Surviving public transportation, attending a personal discovery session & miraculously no calls from the office during my leave day

Waking up to a punctured tire I decided to gather all what's left of my courage to take up public transportation to my creative writing workshop at MPH 1Utama. I harassed Azry to send me off to Kelana Jaya LRT station for me to take the shuttle bus straight to the shopping mall. I jumped in excitement upon the arrival of the shuttle bus 15 minutes after I reached the LRT station, only to find out that I needed to have some sort of membership card in order to get aboard the bus. Perhaps the driver sensed my naiveness in regards of public transportation so "it's OK go ahead take a seat" he said, but "next time get the card, it'll be a whole lot easier for you." so I nodded gravely and went to have a seat very near to him in case the ticket inspector comes aboard & I have no ticket & the driver could save me from all the embarrassment by explaining I was a bus newbie and I can be gladly excused. But of course, silly me, there was no such thing as a ticket inspector in public buses nowadays. (Azah says the bus incident is so me, clumsy me) To my surprise I reached just in time all in one cheerful piece ready to get my creative writing fix.

This workshop was organized differently from the first time I attended with Maya & Aida last year. Sarah Butler guided us step by step through the whole process and then all of the participants (who were only beginners at creative writing) were able to cook up a good short story at the end of the workshop. Ardashir Vakil (the author/facilitator) this time round focused more in explaining what makes a good story and how to's and whatnot, and most of the times even when we were asked to write based on exercises, we never really get to read aloud in class and get critics (the part where I was looking forward to the most). At one point in the workshop it turned to be a personal discovery, life confession session. One guy was caught nodding off. But it was, all in all, a good session. Not great, but we could do with better.

We're going to Tali Tenang tomorrow, are you? (Photo credit goes to the rightful owner via FFFFOUND)