s a freeking rm600 per night. Pergh!!

I don’t go out of the hotel at all. I decided against it. It’s too dangerous, especially since the locals don’t really speak English and I don’t know any Arabic. Plus I am traveling alone. Female some more. The arabs are so biggg here. Haha. And everybody wears the white tunic and hat. Rase mcm derang sume baru blk dari masjid or something. Haha. Kesian aku.

The food here is good, I like it. I sense a strong influence of Indian culture. In the food as well as the entertainment. Sume stock lyn Hindustan. The driver yesterday lyn house music bantai kuat2, and then lyn lagu Hindustan ape tah. Haih. Letih tol.

Esok pergi Faud. Cuak sehh. I will try to update if I get the chance.

Take care beautiful people.

Feeling Low

Jengga tanye. Dan ini jawapan ku. This is outside warehouse 29, my place of work. I work 6 days a week. One day entitled for rest. I sleep through the whole day. This preschool is getting a bit tiring for me. I enjoy the work, maintenance, learning lots of new systems and all mechanical stuff. But I have never been this low in my whole life. I have not yet been offshore.

The staff house is empty. I live there alone. I have no one to talk to. Its been like this for a week now.

I was supposed to do my review on nitrogen units today. But my boss suddenly left for KL for the rest of the week. Pretty sucky huh? So lamat lagi lah aku dpt appraisal. Mmg taik.

Tolong la cepat2 anta aku g oman. There is no future for female engineers in this company in this location. Bla bla bla..

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Kuala Belait

On 28th October I left for Brunei with Nicholas Moses. We had to go for our lab session there. Unfortunately the lab session was cut short since the lab techy had to go offshore. We stayed in the Swiss Apartment Hotel, Kuala Belait.

Kuala Belait apparently was at the end tip of Brunei, relatively from Bandar Seri Begawan. After landing at the airport, I immediately dozed off only to constantly find myself to wake up and see the same straight road ahead. Kinda like a bad dream. It turned out to be that the highway there does only consist of this one main road which lead from one part of the country to another.

Once we arrived in Kuala Belait, I realized that it took us about 4 hours from the airport to where we were headed!!

The place was kinda quiet. Most of the shops closed at 8pm. Nick and I ended eating at the same place for lunch and dinner. This cute western eatery which served really good food. I bet everyone thought we were there on holiday. Haha.

I'm bored. Obviously. Waiting is a painfully agonizing part of living.

Beam me up scotty, please.