Short KL Trip: Day 0

I have booked in July the September holiday trip to KL. It had been a long time since we last visited KL. After much consideration, I thought it would be nice to take a night bus to KL. I imagine us sleeping nicely and waking up in KL. Let’s hope it will be that way. 

It isn’t intentional. I blamed it on miscounting the days and I thus arrived in Singapore from Tokyo on Friday  morning and then taking a bus out of KL on the same night. My brain is quite fried. 

On Friday morning, I simply moved all the toiletries and common travel stuff from 1 luggage to another. Quite convenient. I am also proud to say that I not only managed to do the laundry, vacuumed the floor, but also survived an entire busy work day. Though a headache developed by late morning, and I am not sure if that was from the lack of sleep or dehydration, panadol came to the rescue. 

The bus pick up was at the Grantal Mall @ MacPherson, at 10.30pm. MacPherson is like foreign land when we were Westerners. Hoho. After settling Mochi, we set off. We have engaged Zaky’s classmate, D, to go to our house daily to feed Mochi. D will come once a day and we will rely on the auto feeder for the other meal. I hope this arrangement will be less stressful for Mochi than sending him to a sitter. He is overgrooming again and bald spots are appearing. 

Unfortunately, ants have starting appearing in our house and the ants love Mochi’s food. Mochi always meow pitifully when the ants invade his food. We have set up the traditional ants prevention method. 

We tried and he is willing to eat even with the complicated setup. 

We took a Tada to the Mall and were so lost at the Mall. We had to ask an unfriendly lady with a luggage, who pointed us to the Transtar shop in the mall. We were told that we have to 1st take this bus to the Malaysia immigration, clear immigration, then change to another bus. I was worried - how to find this other bus at the immigration? The staff impatiently replied to “just find”. Ok lor. 

At 10.25pm, there was no sign of the bus. There were other people waiting and I guessed that means we were at the right place, doing the right thing? 

The bus arrived at about 10.35pm. The seats were alright but not those that you would want to spend the night on. I thought I didn’t fall asleep but I probably did bcos everytime I opened my eyes to check where we were, we had made significant progress. 

We alighted at the Singapore immigration, cleared immigration and crossed the 2nd link in the same bus. Both customs were quiet and we cleared immigration easily. 

At the Malaysia side, I guarded the kids while Daddy Lim hunted for the bus. Luckily, he found it easily. No sweat, no panic. 

This time, the seats were much spacious and comfortable. I fell asleep quickly. Daddy Lim was hoping for a supper break but there was none. I woke up several times in the night and checked Google map each time. Based on Google map, I thought we would arrive at about 5am and was pleasantly surprised when the lights in the bus were turned on when the clock on the bus showed 4am. I made a right choice to book a hotel room for the night. In her half asleep state, she asked what was happening. 到了!

Mummy Lim