Public Transportation and the Longest Mall

Yesterday marked an important day in family history. For such a trivial matter, most would believe it when I say, none of them have ever taken public transportation which are not taxis since my parents' schooldays, not even the schoolbus or the public buses in Miri.

We started off with breakfast(lunch really) at the Tai Pai Tong next to the hotel when Dad suggested that ALL of us take public transportation to MidValley when I decided to head there alone, leaving them to occupy the full taxi number. He got all fussy about safety and my clumsiness so in the end, it ultimately became the cause of the entire family finally experiencing their dose of non-taxi travelling.

I took them up to the 1st floor in Lot10 to cross the overhead bridge (I finally got this in English) which connects to the Bukit Bintang Monorail station. LOL. They had to be shepherded all the way up and into the ride itself. Mom, Dad and Albert seemed to be having fun, but Annie was hot and restless all the way eventhough there were only a fair lot of people riding with us. We arrived at Central station (Kl Sentral) in top time and crossed over to the building by which Annie was threatening to kill me and declaring they should've taken a taxi. Dad started making funny faces behind her. LOL.

Now, I don't pretend to be an expert on this as most of my "experiences" are picked up from other people's travels and I manage to get by by occasionally sneaking off (while they're busy shopping) to gain the "ultimate" KL experience, determined not to hop into one of those blood(money)- sucking taxis. Therefore, when we purchased tickets to MidValley (which is only one stop from Central btw) I looked up the wrong timetable and nearly took everyone to Rawang instead. LOL. That's opposite to where we're supposed to be headed. Luckily for me and for everyone else, I spotted my mistake on another timetable (when I finally had the sense to double-check) on the way down to the trains. We had a full 10 minutes wait which of course, gave Annie more the reason to point out that if they had taken a taxi, they would've arrived by now. This time, Dad just shook his head and frowned. LOL. But that didn't stop her from complaining till the train came.

I came up with a riddle while on the ride :

Q: What do you get when you put Chinese, Malays and Indians altogether on a KTM?

A: A really bad smell.

It was seriously smelly, than me even. LOL. Annie kept muttering "smelly" and "pengsan" and it didn't help that the driver was going extremely slow. I didn't think any of them enjoyed that particular ride, heck I didn't really, but it was still sorta fun in a way just to see everyone's expressions. ;)

Met up with Chun Ping at MidValley. Still as skinny as ever if not skinnier! But my~ has he changed or what! Handsome :D (You read it here only~ See for yourselves during CNY) Had lunch at this fastfood jap place which name, I can't remember unfortunately. =/ Succeeded in paying him but not without an open debate. LOL. Sorry Chun Ping! Talked about everything and everyone under the sun and then dropped by BodyGlove to pick up another shirt. Then came my favourite part of the day (and of the entire trip really), holing up at the massive MPH for about three hours before heading back to the hotel in heavy rain. Sneaky Chun Ping sneaked the RM10 back into my bag containing the "Chronicles of Narnia" (Yes, I bought the entire set in a 7-in-1 version as it was cheapest that way). Got stuck in a traffic jam from Maharajalela till Bukit Bintang, giving the meter time to mount up to RM9.30 before stepping into a puddle while opening the taxi door. -.-"

The night ended early as we all fell asleep around midnight eventually waking up at 10 in the morning. Suddenly had the urge to go to the gym (it's about time!) so stayed behind and dwadled for a while (more like an hour or so) after the rest left. Worked out in the gym for an hour before taking a shower and finally headed to Borders, Times Square for a good read. Finished the Problem-Solvers book and picked out "A Guide to DSM-IV Training" and "The Fourth Estate - (Yes, J. Archer again. I'm hooked). Got distracted by the throng of people outside the cinema and this prompted immediate purfchase for a RM8 ticket to watch "Perhaps Love" starring Jacky Cheung and a few other glamorous people with funky China accents. One thing's for sure about Golden Screen Cinemas (at Times Square at least), it's damn big with relatively spacious seats. Sat in between a guy with really funky hair and a slurping habit and a girl who managed to wipe off a Coney HotDog from 1901 resulting in really funky onion breath for the entire movie. The film reminded me of Moulin Rouge. Why are musical/movies all about love? Heh.. Like why most Chinese Songs are love songs anyways, except for Jay Chou's. Anybody knows what he's singing lately? Can't comprehend =/

After the movie, (it was already 5pm btw) I searched the mall for The Chicken Rice Shop. Forgot which floor it was situated but found it in good time nevertheless (4th Floor folks~). Had braised chicken and tauge (Yum!) while reading "The Fourth Estate". Yes, guilty as charged, I bought the book. =P Pondered over buying a Chicken Little shirt for Yih Xuan but ended up leaving. I despise salespersons who follow me around~ Took the Monorail back (yes, I get lazy towards the end of the day) and encountered this Malay family who were, having fun with the "Sila Berdiri di Belakang Garis Kuning" sign on the floor. The mom was telling her kids to stand behind the line but they pointed out that the people at the opposite platform were not. It was quite silly really, when they started hopping in and out of the line as if attempting to break a line-hopping record or something. I smiled at them and the mom smiled back, so I smiled some more and she smiled back. errr.. what else to do? Smile lah.. so I smiled again and again until the mom said, "Ah, tenguk tu, asyik senyum aje". Heh. I smiled all the way back to the hotel. :D

Smile~ :D