The Chain Rule

Ever wonder how the Chain Rule applies in our life? Here's how. It all started with a very simple event.

On a fine Thursday(9/02/06), we found out UTP is on holiday for Friday. Woohoo, a day off. Outside Chemistry lab, me, Ai Ting and Jia Min decided, why not go bacj home for the holidays, and so we all rang up our parents and we got approval. Going back, I met Tee Hooi, who also wanted to go back to Klang and so she tagged along(Jia Min and Ai Ting were heading for KL). I actually thought of going swimming before heading down to Ipoh, but Ai Ting and Jia Min needed to catch the 7.30 bus to KL,and after some discussion woth my mum, me and Tee Hooi too were going on the same bus. Ok, i thought, it's only 5.40 now. So I packed up my clothes, laptop, toiletries and some books and I'm good to go. As I was packing, Kenneth was contemplating on selling each and every belongings, and even told me he could sell Carina, Sharon and Pinky to a 'kai tao'(LOOK HOW JIN KAK HE IS, EVEN HIS OWN MOTHER!!!)

OK. The selling part was just talk but no action and it was good humour to me. As I was packing, my laptop bag was far too big to enter my travelling bag, so Kenneth offered to lend me his VAIO bag and it fitted snuggly into my travelling bag(Thanks).

5.50pm. I still had time so I went for a shower. Coming back from the shower, I was devastated to find out that my room door was locked. I saw Gabriel and he helped mr to call Kenenth, but there was no answer, so he went to the pool to look for him.

Approx 15 minutes passed and I got impatient, so i borrowed Boon How's phone to call Ai Ting to call Kenneth to ask him to get his a** back to the room to help me unlocj the door. Then, Kenneth returned call : "I forgot to bring my key too!" Great...now I'm really dead. Then he said : "Ok, I'll get the fellow to unlock the door for you." I thought he was at least coming back to help me sort things out, considering that I was only in my towel.

Another 15 minutes went pass and there was no sign of either the fellow or Kenenth. I can't wait anymore,thus I got Boon How to help me go get the keys from the fellow. Not long after he left,Kenneth called and I found out that he was still at the pool! At this point I was really mad. Another 5 more minutes Kenneth appeared panting,waiting for Boon How to return with the keys. First try, wrong keys, as of that moment, Kenneth without any delay quickly ran off to the office to get the correct keys.

As soon as I got into the room, I got my self dressed and went down to my car. On the way down to Ipoh, Ai Ting's, Jia Min's and Tee Hooi's parents called asking where are they, and they said they just left campus, and of course their reply was why so late?

7.45 arrived Medan Gopeng. Ran from counter to counter, we finally settled for an 8.00pm bus to KL. By that time, I had no time to get back to my grandparents house to park my car there.

I called my aunt to ask her help me drive the car back. It was all fine...until 9.32pm. My mum called to say that my dad was furious that I 1)don't plan things propperly and 2) not understanding, consiering that my grandpa is already 80 yrs old and thus does not have such good vision and driving skills. Then my dad blamed my mum for allowing me come home in such a short-handed notice. So much happened....and mum was not happy of my dad being so unreasonable.

When I was in the bus I felt half guilty and half mad. But what could I do anymore? I prayed and thank God everything went fine. Ai Ting went down at Rawang, while the rest of us got down at the Masjid Jamek LRT station. Me and Tee Hooi are to take an LRT to KLCC to follow my cousin back(Thank GOD that she's still there, or else I'll be stranded in KL;the KTM stops operation around 10.30 or 11 and we only arrive KL at 10.30)

Arriving home, I felt all those hassle and trouble gone through were worth it that I was finally home. With my mind calmed. I thought back, I was rather rude at Kenneth earlier on in the evening. And actually, I did something really stupid which made Ang Khian mad at me, so I thought, this might be karma.