Big.Price.&.Small.Servings

After surviving in the city for a week, I'm more street-smart now. For the past few days, I have been exploring roads to find the most optimum route to go home at a certain hour. So far, the progress have been good and I have managed to reduce my travel time to get home from 1.5 hours+ to 1 hour. For the coming weeks, I will expect myself to experiment more routes and alternatives to continously optimize my travel time. (Collecting metrics for continuous improvement *Snort* *Snort*)

In terms of parking, it can be notoriously expensive if you are not familiar with the nooks and crannies in the city. You can easily burn RM 20+ per day on parking if you are not careful and I was lucky enough to be warned of that before I started work. Imagine, RM 20 x 22 days = RM 440. With that money, you can actually pay for the car installment of a Kancil.

There are some cheaper alternatives nearby and depending on the walking-distance to KLCC, you can get as cheap as RM 3 but definitely below RM 10. So depending on your safety concerns (and footwear conditions), you can choose your alternatives wisely. Of course, no matter where you park, you got to beware of your side mirrors!

Another thing to watch-out for is the price and servings of food. You will noticed that the price of food is very expensive and the servings are very-very small - best for children's consumption. On my first day, I had a plain Kuey-Teow soup for RM 5.30 (or was it RM 5.80) and after taking it, I wonder which part of my stomach did it go to. I absolutely felt nothing and I had to eat something during tea time. Of course, there are some servings that are reasonably sized but the taste is uhmm... no comment.

So, there are not much choices left apart from fast-food but we all know how 'healthy' they are if consumed everyday. However, do beware that there are also some fast-food outlets (not the main-stream ones) that could burn a hole in your pocket with baby-servings.

Lucky enough, I was introduced to some economical places to eat by my streetwise colleagues. And oh... I started eating rice again which I had stopped for almost three years. You can get affordable food which taste ok if you really know where to eat and willing to get some sun during lunch-time. *Wink*

So that concludes week one of working in the city and I'm sure there will be more adventures waiting for me...