home sweet home


Gosh, it sure feels good to be home, and i mean it! Having stranded at the Jakarta International Airport for six hours, i kept asking myself during this time why in the whole wide world did i choose to fly with Garuda when we have an award winning national flag carrier of MAS. It didnt help when the staffs tried to dismiss our annoyance of the delayed flight by inviting us to the exclusive lounge for buffet meal...i was tired and angry and cant wait to get out of indonesia...

aww...that soothing feeling of relief when we touched down at KLIA...ive never felt prouder of our airport...it is majestic, it is modern, it is vivacious, it is absolutely world class...i walked amidst other travellers and cant help noticing their nods of approval; Malaysia is really a developed country afterall, they thought...

In conjunction with visitMalaysia2007, there has been much publicity in all major airports and airlines, the two aussie gals who sat beside me in the aircraft were bombarding me with questions, where's interesting? what's the thing to do? what do you eat? what's thaipusam celebration? I havent the heart to tell them not to venture anywhere near batu caves during thaipusam, not if they wanna get groped, or get mugged, or suffocate to death...the entire place would be totally chaotic!

but being a good malaysian tourism ambassador, i found myself uttering: You've gotta witness the celebration! and secretly hope they wont remember me when they're there in the mess...

and it so happened that my swedish friends will be arriving in KL on the 1st of feb, and will be expecting me to babysit them...i guess i will just bring them to the obligatory KLCC and that's it, that's what they expect to find in KL anyway...and then i will quickly suggest them to getaway to one of the highlands or islands or beaches before they begin to hate the city...ive heard stories of travellers finding KL totally unbearable; it's a complete mess and fulls of cars and the air is polluted, they lamented...

on the other hand, having living in KL forever, i must say that the city is growing at a very promising pace, it's shaping the future of the country and im immensely proud of its progress, i cant care much if it doesnt appeal to the foreigners...

way to go, malaysia!