After the Osaka trip….we were supposed to gear up for another trip to south Asia. I was reluctant to leave my house after the new year trip. Ving had however got an invitation to have a trip to the east coast part of Sri Lanka. The trip was 2 weeks in length and I was unable to apply for such a long leave. After some negotiation and compromise, we had reached an agreement to materialize the plan.
The trip had separated into 3 stage, 1st stage was to visit my in law in Malaysia; as my mother in law condition had deteriorated over times. The 2ndstage was to join the church group in KLIA for a flight to Sri Lanka. The 3rd stage was to return with Xian and Yun before the 2 days early of the group Sri Lanka trip.
The prep stage was a tedious one for me. I had to book numerous tickets with different travel dates for 9 persons. The input of personal details had really haunted me for few days. As it was Air Asia we are flying with and any error will lead to a long and tiring emailing event and possible extra payment.
I had tried to book a car with the HAWK late as I was tied up with some hazardous shift. However HAWK was out of Innova when I logged on to their website 1 month prior to the travelling. I had no choice but to try my luck with AVIS. As a VISA holder, the AVIS provided a good discount price for car rental over the world. I had tried to book it before but unfortunately the discounted price was still more expensive than the HAWK. I was lucky this time, the price was cheaper and later when I arrived at KLIA2, the pick up process was smoother than the HAWK. I took me less than 20 minutes to buckled up and drive out from the parking.
The travel was not smooth as everyone was confident and attempted to do last minutes packing. We were almost late for the flight on the travel date. I had come back from a streak of consecutive night shifts and have to assist and supervised their packing. I hit dream land prior to the take off and woke up 40mintues before the arrival.
This time, I was able to use the autogate and passed without difficulty with my new passport. All of our baggages had arrived safely and we met my in law in less than 40 minutes on arrival.
Surprisingly, we were given a new generation Innova. Bigger space and more pickup.
After picking up the car, we had proceeded to picked up a friend from Taiwan in Putrajaya. She is a church member and also an investor who bought some property in Nilai. She had come to Malaysia few days before the Sri Lanka trip.
The route to Putra Jaya was a little packed and we had arrived at Setia Aman by 9:00pm for a late dinner in a local Sri Melur Mamak Store. I found that those people staying around Putrajaya were the lucky one, the google map had led a route which does not need to pay up any TOL!!!
I had good night sleep that night after walloping a bunch of Mamak store food….
I visited Lem on D2 at his new clinic near Dataran Sunway. His clinic is readied to go pending for license. I admired his guts to set up his clinic in this hazardous period of GP flooding. I would have opted to work under supervision for specialist gazettement.
We had done a few shopping rounds and visited my father in law shrine in Klang.
Living expenses around Klang valley had shot sky high. A decent breakfast cost RM8-10 (drinks and meals).
After 2 days of wandering around Klang valley, we were readied for our Sri Lanka trip….
It really disturbed me as we would be heading to KLIA during rush hours. We would joining a group church members in KLIA. They however were on a very rush scheduled. AirAsia does not offer a fly-thru from KHH to CMB. They would need to check out on arrival and check in again. The window was barely 2.5hrs….
With grace, even with the delay of flight from KHH, we were still able to get the 25 members dropped their baggage in time and enjoyed a smooth trip.
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