i remember waking up at 5am. banged on mom's door yelling trying to wake her up. after a messy checking, found out mom forgot to pack this, forgot to pack that... n as usual, me n my brothers get scolded because she forgot. who da hell charges the camera battery and expect to be able to use it 30 minutes later? my mom is very demanding. oh wait... back on course... i might deviate and make bad comments on my mom cause mom's really messing the whole trip up.
k... 7.30am. drove to bayan lepas with relatives. ate at a tiny restaurant(to be honest, it looks like a tiny house turned into a kopitiam), they serve fantastic fried noodles. oh and half boiled eggs there are alot better than the one they made in hotels(i'll explain that part later). had breakfast then go straight to airport. had to b there 2 hrs earlier to check in for international flights. and bsc the camera battery isnt charged... i sat at mcdonalds and plugged the charger into the socket. 2 security officer immediately stare at me, n i just waved at them... with them looking like a mix of suspicion and some other emotion. lol it was funny at the moment.
departed malaysia via Air Asia. the rush n g-force pushing u into the seat is really fun... cant do that with a car lol. n i turns out the feeling of ur ears pop is quite interesting. n swallowing air doesnt work, dunno y they put it up as tips in the pprs onboard the plane. flying above the clouds kept me glued to the windows for the whole journey in the air. too bad there's a few layers of glass preventing me from reaching towards the cloud. oh, the landing's VERY rough. i bonked my head on the top of the cabin even with my seatbelts on.
we reached there with only 5 or 6 hours to spare before the wedding. so we had lunch, in a very classed restaurant with all sorts of funny food. guess its indonesian style so i cant really complain. btw, dya know ppl over there doesnt know wat water is? they refer to water as "aqua". when my aunt ordered "aqua" i was like "walao, here can order 'agua'(male prostitutes) de ar?".
one more thing i just had to point out. there are no traffic laws over there. all off them drives big fat MPVs(multi-purpose vehicle, like mine) and they just drive like mad. there's no such thing as oncoming lane or "going" lane... they just drive. but remarkably, there's not much accidents over there according to our driver(yes, we have a personal driver bsc the girl side of the marriage is rich). and the drivers there would honk whenever they HAD to hit the brakes, or when they feel like doing it. its like they'll get summons for not honking..
on to the wedding. it was a bit of a mix of dissapointment n amazement. the amazing part is that the performances are really great. live bands, a singer from korea(happens to be the girl's side's dad's friend), a european artist who performed 变脸, and more. actually, there's more of the dissapointment part than the amazement part. but overall it's good bsc i get to see my baby face uncle get toyed by the MC haha. the "yam seng" part is probably the most fail part of the whole event. u see, they tried to integrate some of the penang wedding culture here, like the 歌台, lucky draw, "yam seng" n stuff. but they just failed, probably bsc they nvr knew the real thing but at least dont make it a laughing stock for those who knew.
got back to the hotel at 2am or wad wad. n i have to admit, the bed there is SO nice. i feel like stealing one n sneak it back to my house. its just TAT good. but at the time, i was just too tired to think of anything else, i just fell onto the bed n slept.
the next morning is not as fun as the 1st day. had breakfast at the hotel's free buffet. judging by the food there, indonesians have poor quality. no, it doenst taste bad, but im informed that we're staying at the best hotel in Medan n so far it hasnt proved itself as the best(maybe the bed did lol). after that was a bit of shopping. i shopped, as in window-shopped. then we have a few hours to spend before the flight back to malaysia. lunch at a malay restaurant. n weirdly, malays here are not very sensitive to pork or pigs. according to the driver(yes, we talked alot), malays here when mentioned bout pork or pig, they just shrugged it off, like nothing's ever happened. unlike those here who would sue or even possibly kill u.
still too much time after the lunch. had a tour around Medan, visited the old Medan palace. dya know the current sultan of Medan is only 11? his dad died in a plane crash so he got the throne. n the sultans in indonesia doesnt wield any real power, but the people just respect them tats all. poor kid.
the flight back is by Fireflies. same kinda adrenaline pumping take off, but much nicer landing. they gave freebies too! apple pie and guava juice... something i didnt expect out of economical flights.
and there you go. a full account of the trip. there wasnt much happening, but it was fun nevertheless. a new experience.
