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This getaway supposed to ‘happen’ last year, but due to series of weird encounters followed by my beloved grandma demise, this trip got pulled to a stop.
So slightly more than a year later on 6th October, this trip initiated back. Yay!
This is my cute travel partner.. kurubee
.. which also happens to be the love of my life too, lol! And we flew in together from Penang to LCCT and boarded the afternoon flight to Phuket.
Came 13th July, the day we go back to the reality.
That morning we woke up early, as we need to catch the 7 o’clock bus to Clark. However one room didn’t get the revised departure time; they went down half an hour earlier and Sat and I felt so guilty upon hearing that. That moment, I made up my mind to personally tell everyone on important stuff like ‘gather time’ rather than relying on the others to pass the message.
We did quick check-out and then left GoHotels.Ph via taxi for Philtranco bus terminal at SM Megamall. Unfortunately the taxi could only fit 7 people, so Sat, Aaron and Steven volunteered to brace through the human-packed MRT. The taxi driver dropped us down at the entrance of SM Megamall, vaguely telling us to get to the back of the building. We have no idea where, so we stopped and asked one of the policemen on duty. He asked us to walk further down, take the pedestrian bridge and then turn left.
We did all but taking the pedestrian bridge. All of us were too lazy to do so, haha!
I sincerely thought that the bus terminal is a building – little did I know that it’s actually a bus stop. It’s the same place where we got down when we arrived in Manila 5 days ago. Seeing few people waiting there with luggage further confirmed our doubt on the right place to wait. I was afraid that Sat, Aaron and Steven didn’t know the way so I asked Emily to message the guys on our whereabouts. As we were looking for the accurate landmarks to tell them, they were seen walking towards the bus stop.
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.
7th 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!
I stumbled upon priceless rubbishes!
Months after coming back from Indonesia, I finally cleared these papers off my bag to give way for the incoming papers from my incoming trip! I took a picture, placed them into a big envelope and put them in my memento box. I got a box full of stuffs – all collected from places I’ve been to
Ah, I couldn’t be more excited on my coming trip. 4 weeks to go! Can’t wait! <3
To read about the Indonesia trip, please click the links below.
Multiple post : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22
I woke up early in the morning, at about 6 something. I couldn’t sleep well because of the cold. Knowing that there are only 2 bathrooms/toilets available on each floor and nobody was up yet, I took my own sweet time bathing, washing hair and brushing teeth, Haha. Then I woke Sat up and the girls in my room.
While going in and out of the room to the toilet, I bumped into an Indonesian guy who stayed in the room opposite ours. From exchanging smiles to small talk, all I know about this guy is he’s from another part of Indonesia (can’t remember where now – I think it’s Medan) and he’s in Jakarta for work. He then asked where am I coming from. When I told him that I’m from Malaysia, he revealed that he used to work in Malaysia in the city of Kuala Lumpur long, long time ago. After that I went back to my room and he went to the toilet.
Had Yakult as breakfast! Hoho!
Then it was time to go. I took my backpacks and went down with the rest. We waited for our pre-booked Alphard Taxi at the verandah. After getting call from the company saying that the taxi is somewhere near the area, we walked out to the main road, Jl. Jaksa since the company claimed that the taxi is too big for the small lane.
