night trip... to Kuala Besut

earlier last week out of the blue Significant Other told me we'll be going on a weekend trip with his colleagues to an island on the east coast. i was like, mimpi ape la mamat ni nak pergi pulau... but secretly i was excited as well. i haven't gone for a holiday in ages! which got me to thinking... should i get a new swimsuit? =P

i applied leave for Monday and made plans to leave Dayana with my parents over the weekend. with the rough boat ride to the island and the presence of hot sunny skies, Significant Other thought it best to leave her behind, opting to bring her for a holiday when she's older. so on Thursday after servicing my Neo (for a whopping rm380 major service! sob) i sent the little munchkin over to my parents and left my car there so that it would be easier for us to go back home when we returned to KL on Monday night. i went to work with the lousy ktm.

btw, i just realized that Proton was taking measures to find every single way to squeeze every little cent out of their customers. previously each car service comes with a complimentary car wash. now? not any more. you have to pay an extra rm10 for car wash. teruk betul. i can't wait for the day that i get to sell off my Neo in exchange for a Honda Jazz. sigh. in my dreams, yah? lol.

basically Significant Other didn't even reveal to me the details of the trip, just that we leave for Kuala Besut on Friday night by bus and return Monday night by plane. so Thursday night i started packing. Significant Other told me to bring the big blue pull bag so we could both put our stuff in together. inside me head i was thinking, bad idea... (which i'll blog about more later =P). travelling to and fro from home to my uni has taught me how to travel light. come to think of it, i used to lug home a bunch of useless stuff back home just because i thought it was a neccessity... in the end it stayed at the bottom of my bag, untouched and unused until i got back to uni. haha. talk about waste of energy lugging the bag up and down buses last time. back to the packing, my portion of clothings was very little, practically all my clothes could fit my Wahmies wetbag. minues my toiletries and my pumping gear. hehe. but in Significant Other's case, well, his is a different story *faint*.

so on Friday morning we made arrangements with my inlaws to go to work with them. Significant Other would be leaving his car at their place so we didn't have to worry about where to chuck the car later when we left for the bus station in the evening. i was still a little worried that our suitcase was a little bit on the heavy side for a 3D2N trip though. we left the luggage in the car where i would collect it after work. much easier than bringing it up to the office. i bought a swimsuit from Ogival (10%off) and a pair of socks to wear in the bus. i also bought a colorful cover up top from Topshop (which i'm still deciding whether or not if it was a waste in purchasing).

the new top

for lunch i cilok a bit of Kalpana's salad + bread at the pantry. i was hungry and a bit curious as to how her hadmade salad recipe tasted like. it was yummy! she should've charged me for swallowing her masterpiece. hehe. and Hema offered me her BBQ chips, so that got me to Full. so i ended up not getting anything for lunch. i met up with Syaz in her car during lunch hour to hand her my RS for shortening. and to return her Chococabana Girasol. sigh. i want her Choco! gave it one last try last weekend at One Utama and i fell in love with it completely. hehe. should i? could i? *pengsan*. the Pak Guard at the isetan entrance was so kepoh by not allowing people to stop their car at the side of the road for even a few mintues, he kept blowing his whistle and shooing people away. jergh. stupid la. no car also mau sibuk shoo people away ke? all i wanted was to hand her my RS and check out her Citron Vert in the car and that only took a measly 4 minutes, tops? i told Syaz to langgar the guard on her way out. hoho.

so. back to the story. after much kelam kabuting trying to update all the boring remedy tickets with my colleague's help (thank you so much, Anu! you're the best ticket handler ever, haha) i realized the time was almost 6 o'clock. my mil called me to take the bags from the car, so in the end i still had to lug up the heavy luggage throught the scanners and up to my office, haiz. once in the office the juniors took one look at me and jokingly asked me if i was doing support over the weekend and if i was planning to sleep under the table in the office. then he changed his mind and asked me if i was running away from home instead. lol.

oh yeah, Body Shop is on sale! i reminded myself that i always get cheated during BS sales so this time around i told myself firmly that i wouldn't buy anything and i went down with my colleagues to help Sally get a couple of stuff (i'm a BS member, and members get an extra 10% off for the first three days, yay). but even after all that convincing i ended up buying a small lavender bath wash and a small minibag for myself, bot for 70% off. so ok la.

btw, Morroccan Rose smells nice, don't you think? =P

at 7pm i headed down with all the luggage to meet Significant Other downstairs at Starbucks. i had no idea where and how we were going to the bus station, but since Significant Other seemed to be so calm and collected i was lazy to drill him for more information since buat penat only. i saw Miu and a couple more girls at Starbucks as well, no doubt still in the mission to stalk Stila until the very end i guess. lol. once i received my caramel blended, i took a seat at a small table and waited for Significant Other to arrive. i thought i caught a glimpse of Rijal in the corner with a two other people, so i called Significant Other to ask if he was planning to meet up with him. he feigned ignorance at first, but in the end i found out that apparently Significant Other had asked Rijal if he could send us to the Putra bus station. cheh. and all the while one the phone he was saying to me, are you sure that's him? and, why don't i go and tegur him? how about, you sure or not? cheese. tipu me.

so we reached Putra bus station at 8.30pm. and then only Significant Other told me that the bus would be leaving at 9.30pm. just great. a whole hour to kill. luckily we managed to find seats in the crowded bus station. i've never been to this bus station before. i guess this is where people catch the bus to the east coast. reminds me of a sesak pasar. but then again i've always hated the bus stations in KL. i've heard countless of promises from the Malaysian government that they'll do something about it but until now... nothing. typical.

i'd like to thank You Sing for offering his extra bun before i left the office that evening. i didn't even have time to buy myself dinner. so i brought that along with me on the bus, as well as two bottles of mineral water. i think it was about 9.15pm+ before all of Significant Other's friends arrived at the station: Nick and Geoff (the States people!), Zahrul, Husni, Fahmi and his girlfriend Diyana, and Bern. and only then i got to know that 9 of us would be travelling on the bus together =P. among all of his friends there, i've only met Zahrul before. i almost laughed when i saw the size of the bags they brought in compare to ours. hahahahhaha. anyway, the leg room on the bus was pretty satisfactory, in my opinion. the bus left the station around 9.30pm.

we

Diyana & Fahmi

Husni & Zahrul

Geoff & Nick

Diyana with Bern

i think after a while we dozed off during the first half of the journey, we were already tired after waking up early to catch the inlaws =P. the bus was freaking cold! i forgot how cold buses can get during night trips. thank God i had my socks, and as usual Significant Other had his blankie, so that was a saviour. at about 1.30am the bus made one stop in the middle of nowhere, it was so dark and isolated i didn't even know where we were. Goeff (or was it Nick?) commented that it would be more interesting to make the journey during daytime since we could enjoy the scenery better than staring into the pitch dark of the night). we had a toilet stop and a quick bite (we bought 3 burgers to share between us). the toilets were so lousy and unhygenic i might have vomited inside there if i had to stay in there a minute longer. even the items in the sundry shop looked so old and aged (i saw a moldy bread on the shelf!) that i ended up not getting anything there. the bus stopped for half an hour before finally resuming the journey. we saw one episode of 24 on Significant Other's laptop before falling asleep again for the second half of the journey.

after much dozing off uncomfortably in our seats with legs sticking out in all directions and heads lolling about at odd angles, at around 5.30am, we woke up to find ourselves at Kuala Besut.

more later...