Another Weekend Trip

A Weekend Trip to Kuala Lumpur

Me and two other colleagues went KL over the weekend.

Took the night train at 2215hrs at Tanjong Pagar Railway Station. Well, this is the first time I take this kind of train, (MRT not counted) so I was a bit like mountain tortoise lor. But since it was a night train, there was nothing for me to "..wah wah wah.." about during the journey. Basically is to get myself comfortable on the bed and try to get some sleep. But having so used to motionless bed, the nightmare begins. The tracks were so old that the train was very(x50) bumpy. And to make it worse, there were hundreds of people trying to make themselves tired and sleepy by trying to walk around. As I was near the auto door, I could practically hear the door slammed onto me everytime it shuts. Luckily I brought along my Creative Zen MP3 Player, so managed to get some sleep in between.

Finally at 630am, we arrived at Stesen Sentral Kuala Lumpur. Lugging our haversacks, we quickly made our way to the nearest washroom, hoping to freshen up. But since there were hundreds of people in the train, all flocked to the washrooms. So we decided to head somewhere else. Walking across the road just directly opp the train station, we saw HILTON *wink wink* and quickly chiong there. And good enough, there were 3 basins so we all can take our own sweet time to freshen up and have a change of clothes.

Thanks to 3-jie (sam jie in cantonese), we had the luxury of a 4-wheeled vehicle to bring us around, and the first stop she brought us to was to have a sumptous breakfast to make up for the bumpy sleepless night that we had. Klang Bak Kut Teh. Real nice. Real different. Not the usual clear soup pepper jway jway (a lot) type. More like gravy, but can drink as soup. *Burp*

After the filling breakfast, we made our way to the next destination, the Menara Kuala Lumpur, which means KL Tower. Something like observatory place where you can see the whole of KL City high up at the tower. But of course, as this is a tourist attraction, it is not cheap to go up for the view. It costs RM$20 each tourist, and RM$8 for their own countrymen. Hmm.. really an eye-opener.

Thereafter we proceeded to check in the hotel - Corus Hotel. The reason why we chose this hotel was for convenience. As we will be taking the Aero-line coach bus the next day at 10am, and the bus pick up point is right at the door step of this hotel, thus we chose this hotel. And moreover, Maybank cardmember (me) has promotional rate.

After a 2nd round of freshening up, we went for economy boosting. Yup, we went shopping. At KLCC. All the way from 12pm till 4pm. Walk walk and walk, shop shop and shop ! Sale and no sale we all 不放过 !!

3rd round of freshening up back at the hotel before we went out for our dinner. We had steamboat porridge for dinner. Too bad I didn't take a snapshot of the cuisine. Maybe too tired and hungry. Different concept of eating steamboat. For those who know what is "um" in porridge, you agak agak can visualise how the "soup" is like for the steamboat. The rest of the ingredients are more or less the same.

After dinner, we went to KL's Chinatown for a slow walk. Real crowded. But nothing really Chinese can be found there. Most stalls either selling cheap watches, or handbags, or t-shirts. Maybe bak gwa and the tau sa piah shops were the only indication of Chinatown? haha...

Next we went to Bukit Bintang. Another round of shopping. But probably because we spent the whole afternoon chionging KLCC liao, so the night shopping ends up with empty hands. We also combed Lot 10, and Sungei Wang. Happened to see this comical figure outside Sungei Wang building, and as the name suggested, Wang means $$.

As night was still young, about 2200hrs, we made our way to our next stop, HARD ROCK CAFE. We were in time for their live band - TELEFON - performance. Quite good. We stayed there enjoying the music, the drinks and the crowd till 115am. Then it was back to hotel and sleeping time.. Finally !

2nd day - morning breakfast was traditional roti canai - in simple Singapore terms, it means roti prata. Having breakfast together with the three of us were 3-jie, 2-jie and 2 jie-fu. We tried different types of prata - telur, pisang, and of course the kosong one. We also had the luxury of tasting KL's murtabak and roti tisu. Again, too bad I was too busy tasting the good food that I forgot the existence of my A95.

After a wonderful breakfast, it's time to hit the roads. We took another mode of transport for our journey home. Comfortable coach bus ride. Similar to aeroplane concept, they have a "cabin crew" serving on the bus too. Proper announcements were also made at the appropriate timings. Really maciam on planes lor, but on these coaches, you are able to use your handphone anytime ! The coach bus departs from KL at 10am, and we arrived back in Singapore at 330pm. Quite fast - cos no jam at the 2nd causeway, and the destination point was at Grand Copthorne Waterfront. For those who are interested, you can visit their website at https://www.aeroline.com.sg/

<-- One of my most rewarding buy this trip is this

Haha.. ok, I think this blog is long enough liao..

Lunch Time ! :)