LEISURE: Striding Off For A Holiday..

"Running away from your problem might not be the best solution but it may help you to think on how to solve it.." - The Editor

..WAY OUT..Life can sometimes really sucks a lot..Especially when there're a lot of things going on that even your small mushy-mushy brain could even exploded when there's too much of problems..Even Kermit The Frog sighed about how it's not easy being green..Sigh..However, we can't just expect our life to be soo damn perfect from the others..Right?? Sigh..Anyway,when there's pain, there's a cure for it..As a remedy, I've decided to go for a long trip 3 days holiday at Kota Kinabalu..Maybe this will help me to relax myself..Sigh..Hopefully..

..PLANNING THE HOLIDAY..Have you ever felt being in the shoes of Paris Hilton where you're always making this sudden plan whenever you feels like it?? Honestly, I've felt it and done that..Hahaha..Honestly, this trip was kind of a sudden plan for me and just for your info, it was ONLY A ONE-DAY PLAN..Wuhuu~ Didn't think we could make it, but WE"VE DONE IT..Hahaha..Our trip isn't just like other ordinary trip where they will took a flight to KK, instead, we're planning a long ROAD TRIP all the way to Kota Kinabalu..Isn't that cool?? Finally, I've got the chance to feel on how it's like to drive all the way from Brunei to Kota Kinabalu..Haa~ Anywhoo~ Our plan was to start our road trip during night time..Kinda weird though..BUT..At least we're not going to worries about the heat from the sun..Right?? And the least to worry about is there will be NO TRAFFIC JAM..Hahaha..The trip might took us around 4 to 5 hours depends on how fast the driver is..Haha...Where I'm surely positively will be faster and more than 150km per hour..Haha..

..THE JOURNEY BEGINS (KUALA LURAH-LIMBANG)..Today..is finally the day where all of us will be having a very long road trip to Kota Kinabalu..Hehe..Wuhuu~ Can't really wait to see the scenery along the road trip though..As if..(Night time kali ah~ ) Hahaha..Anywhoo~ Right after the clock strikes 12 noon, I then rushed back home and started to pack up all of my necessities for my road trip..Little time left to go, more things to pack up..Urgh~ But no worries, thank god everything turns out fine.. It only took me an hour and a half to get all of my things done..Hehe..Can't even imagine on how many pairs of shirts and trousers that I've packed up for this road trip..Hahaha..Anywhoo~ An hour later, my friend picked me up and we started our journey to Kuala Lurah..To be honest, it has been years I didn't passed the border at Kuala Lurah..Sigh..Well, that was before..Hahaha..But NOW, lets ENJOY~ Hahaha..Anywhoo~ While we're in Tutong's highway, we've almost lost control of the car..The car swivelled on the road as if someone was playing with the steering..Weird..Then we tried to check the car, there's nothing wrong..So weird..Then we continued our journey..Before we reached our first check point at Kuala Lurah, we then make sure our car was fully fueled up and well prepared for our long journey.. Sigh..Then we continued our journey to our first check point..It was like 5 in the afternoon where we've finally reached our first check point..Thank god the queue wasn't that long..Met my friend working at the custom though..Haven't met him for quite a few years already..Hehehe..Anywhoo, it took us around 10 minutes to passed the our first check point..Quite a long queue though can be seen from Limbang to Brunei..Hehehe..It feels great to pass the first check point..Hehehe..As we continued our road trip, we then took a pit stop at Limbang and make some money changes at one of the money changers..Then we ordered some food from the food stalls and continued back our road trip..

..RUDE LADY .. (LIMBANG-LABU,TEMBURONG)..Night time falls and there's no more beautiful sceneries that could be seen except for lights from the cars passing by..As we reached the ferry from Limbang to Temburong, we then grabbed the chance to eat the food that we have bought earlier at Limbang..So far, we're lucky enough coz we didn't have to worry about the long queues..Hehehe..This my friend is one of the advantages when you're driving at night time..Hehehe..So if you guys out there wanna have a smooth sailing road trip, try to start your road trip during night time..Hahaha..Well, as we've passed over the river, we then finally reached to our second check point..After we're done with Malaysian custom, we then headed towards the Brunei custom.. We then handed over our passport to one of the custom lady..And you know what happen..?? She was kinda rude to us..Can't explain how rude she was back then but the fact that she is totally rude to us and quite an embarrassment to Brunei..She didn't even smiled to us..Shish~ She should be fired from what she's doing right now..Come onlah..Be more courteouslah~ Shish...It really ticks us off..Dang~ Anywhoo~ As we're done, we then continued our journey towards to Labu..The third check point..I think this is my second time to drove around Temburong..Hehe..Anywhoo~ There's nothing to see though around this time except for the road and the 'keropok' on my hand..It taste really good although it is quite expensive for a small packaging..Emm..Business is business what..Haaha..Honestly, I was really amazed with the road and the cleanliness of Temburong though..Very impressive..Hehehe..I can't even spotted any rubbishes on the road..I wonder who cleaned it up every day..Hahaha..

..LOOSING CONTROL (LABU,TEMBURONG-LAWAS)..Sigh..It took us less than an hour to reach to our third check point which was in Labu, Temburong..Didn't have the chance to enjoy the sceneries though as it was totally pitch black..Sigh..So boring leh..Hehehe..But it was fun though, we had quite a laugh along the way towards Labu..Hehehe..Anywhoo~ Finally, we've arrived at our third check point..And guess what?? No car was seen to be queing up..Wuhuu~ Chop Chop Stamp Stamp..Hehehe.. As we're done with our passport, we then continued our journey to Lawas custom..The road was kinda messy though with yellow soils as they were renovating the new custom building..We've nearly lost control of the car as the road was kinda slippery with the wet soils..Huh~ Weird..But we took control of it and continued our road trip..As we reached to the Lawas custom, I was really shocked as the custom was located at a shopping building..So unique leh~..Hehehe..Took a chance to talk to the custom's lady though..She sounds like Bruneian..Huh~ I was so confused at that moment so I told my friend..He told me that most of the people in Lawas talks like the Bruneian coz some of them has the Bruneian blood lines..Hehehe..Owh ok..

..BUMPY ROAD (LAWAS-KOTA KINABALU).. Finally, we're heading our way to our final check point..Wuhuu~ It has been quite a very long journey for us though..Didn't realized it that we have already been 3 long hours on the road..Hahaha..Thank god we didn't feel sleepy except for feeling a bit boring with all of the sceneries..Hahaha..Anywhoo~ The road was all very confusing especially during night times..There're too much of cornering as well as hills..But there's one road where it was quite a bit bumpy all the way..It feels like riding a horse all the way to KK..Hahaha..Quite dangerous though but it was ok..It really kept us awake though..Hahaha..Anywhoo~ At last, we've reached to our final check point..Wuhuu~ Quite a very long tired journey though yet we finally arrived safely at our final check point..Hehe..No queing..JUST US~ Hehehee..Chop Chop..DONE!! Wuhuu..Kota Kinabalu awaits us!! Wuhuu..We were so relieved to pass the last check point on time..Fuhh~ Thank god..Anyway, we continued our road trip to Kota Kinabalu..Soon we'll be arriving at Kota Kinabalu..Hehehe..Along the way, we've made a pit stop at one of the Giant store..Man~ You can't imagine how much 'water' that we have to throw in the washroom..Hahahaha..It feels good...Hahahahah..We then continued our road trip and arrived at KK about one hour later..Hehehe..

TIME CHECK

ARRIVAL TIME: 10++ in the evening
SHOPPING CENTRES: CLOSED..

Shopping Centres here we come!..Hahaha..(Cannot leh~ still night time what...)

..CLUBBING.. Man~ That was the MOST TIRING NIGHT of my life..You can't imagine on how NUMB our asses back then..Wargh~ But as people always said, NIGHT IS STILL YOUNG WHAT..Sooo~ as soon as we arrived, we quickly unpacked our things at our friend's house in KK, took a little time to take our breath, and then its time..Time for..CLUBBING..Hahaha..The night was kinda still..So silent..Not much people were out during that night though..Maybe because its a FRIDAY night..Sigh..Wrong time to club leh..Hehehe..

TIME CHECK

CLUBBING TIME: 12.30am
CLUBS: Opened till 3 ler..Hehehe..

..SHOP TILL DROP..No matter where you've been dreaming of going for your holiday, I'm pretty sure there's one thing which will entice you the most..the SHOPPING CENTRES..Huhu..Obviously you can't really resist it especially when you're the type of metropolitans guys..Dang~ Kota Kinabalu has really changed a lot..Can't imagine on how vastly they've developed themselves throughout the years but what I can say, they've really evolved into something which they themself should really proud of..BRAVO KK..Hehe..Anyway, while in KK, we've really spent a lot..You can't imagine on how much stuff that we've bought..and places that we've been..ESPECIALLY at Warisan..Man~ You can really resist it..There're so many things to see and soo many things that you wanted to buy..Bought a sling bag though in KK..Really took a while to think on which stuff should I buy for myself..Hehehe..Honestly, if you've ever wanted to go to KK for you holiday, I suggest that you better bring around BND$1000..I'm sure you will not regret after that..Hahahaha..For that whole three days, we've really spent our time a lot in Warisan as well the centrepoint.. Dang~ Anywhoo..We did tried some of the foods in KK and honestly, the foods taste really different from ours..And what I remember the most was that there's one dessert which I've would never forget, COCONUT PUDDING..Ehmmm~ So delicious..

..TIME TO GO.. Why?? Why does the time flies so fast?? Can't it just slow down a little bit?? Dang~ Didn't even realized that it has already been three days we've been 'LIVING' in KK..Urgh~ Man~ Its finally our time to go back home to Brunei..Well, what to do..Tomorrow working loh~ Hehehe..Anyway, we started to pack up our things and get ready to go back home land..I'm really gonna miss KK for sure..Will come again..Maybe in one week time right after our salary is out..Hahaha..Just maybelah..Wait and see..Hahaha..Anyway, we took our lunch first before we started our road trip back to our home land..Man~ I'm so so gonna miss to shop in KK..Hahaha..After we're done with our lunch, we then say good bye to our friend for his hospitality..Really gonna miss him..Wargh~ Anyway, we started our home road trip around 4 in the afternoon..Man~ And hell yeah it will be another long journey..Hahaha..Along the way, we did make a pit stop at Beaufort where we had a short break at one of the restaurant in the town..Took some time to look at the surroundings before it turns dark..More or less like 'kampong' scenery lah..Hehehe.. One hour later, we then continued our NUMB-ASSED road trip..Ouch..

..HITTING THE DRAIN.. Finally the dark conquered the night..It will be just like another boring journey..No more interesting things that you could see..Man~ Boring.. Sigh..Anyway, along our way, we could see there are some Bruneian cars driving back to Brunei..Wah~ Same plan like us what..Hehehe..Go home at night night..Hahaha..We drove really fast..Hope to make it on time..Especially to every check points..Sigh..Man~ Got to think what should I do tomorrow..WORKLAH..Hehehe..Suddenly, our car lost control of itself..My friend then tried to control the car but..unsuccessfully, we can't stop it from sliding and swivelled on the road..Finally we hitted the drain followed by a scream from one of my friend..ARGHHH~ KABUSH~ Hitted quite hard into the drain though..Airbags were then blown opened..Smokes were seen in the car..Two of us then went out slowly from the car with NO PANIC at all..But the 'screamer', who sat on the front seat, was still in the car..CONFUSED AND TRAUMATIC..Hahaha..Then he opened the door, and UNLUCKY for him, he then fell into the drain..KABUSH~ Hahaha..FYI, this was his first time to ever be in a car accident..Hahaha..Poor him..How unlucky of him..Hahaha..Finally, we tried to get some help from the villagers..Thanks to them, they've really helped us a lot.. Very friendly as well.. One the villagers did told me that they really heard the scream from my friend from a far.. WOW.. A friend from KK came to a rescue by coming down to Lawas and helped us to handle everything..Took around 3 hours to handle everything from getting the car out from the drain to towing the car..Spend a night at Lawas and went back to KK on the next day..We then took a flight home to Brunei..

..LESSON LEARN..This is really gonna be a lifetime story for all of us..The story which will be reminisced forever and ever..Hahaha..Especially for the 'SCREAMER' who fell by himself into the drain..Hahahaha..But really pity my friend though..He really spent a lot of money for this car accident thingy..Sigh..Well, maybe this will be a learning lesson for all of us..Always drive safely and courteously no matter how smart you are in drifting your car..Sigh..A very BIG THANKS to my friend in KK for helping us out..Gonna treat him with something special though..Hahaha..

P/S: Honestly, there're so much that I wanted to share with you guys but I can't..So little time..Hehe..But honestly, there can be no better way to relax your mind then spending your holiday at Kota Kinabalu...