Travelogue: Langkawi - Day 2

14 March 2016

SkyDome, Langkawi Cable Car, 3D museum, Skyrex

We started our day shine and bright after having good rest the night before. First place we are going to is the famous Langkawi Cable Car. There, few other attractions are located such as SkyDome, SkyRex, 3D Museum and etc.

When we arrived there, the queue is already quite long. Well, its school holiday so I understand why there are so many people queuing to get their tickets. I’m lucky to have bought the tickets online so I didn’t have to join the crowds. Pheww. There are 4 or 5 packages that you can choose (I’m not quite sure). The package that I bought for each members of my family is Package B, which consists of SkyDome, Langkawi Cable Car, 3D Museum and SkyRex.

As soon as we got the tickets, we are heading to the cable car location. There, the queue to ride the cable car is already long. Before riding the cable car, we are first headed to SkyDome which are located in the queuing area, before the staffs assist us to the cable car area. SkyDome is just a 5-minutes tayangan video while we were waiting for the cable car to arrive and pick us.

Teehee ;)

View from inside the cable car

There are a total of three station; the lower station, middle station and top station. The lower station is where we first departed and where the SkyDome is located. Then, we rode the cable car to the middle station. You can enjoyed the view at the middle station for a while and taking pictures (that’s me) before queuing back to ride the cable car to the top station. Don’t worry, the queue is not that long compared to when you are queuing at the lower station. You won’t be waiting for so long. The view at the top station is so beautiful, and it is quite cold at the top station. There's a love lock for couples, especially married couples to lock their love so that they will stay together forever. I hope. Also, a sky walk. But we didn't try the sky walk, as we didn't wear proper shoes and the weather is quite hot.  

Love lock :)

After almost an hour enjoying ourselves at the top station, we decided to go back to the lower station. When you are going down to the lower station, you won’t stop at the middle station. The cable car will directly went to the lower station. Arrived at the lower station, we stopped by at the souvenir shop to buy some souvenir. I just bought a keychain and fridge magnet.

Next, we headed to 3D Museum. Well, it’s the same as the one we went at Sabah; full of 3D arts. The difference between these two museums would be their 3D arts and note that this museum is bigger than the museum at Sabah. Another credit to this museum is for their management. Visitors didn’t have to bring their shoes along while going around the museum and while taking pictures. We just need to drop the shoes at the counter at the entrance before going into the museum, and pick them up after completed the tour.

We are left with the last attraction in the package we bought; the Skyrex. We quickly went to the Skyrex area and as expected, the queue is so long. It’s already noon and the weather is quite hot. But, we didn’t give up queuing. After queuing more than half an hour, it’s finally our turn. Skyrex is actually a 10-minutes 4D video about the dinosaurs. We get to experience how it would like to be in the dinosaur’s era, how it would like to survive from the wild and aggressive carnivores. It’s quite fun. I’m happy, and so do my family.

Overall, I’m satisfied to buy this package. It worth the price. Oh yea. You can check the tickets and packages here Langkawi Cable Car: Tickets and Packages. 

We went to the food court first for lunch before going to the next place. After having our lunch, my younger sister had the opportunity to try flying fox for children (not for adult, unfortunately). She was so eager to try it because I told her it was fun. Yeah, flying fox is a fun activity. The fee is RM10/person.

Kampung Kedah: Makam Mahsuri

We are on our way to Kampung Kedah when we discovered a stall selling ABC. Since the weather is hot, we stopped by to eat ABC, donuts and noodle soup. Kikiki. Yea yea I know that we just have our lunch but we couldn’t resist the temptation.

Doesn't it looks so tempting?

We strolling around for more than an hour at Kampung Kedah and visited Mahsuri’s house, her parents’, the well which are used during her time (until now) and Makam Mahsuri. I feel pity for her and her family, if it’s true that she was slandered. But deep down in my heart I think that the story is true. I don’t know.

Beras terbakar

We went Beras Terbakar, next. It’s located at the market selling goods such as T-shirts, medicine oils, and other stuffs. The place where the rice was burnt is quite small and I almost didn’t noticed it until my sister showed it to me. But but! The house there is so beautiful, and it is one of the attraction at Beras Terbakar. People going there will take a shot or many shots of them posing in front of the house (read: stairs) as prove that they have been there at Beras Terbakar. Well, I wouldn’t want to miss taking some prove too, should I? ;)

Location of the 'beras terbakar'

The famous photo-zone :)

We went to the night market to buy some food for dinner before heading home to get some rest and recharge energy for tomorrow’s adventure.

Travelogue: Langkawi - Day 1

It’s become one of my favorite hobby to always check for low fare and affordable tickets, and coincidently Malaysia Airlines is holding a promotion few months before the school holiday in March. After discussing with my family, we thought that the return tickets are cheap, considering it is for four flights; KCH-KUL, KUL-LGK, LGK-KUL and KUL-KCH. So, we decided to go to Langkawi this time and managed to grab the tickets at its low fare.

13 March 2016

Departs early at 9.25 am from Kuching, we arrived KLIA at 11.20 am. While waiting for our next flight to Langkawi, we go around the airport while searching a place to have our lunch. Our flight to Langkawi was supposedly to take off at 1.20 pm, but has been reschedule to be an hour later. So, we arrived Langkawi at 3.20 pm.

Grabbed a map at the arriving hall.

Since we arrived at noon, there’s nothing much we can do. So, we look for our homestay on our own by using a GPS. Before that, the car for our 5 days use have been delivered to us at the airport. After unloading every luggage we have, we decided to buy some toiletries and go for basic groceries shopping. Going around without knowing where exactly we should go, we found Langkawi Plaza on our way and luckily there are few restaurants in front of the mall (on the other side of the road).

And again, food hunting begin. We tried seafood for dinner, before going to the mall and buy things and chocolates. Eh? Hahaha.

First meal at Langkawi Island.

Next, we are heading home for some rest and planning things for tomorrow’s journey. Well, not forgetting to unpack our luggage too. It’s a bit exhausting to start your day early in the morning while busy catching 2 flights on the same day, isn’t?

P/S: If you are a chocolate lover, make sure you hold yourself from going insane ;) There are lots of chocolate and they were selling them cheap. Well, Langkawi is a free-duty zone what?

Travelogue: Sabah – Day 5 (Final)

26 September 2015

So, today is the last day for our vacation in Sabah. Since our flight is at night, we still have some time to go around places near to KK city before flying back home.

Atkinson Clock Tower

It is located at the open space at the center of the city, so anyone can easily found and visit this place. Unfortunately, during our visit there, we didn’t manage to find the clock tower itself. So, to avoid feeling more disappointed, we take some pictures with the signboard. Sounds pity, but yeah.

Sabah Museum

Entrance Fee: RM 2.00 (Malaysian) ; RM 15.00 (Non-Malaysian)

Opening hours: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm

So many antic cars here, leaving me in awe. There are beautiful garden inside the museum but only four of us women are going there. The men are taking some rest at the bench in front of the museum entrance. Cet! Looks like our stamina are better than the men. But never mind, at least we can have some girls bonding time during the period.

The Floating Mosque of Likas

Entrance Fee: Free

Opening hours: All the time

I think this is the first time I have seen the floating mosque during 26 years of my life. Hahahaha sad reality! This mosque is so beautiful that I have taken numerous photos of it as a memories. There are also paddling boats available for those people who wanted to do some activity around the mosque and ejoy the beautiful scenery. And of course, we will never let go the opportunity to ride one. I can’t really remember the fee per person. But I think it is RM5 per person during that time because I think I saw my mom paid RM30 to the staff there, and all of us are riding and paddling the boat (3 person/boat).

This is the last places we went to before heading to the airport and going back to Kuching.

Till we meet again, Sabah!

And...

I will miss this.

Sedaplah jugak.

Emotion

“Emotion”

Gloomy and sadness

Expectation and disappointment

Pressure and anxious

Sensitive and moody

Leads to loneliness

Becoming more introvert

The feels, the stares, the unspoken words

Giving such unpleasant vibes

Without knowing we grew apart day by day

From lots of thing to talk to few

From few to none

From family to someone who live together

Finally we just stare at each other for a while

Before walked our own way

We used to laugh together

We used to share things

What happened to the closeness we had before?

I feel distant and not been wanting

The worst part is I feel like stranger at times

30^th September 2016; 3.32pm

Coldness

“Coldness”

Your back that left without hesitation

It looks so cold

Why do you keep drifting away?

I wonder do we end everything like this

I am begging you to stop if you are still mine

But you keep on going and never looks back

My hearts torn apart

It hurts so much

The sadness surrounds me like a fog

I can’t look forward to another day

I can’t distinct between day and night

The long nights become colder since that day

Say he wouldn’t break my heart

He showered me with a lingering affection

But in the end he is the one who broke the promise

Leaving me behind without words

Giving me one last present, it’s the pain

Curving deep wound in my heart

Leaving scars which will never diminished over years

22^nd September 2016; 3.46pm

Final Chance

“Final chance”

What if you only have one day left to live?

One day equal to 24 hours

24 hours equal to 1440 minutes

1440 minutes equal to 86400 seconds

It seems like you have much time by just looking at the figures

However, you knows it yourself that it wasn’t true

It’s pouring heavily outside

The coldness strangle you inside

But you still have tons of things in your wish list

You wanted to meet lots of people

You wanted to say final words to your love ones

And asked them for forgiveness for what have you done wrong

Tick, tock, tick, tock

Times fearlessly keep on moving without even a single stop

Without knowing, you are running out of time

You became desperate for each seconds passed

Meeting your lovely parents for one last time

You hugged them so tight while whispering ‘I love you’

You tried hard to stop yourself from crying

Hoping that they won’t realize the real situation

While you are so busy putting a poker face

Your parents knows the bitter truth, giving their best efforts not to show it

And acts along just so you have one last good memories together

There you are, spending few hours of quality time with them as it will be the last one ever

It’s finally down to few minutes left before the time is up

When your eyes catch on someone you have been longing for long

That is him, the love of your life

You really wanted to go to him

You wanted to run and hug him

You wanted to tell him how much you love him

But yet, your legs isn’t reacting as what your heart wants

Your mouth is muttering something but no words really came out

You had a glanced at your parents

They nodded at you as a sign ‘Go’

You gather all your strength left

You started to walk your way

Slowly, step by step until you are one step away from him

You looked at him right in his eyes for seconds

There’s still no word came out

But he understood it all

Your body and legs finally gives up

Right before you fall down on the floor

You feel like someone grabbed your waist and hug you tight

The sounds of people screaming is becoming louder and louder

You are not crying but drop of tears keeps falling down on your face

You tried to figure out what happen but it’s blurry

You cannot see anything except for black shadows surround you

Slowly, the shadows disappear from your sight

The sounds of screaming is getting far away

At one point, you heard no sounds at all

That’s when you know that your time is up

You are feeling a bit regret for not completing your wish lists

But you are glad that you at least had one last chance to be with them, your love ones

20^th September 2016; 4.46pm

Travelogue: Sabah – Day 4

25 September 2015

Labuan

We traveled a bit far on our fourth day in Sabah. We went to Labuan, the home of duty free and cheap chocolates! Eh? Hahaha. I am so excited going there because I have never been there in my whole life. I once got an offer to pursue my study at Labuan Matriculation College for a two years program, but my parents prefer that I continue with foundation of engineering technology (FET) at Kedah Matriculation College. Okay, enough about schools.

It takes almost 2 hours’ drive from our apartment to Menumbok where we’ll be taking a speed boat or ferry to Labuan. Yes dears, you have two choices. Ferry; where you can bring your own car to Labuan and it takes 3 hours to reach Labuan from the jetty. Or, you can get in a speed boat; of course you can’t bring your own car using a speed boat, but if you are in need to save some time or in a rush, speed boat is a great choice. It takes only 30 minutes from jetty to Labuan.

On our way to Menumbok

We chose to ride a speed boat instead of ferry. First, it’s because our trip to Labuan is just a day trip so we need reduce time to go there and more time to explore Labuan (still, we didn’t get to go to many places though). Second, just because we wanted to experience travelling by using a speed boat.

Around the Menumbok ferry terminal

Yellow boat, it's our speed boat ;)

Once we arrived Labuan, we rent another car to travel around Labuan. I told you guys before that there are almost no car rental services offered their cars for hours or half day, right? It took us almost half an hour to coax one of the car rental service at the entrance of the Labuan jetty to rent us the car for only half day. So, we are paying RM100/half day instead of RM180/day. If it was just me alone going to Labuan at that time, I won’t bother to pay that much money. I would rather rent a bicycle to tour around Labuan. It’s much cheaper and you can exercise too! Hehe.

Excited just by seeing the word 'Labuan'

Bicycle rental services available at Labuan jetty

It is almost noon, and it is Friday. We encountered quite a bad traffic jam, we are losing our time there. We managed to fill up our hungry tummy first at one of the restaurant there, before going to Chimney Museum.

Chimney Museum

Entrance fee: Free

Opening hours: Daily; 9.00 am to 6.00 pm

Here’s where the history of the first chimney in Malaysia are located. From the materials to build a chimney to the very first design of chimney, you can found all of them here. It’s quite a good tour since you can learn a lot by touring the museum. I took some pictures of the good information since I’m not really in a mood to read it one by one there.

Chimney Museum; entrance

Trying to jump beside the huge chimney

Outside of the museum, there is one huge chimney were built. We went around to take some pictures for a while before rushing to the nearest Mosque for my father and my brother to perform their Friday prayer. While, for us women, we went to the shopping mall not far from the Mosque, so it is easy for us to pick them after the prayer.

We don’t really have much time, so we were just looking around the shops inside the mall while buying some chocolate. Yes, having some chocolate is a must for us. Furthermore, one of the reason we’re going to Labuan is because of chocolates.

It’s almost 2 when we arrived at the Mosque to pick up the gentlemen. Since we are running out of time before going back to Menumbok, we were just driving around Labuan without stopping anywhere. I didn’t even get to see Labuan Matriculation College with my own two eyes huhuhu. Then, we went back to the jetty to shop for more chocolates before taking another ride of speed boat to Menumbok.

I would like to advice you people to spend at least one night at Labuan, so that you can enjoy more time to go around Labuan.

We finally reached Kota Kinabalu at night, around 7pm. It was our last night at Sabah, so we decided to go to One Borneo mall to have our dinner there and to jalan-jalan. Nothing much to do there. Our first plan was to watch a movie. But, we are all tired due to the long journey back and forth Labuan and we haven’t pack our belongings, so we headed straight to the apartment after buying some snacks for supper.

Favorite snacks 

I saw Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) on the way back. So, that concluded my fourth day in Sabah. 

Managed to capture only the signboard

Travelogue: Sabah – Day 3

24 September 2015

Now that we have get enough rest the night before, we are up for something fun today. But before that, Happy Eid-Adha to all Muslim in the world :)

The first place we decided to go of course is the place we didn’t get to go yesterday. It’s The Upside Down House. Since 3D Museum is located just next to the upside down house, we went to the museum as well.

The Upside Down House and 3D Museum

Entrance fee: Malaysian; Rumah Terbalik (Adult - RM10.60 , Child - RM5.30) , 3D Wonders Museum (Adult - RM24.40 , Child - RM 15.90) , Special Combo (Adult - RM31.80 , Child - RM19.10 [for more details, please visit Tickets & Packages (Rumah Terbalik & 3D Wonders Museum)

Opening hours: Monday - Sunday & Public Holiday; 7.00 am - 7.00 pm

Since this is my first time seeing the upside down house, I am quite excited. I was thinking, “Wow, the one who initiate this house must be very creative and bla bla bla.“ There’s a quota of how many people can enter the house at once. We are lucky we didn’t have to wait for so long to enter the house as we are amongst the earliest to be there.

We were inside the house for more or less 10 minutes. The staffs were there too, to give the explanation about the house and the things inside the house. And of course, to ensure people didn’t take any photos inside the house. Well, there are CCTVs too. I wanted to take one, but since there are quite a number of people there and I’m pretty concerned about the CCTVs capturing me taking the photos, I cancelled my plan. Since the things inside the house are also placed upside down, I’m feeling quite dizzy seeing things above me. Luckily, we spend just a short time in the house.

Next, after about 15 minutes self-photography session outside the house (there are place outside the house where you can take photos with the upside down things), we are ready to have some fun and another self-photography session in the 3D Museum, yay!

The Upside Down Car

The Upside Down House

Well, there’s nothing much to tell about the museum aside from there are lots of corners where you can take pictures to your heart content. And yes, no worry there’s also quota here. Certain amount of people were allowed to enter at once so there’s no rush for you to take pictures and it’s not too crowded. Sounds good, huh? The one thing that is a bit uncomfortable is when you have to bring your shoes/sandal/slippers along with you while you exploring the museum. But still, you will be in a good mood to take lots of good pictures. We spend almost 2 hours in the museum. Now, let’s check out some of the photos we have taken inside the 3D museum.

Jambatan Tamparuli

We headed to the famous Jambatan Tamparuli, next. Unfortunately, the bridge is close for some construction and inspection at that time, so we just take some photos and went to the market near the bridge to buy some fruits and snacks. We bought durian (againnn since we are all durian lovers) and decided to eat it by the beach.

Tanjung Aru Beach

And so, we went to Tanjung Aru Beach to enjoy some of our time there. Tanjung Aru beach is located just next to the KKIA airport. You can watch the airplanes departed and landed while relaxing at the beach. It’s quite an interesting view for me.

A must try coconut shake. RM 6 per glass.

Philippine Market

The last place we went for the day was Philippine Market. It’s located very near to our apartment, so can just take 10 - 15 minutes’ walk there from the apartment. We are using the car since we are already outside at that time. Since it was Eid-Adha, not many shops are open. We bought few Sabah traditional biscuits and snacks, pearl brooches and bracelets and also fridge magnets (wajib!) as a souvenirs before heading back home.