As most KLites, if not Malaysians know, Lowyat Plaza is TEH PLACE in Malaysia if you are talking about IT market. There was, previously, Imbi Plaza. It’s still there but it’s going to be an IT museum soon.

There are two highly reputed shops in Lowyat. One is Sri Computer and the other one is All IT Hypermart. They are still reputable in my book.

Today, I’m going to rant about two other shops which are run by irresponsible scums if not conmen.

The first one is a watch shop at ground floor (Level G) near an entrance.

My Casio Protrek watch was running out of battery. As a result, I lost the electronic compass function. Out of convenience and a tight schedule, I dropped by the said shop to have the batteries changed.

Greeting me was a tall nerdy looking middle age uncle wearing spec. I told him I wanted the batteries changed and immediately he went to work.

I watched him opening the casing. It was rather crude. I cautioned him to be gentle.

After having the four batteries changed, it was time for him to tighten back the screws. It was then that my heart sank.

He was tightening the screws as if trying to force his dong into a hen. You could hear the screwdriver grinding like a powerdrill against the philip screws. I cautioned him to be gentle again before leaving the narrow workplace/room to make way for a fat auntie to have access to the cash register hidden around the corner.

Half a minute later, he emerged with my watch. I eyeballed the watch and noticed the cross shape on several screws have been raped. They have basically turned into diamond shape.

I asked him for a magnifying eyepiece and showed him the result of his work. He kept quiet.

I went ahead with 10 full minutes of stripping him off his ego, with pathetic defence from him saying that if the screws weren’t tight enough, the watch won’t be water resistant.

I challenged him to give me the screwdriver and I could show him how I loosen a screw on that watch and retighten it 10 times without raping the screw. He kept quiet.

Decided that I wouldn’t want him to run out to the street and crash himself against the tyres of an incoming lorry and thus his parents would do the same after his death, I asked him for the bill.

Forty ringgit.

Fucking charity.

Not even a simple ’sorry’!

Luckily my Protrek is not the titanium version or I’ll be showing you the picture of his undescended testis here, post mortem.

So I went ahead shopping for a notebook for my dad to play with, during which many Ah Lians got raped and many Ah Bengs got castrated thinking that they could con or outsmart an IT veteran.

MYR 2,670 for a Centrino M 1.6GHz, 512 RAM, 14″ 1280×768 display, 60GB SATA, built-in CMOS VGA cam, 3 years warranty of parts and labour, inclusive of WinXP Home, throwing in a cheap security cable and optical mouse seems a good bargain.

Dad went ahead for the deal while I was checking out some portable headphone/earphone amplifier.

Afterwhich we were on our way back when I noticed this on the security lock slot…

It’s obviously a used unit! Probably a demo unit!!!

I called the shop immediately.

They asked me to bring the unit back.

As usual, the Ah Beng said his boss is out of the country and will be back next month. And that he didn’t realise it was a used unit.

Not even a simple ’sorry’!

Obviously they think that by replacing the unit, they have erased their mistake. ;) But little do they know that they have planted another stronger evidence.

A colleague of mine happened to pass by when I was carving another hole on that Ah Beng’s backside and expressed his disgust against the matter. We reminded the Ah Beng that I’m a blogger with at least a million hits a month.

You should have seen the face of that Ah Beng. It looked like one of his many fathers died and he is not sure if that’s his blood father.

I shall wait for an apology from the boss, giving him a month’s time before I expose the name of his shop on the internet. Hopefully he would have the courage to come out from his rat hole instead of closing his shop for good.

Watch this space.