It has been a while since my last
wrote. I’m feelin a lil bit rusty. Maybe the writing mechanics is not in top
form yet hehe. I remember those days when writing was my escape from reality, I
guess it still is. Just got back from the Philippines with Ketam, Lobster, and
Wong (bukan nama sebenar). The trip wasn’t planned, it was just a spur of the
moment, takin the advantage of the holidays.
But the original destination was
to go to Bangkok. We were supposed to take a train from KL Sentral to
Butterworth/Hat Yai and straight to go to Bangkok. And Wong already bought
tickets from penang to KL for our return flight. I went to see Ketam at KL
Sentral to accompany him to buy those tickets, when our turn came, tickets were
sold out. I imagined the train would be full with foreigners.
Then I told Ketam that we should
just go local, to have our holiday here, but he insisted with a BIG NO, he said
to me ‘we’ve already set our mind to go and have our holiday oversea, then we
should’. We compared destinations with destinations and Philippines was the
result. Flights and rooms were booked. The first 3D2N we spent at Makati, and
the remaining at Clark.
Here is how the journey began,
and I assure you, it is not without drama, aint that right Lobster?
The night before the journey, not
one of us had enough sleep, I guess it was the excitement, but for me it is
because I was worried I’d overslept hehe. I asked Bian to send me and the guys
to LCCT, God bless his soul. Bian and I took off at 4am, to pick up Wong at
415, I gave him a call first, and sure enough he waqs sleeping, thank God I
called, he immediately got up and ready, by 430 we were at Lobster’s place to
pick him and Ketam, and as usual with these two, sumthin will come up and like
sun rising up in the morning, it did. Ketam was busy trying to find a parking
spot for his brand new car, takut kena panas katanya. After 20mins we were off
to LCCT.
We say our goodbyes and thanks to
Bian, and went straight to the kiosk to print our ticket, but guess what, the
dram begins, we couldn’t print it because Lobster wasn’t using the mobile apps
but using images from his email instead uhuk2. We hurried to the counter, and I
told him to go and cut the line and straight to the counter because we were
already late. Thank God we made it. We got into the departure hall and only a
few people are left queuing.
The stewardess was wearing jeans,
airasia style, and Lobster was kind enough to give her his usual trademarked
pick-up line ‘you’re pretty’. The flight was smooth. We landed at Clark Airport.
And then jeng-jeng-jeng another drama ensued. Lobster lost his wallet, eh
‘misplaced’ or was it his wallet entered the twilight zone? We searched for it
frantically everywhere but to no avail.
Lobster was clearly frustrated
and accused and insisted that someone pickpocketed him to the extent asking the
airport police to look at the cctv recording! And the result was clearly a no.
no body pickpocketed him whatsoever. The free bus ride to manila is being held
for our sake, Lobster was askin me about the embassy and we should go and
report his missing wallet. We left our number to the police and ran to the bus,
and guess what, sumthin fell from Lobster’s beg pack, and surely enough it was
his wallet. It was there all the time, stuck in between the straps.
And he blabbered about it wasn’t there,
someone pickpocketed him, x-files and stuff when it was clearly his negligence
uhuk2. Be that as it may, the bus ride was almost 2 hrs long, and we reached
resort world, and then we took a xab to Makati city, which was just around the
corner. Oh ya I forgot to mention Wong made a friend from the flight, a Japanese
dude named Jun Aoki who works at Malaysia.
Penat menaip – End of Part 1
