pre-stroke , my working life

my first job was with petronas, maybe on the basis of my degree which includes the magic words ENERGY STUDIES", they offered me a position as a trainee engineer with a small desk right at the front of a room full of engineers facing an array of ladies who were not only there to be the supporting clerical staff but also were a rich source of gossips etc.,and thus absolutely necessary to befriend if one wish to have a smooth transition, all ably commandered by a lovely bespectacled lady by the name of minah meon, who lives somewhere in ukay heights, the beverly hills of kuala lumpur, so she quietly confided to me along the corridor one quiet day.mind you this was before the good times when driving to/from ukay heights was a pleasure, and when most of the hills were nice and serene with chirping birds to wake you up as the great lawyer shahul constantly reminded me, and definitely not strangled with traffic as it was in the nineties and the hills were more akin to kojak whose nose was badly dripping(aka regular landslides )culminating with that nasty incident wherein an entire block of apartments was swept away.can't exactly remember what it was called.