I got to know my girlfriend when she first sent me a message in Friendster on 13th March 2006. And long story short i was thinking of coming over and visit her for the first time on the 3rd March 2007. I was working with an advertising agency circa Sept-April 2007 as a Digital Imaging Artist (basically turn something impossible into possible using Photoshop, eg. turn a skinny guy into a fat guy, or, turn a couple of trees into a forest [the forest in O2 pda advertisement was my work] ), and there was no way i'm gonna be able to take a vacation even for few days bcoz i'm the only artist there (i have to go work on Sundays as well. Basically, i have no life).

Due to the pressure of handling so many jobs and the fact that i wanna a vacation, i quit my job (still jobless tho). So, there i was buying airplane tickets to Sarawak (i live in Kuala Lumpur, across the sea :p).

I have never ever board an airplane before so i was like...flabbergasted and paranoid. Well, okay, I was born in Sarawak but that doesnt count bcoz i was still a baby. The flight was at 8:50am and i had only slept about 2hours before that. Thanks to my friend, he sent me to KL Sentral station around 3:30am whereby i took the Air Asia bus to the LCCT Airport for a mere RM9.90. I couldnt sleep when i was in the bus either. Oh crap, i said to myself.

I couldnt believe my eyes when i reached the airport. It was the first time i had ever been to such place. And oh my god..so cold! I've forgot to bring my sweats! warghh!

The airport kinda chaotic with lots of people going dunno where. Oh, i thought it's a strictly no smoking area? How come people can leisurely smoke near the entrance? Seeing that, i smoked as well. Haha! The point is, they might as well take off the No Smoking signs because kinda useless to be putting those on without enforcements. As a smoker myself and first time being at an airport, i will try to find any place where there are not much of people ; the parking lot for instance. And bloody hell, please throw the cigarette butts properly, fellow smokers.

After all the procedures that i still dont understand, i managed to get into the Boarding room (is that what it's called? I dunno) where the sight of airplanes almost made me jumped with joy! I was like, holy crap! Normally i see those things on TV or magazines. Uhmm..pardon the boy-meets-world stuff.

When i was in the plane, i took a seat near the wings bcoz i wanna checkout the turbine engine. The takeoff was a n-i-g-h-t-m-a-r-e (atleast for me). During on the landing strip, the plane went from zero to 1billion km/h in like 5 seconds and that caught me on surprise (or is it bcoz the LCCT strip is short?) and rosed up in a very very very very steep angle, almost like when i was on a rollercoaster. This experience contradicts with my experience from Sarawak to KL (later in part 2) plane ride. Hmm..is it normal for Air Asia plane to be so cold? I was literally shivering in there. I heard a passenger requesting for a blanket but the stewardess said that they dont have such thing but would like to offer a hot drink instead. Uhmm..i dunno what to say.. Are those blankets i saw on tv just for Execs? And not for Business? Why the weird policy? What's the deal?

The plane ride was not smooth at all. The pilot steered the plane (do we call it 'steer'? i dunno) in a very 'jagged and harsh' style. After one a half hours of totally uncomfortable ride, we finally reached the Kuching International Airport. The landing? It was surprisingly s-m-o-o-t-h. Thank God.

I almost couldnt stand up bcoz i was still shivering that time, but managed to crawl (just kidding) into the terminal, where i hurriedly got into the toilet. Pee? Nope. The hand-dryer!!

After all that, i walked outside and eagerly waited for my girlfriend to arrive and pick me up.


I'll proceed with Part 2 soon. Hmm..how do i post lots of photos in a blog anyway....


~Shizu