Db and I are now in IMAX internet cafe checking our mails and I have to write posts for one advertisers.  Money is money, a little  still adds up.

Our plane ride fom SIN to KUL was so smooth that we didn’t want it to stop!  SIA really ROCKS!  Too bad the flight was only 55 minutes – right after the steward/stewardess served us coffee/water, they came around immediately to collect them as the plane was starting to descend.

We arrived KLIA at 7:55 a.m. and as soon as we walked out of the jetway, a bunch of folks that looked like ants appeared from the trains.  It was a mad rush and we were rushing to get to immigration too.  The signage in that airport really stinks.  Really pathetic.  I had to ask at the information booth where to get to immigration.  Told we had to take the train.  We walked to the train and joined an entire troop of men which I think were from Bangladesh.  It was a “wonderful” short ride to wherever it took us.  The BO was just FABULOUS!!!

Once we got to that terminal, I think, it was another mad rush.  I said adious to DB: Nice meeting you!  The lanes for Malaysian passports were very empty.  I walked right to an empty lane and was done in 5 seconds and went to pick up my bags.  I was standing waiting for my/our bags for 25 minutes.  We really thought the bags did not make it to KL.  Eventually they came and we went our separate ways again.  Customs didn’t bother to look at me and DB. 

Once we got out customs, we looked for the bus station.  Right away I had to use my Malay.  It was so rusty, I could hardly speak it.  Got the directions to the bus station and on our way looking for the elevators, there was a guy asking if we wanted a taxi.  We said no.  We found the KLIA/Ipoh bus counter hoping to catch the 9:30 a.m. bus to Ipoh, however, no one was in there and there was a Malay guy yelling across telling  us there are no more busses to Ipoh at that time.  Were we bummed out.  The next bus will be at 1:30 p.m. and I didn’t want to wait in that stinky airport.  So we both took his advise and took  his bus to Duta and where ever the hell Duta was, I trust that bastard.  That bus ride was ok but just damn, damn long.  I didn’t know KLIA moved to the boondocks.   When we got to Duta, the bus driver just dropped us and our luggages off at the curb.  I didn’t see any bus stations or taxis. 

With 4 luggages, backpacks, and starving, I told DB to stand right in the hot sun (there were no shade at all), I walked in to look for busses, but I changed my mind and looked for taxis.  I saw an older  Malay guy for taxis.  He was so helpful and found us a taxi for our 4 big luggages.   He actually had to make a few phone calls to get one that was willing to take us.  That taxi came and the ride to Ipoh began.   When we passed Tanjung Malim, I called my dad using the taxi driver’s cell.  I asked my dad which exit to use – Ipoh Sg Siput or Ipoh Utara (North).  Dad said North.

After we paid toll, and I saw that exit to Ipoh Sg. Siput and then Ipoh Utara, the driver went ahead and took that exit.  As soon as we got to the exit, I knew we took the wrong exit.  That road was so new to me but some things looked familiar but could not place were it is or the name of the damn road.  It took us a whole 30 minutes or more to get to my parents’ home.  WHen the driver drove to the city, to streets I have not seen before, flyovers (overpasses), I was so lost.  My dad finally called the driver’s cell and told him I was near the Kow Wong Yeh temple.  He said I should wait at the MGS school and he will come meet us.  What’s worse DB said he needed to pee super bad and we have to wait for my dad.  I told him he has no choice but to wait in the cab.  I was fuming, just FUMING.  I was thinking the beginning of the trip to where we were, the entire journey to Ipoh from MSP was a disaster!

If my dad had not have come rescue us, we will be roaming around Ipoh town, or I should say city forever.  Ipoh has changed so much, I hardly recognized some of the streets.

 Ok, I better get going.  We have been here for 2 hours now. 

TTFN….

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