Saturday
He went to MunSyI test at SMK Petra Jaya and answered 310 stupid and boring questions in 55 minutes. He doesn’t understand how this test can help him in securing his USM application as all the questions asked were totally unrelated at all. At 11.55 pm, he rushed to KIA to meet his family whom are waiting for him at the airport, thanks to his cousin who drove him all the way to the airport. As many of his trip to KIA, he’s always admire how beautiful the airport is, and how Sarawak can accomplish so much. He just felt bad that compared to the airport, Green Road still sucks. He managed to take-away his lunch at KFC when his mum is already urging the whole family to go into the departure hall. 12.50 pm. He was sitting at the departure hall, eating his KFC. He was the airplane, his first ride in Air Asia. This was one of his 5 air flights and he always enjoys flying. The feeling of taking off and the thrust of 4G against him brought exhilaration to him. Seeing Kuching city shrunk faster and faster, he silently said goodbye. He admired the floating clouds that look like cotton candies as the plane ascended up and up. He wondered how water can suspend mid-air to form white and fluffy clouds. There must be science behind it; he will look up into it when he got back from KL. He touched down safely and he thought he was in KLIA. But, he looked and looked but he didn’t feel like he was in KLIA because the terminal is messy and hot. Until he realised he was in LCCT and not KLIA that he understood everything; KLIA is next door. His uncle picked his family from the airport and on the way to the hotel, they stopped by Puchong’s market to eat Duck Egg Fried Kueh Tiau and Hokkien Mee. He ordered teh si peng special and his uncle asked him what’s the difference between Kuching’s teh si peng special and KL’s. He just answered that he doesn’t know, that’s why he wanted to try. The Hokkien Mee was his first ever of that kind of noodles and he likes it quite fine. Then they went to his uncle’s house before continuing to the hotel. His uncle’s house is beautiful, especially the lawn, which is his dream lawn design. Around evening, he finally managed to check into Peninsula Residence Hotel. His father got a nice studio suite for RM 700 for 2 nights. Then, his uncle sent them to Mid Valley Mega Mall at Bangsar. Like its name, the mall is the most massive mall that he could have ever been to; so big that it just make tHe Spring, Kuching a mere infant when both are compared together. One got lost in tHe Spring is an embarrassment but if one got lost in Mid Valle Mega Mall, its no laughing matter. He was impressed by the large numbers of foreigners there, unlike in Kuching, you only get to see once or maybe two in a crowd of hundreds. Later, his whole bought milks, orange juice, instant noodles and packets of bak guas home to their suite. Later in his suite, he couldn’t sleep due to the explosion of excitements that he’d going to have the next day. He was watching late movies to fill the time and often, the noise of motorcycles of KL’s Mat Rempit irritates him.
Sunday
He woke up to the sounds of vehicles on the road. He quickly brushed his teeth and got dressed. Around 10pm, they went down to the residence hotel’s restaurant for breakfast. Later, they caught a cab and went to Suria KLCC. At KLCC, they went to Petro science exhibition centre. He finally got to fulfill his childhood dream to visit the place. He spent half the day there. After that, they walk all the way to Aquaria KLCC. Before that, they had lunch at Kenny Rogers, and that is his most expensive meal. Then they went into Aquaria. It was his first trip ever to visit a huge aquarium like that. He saw many types of fish, separated with a horde of sharks just by a thick layer of glass, and saw countless of other species of land creatures. After going head over heels in the aquarium, they went to KLCC Park. It’s a huge park surrounded by gigantic buildings. He was impressed when they reached the playground as there was a lot of playground and a lot of children. While his sister was playing in the playground, his whole family sat near to the playground to keep an eye on her. One thing he noticed while he was in the park was the humidity of the place. There, the wind is not blowing at all, unlike parks in Kuching. He realised that the huge buildings surrounding the park actually block air flow and suffocate the park. It’s a draw back. But one thing he found intriguing is the dusk time in KL. When the time at Maxis Tower showed 7.00pm, there is still light and bright like the sun is one the way setting, unlike at Kuching whereby at 7 pm, its already dark and lights are on. But altogether, he was glad as he gets to visit those wonderful places that he wanted to go for a long time. They went back to the suite early at 8 pm because his brother had to retire as he would need to attend Shell Scholarship interview the next day.
Monday
The whole family went for breakfast at the residence hotel’s restaurant. After breakfast, they went back to their suite and his brother started dressing well for the interview. His brother’s interview was 12 pm and so his brother waned to arrive early. While his brother and father went for interview, he, his mother and sister went to the top floor to visit the swimming pool and gym. He tried the gym at first. After he was satisfied by the amount of sweat he produced, he switched places with his mum to watch over his sister who was playing at the children’s pool. What was hilarious was that when the door swung open due to wind, his mother got terrified and ran away from the gym right away; ghosts as what she thought. After that, they all rushed to LCCT again at once after his brother finished his interview. They sat and waited for 3 hours. At 7.30 pm, they are all in the airplane back to Kuching. He got to see the nice night view of Putrajaya just before the plane reach 30000 feet.
He will surely miss the feeling of glazing through the shy 30000 feet mid air. He will surely miss those humongous buildings at KL. He, who is I.
