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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Here Come the Carnival!

That’s where we met the Tai Chi Master! He never left any good impression in my mind the first and only time I met him in April for the proposal and concept presentation. I had no idea what’s his position in that department, but he was quite irritating on all the remarks he made, pushing everything to us to do! And since when we work for him?

He brought us in the airside while everyone was busy waiting for Tuanku’s arrival. He commented this carnival very small scale and he requested us to bring at least 100 aircrafts to my airport. As I told him we can only accommodate at most 60 aircrafts in apron, he annoyed me by saying, we must make it big and aim high. Well, aim high? How about 1 million small aircraft on top of your HEAD? Sen Ching Ping!

Soon after Tuanku arrived and officiated the carnival by controlling the remote control aeromodel, the show begun! Remote control aeromodel show, paramotor stunts, parachute landing, small aircrafts salutation fly pass, helicopter fly pass! While Tuanku visited the small aircraft static display and I was asked to follow him for photo shooting! He kept saying, you take this one, you take that one, one by one and for your presentation, you put all in and show everyone one by one. God damn it, the word “one by one”, “presentation”, “you this” and “you that” pissed me off. I reluctant to move around too actively as I think it’s better to give Tuanku respect and priority to walk around instead of me and taking photos like no other’s business! He sarcastically said, “Come, come, jen come! Why? Scared ah? Never experience such situation? Nothing one la” At that time, I wish I was in Ally McBeal’s show that I can imagine I break his neck!

“Jen, take this one!”, “Jen, take that one”, “Jen, take this angle!”, “Jen, this view is better”! Hey, bastart, stop bugging me! I can take whatever ways I want and who are you to order me around? I felt like he’s the duplication of Moon Yam! Damn! And he kept teasing us about our train ride instead of flight as my company is in aviation industry! He asked “Why want to take train to save money? Our carnival is going to be very big, you at least need to spend half a million you know?” I cut his conversation by pushing it back to him regarding their budget and sponsorship, after all isn’t it the event they wanted to organize? We are just facilitating them and give them the permission to hold it in our premise! Hello, the airport is privatized already, understand?! He spoilt my mood and my whole trip, the sight of him killed millions of my brain cells! Yucksss……

One more thing was Tai Chi Master gave the wrong information about the carnival date and the carnival would end before Lalat’s visit on Sunday! And he’s entitled flight ticket for the trip! He would still go to Kelantan as he paid for his whole family flight ticket. I thought he was sent to Kelantan for business trip and the purpose is to visit air carnival? How could the company spend and allow him to go with the initial objective and knowing that it couldn’t be achieved? So now, who’s saving cost and who’s wasting? *speechless*

We had our lunch in KFC, Sultan Ismail Petra Airport! Well, Sultan Ismail Petra Airport has KFC but not Sultan Ismail Airport! And one sad thing is latter one got more passenger volume and more routes! But of course, we have KFC just in Senai town, so no point for them to open one more here. Then we went back to the carnival airside to snap more pictures after it’s opened for public. The response from public was not bad and the drawing contest for kids was on-going. Anyhow, yes some Kelantanese are really fair, pretty ladies and handsome gentlemen! I acted like paparazzi to snap a few photos of some cute visitors! Muaahahaha….. just for the fun of it!

We took all the trouble to wait for the joyride which costs RM38 per adult and at last after not less than 2 hours, we got our way to Cessna-17! I was so lucky to sit beside captain at co-pilot’s seat and I was even luckier to fly the plane for a short while!! It’s so unbelievable that I really did that! It was very scary as it’s a very small aircraft and my imagination ran wild! What if the door opens and I fall down? What if I lose control of the plane? All the WHAT-Ifs! Turn left, turn right and Captain said “Turn more to the right” and I could feel the plane turn a lot to the right! Oucchhh… my heart ached and it missed a few beats!

“Captain what if you push?” Ainie asked curiously.
“Ok, push means down. Now we go down!” answered Captain.
“AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH…………!!!!!!!” I yelled and loud orchestra accompaniment from Ainie!
The plane dropped freely down and I screamed my lungs out!
“Ok now we go up!”
“AAHHHHHHHHHH…….!!!!!!!” I freaked out!
“Ok girls, we are landing soon ok?” Captain asked.
I was thinking “Can we repeat? Hehehe….” This is more thrilling and far more exciting than ordinary roller coaster!

Well, as we thought we would have some time to walk and shop around town, we left only 2 hours for departure after the joyride! We rushed to airport washroom and took a few terminal photos. Taxi counter officer told us it will take us more than 1 hour to reach Wakaf Baru if it’s jam, especially weekend. Ainie wanted so much to buy batik for her father and tudung for herself. And we found out from a lady that there was a pasar malam nearby in Pengkalan Chepa. Ainie kept apologizing and wanted to get at least something for this trip. Well, I had no problem with this. We made the taxi driver to wait for us for 15 minutes and we ran like mad ladies! Is it Carnival turned to Amazing Race trip! We squeezed ourselves in the crowd to find tudung stalls and finally Ainie played her part as a successful money spender (quoted from her friendster). We caught thousands pairs of eyes on us while we rushed to find our taxi.

We reached Wakaf Baru KTM station at 7.10pm, so now who said we were going to be late for our train if we stopped by for any occasions?! Who made us run like mad ladies? Dinner time gave us headache as there were only two food stalls and nothing there really opened up our appetite, and again the so called business trip caused us to eat maggi rebus! Come on! We had enough of instant noodles during our school days when the budget was tight and rushing for exam or projects. We had no other options than maggi rebus? That’s terrible! Anyway the food was quite ok and the price was cheap but the environment wasn’t really nice and clean. At the last few minutes before the train arrived I got another heart attack incident! Ainie took the train ticket few minutes ago and totally forgot that they were still with her. I made a scene in that food stall by making them panic and puzzled with my question “Ade jumpa ticket kat meje? (Saw ticket on the table?)” Then I went back to Ainie, “Ya Jen, I found it!” *geleng kepala* “cute Ainie” is always “cute”

Superior Sleeper Class was quite nice. At least I can sleep comfortably throughout the night! Ainie read her motivational book (hope it will motivate her) but for my case, I don’t read books much and even if I force myself to read, thousands of such books will not boost up my motivation and self esteem. I’m just a screwed up creature alive on earth! After struggling for about 38 hours of dirty body condition, we finally reached JB.

After shower, oh man, I never felt so clean before in my whole life!!

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