Going Further South: Kuching

Went to Kuching with family, not long after I was called back to return to Kampua Town for the study week. Still tired from the trip back home, I managed to pull myself together for another trip further down south to KCH.

Not much, just a short visit to my late grandma's grave to pay homage, then went off seeing the rest of KCH . Seriously nothing changed, the last time I've been to KCH was 2 years ago and the only thing that I noticed is that the traffic jam has improved well. The roads are now even more winding and confusing for out-of-towners, and the jam near the Brook port <-> old market deserved an astounding two middle fingers up.

Then since it's Gawai (oh happy Gawai), most shops are closed. We raided our typical food court, Top Spot, near Somerset to get some uber KCH dinner. Alas, shops closed and we had to eat at Ling Loong Seafood instead of out typical ABC Seafood. I honestly say, for the sake of my friends' stomach and patience, that the service at Ling Loong Seafood sucked big time. I mean, we arrived at around 8.45pm, and we got our food at 10pm. We Asians might just swear and bear with it, but I pity the ang moes at the next table who waited as long as we did, and just left after a 30 minutes patience test (without paying for the drinks definitely).

Top Spot food court, KCH

My :3 face before dinner. Only to have it changed to 3: an hour later

Then the next day we dropped by the new Spring Mall. Just like the Delta Mall hype back home in Kampua Town, there's nothing there. Sure it's 6 times bigger than Delta, but alas nothing is there except for typical Sony/Samsung et. al. shop, Cindy clone shops, bookshop etc. (100% like Sanyan).

But the only thing that make it nice was the Big Apple donut shop and Starbucks. In this mall one can see how the ang moes are invading our country with the marketing campaign of their outlandish foodstuff, and one can conclude the Kuchingites and other out-of-towners were 110% terpedaya by the campaigns (proven by the long queue of people trying to get their donuts at Big Apple). Then we went home after noon.

Big Apple, Spring, KCH

A young padawan waving his lightsaber goodbye. Kota Padawan straight up!

Now the going home part is the hardest part. What supposed to be a short 5 hours trip home, turned into a long cingkolongbukangnien drive. Departed at 2pm and expected to arrive at 7.30pm (including pit stops) we cruised home happily until we hit a sudden long queue somewhere near Lachau (yeah, that's the name of the place). It was a typical accident-caused jam, and the saddest thing is curious passer-by who was sakai about the accident got himself peng-ed as well, causing more traffic jam. Sienz. Delayed by and hour. We managed to snail through the damage and encountered many more accidents along the way in Lachau (change the place's name dude!)

This War of the World's Tripod piloted by a drunken alien contributed to the jam as well

Turned turtle, but the driver survived

Then at Sarikei, got pulled over by Ops Sikap cops. Reason: No rear reg. number light. They can't see the car's number from the back. More cars were pulled over and saman-ed as well because of the same reason and we were delayed by another 30 minutes. In the end we reached home at 9.00pm. Super sienz, what a vacation...