My Most Expensive Futsal Game To Date

I finally played futsal for the first time in Malacca.

With some friends (who, most of them, I knew just before we started the game), I played at the Batu Berendam Sports Complex near the airport, which is a brick's throw away from the place I'm staying.

Yesterday, I couldn't find any transport to go so after much consideration, I decided to rent a car and drive my way to the sports complex. I forgotten that I have to go pump some petrol (or else I might cause traffic jams when the car runs out of fuel) so I took the car about 5pm (which was the time the game was supposed to start).

Never mind, I thought.

Quickly, I drove to the nearest petrol station and after refuelling, I headed straight to the place. Well, actually I have never been to that place but before I left home, I googled for the area's map and roughly had an idea of getting there, of course, with my classmate's sort of guidance (coz he told me the direction to the place).

I thought I'd be reaching there as soon as 5.15pm then we can all start the game. Who knows...




I got LOST! @#*&$%^&!


There's a big turn which my friend didn't mention to me when he told me the direction and so I got confused when I was there. But the truth is that after that big turn, I only have to go straight for like a few hundred metres before I can reach the sports complex. I have to pay for the vehicle rental, the petrol and I got lost. You can hardly imagine how miserable I was at that moment.

So, I called Qi Hong the pilot of tomorrow. His Malaccan friend told me the correct way to go to the sports complex via the phone and I reached there about 5.30pm. Getting lost wasn't scary but it was pretty frustrating. To add insult to injury, I had to extend the vehicle's rental period which, in total, cost me RM12.

RM 12 for the vehicle rental. RM 5 for the petrol I put in (which I didn't even have the chance to finish using it). Last, but not least, RM 5.50 for the futsal game. Altogether I spent RM22 for an hour of futsal game - if you tell me that's reasonable or it's cheap, I'd smack your cheek out of your face (and I don't even know how to do that).

Lesson of the story is that one shall never stupidly rent a car for the sake of playing futsal at a place he doesn't even know where. Because you'll never know what's gonna come - like in my case, getting lost!