the unfriendly neigbour

i've been posted to mustafa-haha to promote samsung mp3 players. mustafa is a pretty interesting place. the things there are pretty cheap, actually not, just relatively lower than everywhere else.

here's a few things i didn't know about mustafa:
1. the staff are majority indians
2. its opened 24 hours - the staff work a 14 hour shift
3. its very very big
4. they have about 2 levels dedicated to jewellery alone - gold gracelets and all
(my i tell you, a whole level of gold + spot light = GLARING)
5. its a little like supermarket meets superstore

most indians can't really pronouce the word 'v' very well. they usually mispronouce it til it sounds like a 'w'. so what happened was...

customer: how's it (refering to yh-820) moving?
me: oh! no, it does not have the movie function.

how embarassing. i really had difficulty understanding some of them, and with their moustache, its almost impossible to lip read as well. when i randomly saw a staff tag. his name reads: mohammad aladdin. maybe mustafa is indeed a magic carpet fly away place.

the lift in mustafa is SCARY. its almost transparent like those in the mrt stations. those kind of lift. can you imagine riding on those lift from basement all the way to level6? the walls of the outside outside of the lift are just plain steel things. so there's no glass or anything, but occasional steel brackets. only the lift itself, is glass. when i was riding the lift, on my hunt for a clean toilet seat, i got almost so freaked out i found myself psyching myself not to look down and started grabbing the hand poles really tightly. heights do scare me a little, but the lift, it would freak any normal human being out man. (okay maybe just me) but do try it, the next time you decide to visit mustafa.

monday's my next pay day. YAY! im excited.