Balik kampung

17 February 2007 (Sabtu)

Finally the time has come!!! Too happy smpi tak boleh nak tido. Macamla tak pernah balik kampung. Tapi kali ni lain sikit sbb I bawa kawan-kawan balik kampung I. They’re Intan, Oya and Ziez.

7.45am
Ziez smpi rumah I lepas dia fetch Intan & Oya. Ziez simpan kereta dia kat rumah I, then we all go with my Cabai.

8.15am
Depart from Maluri Hill Garden. The traffic approaching to Sg Buluh toll was OK. Dah happy dah sebab ingat semua orang dah balik kampong lastnite. Masuk aje exit Sg Buloh dah crawling!!! OMG!!! Entahla for how long nak kena stranded kat sini. Kereta punyala banyak ni baru betul nak balik kampung. Yelah…ingatkan bangsa cina ajela yg nak sambut CNY, bangsa lain pun nak jugakla grap this opportunity balik kampong ke, cuti2 malaysia ke, yelaaahh…4 harila katakan...lama tuuu. My entertainer is my friendsla. Depala yg dok melayan

10.15am
Still here, crawling I mean. Baru smpi Rawang. Can u just imagine 2hrs!!! Baru smpi Rawang. To me kalau 2 hrs tu, dah boleh smpi Ipoh!! Haaiiihhh….penatnya, nasib Cabai I tu auto. Kalau manual mau I tinggal aje keta tu and jalan kaki. Sigghhh!!!! Intan bagitau yg pagi tadi dia dengar kat radio ada 2 bas express tebalik dekat Lembah Beringin. When we reach there tak nampak pun bas2 yg accident tu….gamaknya dah kena tow kot. Tp, ada jugakla beberapa ambulance pass by us. Nasibla tak panas, hujan along the way.

11.30am
We reach Slim River. I nak pergi toilet, coz my tank dah full. Nak stop kat R & R pun tak boleh sbb semua tempat tu dah penuh dgn manusia. Kena drive to the next R & R, pun sama jugak, so I told my friends, can’t wait any longer mesti pegi jugak…kalau tak pegi, tak smpila kita kat Alor Setar nih. Still raining, tapi takla lebat bolehla tahan. Umat manusia yg beratur nak ke bilik air pun ramai jugak!!! Addussss…..sakit jiwa mcm ni. Tp dah natures call…beratur ajela.

12.05pm
Reach Tapah. Before we reach Tapah, we saw Police helicopter. They’re monitoring the PLUS highway from the sky. They flew very low & near…mmg boleh nampak depan mata. Lagaknya macam nak land atas highway. Mungkin they try to block emergency lane. Sebab kat emergency lane tu, byk kereta guna jalan tu. Yelaahh…nak buat macamana sbb too many cars, and that’s the only way they can used nak elak jammed. Oya managed to take video. It was a scary moment, I’m scared if the heli lost control, It might crash on us. Really HORROR!!

1.30pm
Baru sampai toll Jelapang. Nasib ada Touch & Go….takla long Q. Tapi ada jugak MALAUN yg tak reti bahasa & tak sekolah nak potong Q, then try nak masuk depan my car. Mentang2 dia bawa keta besaq Hilux…heeemmm!!! I don’t care, I don’t gave a damn way…lantakla…hang nak honk ke…nak maki ke….peduli apa I, kita dah beratuq elok2, dia plak pandai2…nak senang2 nak potong Q…sorry hozey, wrong personla nak masuk depan. Tunang Ziez dah susah hati dah, dia call a few times jugakla nak tau our status dah smpi mana….sbb kami ni lambat sgt sampainya, suppose dah boleh smpi penang dah boleh makan nasi kandaq pun. Tp I tak makan nasi kandaq

3.15pm
Sampai Juru toll. Tunang Ziez dah tunggu kat MdD Auto-City Juru. Tula 1st time I sampai sana eventhough dah selalu lalu nak balik Alor Setar. Happening gak tempat tu….byk kedai makan kat sana. We had lunch at Nando’s favourite Oya. J Lepak sana until 4.30pm. Kena rehat lama sket…sbb driver too tired. Sepanjang jalan from Sg Buloh to Juru was raining. Tu yg tak boleh nak speed sangat sbb jalan licin..lagi pun I bawa 3 orang anak dara

4.45pm
Depart from Juru. Slow drive to Alor Setar…it was raining heavily. Kesian kat Intan sbb tak dpt nak tengok bendang along the way. Sbb sekarang ni bukan musim menanam (which is hijau) or musim padi masak (which is kuning). Padi semua dah masak, so nampak byk bendang yg dah terbakar…for next menanam. Pemandangan tu tak berapa nak cuunlaaa…. L We reach Alor Setar 6.15pm. It was the longest journey balik kampung. Penat beb….smpi driver ni pening2 hingga bawa ke malamla. My parents mmg susah hati sangat hari tu, sbb anak dara dia tak sampai2 lagi from KL. It took us 10 hours to reach Alor Setar. But it was a great experience too enjoy jugakla journey ni.eventhough penat.

9.00pm
After we had dinner, Syamil ajak pusing2 Alor Setar town. Dia yg nak bawa my friends jalan2 malam tu. I tunjuk Alor Setar Tower, Masjid Zahir, we went to Kuala Kedah then we stop at White Horse Oldtown Coffee House…minum coffee kat situ. Malam CNY pun ramai jugak manusia dok lepak situ..ingatkan depa dok Yam Seng..heemm…too bad. Dlm dok pening2 kepala tu I layan jugakla kerenah my friends. Ziez belanja coffee malam tu. I dah tak larat dah…flat smpi rumah terus balik tido…dgn nak layan pening kepala lagi…issshhh….

18 February 2007 (Ahad)

Padang Besar

Hari ni plan nak pergi Perlis. Uncle suggest pegi Padang Besar for a shopping trip, it is a shopping heaven - FOR AUNTIES...... This town is only a stone throw away from Thailand. The 5 of us including Syamil bersiap then at about 10am kami betolak ke Perlis. We meet k.yanee at Changlun. K.Yanee is my cousin’s wife she route us there,sbb kami tak tahu jalan nak pegi Padang Besar tu. Dia asal orang Kodiang tu yang pandai jalan area2 Perlis tu….sometime dia pun terlepas jugakla ke Hadyai…dia pandai ckp Siam tau. Nasib baikla dia ada. Haaiiihhh…nak buat camner… I ni kedah murtad.

Beemers kami diterus'n ke Padang Besar dgn tujuan mengkayakan peniaga2 disana dan memiskinkan diri ini. The journey is abt 100km++ away from Alor Setar I guess. It was a very long journey (maybe I was feeling damn letih had yg smlm punya letih pun tak recover lagi). Jauhnya Padang Besar...rasa mcm kat hujung dunia! Dah laa along the way tu takde other tourist attraction. Really, Perlis state govt should do something abt it...org2 ni semata2 drive all the way to Padang Besar jek. Buat la other tourist attraction along the way, baru laa rasa berbaloi. Only on certain part tu bolehla nampak pokok tebu…luas jugakla ladangnya.

Wajah kami semakin ceria bila sampai pekan Padang Besar..tercari2 gak padang yg besar itu tp tidak kelihatan..tak kisahlah...plet2 kete Siam mmg bersepah2 la and mengconfirmkan kami ni makin dekat ngan sempadan..ziez, intan & oya sibuk menerima tempahan..panggilan masuk bertali arus..sms yg diterima berjela pnjg..ader yg nak kaler itam..ader mntak putih..ader suka warna belang..ader yg kater suka hati u lah..U suka I pun suka....

Padang Besar was super hot. It's like as if we were in a sauna. The first time I was there about a year plus ago, I've noticed the extra hot temperature in the shopping area. So, this time around I made a point to wear jeans and a t-shirt to avoid drowning in own sweat. Padang besar being the most popular is the stainless steel cooking ware. Shopping experience in Padang Besar was much better than Bukit Kayu Hitam. More choices and better prices. Nasibla k.yanee ada…dialah yg dok bargain barang2 yg we all beli. Harap I to bargain…eemm..minta maafla tak reti. However compared to both places,

Bukit Kayu Hitam

::variety choices of periuk in various brands

::chocolate selections are okay, better in Langkawi

::horrible choices of handbags & shoes

Padang Besar

::Mucho grande selections of branded jeans/shirt/wallets/handbags

::Nice selection of toto (alaaa, mcm comforter tu)

::Very hot!

Rata2 we all puas hati dengan hasil dagangannya..baju, henbeg, kristals, brooch, jersi, ..semuanya dalam genggaman..sedih gakla biler pikir En RM yg terpaksa dikorban'n sbg galang ganti barang dagangan ini..but at least dia selamat di tangan peniaga2 Melayu..sekurang2nya untuk hari ini... We had lunch kat bawah pokok ceri dekat dgn market padang besar. Makan gakler…dahla panas dah tu lapar plak..heemmm….nasib habis.

Finish story kat padang besar, next trip is to Gua Kelam. K.yanee show us the way to gua kelam. Tp dia tak join us, dia terus balik.

Gua Kelam

Kat Gua Kelam. Oya, Ziez & Intan first time masuk.. nak masuk gua pun ramai orang.... kena bayar RM1.00 okla….for gua punya maintenance. Punyerla ramai manusia dok bermandi manda……Gua Kelam is a fantastic place....untuk saper yg tak biasa masuk gua tu…bolehla try dtg sini. Nak jalan masuk dlm gua tu is about 15 minutes on the evalated wooden bridge through the cave there is a beautiful multishape limestone, n special - a stream below the wooden bridge that carved through the cave from the waterfall towards the entrance of the cave there’s another park. he he yang couple2 boring jer coz kawasan dah tak sunyi utk bermesra huhu.. kitorang usha jerla mana yang boleh hahahaha...Lama jugakla kami kat sana, sambil cuci2 mata..jumpa cik nyet, cik beruk, cik makyey..mcm2la kami jumpa. Kawasan tu kering, sbb musim kemarau sekarang ni…byk daun2 gugur dah tak berapa nak hijau…air sungai pun kaler teh susu…and yet ada jugak orang mandi. Sighhh!!!

Ostrich Farm

Kat sini we all stop for 15 minutes aje. Tinggi2 & besar2 Ostrich kat sini. Tak tau pun ada ostrich farm kat sini, sbb kerajaan negeri perlis tak advertise pun. At least we knowla its part of the tourist attractions for Cuti-Cuti Malaysia 2007..haaiiaahhh..so lemaula our Goverment Services ni. So back to the story. Kawasannya memangla luas….ostrich pun byk ekoq gakla. Tp tak nampak plak org yg dok menjaganya….kot2la boleh tunggang ostrich tu. Tapi yg paling tak tahan is…busuk ya rabbi…tengokla gambar2 nih.

Well, that’s about it for today. I dah memang tak larat dah sebenarnya. Nasibla bukan I yg drive. Thanks to Beemers k…you really hensem…baik…jujur…& bertanggungjawab…terima kasih daun keladi bro!!!

19 February 2007 (Isnin)

Hari ni plan nak pegi Pekan Rabu plak. Lepas breakfast bersiap2 then continue our journey. Hari ni I kena drive sbb Syamil nak rehat plak kat rumah. I drive Honda Odessey plak hari ni, its belongs to Izuan. My friends macam tak percaya I drive this car, coz its too big for me. Tp…I suka bawa kereta besar2 ni….PUAS!!! Sampai sana kena borong lagi. Haaiihh…kali ni balik kampong asyik shopping aje. Banyak sangat pesanan penaja dr KL. Kami membeli ikan pekasam, cucuq meneram, kuih karas, minyak rambut, minyak gamat, dodol durian/lemak, belacan, asam jawa..etc…etc…etc….

Next, kawan Oya suggest to try Mee Abu kat Jalan Teluk Wan Jah. Smpi sana we order 3 Mee Abu. Me and Ziez share, coz I ni tak berapa nak makan sgt meet tu, tp bolehla tahan rasanya. Intan & Oya like it. Then we proceed to Muzium Padi kat Gunung Keriang. Masuk sana kena bayar RM3.00. Umat manusia punyala ramai jgn cerite!!…almaklumlah cuti panjangla katakan. Platform berpusing pon diorang tak pusingkan sbb org ramai sgt sampai tak boleh nak tampung berat manusia so tak dpt la rasa peak activity kat muzium padi tu huhuh dahla masuk kena bayar RM3.00 huhu.. tapi kira oklaa...bagus kerajaan kedah!! J Then Intan nak try makan Pasembor plak. Mak Engku suggest makan kat Kedai Alisa dekat dgn Masjid Pantai Johor. Sampai sana, as usual, me & ziez share the portion..heh…heh…he…I ni bab makan memilih sket. Intan & Oya finish their portion. Intan kata tak berapa nak sedap pasembor sini. Well, at least I dah bawa depa pi sana makan pasembor … I’m too tired, then kami balik.

At about 6.00pm we went to Darul Aman Water Park. Kat sana, mcm-mcm xtvt ada, boleh naik kuda, main laying-layang, ada karaoke, naik boat, jogging. My nieces and nephews paling enjoy. Sbb depa semua boleh bebas berlari tak ada halangan. Lepak sampai maghrib..happening gak tempat tu….happening for orang LoqStaqlaaa…..for us for a short term boleh….long term…kenot kot

20 February 2007 (Tuesday)

Sedeynya nak balik KL dah. Cepatnya masa berlalu. Sedey aje muka my parents nak let us go. Kalau boleh nak stay lama lagi kat kampung. We depart at about 9.30am...traffic is not as bad as that day. Flowing smoothly. We stop at Sungai Perak and we had lunch at Tapah. We reach KL at 3.30pm.

Little msg :-)

Dearie friends, brothers, families.......thank a lot for the guidance and hospitality given to us while we were there. Uncle & Auntie...thanks for the accommodation and foods. Service is first class!!! Muaaahhh!!! Love uuu. kat sana kami sentiasa kenyang. For my brothers, thanks again for your kindness entertaining my friends, layan kerenah depa2 nih, they really enjoy it while you guys around...cayalaaa....bro!!! Thanks a bunch!!!!! My sister-in-laws...heemmm....nice & delicious foods...sedapla masakan k.hus, k.hasiah and Ila...peergghhh...sedap hingga menjilat jari. K.Hasiah terima kasih byk2 sbb tolong Oya balut kaki dia...nasibla ada ex-Nurse sorang kat rumah tu. My friends, terima kasih sbb sudi balik kampung ira, sudi tinggal rumah kampung ira, sudi terima family ira. Minta maaf..kalau ada tingkah laku kami yg terguris hati atau apa2 aje. Glad that u guys enjoy it. Sudila kiranya dtg lagi. InsyaAllah kalau umur panjang...apa salahnya kan.