KL trip - visit around KL | 13th June 2009 (Saturday)

I woke up rather late today, I searched for my phone and took a quick glance at it, oh my, it's just 6.45am. It's still early, I told myself. The long holiday has made me a lot lazier, hmmm, is it a bad sign? I asked myself. Nah, never mind, just another hour, I told myself and set a quick alarm before going my hands searched for the blanket and covered my body again, sleepy eyes closed automatically.

*ring... ring... ring...* darn, my alarm rang. My right hand searched for the alarm again while my eyes are still closed. I still want to laze around a bit more. It's a beautiful morning after all. But I had an important appointment with Alan, meeting at 10am at KLCC there. I sprang up quickly, took a shower and switched on the MSN, hopefully Alan would be online. I searched through the contact list in a glance and... yes, I saw his name. I quickly opened the chat window and asked him to double confirm the meeting location. As I suspected, he's already on his way to our destiny.

After a quick preparation, both Yiwen and me took a cab to KLCC. Within minutes, we reached our destiny, Starbucks in the 3rd floor. Our eyes scanned through the place, strange, we can't see Alan there by any means. Hence, Yiwen phoned him quickly to get his location. Minutes later, he came up with his small agile laptop on his right parm, he's still surfing internet :P

We had a nice chat when the three of us met up. Then, we head off to our destiny - Aquaria. It took us quite sometime to reach there, much to my surprise. I was quite lucky, I brought along my student ID card, hence I was only charged for RM20 to enter. Yiwen and Alan were each charged RM28.

Upon entering, we saw a crowd hovering over corner. We looked at the brochure and found out the reason. A guide was explaining on the piranhas in the aquarium. A smile curved up my face as I glanced over my wrist watch. It's just nice, the piranha feeding show would be real soon. Soon enough, some fishies were put into the fish tank... and zap... within 6 seconds, all those fishies were nowhere to be seen anymore, all in the piranhas' belly. I really can't imagine how those natives in African handle piranha, especially when they have to pass a river full of piranhas.

the piranhas

After the feeding ended, the three of us proceed to the next station - the electric eel. This is rather interesting since it's the first time I've ever seen a real electric eel in front of my eyes.

the signboard

the electric eel

Along the way, we saw quite a number of insects like scorpions, spiders (namely tarantula), amphibians like frogs, toads, turtles and tortoise. Not forgetting a few reptiles too.

scorpion

the tortoise was overexcited while taking picture

another species of tortoise

chameleon

water snake

small crab

toad (compare the size with the 10 cents coin)

baby crocodile

the lizard family

the spider family

Now, we're going to the underwater wall, be prepare to witness the beauty of deep water fishes.

when Amazon was flooded, the fishes can eat the fruits on top of the tree

fire lion

stingray

sharks

turtles

unknown fish

shipwreck

colourful fishes

feeding fish

lobster

Alan and Yiwen

After finish visiting the whole exhibition, we walked to Pavilion to have our lunch. Alan decided to try on Tony's Roma. It took us quite sometime to figure out the path to Pavilion, we somehow lost our way. Finally after asking a policewoman nearby, we found our way there.

Alan ordered sirloin steak with Miami shrimp, whereas Yiwen & I ordered Mojo Chicken.

sirloin steak with Miami shrimp

Mojo Chicken

After the lunch, we walked back to KLCC to find Wai Hong. He's supposed to finish his work by now. The four of us met up at Starbucks 3rd floor there. It's really amazing, the four of us met via internet, but we can meet up in real life. We chatted as if we're old friends for hours there.

Before going back, we went to Little Penang Kafe in KLCC there for dinner. I tested out the Nasi Lemak Penang.

Nasi Lemak Penang

By the time we finished dinner, it was already 9pm. We parted and planned to meet up again by the next day noon time in Schokolart in Mont Kiara.

KL trip - the arrival | 12th June 09 (Friday)

I took a bus from Johor Bahru (JB) to Kuala Lumpur (KL) at 4pm. My coursemate, Amil took me to Sri Puteri after Friday's prayer on his bike. When I reached Sri Puteri, dark clouds suddenly beginning to form in the sky rapidly. Fearing the rain would come, I quickly booked the ticket back to JB on Sunday, then rushed to the bus stop immediately. I was lucky enough to reach there in time, rain drops began dripping down rapidly. Passengers who've been waiting there, were forced to took a shelter in the petrol station.

After nearly half an hour waiting, my bus finally reached. I boarded the bus and searched for my seat, 3C. After settled down, I closed my tired eyes began counting the sheep hoping over the fence.

The bus kept on going and finally reached the destiny at 9.15pm. The traffic was still as busy as ever, pedestrians walked alongside. It brought back memories, not quite a nice memory, but rather a nervous and with a mixture of unsafe feeling. Perhaps the sight of those Bangladesh and Indian workers lingering around Pudu Bus Station aimlessly caused such unsafe feelings. Never mind, I told myself, I rushed to the KFC restaurant opposite of the station, trying hard to ignore those people walking pass me, didn't want the unsafe feeling keep on haunting me.

Finally, within a minute, I managed to get to the restaurant. My stomach... duh... I can hear the growling sound. I took a quick glance at the counter, and... oh my, the queue was surely long. I hold on my thought of buying some chore and rang Yiwen's mum about my arrival, the thought of getting a rest somehow outweighed the decision of buying some burgers.

A greenish blue sedan came approached me soon. Yiwen's parent came to fetch me. The traffic in KL was still quite congested, it took quite a while to reach the house. I was told that Yiwen was away with her colleague having their dinner in JUSCO there. Upon reaching her house, I quickly took a bath, it's much refreshing after the shower. Not too long later, Yiwen return. After a nice chat with her, I went to rest, getting ready for the next day.

《一公升的眼泪 - 亚也的日记》 1 Litre of Tears - Aya's diary

去年十二月十到吉隆坡考日语后，去拜访了Kinokuniya时买了本书，《一公升的眼泪 - 亚也的日记》。老实说，到现在，我都还没把这本书读完。哈哈。希望克已经快把这本书读完，然后写份完整的阅读报告。

读到一半时，亚也记载了一段很有意思的话，在这里与大家分享。 ：）

摔倒了又有什么关系

反正还能够重新站起来 不是件好事吗？

摔倒的同时抬头仰望天空

蔚蓝的天空在头上 看起来那么广阔无限

你看得出它在为你微笑吗？

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Last December, after my Japanese test in Kuala Lumpur there, I paid a visit to Kinokuniya and bought a book, entitled "1 Litre of Tears - Aya's diary". It was in Mandarin, but no worries, I'll translate it. Well, actually I haven't actually finish reading this book. Haha. Hopefully finish reading it fast, then would do a full reading report on it.

While reading this book, I came across an interesting part, so I would love to quote it and share it with everyone here.

What's the matter of falling down

We can still stand up Isn't it great?

When you've fallen, look at the sky

Blue sky above looks so spacious

Can you see that it is smiling at you?

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