Fantastic Outing!
January 22nd, 2007BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!
i had a blast yesterday! me and my old friends went out to Times Square. yea. duh. dull. balik balik times square, no other place ah? hehehe.. but i had a great time. the outing was dedicated to chin as he is leaving for aussie soon to further his studies there. well. good luck to him! i still have a long way to go i guess. sighh… originally, we were planning to go to Sunway Pyramid at first but a lot of people were against the idea of ice-skating. (i wasnt one of them by the way) so we swapped the venue to Times Square instead. Sam was the one who was making such a big deal of skipping his freakin class and go for the outing. so everyone was upset with him. lol. that morning itself, i already had a set-back. i was late. lol. me, ganesh and leong were supposed to meet up at the KTM station at rawang.
Ganesah had sent me an sms early that mornin and said that we’re meeting at 9am. it was already 8.30am when i got the message. lol. the agreement was that we be there at 10am! i didnt even have my breakfast yet! so i told him to go there a lil bit later at 10-10.30am. so i rushed for the toilet and gluttonously swallowed my meal. lol. even then, i was still late. hahaha. 9.40am, and i was still at home. and it takes about 30-50 minutes to get to rawang, depending on the traffic conditions. lol. i managed to reach there at around 10.10am. but out of luck, the train went off before i could even buy the tickets. lol. leong and ganesah had waited for me there. lol. i told them to go first cz i thought i was gonna be late, but they waited there for me. so we had to wait for the next trip. the waiting wasnt really a long one as we had a lot to crap and talk about. hahah.. havent been seeing my friends in a long time now. while waiting, chin had already sent me an sms asking me if i was already reaching Times Square as he was already there. LOL! what he wasnt aware of was that we had a surprise for him!!! DRUM ROLL!!!! we were late! doink!
we talked non-stop till we had reached KL Central. kikikiki.. we took the monorail to Imbi. meanwhile, came preti with her miscall and sms, signaling that she was already on tantrum, waiting for us at times square. hehehe.. surprise for her too i guess. kikikiki.. once we got there, we decided to go hunt for ganesah’s german friend whom he had called along for the outing. lol. then we went up to the 10th floor to meet the two on-hold monsters. lol. preti and chin. it was so long since we’ve all seen each other, so it was rather like pasar malam there instead of a shopping complex. lol. michael, the german guy seemed sooo utterly lost. you’re not gonna believe what im about to say when you see his pic! he’s 16!!! and he’s even bigger than sam and joshua, combined together!
so we decided to catch our lunch first since it was already noon and we had a lot of activities to be done later in the evenin. so off we went to the KFC. i had the Alaskan fillet stuff, uwek, it wasnt tasty at all. lol. well, at least for me and preti. michael didnt have anything as he said he already had some meal before we came. or at least, that’s what i think. lol. he talked so softly and slowly and he had that deep thick german slang (or whatever slang) that i wasnt even able to understand some of the things he was trying to say. lol. he couldnt understand BM so forget about it and it seems as though i was the only one who tried to break the ice and start some discussion with him. lol. he sounded rather bored by our yappering and chatting. lol
took a few photos there and we were done. next, they tribe had voted against me and decided to play bowling. i didnt want to play bowling and i told them that i would be too mad at sam that i would start imagining the ball as sam’s head and start aiming for the longkang at the sides instead of the pins. lol. besides, i wasnt really good at it anyway. but they forced me into playing the game. typical! and as predicted, i sucked, lol the first two sets were already full of longkangs. (sam’s head must have stunk a lot at that time!) leong was the most outstanding one…… compared to the others. lol. hahaha! although we sucked at the game, but it was still an enjoyable one. we had a lot of fun making fun of the funny ones about their funny ways of throwing the not-so-funny ball and how the funny looking pins would fall everytime. lol. but the lane was seriously in need of a shaman! lol. it was cursed! everbody started getting a longkang and the pins had to be practically restarted everytime since they would be at least one missing pin or no pins at all. lol.
thus, we switched to the other lane before continuing the second game. the second game was a better one for evryone especially for michael. hahaha!! the bowling was fun. but the game sux. lol. by the time we finished the game, it was already 3pm. so we headed for iMAX. there were only 3 movies available which were:
- The Open Season
- Sharks
- T-Rex
we wanted to watch sharks but the showing started at 2.45pm and we missed it by few minutes. we even thought of goin to GSC, but preti and chin said that the elapsed time in between two consecutive showings was too long and we had already missed the early shows, which means the next would be somewhere close to 6pm. heck, what are we gonna do while waiting for 6pm to arrive? window shopping? chit-chatting at the kopitiam? a-ah! no way! so we went for The Open Season anyway.the movie started at 3.45, so it was just about time. there were 8 people who went for the outing:
- Me
- Chin
- Ganesh
- Michael
- Harpreti
- Leong
- Joshua (arrived after the movie had finished)
- Sam (arrived at 5.30pm) lol
but josh and sam missed the bowling and the movie. so 6 went for the movie, and we had 3 free gifts for the Rm120 tickets. so we got 3 freakin large Coke. but there were 6 people, so we wanted to split the coke up into smaller cups since one was way too big for a person to drink neway, but the freakin lady at the counter wouldnt let us take extra cups. so 3 people gave up their shares and the other 3 took the drink. the two ladies and me. lol. i only managed to suck up as much as half of the gigantic cup. neway, back to the movie, the cinema was enormous too! that was the first time i’ve been to iMAX, so i was kinda shocked. i didnt even know that it was a 3D cinema for cryin out loud! yea! lame huh? it’s just that the theme park has always been the place to hang out whenever we go to times square and we usually spare the movies for some other places like midvalley and KLCC, so i didnt know nothink bout the 3D thingy till the movie started and we were given a big weird glass to wear. lol. so it was kinda cool, except for the fact that the movie was a little too boring. toooooooooo boring instead that chin fell asleep! SERIOUSLY! he did! OMG! that was the first time ever that i’ve heard a person sleeps in the cinema while the movie is playing. and with that awkward spectacle like thingy that they gave, it made him slept a little too easily. lol. and nobody had noticed him sleeping, even if he had snored, nobody could have possibly heard it cz the movie was playing so loud. lol. when the movie had ended, only then that i was informed by him about his goodnite sleep. lol.
we thought of snapping some photos with those funny spectacle on our faces, but we figured that the people around would think of it as foolish and it would have gotten to be so embarrassing. lol. hence, we dropped the whole idea and went out straight. lol. we called joshua up, and he was already waiting for us at the borders, so we went to down to look for him. didnt take us long to spot him though. lol. we went for light drinks and meal at the Uncle Lim’s kopitiam near the monorail entrance. we even had a hard time deciding on whether we should sit at the Uncle Lim’s table or the Pau shop’s table. michael sure sounded and looked so stressed as he sighed numerously and continuously watching us fighting over where to sit and have our high tea. lol. we were practically standing at one spot at arguing bout unnecessary stuffs for like 15-20minutes. lol.
and when we finally decided on Uncle Lim’s, sam started calling leong via 3G and the video call. i swear i thought michael was gonna snap at leong for turning on the loudspeaker while talkin to sam cz it was so noisy, the background audio was just too irritating for him. lol. since i was sitting in front of him, i noticed several times that he sighed while covering his ears as if he was gonna explode or sumtin. lol. it wasnt until leong turned the speaker off that he rested in harmony. lol. few laters, sam arrived with his sluggishly tired face and his heavy back-pack which he brought to college and joined us for the high tea. lol. i didnt have anything there as i dont drink coffee, milo, nescafe and stuff. lol. leong had a blueberry cheesecake, preti had a coffee and slices of toasted bread i reckon and michael had a coffee too. frankly speaking, i feel pity for michael, lol, he had absolutely no idea what we were blabbering about as we were talkin much bout our previous experiences in school and such and ganesh didnt really make any conversations with him. basically, i was pretty much the only who was so exited bout making him feel at home and giving him a head-start.
done with the high tea, we moved on to window shopping and walking around talking nonsense and doing nothing. lol. we arrived at a point where chin had to go back cz his sister was already waiting for him. so we bid goodbye to him and he left. one down, 7 to go. we were at the center of times square when we did the “standing-doing nothing-arguing bout nonsense for god knows how long” thingy again. we did that for almost 15minutes. well, we had much time to kill. lol. ganesh wanted to buzz off already cz he got a lot of homework to be done, as for myself, i do have lot sof things to do too! this is supposed to be my study week! but i didnt want to miss the chance to hang out with my old friends, so i decided to tag along for dinner. ganesh was already going nutz as he wanted me to go back with him. lol. he went on from, standing there arguing bout what we were gonna do next, to going up the escalator as if he was already heading for the monorail, to coming back down from where he left and asking me again whether or not i was going to back with him, and to deciding to go back. so we escorted him to the monorail.
meanwhile, michael went back too. he said his parents were already somewhere nearby and he wud have to go back with them. before he left, he said “ok bye. thanx. i had fun.” lol. god knows if he was really saying that for real. hahah!! he sure seemed super damn bored while walking with us. lol. neway, back to ganesh, once we’ve escorted him all the way to monorail entrance at imbi, he started to hesitate as everyone was trying to make him stay up for dinner. lol. would you imagine it, we were one step away from sending him off and he decided to come along for dinner. lol. but he made us promise that we would leave at 8pm sharp! lol. very demanding! so we went to the food court to see what were in store for us. surprisingly, nothing much. once we have dwelled around long enough at the food court lookin for food. ganesh finally said, “bye guys! im goin off! there’s no nice food for me”. LOL! then he went off for real! hahaha.. still the old same funny weird ganesh. lol.
the rest who were there carried on dinner, preti and me had fried rice, joshua had some rice too, sam took the noodle soup or something, while leong was only having a drink as she had eaten the blueberry cheesecake. so we talked and continue talking and talking while enjoying our expensive dinner. lol. they were so expensive man! lol. after we have had our stomach filled. we headed for the monorail and went off to KL Central again. although it was running late, but the monorail still had no less people waiting for it and so was the KTM. hah! we bought the tickets back to rawang at the KTM station, not knowing that the biggest challenge of the day was ahead of us, waiting impatiently to torture us. we reached the KTM station at around 8.50pm. preti was goin back to bhavana’s house in subang. and the for of us (me, sam, joshua and leong) were headed the opposite way back to rawang…… supposedly…
so after bidding farewell to preti, we went separate ways. we were at the station and the clock had shown 2059. the train was scheduled to arrive at 2111. so we thought that it wouldnt be long till it arrives. hah! BIG MISTAKE! it appeared to be some system breakdown at the KTM station and the train was delayed. and it trust me when i say, it was NOT a jiffy delay! we had to wait there at KL Central for more than an hour!!! and to make things worse, there were so many people waiting there too and the waiting seats have all been taken! we had nowhere to seat, neither did we have anywhere to lean on to. so what we did was constantly talking and talking and talking till we got bored and we started to do outrageous things. lol. joshua started to tap dance. lol. or at least that’s what i tink he was doing. lol. i started to squat cz my leg was all sprained up! and sam started to record things around with his brand new SE Cybershot K800i. lol. it was a very loooooooong wait indeed! thank god we had each other to talk to, otherwise, i would have dropped dead instantly. lol. bout an hour and 10 minutes later, the train finally arrived. it pretty much packed inside but it was still tolerable.
next came the KL station, bunch of barbaric malay or indonesian or wuteva heck race guys came in and started shouting and yelling, telling people near the door to squeeze themselves in at the middle chamber of the train. they started to yell something like this “hey you assholes. move your asses a little bit further inside. dont me get all mad cz im already mad bcz of the delay” (they spoke in bahasa, that’s the english version of it. lol). but me and my friends were already at the middle part of the train, so we didnt bother so much, but they kept on yelling and shouting causing great intimidation among the other passengers. so i was like “what they heck are they trying to do now? who the hell do they think they are? are they the only ones who suffered from the delay? hey, look around morons, we’re all in the same train arent we, we were stranded, and so were you. so shut your freakin mouth up and stop shouting around like some troops of barbarians who’ve just been teleported into the 20th century from”, but of course, that thought alone didnt stop them from shouting around and mocking people. so we just let things be the way they are and it eventually sorted out. but that of course, wasnt the end to our misery. we had something worse waiting for us at the Putra station.
Once we were close approaching Putra station, the KTM driver suddenly made an announcement that sounded like this. “Attention to all passengers, we are sorry to inform you that this train is currently experiencing some system difficulties and power failures. Hence, it is appreciated if all of you would get off at Putra station and wait for another oncoming train right behind of us that would approximately reach Putra station in about two minutes time. we are sorry for the inconvenience.”. Hell yea they better be! the moment we got to Putra station, all of us had to get off board and wait for the coming train. of course, the two minutes said, wasnt really two minutes, it was more like 20-30minutes! so we got off and glided through the impatient intimidated crowd and tried to find someplace where there were no smokes due to cigarettes and sit in peace.
while waiting, we again, talked and talked, lol, right at that point, it seemed as though talking was really the only thing that we could do. hahahah.. suddenly, sam’s phone rang and it was his parents calling, apparently, his parents were somewhere nearby and sam had asked whether we would like to go back with his parents, that way, we would be able to avoid all the mess the KTM made. but we decided to stay at Putra and wait for the train. joshua said “let’s just stay here. come to think of it, how often do we really get to experience this?” lol.. i guess he was after all correct! besides, we didnt want to trouble sam’s parents as there were four of us, and the car would have gotten a little too packed at the back. albeit the time was already 10pm or so, we’ve made up our minds and stayed there and waited for the next train to come. sam even had time to play with a kitten. lol. street kitten not to mention! lol. leong took some videos and pictures of the crowd. and then the first train arrived! for all that we know, the train was like…. grrr… indescribable!! it was already three quarter filled when it got there! the crowed insisted on getting on board and squeezing themselves in to the maximum. everybody tried to act so slim and slender and pushed each other so they could fit themselves into the train. looking at that, i immediately said no and i rather wait for the next train to come. while the crowd suffered from the act of trying to “sardin”ize (LOL!) themselves into the train. we watched with great relieve due to the fact that more than half of the crowd had disappeared into the train, leaving the next train empty, and cozy for us to ride.
and for once, we felt relieved and lucky when the second train arrived. amazingly, it wasnt even half filled and all the four of us had seats where we could finally give our legs some rest due to the excessive fatigue we had earlier during the day. while in the train, we think back about those people who really tried to squeeze themselves in the previous train and how much coziness they were throwing away, so we felt good for once. lol. we even thought about ganesh making the wisest choice by leaving for home early as he had salvated himself from all of those chaos and hectic scenes due to the KTM faulty. i said to my friends, “hahahah! would you guys imagine ganesh in this situation. he would have gone completely mad and be on berserk by now!” LOL! really, he would! hehehe…
thank god there were nomore delays and nomore problems. we reached rawang at around 11.20pm. sam called his mom and it turns out that they were already at the templer’s park and there appeared to be some congested traffic jam over there. leong, who had driven her car and parked it at the KTM station offered to fetch us all back to our houses. so we said ok, but sam, whose parents are already reaching decided to wait for his parents at the KTM station. so off we went back. bid goodbye and leong drove away. as usual, we spoke bout lots of things while in the car, all those including the increase in the price of petrol and other taxes. lol. we sure do have a lot to talk dont we? kikikiki… leong sent joshua back home to bukit beruntung as it was further up. after joshua had gone back, then she sent me back home as my house is nearby her house. by the time i got home, it was already few minutes past midnight. lol. i said thanx to her and she went off. it really was a great day with a lot of thrill! fuuhhh… i really thought that my parents would go on tantrum or something similar to that cz it was so late at nite and yet i just got back home. lol. but it turns out fine and they didnt say anything, it wasnt my fault anyway, it was the KTM stupid system’s fault! but it was okay i guess, considering that everything turned out good. at least i was there with my friends.
so i got back and bathed and was already too tired to do anything, so i went straight to bed and hit the sack. im gonna attach some of the photos and videos taken during the outing and throughout the day. lol. no kidding! it was fun! hehehe…
The Pictures!
- At KFC having lunch
Me and Leong
- At SuperBowl
Front front to the back, Me, Chin, Ganesh, Michael
Leong and Preti
- At iMAX
- At Kopitiam
Joshua and Chin
Sam
- At The Chinese New Year Landscape
At The KTM Stations (KL Central and Putra)
The Videos!(They’re all at the KTM stations)



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