Experience of Losing Direction

I have a lot of experience in losing the way to a destination because I have the problem on memorizing the road path. Due to this problem, I normally follow the signboard in order to go to a place. But some signboards are unbelievable, it cheats and leads me to a strange place. But somehow, may be I am too clever, I always have the idea to get the way out of the strangeness and finally I can reach to the destination.

I remember the first time I get lost was happening in Melaka. I took my friend by car from the place near Multimedia University (MMU) Melaka to the Melaka Sentral transportation terminal. When I went back alone, I totally forgot the way to home. I was not willing to call my friend for help and wanted to have a try. I looked at the signboard but none of the place names I was familiar with. Then, I randomly chose one direction and continue my journey. During the car driving, I visits a lot of places, but I could not get the correct way to get home. Some places I might visit twice and three times. After having enough fun, I finally gave up and searched for help from my friend through phone calling. He gave me a simple answer that was following the signboard to the South-North highway because going on the path to the highway would pass by MMU. This answer had awaken me from the maze. Thanks to his instruction, I finally get the familiar place and successfully reached to home.

There were a lot of cases, but I am lazy to write out all. I mention one of these cases that was most interesting. This case happened on the day I worked for my part-time job. In the evening, my friend suddenly phoned me and asked me to watch movie at 9 p.m. in One Utama. I accepted the offer. I rushed for my company project and hoped to complete it before 7.30 p.m.. But my leader had many requests on the project, I changed and added features and solved the program bugs. Finally I fulfilled all the requests, but the time was already 8.15 p.m.. Then, I cleaned up my thing and left the office. One Utama was located at Petaling Jaya. As normal, I followed the signboard to the place. Around 8.45 p.m., I saw the One Utama buildings. I did not know how to differentiate the New Wing and Old Wing. I casually turned in an entrance and went to the car park inside building.

My friend's chasing call was making me to be more excited. I told him that I was searching for parking. There were a lot of cars making the car parking slot full on every floor. I drove my car up one floor by one floor. Somehow I reached the exit, I did not want to go out and I had not yet pay for the parking ticket too. Actually, on the moment, I did not know whether I was at the correct building. I simply found a parking slot to park my car. Then, I remember that the cinema should be at the top floor. Then, I found an elevator to bring me to the top floor. After I reached to the top floor, I had no idea with the place. Thus, I would like to ask my friend for giving me a direction. But, I left my hand phone in the car! I tried to walk around the place but I failed to see the cinema. Suddenly, I saw there were some words of "Golden Screen Cinema" (GSC) on the opposite building. Damn it! I went back to get my car and paid for nothing to exit the car park.

The movie was started, my friend asked me to give him a miss call when arrived at the cinema. I did not know how to go to the building I saw on the opposite side. I drove around the building. Suddenly, I discovered that I passed by the One Utama region when I saw there was no more One Utama building on my left hand side and I was going straight on the road to Damansara. I wanted to U-turn back to One Utama but there was no U-turn for me. I started to be anxious and lost the direction. Then, I saw there was an entrance on the left hand side. I did not know whether it was a right way but I turned into the entrance without thinking. Thanks to god blessing, I came back to One Utama region. But, I still have no idea on how to get the building with GCS cinema. The region of One Utama was huge enough to confuse me. I could not see the words of GSC on any building while I was driving. I was tired of driving without any direction. I parked my car at the outdoor parking ground and went to ask the guards for help. Finally, I reached to the cinema but I missed the front part of movie. What a terrible experience!

Driving alone to an unfamiliar place is very exciting but I do not hope to have the next experience of losing direction because I will not be lucky on every time.