Qwait - Land of longer day and shorter nite...

Flight scheduled to leave Bumi Malaysia at 18th May 0300 hrs jika tiada aral melintang. Unfortunately, aral besar melintang that evening.

Sampai airport around 1245 am, trus checkin. I had this bad feeling when I saw red bold letter written DELAYED - TERLEWAT.. I notified En Muddy who was in line queuing, waiting for turn. Before he managed to reach the counter, DELAYED change to RE-TIME..STA 0825 hrs.. Huwaaaaaa...I knew ETA but never heard of STA. Could be Suspected Time Arrival ? or Sahih Time Arrival or could be also Salah/Silap Time Arrival hehehhe...

The ground crew confirmed that the flight was re-schedule to next morning as it leave Kuwait late from it's schedule time and reached late at Jakarta, by all means, won't be able to make it for 0300 hrs flight KUL-KWI. As a compensate, they rewarded us RM 100 meal voucher which then was spent at Burger King to feed the whole troop that coming to send us. We had quick discussion at Burger King whether to go back Puchong or to just stay at airport till morning. By saying "we staying" I meant those who leaving for Q8 only, not everyone as my sister will have to work the next day and my father had meeting the next morning. Along suggested to transit at either Pan Pac KLIA or Concorde Inn coz she can get good price using her MAS staff ID but En Muddy thought that it was such a waste as we will be only staying there for about 3-4 hrs. We need to be at boarding gate by 0700 hrs and when this discussion took place, it's almost 0200 hrs.

Head of Chief have spoken and the final result was we stay at airport. Next step was to find cozy, secluded, private place to set our bunker for the nite, errrr morning actually. We're are at airport for goddam sake ! How much privacy actually you can get here hahahha.. As we walking by looking for perfect place, suddenly The Terminal scene came to my mind. I ain't Catherine Zeta Jones and he ain't Tom Hanks alright but the feeling is there.. hahahhaa sempat lg berangan ..


-Erin enjoying supper before sleep-

Found one good spot, beside KFC near the kids playground. We gathered 4 benches and wallaaaaa, presenting small bunker aka bed for us. Once everything settled, it's time for the others to leave, time for us to bid farewell and say goodbye. My mum shed tears but managed to control it. The rest just had quick hug, salam, kiss on the cheek and left to avoid any Cerekarama.






-our humble bunker-

Then what? what else then sleep. Of course it was not comfortable eh but my priority was mainly for my kids. They need to be as comfortable as they can be coz else, they will wake up with tantrums. Around 0300 they felt asleep, so I covered them nicely with sweater and jacket and start morphing to my own world. I'm not sleeping coz there's not roomy enough to fit one more adults so all i did was sit and stare.. At first, i played Pairs in my netbook while En Muddy surf the net via KLIA Wifi. Dunno what went wrong, after 5 minutes wifi went disconnected and after few try, he just gave up and sleep. Me on the other edge of the benches, gave up on Pairs coz it sucks play without mouse. I'm way too lazy to getup and korek my bag for mouse hhahaa..

So i stare....a lot.. I stare at the airport gigantic ceiling, at the cleaners who apparently having a good chat buddy compared to mine coz mine already started snoring....I even stare at few KFC staffs on duty and thinking what they're doing when there's no customers at this wee hours. Sometimes, when boredom strikes me, i felt like walking around but Erin sangat buas tido. There's a chance she would turned and tergolek atas lantai. Hmmmmm better not.. Then i heard announcement announcing masuknye waktu Subuh utk kwasan KLIA dan kawasan kawasan sewaktu dengan nya. Soon after that, En Muddy woke up and went performed Subuh prayer while me keep an eye on the girls. We took turn then and when i am done with my prayer, he told me he's going toilet for while. Coming bck from toilet, I saw him pushing someone's trolley with 2 ladies tailgating behind him.

Maybe this is the hikmah of our delayed flight. We were fated to cross En Muddy's auntie and cousin's path who just landed from Perth. Of course we didn't hv chance to visit them as they was away for 4 days holiday trip to Perth but Allah the Mighty Arranger, arranged us eventually meet up at KLIA. Alhamdullilah. We had quick chat, they even insisted to dig out some souvenirs from Perth for Alis and Erin and then we left for our boarding gate.

Had a quick breakfast which costs us more that lunch combined with dinner altogether outside. My Nasi Lemak cost RM 16 ringgit, a cup of teh ais cost RM 3 or something. In total, we paid almost RM 70 ringgit for one plate of Nasi Lemak, 1 roti canai kosong, 2 teh ais and a plate of Mee Goreng mamak.. Nauzubillahhhhhh... Then we saw Kuwait Airways taxi-ing to it's designated spot, so quickly finished our meal and make a move.


- Alis cuba bertahan-


-nampaknyer percubaan gagal-


-Erin lama dah berkeruhhh..-



Waited about 1/2 hour, and then the ground crew announced that the passenger can start boarding the plane starting with us, simply coz we were carrying 2 sleepyhead minor with us hence priority given. Found our seating, settled our hand carry, flight took off and so do us. The girls slept from KLIA till Abu Dhabi. Only woke up for meal around after an hour flying and then sleep again. I slept around 2 hours then couldn't sleep anymore. Watched New Moon, Princess and Frog from the in-flight channel and few movies which i dun recalled the title.

1st round of meal, we were given baked potato, chocolate bar, juices and sky juice. Then coffee and tea was served. In between the flights, they did serve 2-3 round of juices and coffee/tea but we were too stoned to even care to drink. Around an hour before landing, second meal was served, choices between chicken or fish. 3 of us opted for chicken while En Muddy memilih utk makan ikan. Ours was chicken in rendang-like gravy with mee goreng. Came in the set also was rojak nenas with timun and some kueh resemble kueh ketayap in malaysia. En Muddy's fish meal however was a total disappointment. White rice with fish in some red gravy. He's facial reaction was enough as a sign he didn't enjoy his meal as much as we did. Luckily Erin doesn't finished her meal so it wasn't a waste case this time heheh..

Landed at Kuwait the dessert storm at 1130 am ( local time) which tally to 4.30 Malaysia time. Straight away headed to Visa application counter. Lucky for us, only our family was present at that time. Not many people so our number was called immediately. U need to fill up VOA (Visa On Arrival) white form in order to apply for visa. I had filled up mine in malaysia beforehand. I also filled Alis and Erin particular in dependent particular behind my VOA form. It turned out that each applicant need to have each form for them self even if they're minor so I had to fill another 2 forms for Alis and Erin each. Paid 6 KD( equivalent to RM 72) for each visa and within 15 minutes, our visa completed and we're allowed to collect our bags.

Before that, we need to go downstairs 1st to settle En Muddy's visa as he came under work permit and not visiting visa like us, hence different counter. It doesn't took long to settle his and we proceed to luggage collection area.

En Muddy had reminded me not to let Indian porters who can be found everywhere in the airport area to carry our bags coz it's chargeable so I said no when one Indian approached me offering to help us carry our bag with a trolley in his hand. He kept followed us though even we said NO, which later then i know why. There's no sign of any bags on the conveyor belt. I guess other guest must have collected theirs and ours have been taken elsewhere by the porters. My guess turned out right coz he was pointing to one direction while talking Arabian so we just followed him and there they was. Our bags!!!!!! Laid there nicely waiting and wanting to be pick.

He quickly picked all of our luggages and send for scanner. This is where my C-sect stitches felt ngilu menikam nikam hahhahaha.. U see, we were carrying 5 bottles of Kicap Kipas Udang and 6 bottles of Heinz Cili Sauce. Kuwait and other Gulf Countries are known as liquor-free country. I heard stories about how some guests's bag was opened coz the custom suspected that they carried liquor due to bottle figure in scanner screen. On top of that,we also carrying "non-ori" DVDs with us. Like 10 pcs of that. Well, I'm not that afraid though as we didn't do any wrongdoing and we will just surrender the goods if we were told so but I had this things with law enforcement team. I got goosebumps wherever I saw them kah kah kah...

To my dismay, they dun even bother looking at the scanner screen and kept talking and chatting among each other. Totally waste a series of fight we had during packing time for how many bottles we should bring or how many DVDs we should carry with us. Kalau ku tahu, satu drawer aku bawak DVD huhuhuuhuhuhuh

We surely ended up had to pay the porter. Tak aperlah..halal lah kire. Mr Osama, company's driver had already waiting at arrival hall. In fact, he's already waiting since 6 am in the morning coz it was supposed to be the time we're arriving if the flight was not delayed. He was not informed by the company of the delayed, even my husband already SMS-ed his boss informed about our lateness.

Out of airport, we had our first taste of summer breeze. It felt like u were standing behind bus with it's engine on. Quickly set our self in a company car and get going. It was freakin' 43 degree out there. We have the whole season to enjoy our summer, but for now, we need to go home 1st. Our new home for the next 3 years insya allah.. Mangaf here we come !


- Gambar selingan.. this pic was taken guna mode biasa ek bukan sephia. It is indeed browny and yellowish here. Anyway, ni pemandangan dr tingkap apartment ku di sini...Indah bukannnn?? wahahahhaa it ain't golf course hijau terbentang but it is indeed baitil jannati ( Rumahku Syurgaku). View satellite dish pun jadik laaaa..