Wednesday, 24th October 2012
YEAY!! Home! Home! . Today is the day where my journey to my hometown to celebrate Hari Raya Aidiladha is started. Before to Kelantan, I went to my sister’s house at Rompin bcoz her family and I will go to our hometown together. My bus left JB at 3pm. Usually, it takes 3 hour to reach Rompin and I should reach at 6pm. Unfortunately, the bus have some problems with it engine and it takes another hour to overhaul the bus. That means, I reached Rompin at 7 pm. At 8.30pm, I departed from Rompin to Kuantan and continued the journey on Thursday early in the morning. At Kuantan, my sister’s family and I slept at my aunt’s home.
Thursday-Saturday, 25th-27th October 2012
We continued our journey at 7.30am from Kuantan by car and gratefully reached home at 1pm.
As usual, when we at home, the time is moving so fast. Furthermore, I celebrated the Hari Raya together with my family and I did not realised the time moved very fast. I just realised that, it’s already Saturday and I have to come back to ROmpin and UTM on the next day.
Sunday, 28th October 2012
Done packing all the things at 10am. We departed at 11am from my lovely home. When we reached Tanah Merah, its already traffic jammed and my guessed was it will be a very long journey today. We were stuck at Tanah Merah for about I hour. Same things happened at Pasir Puteh, we were stuck for about 2 hours n half. It was once in a blue moon to see traffic jammed at Pasir Puteh. n we were stuck again at Jerteh. Usually, it takes 45 minutes to reach Jerteh from my home. But this time, at 3pm, we were still at Jerteh watching the other cars moving slower than tortoise. At 5pm, stopped for a while to perform solah n eat. The traffic jammed continuously happened until the entrance of Lebuhraya Pantai Timur n the cars were moving smoothly on the highway. But, when it comes to the exit of the highway, for about 2km to exit to Bukit Besi, traffic is jammed again and continued until Bandar Muktafi. Then, the car moved very smoothly after exit of Bandar Muktafi. Usually, the traffic is jammed when there is a traffic light. Along the way to Bandar Muktafi, I saw a lot of people with variety of problems. Some of them rested at Petronas and Shell while waiting for the tank trucks to come with fuel because the oil stations ran out of petrol. All the food stalls along the road crowded with many people. Also, some cars damaged. However, my brother kept driving his car and I asked him to replace but he won’t.
At 12am we just arrived at Kuantan and it takes 13 hours from my home(Kelantan). What a very long journey. BTW, we didn’t arrived at our destination yet(Rompin). Luckily, my brother-in-law has a friend at Kuantan and he asked his friend to sleep at his house. My brother’s friend is Shahrul and he is a lecturer at Pahang Matriculation College. He is a very nice guy I’ve ever met. Even though he has an important duty on the next day as an invigilator for the matriculation students bcoz they were going to have PSPM(final exam) on the next day but he was willing to wait for us until 12am though my brother asked him to sleep first. Also, my brother asked him to go out at 12am to buy some food and his answer is YES. He is a very wonderful guy.
We slept at his house for about 2 hour and at almost 4am, we continued the journey. We arrived at Rompin(my sister’s home) at 6am. I continued to sleep after performing the solah while my sister prepared herself to go to work. My brother took a sudden leave bcoz he tired of driving the car for the whole day.
Roughly, my journey from Qlate to Rompin took about 15 hours(usually 7-8 hours). Perghhhhh!!!!
Monday, 29th October 2012
At 9am I woke up and prepared myself to back to UTM. The bus form Rompin to JB is at 11am. My brother sent me to the bus terminal and I left Rompin at 11am.
Unfortunately, at 12.45pm, the bus that I rode has damaged. n it takes a very long time to repair the bus. However, the damaged cannot be fixed n the other passengers and I have to wait for other bus to come n the bus came at 3pm. A lot of times have been wasted. I predicted that, I’ll reach at UTM by 3.30pm because I wanted to attend the OC class started at 4pm. But, bcoz of the problem I have to skip the classes.
BTW, I arrive at Terminal Larkin at 5.30pm and I took another bus from Larkin to Sri Putri and back to UTM by taxi. Gratefully, I arrived at my room (MA1 1-41) at 7pm.. However I have missed 2 classes on this day which is OC and DE. For the DE class, I was intending to skip bcoz it is impossible to arrive at UTM by 2pm as my bus departed from Rompin at 11am. The DE class started at 2pm. BTW, Im ok with DE but not for OC..huhu
The journey for 6 days was very tiring. After performing the solah when I arrived at my room, I immediately went to my bed bcoz I was very tired of no enough sleep..