Let's begin with the "FIRST PRIZE WINNER" of my newly made award for the "dumbo of the year". See if you feel the same.. :-S .. Please don't bust your brains out...Mine would have melted if I tried to rationalize it any further..

I was at one of the top notch private hospitals in Johore.. This one is equivalent to Sunway Medical Centre, in terms of price, architecture, facilities and amenities.. This means that if you're not filthy rich.. you better not try to die there..

Well, I reached there at lunch time and usually, I skip lunch... However, my clients won't.. So.. I had to wait.. So I thought, what the heck.. I'll head over to the cafeteria to get myself a cup of "milo ais" (iced milo, to my foreign readers who don't know what this is.. Milo is a chocolate flavoured drink.. in powdered form.. so just add water to it.. and VOILA!! you get the freaking drink.. it's really foolproof.. nobody can screw it up.. that's what I THOUGHT)

When I got there, I ordered the drink from this Malay girl in her early 20s that was standing at the counter.. The cafeteria was pretty empty.. I should have read the signs.. :-S

When I told her what I wanted, she looked at me as if I asked her to give me Mount Everest or something.. Then she went running to the back of the kitchen to find a watch.. She pointed at the watch and said that this "Pak Cik yang buat air sedang sembahyang, boleh tunggu 30 minit tak?" (The uncle that is responsible for making the drinks is doing his prayers, can you wait for 30 minutes)... In my head, I thought to myself, this "uncle" she was talking about must be some GRAND MASTER in milo making..

I mean.. what the hell.. 30 minutes for a cup of milo?.. hell no.. so I politely asked her whether she could make the drink for me.. she told me she can do it for me but she is "kurang mahir" (not competent yet).. well.. I thought, who could screw up adding water to chocolate powder ? .. well.. I was apparently wrong..

I sat at the table across the drinks counter and observed her.. I asked for the drink to be "kurang manis" (less sweet)..which apparently was my mistake because the INCREASE in demands probably stressed her up a bit more..

She took more than 10 minutes to make that drink.. note: this is a chocolate drink.. not a freaking martini.. a typical bartender would have given me 5 martinis by now.. and every step of the way.. she was sooo careful.. It kinda reminded me of the acid-base titration I did in my foundation year at uni..

And the resulting drink was ... TRANSLUCENT.. It seemed that her idea of "kurang manis" (less sweet) was to place 1/8 of a teaspoon of milo powder in a huge cup of water.. and the worst part was.. When I looked at the drink all puzzled... she had the cheeks to come and tell me this .. "I letak ais, tapi sudah cair"... ( I put ice in it but it melted)..

My brains kinda melted.. But trust me.. It was too much.. it took 10 minutes, the drink was translucent..and she came and told me "ais sudah cair" (the ice melted).. I just paid her.. left the drink at the table.. and left the place.. I really hope she understood why.. this girl needs professional help.. :-S

DUMBO numero uno..

Let's move on to #2

I met a friend from Merck and he introduced me to a clinic that would offer me the Gardasil jab at near cost price.. so.. yup.. it was pretty cool! :-P

But because it was raining and all, parking spaces were difficult to find and he asked me to get to the clinic for the registration process first. So.. I told the nurse/ receptionist.. that I was there for the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine.. She didn't know what I was talking about..

Well.. First of all, being in the healthcare industry.. you really cannot NOT know what HPV is.. You're not a farmer..

Ok.. I assume she is ignorant.. But.. let me add.. because of her height and the fact that she was behind a glass counter, I couldn't see her nose because it was blocked by a bloody sticker that says "GET HPV VACCINE HERE".. and you know what, the doctor in the clinic seemed to be obsessed with the vaccine or something and articles, brochures, buntings, pamphlets and posters of HPV vaccine and cervical cancer were pasted at every corner of the clinic.. and obviously, one was pasted right in front of her nose..

I repeated myself several times and then she kept asking me whether I was looking for the jab against H1N1.. Then I figured, ok.. wrong approach.. I told her GARDASIL.. Then she had the cheeks to tell me that I wasted her time and I should have told her GARDASIL from the start cause she does not know what HPV is..

I really wanted to get behind the counter and pushed her nose against that "Get HPV vaccine here" sticker ...

So.. all in all.. I met two people that really opened my eyes today.. so much..