"Could you please drive fast? I have an appointment in Serdang in 30 minutes"...

That was what I told the taxi driver and it seemed like it triggered his inner F1-dreams! It's taken me a whole day to settle down and now that I'm able to write about it, I just want to say hello to my whole family and all my friends and tell you all how much I care about you and love you! One might never know if life will end in the passenger seat of a taxi...

Maybe I should take it from the beginning? I had just bought some furniture for my room the day before, so I went to the store to buy smaller things like clothes hangers and stuff when I got a phone call saying that the company I've applied to do my master thesis at wanted to have an interview at 4! At that time it was 2.45, so I rushed home and got myself ready by 3.30 pm. And let me explain this to you: traffic in KL is always horrific! And by train, it would've take me about 1 hour to get there from KL Sentral, which means about 2 hours total with public transport. Now, the formula for making it in 30 minutes is as follows:

1) Stop a cab on the street.
2) Say the phrase that's in the title
3) Close your eyes and keep praying until you arrive!
4) The fare will be 19 RM, but pay him 25 for taking you there in 13(!!!!!) minutes but mostly out of gratitute for sparing your life!

These are the details that I still remember about the trip:

- When the three lanes are completely jammed, the driver found a fourth lane that alternates between being the left- most and the right- most lane.

-Driving 3 times faster than the car in front of you and sniff their rear end in 120 km/h (while the car in front is doing the legal 40-50km/h) and make your own lane when getting close to crashing into the car in front.

- Never staying in the same lane for longer than 4 seconds.

- Driving against red light while in that magical 4th (and sometimes 5th) lane.

- Squeezing in between two trucks in 120 km/h and having less than half a meter to both the truck in front and at the back while going from right-most to left-most lane (while the trucks are in the middle lane...).

I'm telling you: Michael Schumacher doesn't stand a chance in city racing against local taxi drivers! Definately not since he didn't even manage to finish 10 laps on the Sepang circuit...

Ok, my pulse just went up to unhealthy levels again just thinking back to the whole episode! The good news though is that the discussion went very well and that it looks like something could be agreed upon. I will know more at the end of this week!

With all that in one day, I'm prepared to call it a week already! Have a nice weekend everybody (i.e. the four of you who still read this blog)!

Edit: I checked the distance on google maps: Just below 23 km. You do the math...