an expensive seafood dinner...

Over on Saturday 7th April, Amanda and I together with some of her close friends headed to Telok Gong which is somewhere near Klang for some seafood dinner... The drive there was quite exhilarating since traffic was fairly smooth all the way on both the NKVE and KESAS highway... Dinner was excellent with the eight of us ordering nine dishes which included crabs, prawns, crayfish, oysters etc. We even had todhi (Indian fermented coconut-based alcoholic drink) mixed initially with Guiness, white wine and Coke... Nice mixers I must say... Everybody had fun and the conversation around the table was very interesting... From food to our jobs and gradually moved on to bras and porns... Interesting huh???

We left somewhere after 9 as we planned to carry on with some drinks at some other place in PJ... However, Amanda was not feeling well and I was rather tired so we decided not to go... What's more we both had planned to go to church the following day for Easter service... Halfway through on the highway however, I suffered a puncture on the rear right tire...

Managed to pulled up along an emergency lane on the highway although I was trying to push Sharky (name of my car) a little further where there was a petrol kiosk some 2km away... However the puncture was really bad and the tire was already starting to shread... So I guess I had no choice but to pull up along the highway...

Blinkers on and came out of the car... Luckily my spare tire was well inflated though it was past 2 months since I had last inflated it... Managed to jack Sharky up and loosen one of the nuts when I realised that the other three lug nuts were of a different size... Silly that I forgot that I had already changed my rims and therefore the lug nuts size were different... Great!!! No crossbar of the right size to unlock the nuts... Had to call another of Amanda's friend Wijay whom was with us earlier on to turn his Toyota MRS around to come help us... We were having a mini race earlier on...

While we were waiting, the highway operator's emergency vehicle pulled up... Thank God they were kind enough to help out since they had the right and not to mention BETTER tools... Just as they were about to start unlocking the nuts, Wijay (the friend we had called to turn back earlier) arrived... He started to joke just to cheer us up a little since the damage to the tire was quite bad and I was worried about the rims... After the highway guys replaced the punctured tire with the spare, we analysed the blown tire and realised that a nail almost 2 inches long caused the puncture and because I had 3 people in the car and was going at quite a high speed caused the tire to rip...

Wijay then decided that my baby should name the nail since it caused us so much trouble... My darling ridiculed it of course saying that we only name our soft toys and not other objects... Wijay then decided to name the nail Poky-Poky since it poked into my tire and causing it to puncture and blow...

So after Easter service yesterday, I took my car to have the tire replaced... I was previously rolling on Goodyear Eagle F1 tyres but that stupid shop had ran out of stock despite being a Goodyear flagship store... Instead of having mixed tires, I then decided to changed to all four and now Sharky is rolling on Michelin Pilot Preceda... So... one heck of an expensive dinner huh???

Anyways, another experience in life as it is my first time suffering a flat and changing tires... COOL!!!