Friday, April 23, 2010

Labuan troubles again!

Ok 1st up a quick bytes on my Labuan 'balik rumah' trip last Sunday. Well to 'pendekkan the story' no ferry operate as usual so gotta wait till 4.30pm from 11am +. Reason: economic viability in ez terms tak cukup penumpang. Hence change of plan go to Kiulap for shopping & lunch. Had lunch @ Rasamas Qlap. The 3-layered tea is nice. Before returning to terminal feri Muara, had a round Bandar road tour from Jalan Residency all the way till Mentiri using d jalan tepi sungai Brunei (whats d jalan name?). Then at Muara travel to Pantai. Interestingly ada orang berjual baju & kasut there. 1 question boleh laku ke? Return to terminal around 3pm & bought tikets. The ferry operating was Express Kinabalu. I would say its fast as 1hr dah sampai Labuan, usually its 1.5h or even 1h 15min on Seri Anna d fastest catamaran/feri plying the route. The next day went to make pasport. 1hr aje dah siap & its e-pasport ho yeah! At the same time, I also went to make my Mykad 18 tahun. Paid RM$10 for it & it would be done in 1 month. After that my dad & mum went to do their other urusan till about 11+ then went to 'open' peti surat. To my delight the P1 W1max calendar that I have won had already sampai, and its not 1 but 2 as last month I had complainted that it havent arrive so they sent it again. Sorry P1 for all the inconvenience & few dollars postage lost in the extra delivery. The calendar was nice though & it was autographed by P1 CEO with a message
'a great year is what you make it to be.So make it an awesome one!'
After that then the problems started when we were about to leave pos office suddenly the kereta 'meragam'. It produces many sounds so my dad guess it was timing belt problem. Didnt know what to do or didnt want to take the risk, so we walked to the nearest workshop & asked the tauke about it. He say if repair need 2-3hr which we dont have as we already bought feri tiket for 3.30pm that afternoon. He also said mechanic keluar lunch 1pm baru datang balik. So we walked back to our car & tried something switching off the aircond. That solves the problem as no sound can be heard anymore hence it may be aircond belt problem!
On the way back to Brunei, in the feri Suria saw that Shuttle Hope ferry. Very little cars are carried on that trip I saw only 2. I wonder how are they going to survive on normal days with that little cars & passengers. Hence the April promo was initiated!

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