KL Trip - Day 1 (completed)

Ok I shall start on our journey up north!

Let me see..

Prelude
Original plan was: Fen, Yun & Yix to meet @ Ten Mile Junction bus stop @ 6.30am. Meet KS, Randy, Van & UG @ Departure Hall 7am.

Due to some hiccups, Yix joined Fen & Yun only @ the bus stop @ Custom. 7.15am. UG & KS reached.

Yix called Van to see if she've reached. Confirmed that she's on the way. Where's Randy?

Since there was no mention of Randy during the phonecall between Yix & Van, Yun tried to contact Randy, praying that he has not forgotten about the trip and is still sleeping on his bed. Praying that Yun does not need to call Randy's sis to wake him up.

Called once. No one picked up the phone.

Twice.

Thrice.

Yun lost track of the number of times she called. Until she see Van & Randy coming up the escalator together. -_-"


Off we go
Wasn't quite a long wait @ Singapore custom, but no idea why the queue that I'm at is always the slowest. Van & Randy proceeded on first as they need to check with the bus company the bus that we have to take from Larkin to KL.

When the 5 of us reached M'sia custom, Van & Randy were just about 15 people in front of us, despite leaving Singapore custom about 15mins earlier than us. Heard that they queued at the wrong queue and had to re-queue? o.O

We were still in the queue at 8.30am.

8.45am. Cleared M'sia custom FINALLY. SBS 170 was soo packed that all of us took the Singapore-Johore Express though we didn't buy tickets ( except for Van & Randy ).

9.05am. Reached Larkin bus terminal. Searched frantically for our bus platform, hoping to see the bus waiting. (Our bus was scheduled to be at 9am)

Oh yes we missed the bus! Saw a bus leaving the terminal, chased it, the bus driver told us to check with the counter. Oh wellz..

After checking with the counter, we were told the bus is scheduled to be at 9.30am, not 9am, and we have to wait.

9.30am. No sight of the bus.

10am. Checked with counter again. Told to wait.

10.30am. Checked with counter again. "Bus jalan already" OOFG! ( Improved version of OMFG *lol* ) Since we couldn't get a refund, we got ourselves tickets for the next bus of another company @ 12noon.

On the bus to KL



4pm. Alighted early @ Hang Tuah Monorail station as there was a traffic jam ahead. As the rain gets heavier, we took the LRT ( a different railway from Monorail ) to PuduRaya station. That's where we were supposed to alight if we didn't alight early.

After some hassle of asking most of the bus companies ( they had their counters @ PuduRaya ), Van, Randy & KS finally got us bus tickets from KL back to Larkin.

We started to proceed to our hotel Bukit Bintang Warisan. 'Coz of the rain, we took cab. UG, Fen & KS got on the 1st cab (RM15 for the journey), while the remaining 4 searched for the next one. Yeap searched because we had to find one that doesn't overcharge. Finally found one that quoted us the same fee (RM5 per person). Had to walk a bit to the cab , only to realise that it's a personal car! Not taxi. Hahah!

Finally checked-in
5.05pm. Our driver couldn't find the hotel. Went a few rounds around the area before we spotted the hotel.

Bad news! The hotel reception couldn't find our reservation details. Not even when the reservation number was quoted. They couldn't find it in their database!

*gan jiong*

While we waited, I think they decided to give us 2 connecting rooms. Must uphold their reputation. haha! And that we finally checked in!

After depositing our bags and had a short rest, off we went for dinner!


Night Activities


After the so-called "dinner" is SHOPPING time!!

Went BB Plaza to shop. The gals and the guys split up. Supposed to meet 1.5 hours later at the entrance.

1.5 hours later..
The gals are still on the same level! Hahahhaha! You're talking about GALS. 1.5 hours is definitely NOT ENOUGH! *Rolls On Floor Laughing Out Loud* Met KS & UG. They brought us to the upper floors to continue shopping. LOL! Outcome of shopping @ BB Plaza: Yun bought 3 pairs of shoes + 5 pairs of watches. Fen bought 2 pairs of shoes + 1 watch. UG bought a pair of shoes. ( No idea what the rest bought =P )

Not yet satisfied with the shopping, we went back to hotel to deposit our shopping bags. ( BB Plaza is just 5min walk away ) Short rest, off we proceed for DESSERTS!

Had a durian feast and some nice desserts! *dingdong dingdong*



After dessert.. hmm.. where did we go? Shopping again! There's this pasar malam near our hotel. Went there to walk. UG & Yun bought a name chop each.

Proceeded to walk down the street.

11pm. Yun's too tired, her contact lens giving her problem again! She went back to hotel & rest, while the rest proceeded on for SUPPER!

*As the author was not present for the supper session, she couldn't do a writeup on this part*
*content below was extracted from Van's blog*
What's for supper? The 6 of them walked around, searching for Beef Noodles that Randy had the last time he was @ KL. Along the way, KS saw a stall with a lot of people. "Let's check it out". Turned out to be wan ton soup & shui jiao soup! *dingdong dingdong* The wantan & shui jiao are nice! The char siew was nice as well! In short, everything's nice except the noodles -_-"

After more walking, they finally found the beef noodles!! On the contrary, the beef balls were ok, but the noodles were great! *dingdong dingdong*

And that concludes Day 1 @ KL.