My End and Beginning of Chinese New Year (My Journey)

Happy New Year everyone! Guess where am i?

 

Just want to share my journey to where I am today while waiting for my parents and brother to arrive from Kuching. Yeah, please be warned of the dullness.

 

Chinese New Year Eve

My brother and I were staying overnight in Ipoh. We took the chance when most people were having reunion dinner to go for a movie at TGV Kinta City.  We watched All's Well End's Well's (家有囍事) 2009. 

It was a funny movie but I advised those who were sensitive about dating or having relationship against going to this movie. It was not a Chinese New Year movie, more like a Valentine’s Day funny but not romantic movie.

As for reunion dinner, we broke the tradition and had nasi lemak. L (So those who had reunion dinner, you know how fortunate you were, right?).

At the stroke of 12, only one house lit firecrackers and fireworks. Gee, what a Chinese New Year! Boooring! I called my Dad to send my greeting and over the phone, it sounded like World War III - bombs over here and there; launchers firing screeching rocket; and nuclear bombs with thundering explosion. How exciting the atmosphere was! As I hanged up the call, I could swear hearing crickets chirping!

 

Chinese New Year

We hit the road at around 7am, driving towards KL. Traffic was smooth and we could not see any Chinese around when we stopped at rest areas. I guess most of them were still sleeping.

 

Exiting Tanjung Malim, driving to Batang Kali and then finally reaching Genting Skyway Cable Car station, it was 9am. Usually we could find Chinese queuing up for tickets and then to enter the cable car but for today (as you know Chinese love to gamble) there were actually lots of non-Chinese.

It took us 15 minutes to reach the cable car but before I boarded it, I realized that my phone was no longer with me! Oh no! Did I left it in the car? Had someone stolen from under my nose when I was squeezing myself through the crowds? At that instance of time, everyone looked like criminals to me!

My brother and I stepped out of the line and with my brother looking after my luggage. I ran to my car withstanding the pain of my injured ankle. I reached my car, opened the driver seat and my phone was there! I think it must be happy to see me because the Garmin GPS software was saying repeatedly, “You have reached the destination!”

Again, we went to queue up the line and now it took us 25 minutes. Sigh! But I was happy finding back my baby (my phone I mean), without it I don’t think I could blog anymore.

 

Boarding the cable car and leaving the cable car station, I tried to relax and enjoy the 15 minutes ride. 

There was a saying that went “If you wish to win some money in Genting casino, don’t look at the view below when you board the cable car”. Don’t know how true was that but Ooops!

The weather became cooler and cooler and soon we were in the cloud.

Moments later, we arrived Genting. As usual, we went to Starbucks for our coffee while planning to wait 5 hours for my parents. 

That’s why this blog is unusually long. Has anyone falling asleep? Are you there? Happy New Year, ya?