SABAH 2011: Pre.

“Kita gi Beijing la akhir tahun ni...” voiced my dad after breakfast at my grandpa’s house. 

*akhir tahun = 2011 which was tahun lepas punya story ye...

That was the plan but at last we have to cancel it coz of few reasons that cannot be disclosed here. Thought that we won’t go anywhere till my dad once again suggested a few places like Turkey (dia memang bercita-cita nak ke sana), Vietnam and lastly Korea (yang ni memang I suka sampai tak ingat dunia la kan). Tapi semuanye tak jadi coz he didn’t find any suited travel agencies (TA). Punya la banyak TA kat KL ni, boleh satu pun tak masuk dengan taste dia...hahaha...Ok la, I knew what he was looking for. Nak pergi dengan TA macam tu la kan, Nak kena cari yang betul-betul ok sebab sesetengah tu ada yang ok dan ada yang bagi service macam sampah...nak-nak bila banyak duit yang telah dilaburkan. Rugi la kan? I dengan adik-adik tak kisah kalau nak terjah sendiri, lagipun banyak je info tentang sesebuah negara yang kita nak pergi tu kat internet dan buku-buku travel like Lonely Planet. Masalah bahasa, especially non-malay or non-english speaking countries, boleh tolak ketepi kalau ada usaha.  Lagipun nak pergi dengan parents so kena fikir pasal diaorang jugak. Tak boleh la nak ikut tempolok sendiri. Hehehe.

Then mama suggested Singapore, Bandung or Medan (hehehe...nak shopping la tu). Semua tak nak. After that she said we should just go to Sabah, we can bring along our grandpa (called him Bah Lanang) and we can visit our aunt and her husband's family there, where at the end, we stayed at their place even during our stay in Tawau. Hehehe. Jimat belanja. Semua setuju. Ayah asked me to check suitable date and survey flight ticket. We decided to go on 17^th Dec until 28^th Dec 2011. See, story basi kan tapi I tetap nak post jugak.

I looked for flight ticket then, compared the prices between MAS and AIRASIA through their respective website. Seeking for the cheapest one la kononnya. Hakikatnya nak dapat tiket murah memang payah la sebab masa decide tu pun dah lebih kurang 2 bulan sebelum pergi. Orang yang dapat tiket murah pun beli lebih awal lagi. So redha je la. Mesti ade yang fikir, nak beli tiket murah yang pergi tengok website MAS buat apa kan? Kan? kan? Hahaha. Nasib baik I buat comparison sebab flight KL – KK hanya RM 159 sahaja  sehala dengan MAS compared to AIRASIA which cost more than 200 ringgit at that time. Tu belum campur dengan baggage lagi. Cuma nak balik KL tak dapat tiket murah. But ayah asked me to proceed with MAS return so that we won’t need to think about baggage problem especially masa nak balik KL. A big question mark di situ. Hahaha...faham tapi buat-buat tak fahanm sampai ayah kena explained nak pergi  Sabah memang tak sah la kalau balik tak bawa segala jenis mak nenek udang, ikan, sotong, sayur etc and bla bla bla.  So we chose MAS for KL – KK – KL  and AIRASIA for KK – TAWAU – KK. Pergi Tawau melalui KK nak naik MAS macam tak worth ok even with MASwings...nanti I post dalam entry lain tapi rasanya ramai yang dah boleh agak kan? Hehehe...

To be continue...

Till then,

Nurhani