KL Trip with big girls

Warning: very long entry. Loads of short stories and pics. Pick proper time to read. Avoid getting caught by your boss for reading this looooooooooong entry. Suri rumahs.. don't get engrossed and forget to check on your cooking or fetch ur children from school. Nur da abis blajar ke belum?! bljr dulu! Finally.. i hope you enjoy reading it, as much as I've enjoyed going thru them.

And so the day finally came, when the big girls and I, were finally on our way to KL.

8am almost sharp, the bus were on it's way. And after 5 hours of (nonsense, laughters, sleep, snacks and drinks) we were in KL.



Day 1

Checked into the hotel, put our stuff, solat etc. Then we listed down the places we wanted to go to and the things we needed to get.

KLCC, Bt Bintang, Petaling St, Kampung Baru, Time Square, Eye on Malaysia - oh yes and not forgetting to sit at Starbucks and/or Coffee Bean, and also to have Teh Tarik. Oh and also Puduraya. No lah.. takde apa2 kat sana, just need to book ticket bas nak balik.

In +/- 1.5 days - u think we can do all that? Macam nak rak, jalan.

1st destination, Bt Bintang.. da dekat dengan hotel. Had our lunch there. Then shop sikit kat around there.




The LRT

After that, we thought we'd try taking the LRT to KLCC.
No direct train - must change train. Ingatkan, change train tu.. macam kat sini, naik escalator ke.. or macam kat outram gitu ke. But rupanyer.. nak change train to.. jalan jaaaaauuh. Like totally exit from the 1st leg train station, then walk outside to another train station about..err maybe 10km 1km away (kat Dang Wangi)





Akhirnya sampai jugak kat Suria KLCC tu. Had our Coffee Bean there, went to the bookshop and took some pictures.




Then went back to the hotel to freshen up, solat.

Our weapon

Pastu, malam dinner kat BB Bistro. We had our teh tarik there. Ada live band. And they sang HITZ songs like 'Wan Tanah Merah'. When the band took their break, the shop played some music from CDs, which we preferred.





Lepas tu.. gi Kg Baru cari jagung bakar. Tak lah kita tu nak sangat makan jagung bakar. Its just something to justify our wanting to go there, to take some pics. Anyway, kedai jangung bakar tu pun tutup.. and yang ada kedai jagung rebus, and pakcik refused to bakar under his pan of boiling water. So we just bought the jagung rebus aje.



And after that, gi Dataran.. (Malaysia? Pahlawan? Negara?)




The girls still wanted to 'hang out' some more. Checked with Muadz earlier on kat mana kitorang boleh hang out safely. He suggested Lotus, but fiza wanted to listen to some live band - it doesn't matter if they sing Wan Tanah Merah or Itsy bitsy spider..she just wanted some noise. And I, who aksen diet didn't take dinner earlier on..was so hungry by then.. so we headed back to BB Bistro tu.. and I had my dinner there.





By the time we walked back to the hotel, it was way past midnight. Fiza suggested that we can use the jagung rebus, that we had bought earlier, as weapon of mass destruction protection. A brilliant idea - i imagine we can all hit the crook on the head with the jagung rebus, or stuff his...... mouth with it. Pink said, kalau ada belt, boleh jugak kita letakkan that 2 jagung rebus, 1 on each side, and then can draw it like a pistol, when required. But nobody had a belt on.

Alhamdulillah, with the jagung rebus in hand - and Allah's protection, we walked back to our hotel safely.

Day 2

Next am, about 11, we checked out and headed to Puduraya, to book bus tickets for our return trip that night. We put our bags at the lockers there, and went to Nando's nearby to have our brunch. Pink was in love with that place. At the door, we were already impressed with the decor. (ya lah.. jakun sikit. Except for Mai, the rest have never eaten at Nando's before).





PINK
I love the decor! I love the way they lay out their menus, I love the menu, I love their napkins, I love their pinggan. I love everything about them!
(ok, she may have used the word 'like'. I exaggerated a bit)

BLOSSOM
Oh yeah. They.....(cupping her hands - like in Jerry McGuire) 'complete you' right?

PINK
Ah ah sey. They had me at the door. they had me at the door.

I on Malaysia

Pastu, we took a cab - to try out that Eye on Malaysia. Ok ah jugak.. enjoy. Ni tak payah criter banyak.. tengok photos and video aje eh.






At last, kita makan juga our weapons, the jagung rebus, while waiting for a cab, after the ferris wheel ride.


Time Square

Then.. kitorang gi Time Square.. pasal Teddie.. dia nak sangat try naik Roller Coaster tu. Tapi tadi kat Eye on Malaysia pun.. dia macam da panic.. i thought I let her try something less thrilling. The spaceship that goes round and round, up and down and fast. It was too much for her.. she said - dia terperanjat. I should have let her take the 'Magic School Bus' ride first.

When we finally took the Roller Coaster - we took it twice! Pink and I, very much enjoy the ride (i don't know how long more I can get on this ride, before age catches up with me and I get giddy). Mai was ok ok.. Teddie just kept quiet..didn't talk to us until a while later.



ni bukan roller coaster dia.. ni choo choo train

Petaling Street

After that.. kita gi Petaling Street. I'm not a big fan of Petaling Street actually. My legs are starting to kill me.. we walked anyway. Because I'm not much of a fan..and I'm tired, and my legs are killing me, nothing interesting happened here.




so the very tired..



At last.. it was about time for dinner, before we head back to Pudu for our bus. We had our nasi kandar kat opposite Pudu.

The Bus

Hmm.. here on.. no pictures. semua da tak larat/tak kuasa/terlupa nak take photos.

After collecting our bags, we headed to our bus. In the bus, I noticed that the operators there, all talked the same way.. from the ticket counter staff, to the bus coordinator. They all communicated using the walkie talkie.

"Aliyah, aliyah - bas 523, bas 523, bas 523. seat 20 27 masih kosong. seat 20 27 masih kosong. seat 20 27 masih kosong."

heard on the other end "ok ok ok..tengah cari orang. tengah cari orang. tengah cari orang.

"ok ok ok ok ok. satu passenger dah naik. satu passenger dah naik. satu passenger dah naik."

(the other side) " ok ok ok ok ok ok ok"
(that must be a real confirmation agaknyer)

"mana ni lagi satu belum naik?! lagi satu belum naik?! lagi satu belum naik?!"


And like that lah.. kita dengar diorang shouting into the walkie talkie, until the time the bas finally moved off about 9pm.

Masa book tu.. dia kata.. bas ni - non stop sampai singapore. Rupanyer.. engine bas aje yang non stop. but the bus stopped at Yong Peng, at Larkin.. hmm.. but takpelah.. finally we reached Singapore.

And needless to say.. i very much enjoy the trip! and I'm soooo looking forward to another one like this.

Acknowledgements

Thank you for your patience, and reading this novel about our trip. Thank you Mai, Pink, Teddie for making the trip enjoyable. Thank you Muadz for giving ideas on where to go. Thank you Petronas Towers for letting us take loads of pics. Thank you Nando's for the superb restaurant and food. Thank you Pak Lah for having that Eye on Malaysia thingy. Thank you KL for being enjoyable. Thank you bas. Thank you bas. Thank you bas. - for bringing us home.

Thank you Allah for making this a safe trip for us.

TerimakaSIH!

*maybe unplugged - tengah stone, makan ubat..*