are we there yet??

dear jess,

thursday, 8.45pm, the crazy looking woman knocks on my car and makes hand and mouth signals with a big smile stating she just wants to talk and tell us that she and her husband was there first and how they deserve the parking we were already in. I turn over to my usually gusty cousin and we both decide to stay in the car because she looked somewhat crazy.

Rewind to 10 minutes before this, i place my signal to get into the car park, and ask my cousin, that car doesnt want it right? we look, and the husband has his hands behind his head, resting, no signal as the car comes out and we take the place.

Fast forward to 20 minutes after, and now the mad looking wife has called on the husband and they both start knocking on my cousins window side insisting they just want to talk. An image of my mum flashes, and decide to stay in the car, taking the 'higher road.' Finally, i zoom away, of course not before ramming my car, my anger has to be chaneled somewhere, and much to my insane delight gave the two a good shock. Made a turn, and guess what the car next to me leaves too, and that was two whole empty parking lots for two jerks we just met, but just like God was looking down on me and winked at me that day, they got to park in neither one.. Of course, we couldnt resist it and turn to laugh at them as we drove pass. Who says the wrong ones dont always get wat they deserve huh?

Rewind this to two days before, 7.30 in the morning, kit is late. Whats new. I make myself a cuppa, and feel the throat protesting. The thought that i may get sick crosses my mind, then conveniently ignored it as it didnt feel that bad. 3 hours or so later, breakfast at ipoh, tim sum was good. Especially loved the egg tarts and fried prawns. i find myself in ipoh parade, and somewhere in between that and the cute swings as chairs in the marrybrown, i seem to have gotten the sniffles. Mun Onn apologizes, i must have got it from him somewhere from when we were scolding kit for his lateness, to our bitching about life and people in our lives.

More fast forwarding and we are at taiping, finally got kit and mun onn to try the infamous mee rebus and char kuey teow plus the DOUBLE fried pisang goreng and canggih curry puffs, which we tapaued for the northeners too...

Fast forward to a few minutes on the highway and the boys decide to sleep whilst the girl drives. As i head north being all alone with my thoughts, my nose starts to leak furiously, ah an unwelcome, but far too familiar sight of my leaky nose, the last time i had flu, gosh i was in taiping too! Still driving, multi tasking between blowing the leaky nose, adjusting the aircond, driving and trying not to hit anyone with a car that wasnt mine, i thought that this is the first time im actually driving across the penang bridge, hmm better not tell the hamsap boy, he might freak.

8.30pm, we pick shel, liyee and topher. 15 minutes before i find myself in the usm dorms searching for toilet. All local uni dorms look the same, and guess what they smell the same too! Brought back memories from 'back in the day' except they had a lift in that dorms! gosh lucky kids.

Fast forward to dinner at gurney drive, now my flu is full blown. More fast forwarding to 10.30 as we race back to the hotel to watch desperate housewives. More lying down like a bunch of lazy buggers we were, more lameness from you know who and sweet shelby who puts up with it.. Made the trio sacrifice their precious assignment time; you know with the time spent hanging out and of course getting lost..

The 'man of the match' was definitely kit, as the story of his confidence at mt kinabalu walking off confidently as he waves mun onn goodbye, to which mun onn stops him, and tells him his going the wrong way! I thought a mountain had only two ways, up and down? (sarcastic tone intended) Fast forward to a few minutes maybe even seconds after that as he confidently leads the pack out to the car park and takes the wrong turn. We burst lauging hysterically, what with the story just being told and all. Of course he does this a few more times on our trip.

Fast forward to next morning, rudely awake by whining and whacking, next stop- Sitiawan. By far the most interesting shop with fake perfumes that go for 2bucks, and bright yellow thong (please, there are more than one meaning for this word..) for me too.

Fast forward. Lumut, i secretly check kits cam, whilst muns (another new nick) looks out for him. This is after kits proudly states his multi taksing skills whilst driving, and suspiciusly disallows us from seeing pictures in his cam. Expecting some hidden life of his to be disovered, instead we see pictures of us sleeping in the car. Yes the self claimed multitasker snaps whilst driving and of course included are some self portraits while driving too! Heck we deleted it. Who's got the last laugh now?

Fast forward to after lumut, unscheduled stop at tronoh, an otherwise unknown place if it weren for, michael d. UTP, univ trinoh petronas, former USM Kejuteraan, was awesome! id never say this of a building, but mike's "starship enterprise" building with the library being seen from the outside was beautiful. If i had to go to a see thru library everyday, id be glad.

Dinner, a drive home, many more pee stops, the runnning out of interrogation questions for kits, long, long hours on the road, stops, and im home exhausted. Ive never been more exhausted, probabbly also because of the flu; so much so i had no mood to take pics. Will steal from the boys later.

Of course, at the end of that day, i ended watching rockstar inxs, and marty, the hot babe made a good end to the day with his personally written song, trees. Reminded me of Roald Dahl, somehow.

Fast forward to the future; im sure this will go down as one of those things i look back fondly on, what with "my" two boys and the four people who made it worthwhile. On the other hand, going north will now be associated to me getting a flu, so im not sure when ill be ready for another northern road trip.

yours back in free gear,
jess