Sunday, May 10, 2009

KL LCCT back home journey

Did many, many things before I return here (though plenty of unattended things that I couldn't do). Overall, I was satisfied.

But one thing, if one of my friends did not ffk me on 29.4.09, I would have stayed longer and played this with them for many more rounds >.<

Jurassic Jumble, a cards-game that requires you to exchange cards with other opponents until you get a complete set of same colored cards or same digits. The moment you've got the desired cards, you would have to immediately snatch a bone aligned on the table. And all the remaining players will strive to snatch it. The last person that snatched it is the loser. There were 8 bones for 9 players.

We had real great fun and I guess most of us had adrenaline pumped heavily into our blood but the fun had to be stopped because I had to leave earlier *very guilty*

That was why I wanted to strangle that person that night if I could..

Now, the story back home..

Because of the HINI virus and because practically everyone says it's safer as it's less likely to get coughs and flu viruses in the plane when it's only a 50-minutes journey while bus- ~5 hours.; I was strongly advised to get a plane ticket to come back here. It doesn't really make any sense to me but to ease their worries (particularly my mom's), reluctantly I took the flight- which means have to go through the hassles of checking in earlier in LCCT and wait there until the departure time. Waiting has always been a torturing event for me. I just hate waiting!

I took the Air Asia SkyBus from KL Sentral. The schedule can be found here with a 30-minutes interval. In fact, going earlier is good because the seats in the bus are full within 15 minutes. I was supposed to board the bus at 11.00 am (to be safe) or 11.30am (latest) and so, I was forced to reach earlier by my parents (sobs) at 10.35am. However, by that time, the 11am bus is already full and there were about 15 people waiting for the next bus!

Most of them had bought the tickets via online reservation, which is during the airplane ticket reservation. Buying the bus ticket during the online airplane reservation is recommended because it's cheaper (RM 6.50) compared to the real price that you have to pay when you buy at KL Sentral on-the-spot (RM 9- which I wasn't aware of until I checked for the schedule the night before I came back here..hmmm). So the lesson is, plan your journey as precise as possible. If you need to buy the bus ticket to LCCT, buy during online air ticket reservation. Otherwise, you'll have to fork out another small extra fees.

As the 11am bus was already fully occupied, we waited for the next bus scheduled at 11.30 am. The big red bus came at 11.00 am and within 10 minutes, almost all the seats are occupied already. It's not that Skybus is the only one providing shuttle bus services to LCCT but amzingly, the amount of people that board the bus is numerous! We left at about 11.15 am when the bus was fully occupied. In fact, I'm quite happy because I was expecting the bus driver to leave at 11.30 am. It's better to reach earlier (since this is my first time to LCCT KL) and to expect the unexpected. Oh yeah, the bus was very comfortable and the journey took approximately 1 hour (though expected duration is 1 hour and 15 mins).

Air Asia provided few self check-in kiosks but it's not available for international flights (because when I keyed in my flight referral number, it said "Please proceed to counter to check for visa requirements.") I was like - Visa?? Since when we need visas?? Then I asked around for the international flights check-in counters, which I then realised that it is located in another entrance. Domestic check-in counters are in fact, separated from international flights check-in counters. By that time, I've wasted around 20 minutes blurring around because of the queue.

Then only I proceeded for customs clearing and went into the terminal to wait.

Snapped this while waiting to board the plane. Notice that the flight attendant (right) is throwing transferring the bag luggage into the plane compartment.

And, because of the flight, I didn't get to meet my friend [who burned for me many House drama series and 2 Anime dvds (not my favorite at all but got it complimentary so no comments:P)] again for lunch. I was supposed to get these one year ago but now only managed to collect it. The next time we'll meet is probably next year =.="

But I am glad that I managed to seludup and carry it into here!

So long~

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