1st day of Chinese New Year, and ofcourse a public holiday here in Malaysia.
And rather auspiciously, our house was struck by a powerfailure, which was rather inconvenient (as where the heck are we going to find an electrician who's willing to work on this day?!?). We finally resorted to calling the helpline of our electricity provider, "Tenaga Nasional" and given our past experiences with them, we were certain that they would take their sweet, jolly time to come and help us.
A technician did call us and in an effort to speed up those guys, my wife said the magic word "Angpow for you".....these 3 words did the trick, in no time were those guys in front of our house, even forfeiting their lunch, and dutifully helping us out by repairing the problem.
15mins of work, in return a big angpow for each of them and some mandarins and a drink to quelch their hunger and thirst.
We were saved and they enjoyed a bit of Chinese New Year hospitality......big clap for this true showing of Malaysian multi-cultural society!! :p
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