The day before we say goodbye

28 June 2008 Saturday

Woke up early in the morning, 5.30am. Last night slept at 2.00am. not even 4 hours of sleeping. Waited 2 hours for sister to settle everything. Finally it's time to depart. Went Damansara for Dim Sums as breakfasts. 8 O'clock was on highway. Travel on a highway that had been traveled uncountable times, but this time with a more special mood. Reached hometown, Bidor picked up grandpa. He wanted to go along, so just followed. Traveled past through Penang and went into Kedah. First time we been here. But didn't worry, believe we wouldn't lost because I'm there. Mum asked me to call the hotel to ask where it is because Kedah seems to only have paddy fields and wooden houses. Everyone was shocked when I just drop down the address. Daddy shouted :" Whether I know where's Jitra and the Hotel is. With the confidence I had, I said yes, I'm sure because I just saw the road sign where it's just few km to go. Then father followed my instruction came to a town called Jitra. Surprisingly there are quite a number of Chinese shops here. I asked a few Chinese guy, they seem to be surprised, they didn't understand my question in English, I decided to ask in Chinese, they answered in a weird style of Chinese. I decided to use Hokien and it works. So I concluded Kedah's Chinese are superb good in Hokien.

Then we reached Darul Aman Suite, our hotel by following the instruction. Met a few pretty girls and they were going to the U too. Same with sister. Later had lunch in a Chinese Kopitiam. Everything just seem to be weird. A chicken rice seller that used to be an elder man or lady in KL but not in this kopitiam. It's a beautiful young girl around 170cm, thin girl that be a chicken rice seller. Had a few talks to her, obviously not to ask her hand phone number but just to understand few things. I think she just a few years older, from her face , her attitude and those actions that played with children there. but her Hokien just a lot more better than me. The way she spoke, the accent are totally different from our KL style of Hokien which mixed with English, malay, Chinese or even hakka. She just seem to be simple, no cosmetic on her face, just some pretty smiles, but that was just enough for KL guys to dream to bring her to KL. And the Wantan Mee here seem to be a lot more different. They using Maggie Mee as the mee, while the Charsiew look more pinkish than it was in KL. Later then I realized not much pork in Kedah. Some of the road signs here even use Jawi to write means it's an I-state. ( if you don't know what's I-state, plus a slam behind I. Then you'll know) Then we rest in the hotel. Being an adventurous boy, as usual I never sitting or sleeping in room. But I brought sister to walk around. There's a golf court, swimming pool, gymnasium and much more. At 6.30pm, after everyone took bath. We went on to search for the UUM to know how it was and exactly where the place to stay and study in the U.

It was a huge compound for this University. I think it's a nice environment, with mountains and trees. There are a huge garden in the school that 3 to 4 times bigger than Taman Jaya. There's about 5 football fields, then another few futsal, a go-kart course, a mall, a few bank, and then student hostels and the buildings for different courses. By 7.30 we left and had dinner at Changlun. We were looking for Chinese restaurant, I guess here will be one, and it proved I'm right. Grandpa was impressed and he asked Daddy whether I came Kedah before, and I didn't perhaps if I did, I must had did it in my dream. The rice in the restaurant are superb nice. It's not the usual smell of rice, you can smell that it's delicious. Later I asked the aunty, she said Changlun is a places came out rice so the rice here are similar as those Siam rice which are much nicer and delicious. We ate a fish, chicken, mixed vegetable, fried mee hun and a soup. It's only 57. In Kl it might had been 100 or at least 80 plus. Things in Kedah is superb cheap, even a Semi-D cost only 300k plus.

Then we went back to Jitra and went to a mall called Yayasan Mall. It's not like those Midvalley or Pavillion, basically it's just a supermarket that's bigger. So we had the last shopping to buy all things needed for sis to go into U. After that we went back to hotel and rest. For being the most good boy, I didn't slept on bed (caused there's only 2 bed in a room, where we got 2 room and 5 people.) So grandpa and daddy slept on bed, while I slept on the sofa.