.Wednesday, November 02, 2005 ' 11:08 AM Y
lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself
I was back from K.L. In K.L., We were staying in the Times Hotel, and the room is much bigger than hotels in Singapore. There are kitchen on your right, living room on your left and another mini doorway leading to your bedroom. There are two toilets which were divided by a sliding door. The whole room is like a maze and definitely good enough to play hide and seek. It is not even a deluxe family room, in fact, it is a couple room. Yup, the couple that stay in the couple room was me and .... my aunt! My mum with my other two sisters took another.
Malaysians really know how to enjoy life. After eight, most of the shops in Sungei Wang were closing and nothing happening around those areas operated after 10. Even the lounge cum pub in the hotel was closed at 10.30 p.m. On the dinning table, my aunt was complaining that some tourists would be bored with such early facilites provided in the hotel. And i made an innocent comment, 'well, some tourist couples prefer to turn in early to enjoy their .....hee....' I have not finished my sentence and my family members' jaw dropped to the floor. They knew what am i thinking about.... muhahaha.....Guess 'sex' was a taboo word when dinning with your family members.
The second day, we went to their Chinatown and were lost inside the markets. I spotted a coffin shop in the middle of the markets. Even the signboard stated, ‘COFFIN SHOP’. Indeed, it was a shop selling coffin. My two pampered sisters cannot stand that place because they find it smelly and dirty so they can’t wait to get out and get back to their hotel. Honesty, I don’t think I am willing to backpack to rural areas in future. Never ask me to go to AFRICA. It was also TOUGH to even to locate a toilet. My mum and I were lost in a hotel situated in the middle of the market when we are in search for a toilet. Perception: Hotel Toilets are usually cleaner than Public Toilets. WRONG! IT WAS A MYTH!
Anyway, my mum was hit on her head when she got lost from us. No one knows who hit her including my mum herself. Sound creepy.
We are back to Sungei Wang again to do our final shopping spree. Didn’t really enjoy my shopping spree in Malaysia because there is nothing to buy compared to the trip I had with mei and aud.
Sometime I realize my second sister was so much like my buddy – mei. Both were damn cool when it comes to smuggling. In Malaysia, I am so freaking worry to ‘smuggle’ a box of ‘vcds’ back to Singapore. I didn’t buy that box of vcds. Story goes….
Mum: Guess what I got just now?
J: oh… you finally got something? *my mum didn’t really shopping except screening our shopping bags*
Mum took out a box of vcds from her shopping bag and smile proudly*: I got a good bargain for this box of vcds.
J shock*: WHAT? SO BIG BOX? HOW ARE WE GOING TO BRING BACK TO SINGAPORE?
Mum: Huh? Cannot meh?
Youngest sister*: will catch by the custom officers then they will raid our house.
Mum started to get panic*: Huh? Then how? What should I do?
Cool sister: Let me do it. Put it in my bag. Don’t think they will check it anyway.
She was looking so cool without any emotion on her face when she passed by the custom. I was smuggling only two pieces of vcds and she have to calm me down instead with that BOX of vcds inside her bag. Guess she must have been a killer in her previous life or she has a potential to be one. After that custom check, I thank her for being so helpful and guess what she told me? ‘It was nothing at all.’
From the same parents but three of us possessed different characters. I am the playful and insensible eldest; my second sister is the cool, attitude worse than me, eccentric but the most sensible one and lastly, the youngest love to ask stupid questions and making stupidest comments. Well, but she is the smartest in the family so I shall not comments much about her IQ.
