Taiwan 2007 - 1st March

- This is where the drama begins. -

Our alarm rang at 6am and i was so tired and blur i didn't want to wake up :)

It took me 10 minutes to get up and hit the showers and got ready. After we got ready we did last minute checks and took our luggage's downstairs and waited for the airport taxi to arrive.

Usually these airport taxis would come earlier and wait for you outside your house like 5 - 10 minutes before your pickup time. But to no avail, the taxi was no where to be seen and it was already 705am. We were beginning to get worried and called the airport taxi company and got hold of the taxi drivers mobile number. We gave him a call and he told us that "HE COULD NOT MAKE IT" and his friend would be coming to fetch us. After waiting until 725am, i called the taxi drivers friend and told him to "Fly Kite" and that i`m on my way to KL Sentral.

I got my dad to send us to KL Sentral in record time cause the morning traffic jam was picking up. We reached the station by 740am. Fortunately Lynn had a KLExpress ticket, so we only needed to purchase one additional ticket. We were fortunate again as we caught the train that was leaving. The moment we got into the train the doors closed. We put our luggage's aside and sat on the cramped seat on this supposedly 1st class train to KLIA which cost RM35 one way!!!! but it only takes you 28 minutes to reach KLIA.

The plan was to reach the airport before 740am-800am but we arrived at the check-in counters at 815am-820am and the queue was surprisingly very long! Apparently there were many others traveling to HK which was the same flight we were taking to go to Taipei. We were rite at the end of the line and some smart ass asked us if it was alright to let his friend(a girl) joined him in front of us. My face was like totally blur but super pissed off kinda look, i answered him "I don't know"! hehehe luckily Lynn was still sane enough to answer him "It's alright". I just kept quiet.(What was i suppose to say to the fella, my cab FFKed me, i did a TAR(The Amazing Race) to get to the airport and you wanna ask me if i can let your friend jump queue?)

In the end it all paid off for being humble, a Cathay Pacific attendant asked us if we could help them and go on an earlier flight to reach HK earlier. So we tooked the offer and was on the earlier flight out of KLIA to HK international airport. So all privileges of booking the front row seats with more leg space were gone.

- The Drama doesn't stop there! -

We were nicely seated in the airplane and got our lunch and drinks and flight entertainment and all. Knowing that we would reach HK international airport 30m ealier, we could go do some window shopping at their duty free shops.

Note: My feet can't stand too much walking or standing due to all the injuries i picked up from football

Upon arrival there was a major long queue to get our hand carries scanned and bodies search at the airport security before we're allowed into the airport. We got out quickly and headed for the transit terminal and checked the screens for our boarding gate number, it was gate number: 70.

That sounds far? No problemo, just take the airport internal train to get to Boarding Gate No : 70. We spent some time walking around the duty free shops knowing we had plenty of TIME!!!!!! When we reached the boarding deck of the internal train, we were told to walk to the boarding gate as the train is malfunctioning, the doors could not be opened or closed! Damn.

We did another TAR to run, skip, jump, hop, dash, sprint to the freaking GATE 70 which is all the MOFO way at the end of the freaking airport!!!!!!!! I just killed my legs before we even started our trip :(

Managed to reach the Gate 70 rite on time! and there were others still behind us running towards GATE 70. We were relieved to be seated in the airplane rite at the front row this time, hehehe. It was a 3 seater along the right side of the plane. We were seated beside a guy who didn't even know how to operate the in flight entertainment set(little monitor in front of you). So no conversation was made there.

To be continued...