Deliciously Me

It was an impromptu decision. AirAsia was having great promotion last year, and Sat casually checked out the promotion offered.

Next time I know he called me, telling me about this. I agreed and in within one day, 8 more booked their tickets for this trip. All this happened way before the Indonesia trip.

Guess how much the ticket costs – RM58! Blardy RM58 for return trip! Who would let this opportunity slide away?!

The codename Dinnyland came not long after booking the flight. It’s a manja word for Disneyland and it suits this purpose of this getaway – happy, fun and relaxing.

Both Sat and I didn’t plan much on the itinerary. We did plan, however attentions were focused more on Indonesia trip since the group is bigger. It was only after the Indonesia trip and 3 months before departure we started searching for information and emailing the hotels, transportation companies and tour agencies with lots recommendation from Hannah. She’s such an angel; she helped us in our enquiries no matter how busy she was. We couldn’t thank her more for that.

Believe it or not, only one month into flying; Hannah, Satkuru and I finalized the whole itinerary and bookings. We were that laid back and have totally no worry of the plan being backfired as we drafted out few itineraries. I guess this trip is the easiest to plan out with and with the least headaches too!

Probably it was due to the travel kakis that we’re going with. All were the flexible/go-with-the flow types and it made things even easier. Love all my travel kakis to bits as they made the trip way more fun with their crazy, wacky and laughable yet loveable personality.

Like all previous trips, we had few hiccups with the airlines – like our flights being postponed and changed/cancelled. But Sat managed to settle them quickly, so it wasn’t a big problem at all. Hehe.

7^th July 2010 came and 4 girls from Penang boarded the plane to KL with totally broad smiles that even the flight delayed couldn’t stop them from flashing their teeth. Yup, we were that happy chatting despite being so tired for working earlier that day, but still we were quite alert and excited. I guess the adrenaline pumped in too much. Lol!

We reached LCCT like at 8pm. Aaron and Sat were already there to pick us up at the airport and all of us went to Tune Hotel to dump our bags there. Then we went all the way to Alamanda with the initial plan of watching Twilight (which we didn’t at the end thankfully. Lol) and then headed to Equine Park to change money. Surprisingly the rate offered by the owner there is super favourable than all outlets in Penang.

Then we vroomed all the way to Putrajaya Sentral where we were joined by Jess and Steven. All of us took the LRT to Salak Selatan and from there we boarded a bus directly to LCCT for RM5.50 only.

Since Jess and Steven haven’t gotten their dinner, we dropped by Old Told Kopitiam before going back to Tune Hotel for the night. We arranged to meet up at 5.00am.

Since it was world cup season that time and there was a match playing at 2.30am; Sat went back to LCCt to watch it and did kiosk checkin on our behalf. He told me about it after I msged him telling him that I
got nightmare. Lol

Poor AL, May and Emily got up and ready by 5am and were surprised to know we were still sleeping. I felt so bad for them. Nevertheless they still went to airport earlier as Emily hasn’t check in yet.

We left Tune Hotel at 6am and checked in our baggage at the airport. David and Daniel joined us and all of us went to the Immigration counter before entering the departure hall. Didn’t know why time passed by so quickly that morning and we heard that they’re already calling our flight number for the final time! We thought we still have time to linger around! +_+

We walked as fast as our legs could carry.

5 minutes later, I was seated on the plane between Ailing and Aaron; my seat belt were already fastened and busy flipping throw the in-flight magazines as Emily said to look for our next destination! Lol.

I think we didn’t buy our seat when doing booking as we were seated far from each other. Only Sat, Aaron and I were seated together, but Sat changed place with Ailing after knowing that a big sized guy seated next to her. Scared Ailing kena kemeked. Lol.

As we didn’t have our breakfast yet and we were super hungry that time, we ordered food from the air stewardess. RM14 for a box of rice and a bottle of iced tea.

Aaron ordered something which looked nicer – which I regretted for no ordering.

As our journey took nearly 4 hours and with nothing else to read and do, I took out my iTouch and played “My Name is Khan.” I couldn’t stop laughing in the beginning and had to hold my tear at the end. In between the laughing and holding tears, the plane was shaking by a little and the seat belt light signal was on most of the time.

By the time the movie ended, the captain made announcement of landing. He even mentioned that we’re reaching 15 minutes earlier. Woohoo! Good timing I guess. Keke.

We landed at the humble airport of Diosdado Macapagal Internation Airport (DMIA) in Clark.

We purposely took our own sweet time walking towards the airport, so that we could take lots picture at the tarmac.

We cleared arrival Immigration smoothly, claimed our backpacks from the luggage beat conveyer and walked out of the airport.

From this paragraph onwards, I’ll be writing the amount of money used in Peso with the rate I got : RM1 = PHP13.69 or PHP1000 = RM73

Just before the exit, there were plenty of bus counters with ladies and men calling the destination names on the right. We walked directly towards the counter since Sat spotted the familiar name ‘Philtranco’. We asked for 10 tickets and paid 3.000 pesos (RM219). We were told that the bus was already there and we could easily see the bus once getting out of the airport.

To make sure that we understand what she meant, she even walked us out and pointed the bus to us. So cute.

But the thing is our eyes were glued to the sim card machine outside the airport. All of us walked there and asked the price for a Smart sim card. The lady explained something about getting the sim card with a top up card for 250 pesos (RM18.25), I think. I don’t remember the price as I supposed to get one but I ended up sharing with Sat. Lol.

Then we boarded the bus. We were the last group to board before the bus moved.

I sat with May while Sat sat behind us. While those with the sim card were busy activating their numbers on their phone, I was busy snapping photos of the surrounding and also watching their local game-show playing on the small TV set in front.

It was Thursday and they have game-show going on! And the game-show is so funny and interesting. I began to like this country already.

The journey from Clark to Manila took 2 hours. Along the way, we passed by smaller cities with big names like San Fernando, Mexico. Lol!

Hate the bus’s dirty window plane. Made the pictures taken from the bus all blurry. Grrr!

Totally love their big billboards. They’re totally mind-blowing! Couldn’t stop going ahhh…! Wahhh! with May.

Our bus finally entered Manila town and then stopped at bus stop at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City, Ortigas.

We got down, and walked into the mall. But we were stopped and scanned by the security guards before entering. Satisfied with the checking, they let us in. We were like – “Do we have this terrorist look on our face?” Kidding, we understand that they’re just doing their jobs. Lololololol!

I met Hannah for the first time at SM Megamall. I was told by those who’ve met her that she’s petite, but I never thought she really is. Maybe the “When In Manila” shirt she wore to promote her other website made her frame looked smaller. She is so lively and bubbly and immediately asked us if we want to have lunch now or made our move to GoHotel. Immediately all of us vouched for lunch and she brought us to the nearest food court where there are plenty of nice, delicious food can be found.

And that’s when I tried Jollibee.

I read about this fast food outlet that rivals to MCD and KFC and can be found in Philippines only. When I saw it, I was pretty happy! However, I made a walk around the food court to check out on the other local delicacies.

Actually, I rounded the whole food court because I was attracted to this stall with the name Balut Balut. We thought it’s the real balut, but they just served economic rice with normal chicken egg. Lol!

Eventually, I went back to Jollibee and ordered one set. It costs about 127 pesos (RM9.28) including VAT.

Hannah did a live photo update to FB on us having lunch and few minutes later, the photo generated like many comments. I was like fuih! Gengness!

One of the funny moments we shared while having Jollibee was David did not aware that there’s a rice packet that came along with the meal. He thought that it’s a small burger so he finished up the chicken first. Only after unwrapping the ‘burger’ did he realise that the content was actually rice! All of us laughed super hard that time. I almost chocked. Lol!

Multiple posts : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |