{"id":1612,"date":"2011-06-12T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2011-06-22T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:03:29","slug":"rail-in-flight-out-of-kl-mings-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/2011\/06\/12\/rail-in-flight-out-of-kl-mings-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail In, Flight Out of KL – Ming’s Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interestingly this KL trip was ulu batu for me on several counts haha. Early Saturday morning, found myself at the wrong airport terminal, horrors! Budget AirAsia takes off from Terminal 1, not Budget Terminal, zzz. Touchdown KL, thinking I had plenty time before meeting everyone for check-in at hotel, gleefully jumped onto a cheap RM18 direct ride to the hotel. Only to realise had been tricked onto a slow coach that made so many stops it took 2 hours to get to Times Square. When Pres messaged that they were at a theme park, assumed they had ventured outside of town. Until I found my way to the top of the shopping mall, my jaw dropped at the fearsome rides spinning around in the huge park INDOORS. And then Sunday morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adventure takes the ulu cake \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we rode on a bus away from the city, past Batu Caves and almost to Genting, in search of cameras, lights and action close to a river \/ pond \/ forest \/ waterfall\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 without realising till much later we had spent the initial hours moving further and further away from the intended location.<\/p>\n

Some of the highlights. At the hotel – don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see Celest quiet quiet, she gamely agreed to deliver all the prank calls; saving me the embarrassment of blowing my cover. Past midnight, we got to slam our fav rootbeer float in classic glass mugs and say cheers! And we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to smuggle home the glass mugs; we got to buy and take home a mini-er version! <\/p>\n

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Sunday morning, the quaint little village-town in the middle of nowhere where everyone knows everyone else and where we had delicious Da-bao and top quality kopi. On location, Shirley spied among the greenery, a plant with hanging heart-shaped leaves (see pic below), and we called out in unison -a JZ kind of plant! The weather warm and humid; we were flowing perspiration but it was time spent together and treasured.<\/p>\n

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Nice to note we have progressed from Skudai trip so soon with this trip; from drive to rail and flight. One thing though, some things don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change \u00e2\u20ac\u201c somehow we just always need to take the road less travelled. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes it special, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it.<\/p>\n

Ming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interestingly this KL trip was ulu batu for me on several counts haha. Early Saturday morning, found myself at the wrong airport terminal, horrors! Budget AirAsia takes off from Terminal 1, not Budget Terminal, zzz. Touchdown KL, thinking I had plenty time before meeting everyone for check-in at hotel, gleefully jumped onto a cheap RM18 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbkd-online.com\/fanclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}