Heheh.. I'm such a lagger. Shen and Lyn have been pestering me to blog since long long long time ago. But I had to be lazy as hell to not blog since last year. So the new year 2007 is here (sounds so weird saying that since it's the end of January already..haha.) and many things happened (duhh~!). For the first time in my life, I've been back to both my hometowns, KL and Tawau within a month. Usually, if I'm going to KL I won't be going to Tawau and vice versa.
Well, my mom and I going to KL is kinda like "for fun", something like "play play" or "cincai" cause somewhere in November or December '06, my mom called me when I was in Melbourne and asked if I wanted to go KL cause she saw cheap AirAsia tickets on sale to KL from Brunei which cost about B$5 per person. But of course, it's not really that cheap because when u include the tax and all, it amounts to a total of about $189 for two people. Nevertheless, it's STILL quite cheap, don't u think so?? Yeah, so of course I couldn't turn down the offer, and my mom never expected me to as well..hahah, so we were off to KL on 2nd-11th jan '07.
When in KL, I didn't do much except SHOP! hahah, but I did went up to Genting Highlands for a night to stayover. Didnt' do much cause I went there at night with my mom and grandmother at like 8 pm at night. Hahah, crazy time to go up there, but the sole reason we're up there is for my mom to go to the casino. Then my grandmother and I walked around looking at "Closed" shops and drank some dessert stuff. There's really nothing to do at such a late time there. But I really wasn't disappointed or anything...hhehe, cause I've kinda tried most of the rides there and wasn't looking forward to the outdoor theme park too. To tell the truth I prefer the rides in Jerudong Park to the ones in Genting but too bad... Jerudong is very very much in low maintenance at the moment. Then went back down the next day without even doing anything except eating breakfast. haha, true holiday-makers would so be giving me the "what the heck did u travel all the way up there for?" look at me..heheh.
So, the rest of the days were spent shopping till I "almost" dropped..haha. Went to 1Utama and Sg. Wang twice, Sunway Pyramid, IOI Mall ( lousy!) and for the first time in so many years, Petaling Street, where I enjoyed using my bargaining skills. I also met up with some friends whom I was close with in Melbourne who are from KL and we went to the Redbox Karaoke at Sunway Pyramid. That's my second time in a real karaoke place and it's very fun. The songs are all very updated and the mic system rocks..hehe (sorry if I'm being such a sakai). First time happened in Melbourne but didn't really like that place cause the songs kinda quite old and not many Chinese new songs there.
Okay, I'll stop about KL and move on to Tawau. Reason to go back is cause I haven't seen my relatives, especially my grandmother in Tawau for almost two years since the Chinese New Year in 2005. It's funny that I did not pester my mom to come with me and actually made myself attempt to travel alone for the first time. Haha, not that I'm the only one who doubt my abilities, my aunties, uncles and grandmother in Tawau, my dad and my mom asked whether I "really know how" to travel or not. I have a feeling that they think I'll get lost or kidnapped or tricked by some conmen, or something. But in the end, I just said "OK, i'll go alone, Nvm i'm okay with it....blablabla."
The night before I left for Tawau, I heard news that a tsunami was gonna hit Tawau. That really shocked me la. Why when I wanna go to Tawau, then only the tsunami wanna come?? But since it's just gonna hit and not have already hit, I didn't really bother about that and just went on with the plan. 22-26th jan in Tawau. I had to fly from Brunei to KK for transit using MAS and KK to Tawau using AirAsia. In KK, I of course landed in KK International Airport cause i was flying in from Brunei. But the problem is I didn't even know that AirAsia have their own terminal at somewhere else just like the one in KL - LCCT terminal. Had to go by taxi all the way to the other terminal and the stupid airport taxis were charging RM 20 for a ride that would definitely cost less than RM 10 if I used ordinary taxis. CHEAT money ahh! The terminal is just less than 5 mins away.
In Tawau, I heard about the tsunami news. Apparently it was true and that night when the news came out, people started fledding their houses, taking important documents and some clothing, leaving everything behind and going to higher grounds. All my relatives there went to my house in Tawau cause it was situated quite high. Funny when my cousin told me my house was "fully booked" that night. Traffic jams everywhere and petrol stations filled with cars who want to go away from the town. I know it's like a matter of life and death, but I couldn't resist laughing man. Well, after all, it sounded like a false alarm cause there was no tsunami in the end. Even the people there find it funny that they actually ran for their lives. But when I got back to Brunei, my mom told me that it WAS gonna hit Tawau that night. But fortunately, it got blown away by some "kind-hearted" winds.
I spent time shopping (again!). Eventhough it's a small little place, I managed to buy clothes and shoes, including a pair of boots <3. Ate seafood (yummilicious!) and tried crocodile meat for the first time. Then went to karaoke(again again!) at some dodgy bar place where u have to share the whole karaoke place with everyone else. So like everyone hears u singing..haha..embarassing. U have to submit the songs u wanna sing and wait till it's ur turn and a basket of two mics will be passed to ur table. So weird.. There are other places with better karaoke facilities that could probably match up to the ones in KL, with individual rooms, but dunno why we just didn't go to those.
Okay.. I'm so tired of typing and I bet u're also tired of reading about my short holidays.hahaha... okay, now back to Brunei then. nooooooo..soo tired already!
Lyn and Shen, hahah I remember telling u guys I didn't know what to blog about. Turns out I was just lazy (I think?). Now I don't even have the time/energy to blog about what we did back in Brunei. booo.. but don't worry, I'll definitely blog about us and what we did recently. will do that very very soon. maybe with pics too? hahha
3 comments:
i told you there was gonna be a tsunami! =/
hahaha you said you didn't know what to blog about? that was the longest entry i've read in a long long time.
and cool holidays! so funny you, didn't even tell us all these when we were together, had to read it from the blog to find out!
and i wanna go to RedBox also!
haha.. xp
anyways, yayss.. jasmine finally blogged..!
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