Ginger gave me the usual wake up call at 7am; waktu tu mek in the shower. Lepas shower mek nengok fefets tu called, mek called la dia balik. Nyah, mek di carrrrut katanya masih berdengkur! CHOY! Apa dia pikir mek BS!? Opps! Mek supposed to pick up BS at his house at 8am and Ginger in Gurun at 9am. Tapi biasa lah kan mek nih, TERLEBIH awal siket. Arrived at BS punye rums at 7.45am, katanya BARU MANDI! Hanjs sngt! Miss ALASAN sangat kan!?

So ok nevermind, lepas amik BS, terus ke Gurun amik G yang dosi posing katanya depan pintu pagar umah tunggu ketibaan mek dan BS katanya. Hanjs! Hehehe. And so, bermula lah perjalanan 3 baps tua ke KL (BS ngan G lebih tua, mek baps muds sediks! Hiks!). Tetiber feeling "To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything" katanya... - MEK CHUP CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ! Heheheheehe. BS can be Naxeema Jackson and G, well, no choyyyssss, as Miss ape tah nama si Patrick Swayze itiew? Hurm. Owh nevermind - tak penting!

SO dalam perjalanan ke KL, biasa lah - dok sembang², gelak², practice Q&A session dengan si Ginger (Yer, by now I think u ols dosi tau yang mek last minute masuk IQP yer. Heheh - we'll get to that part later nah!?). Pastu asik lah BS ngan mek jer swap driving - si binats Ginger Ratu Green Mother Earth tu asik lah "MEK TANNAK DRIVE!" katanya dan si BS pulak asik lah... "Ko nak kasik Ginger drive? Dinch u ols. Nak sampai KL pukui brapa tatau? 10 malam!?" Hehehehe... kecoh lah. Tu tak masuk bab bab G melarch dalam kereta dengan truck ask ask katanya depan kereta we ols. HAHAH! Sempat tukar² number nih! Seingat mek, janjinya nak buat 10 perhentian sepanjang perjalanan dari Gurun ke KL, tapi mek rase, alih² 3 ke 4 stops jer kot. And by the time kiteorang sampei ke KL, it was exactly 2pm. (Sebab mek ingat G janji dengan si Fika organizer IQP tu nak have lunchies 2pm ++ katanya tapi alih², on the dot 2pm kiteorang sampei... CURLAST pemanduan pelesit mek! Hiks!)

Lepas lunchies, kiteorang kuar ke Pusat Wig Jenny katanya dia Pandan Indah. Hehehehe... mrasalah membelik wiggerinas baru! Melerts! Mek suke sangat! YER, mek jer yag boli. BS ngan G ngan Izad nengok dan CDH sajork. LOL! Lepas tu, kiteorang ke Engy kat Spectrum Ampang, nengok dress mek. NANGIS!!! BELOM SIAP katanya! Hanjeng tau! Mek dah hapset dah time nampak Ah Kit tgh dok menjahit tepi kain mek dan Ah May tgh dok belek² kertas design dress mek. Engy pulak dok kata... "Talak apa looo Loleal. Dless u siap esok tengahali ooo!" Hanjeng! Terus DQ 2 minit dan kemudiannye terus ke station LRT RapidKL Ampang katanya nak ke Masjid Jamek/ India. Hiks! Buat apo? APO LAGI - ke SEMUA HOUSE lor. Pi Semua House buat apa tatau? Heheheh - JEWELLERIESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NANGIS! Hiks! Pastu Volks joined us lepas dia habeh kerej and then lepas habis membelik jewelleries (cimpeng, mek budget nak spend RM200, alih² mek spent RM500. Tu mujur mek tak belik satu lagi choker itiew - kalau idak, NANGIS RM800! So mek belik 2 bracelets, 1 choker, 1 pair of earings katanya diperbuat dari kerongsang! Hiks!) and lepas belik diamontes ala ala RM110 for 400 bijiks, mrasalah terus balik ke Ampang, took the car and BS and mek terus gi amek Volks kat Ampang Park LRT. Mana pi Ginger tatau? Dia lari pi dok umah kawan dia. Si Fika tolong bawakkan katanya dosi dekat dah. Hehe...

BS, Volks and mek tak balik umah terus, kiteorang pi Sungai Wang dulu carik heels kat Vincci, belik pakaian dalaman lah (opppss!!!!!) and others. Pastu kiteorang pi makan pulak, tapi makan kat kat area KJ sajork. Mek telan sup sayur sajork katanya diet disaat² akhir. Hiks! Paihtu baru balik. Balik pulak, prepared tu prepared nih, buat tu buat nih; buat some ubahsuai kat heels lah, paihtu gilap choker lama la, buat manicure and padicure lah, shaved itu ini lah, (OPPS!) itu ini - tuptaptuptap paih tu baru la kami tidur.


Morning tu kiteorang bangun at around 10nish kot - tu pun si Ginger tu dok potpet potpet bising itu ini nak jumpe la ape la semua. So as planned, BS and mek ke Sungai Wang Plaza, again - nak jumpa Ginger and Fika and Mie semua yang tgh sebok shopping. Abang Volks dinch ikut - dia nak siapkan heels mek itiew. So anyways, on the way nak ke Sungai Wang tu, mek terpaksa singgah amek si Eva, choreographer IQP tu sat kat umah dia kat Keramat. Dia pong nak pi Sungai Wang jugak katanya. So mek pong, tarkik. Pi la amek dia. Then baru kami pi Sungai Wang, joined depa depa yang dah ado kat sana (geng KJ ie Rizz, Mark and Dylan memang nak joined sebab lepas tu nak pi tgk dress mek and langsung lajak pi rehearsals for IQP katanya kan, tapi biasa la... Mark pong ala ala dah macam Kie gak. Dulu Janji Kie kan? Sekarang janji KieMark? HEHEHEHEHEHE lariiiiiiii!!! So anyways, depa sampai lepas G and Fik and Mie dah balik katanya)

G shopping apadia tatau? GINGER TU BELIK HP BARU katanya! Org sebok lah shopping last minute utk Miss, dia sebok nak belik hp. Sesuai lah dengan hp cabuk dia yang lembab dan sudah 3 kali di baling, di campak dan di hempaskan ke dinding, ke dalam lubang jamban dan ke lantai yer gara² battery cepat kong asik on off on off dan asik lah lembab / slow. Hehehe.
 
So ok, lepas G and Fik and Mie dah balik, so mek, Eva, BS, Mark, Dyll and Rizz pi makan katanya - kat kedai nasi ayam sebelah Sungai Wang Plaza / Bukit Bintang Plaza itiew? The famous one itiew? Taw kan? HEHEH yang penting - dalam dok tak mo makan tak mo makan tu, NAH! Habih jugak sepinggan nasi and 2 mangkuk sup (HEY, tapi ayam mek tak makan taw. BS habihkan! HEHEHE)

Hehehe lepas tu, mek ngan BS pi ke Engy balik in Ampang, followed by Mark, Rizz and Dyll yang pi amek dress Rizz dari dry cleaning (curlast pondan tu dry clean kat Mandrin KL katanya! Hanjs! Tak mahei ke noqs!?) Eva berpecah dengan kami lepas shopping kat Sungai Wang lepas tu. Shopping ape lagi? Casual skirt utk casual round mek, pastu belik glitter body spray lah, hair spray la itu ini la, hehehe. Katanya si Eva, "Jumpa sajork di rehearsals karang petang." - Wokayyy...

Sampai² jer kat Engy, NAH! THAT'S IT! Dress dah siap, TAPI SALAH BUAT! Haiyoh! Mek nak nangis dah time tu! SENTAP pong ado. Lain yang dilukis, lain designnye, LAIN PULAK JADIKNYE! Hanjs! Pastu Mark, Dyll and Rizz pong datang dan turut cuak katanya dress belom siap. Hanjeng tau, terpaksa lah kami semua dok menunggu dress tu siap. Memang kena amek dress tu ptg tu jugak sebelum rehearsals - kang tak sempat nak buat diamontes la ape la itu ini, kan? Heheh - duduk berjam² tu, rokok ade lah 5 6 batang habeh, fitting ade lah 5 6 kali - FINALLY, 4.45pm, dress dah siap!!! Terus cabut pi hotel *** for the rehearsals!

Sampei²nye, sharp, 5pm. Memang rehearsals starts at 5pm pon. Tapi yang dtg, alahai, CIPUT! Ituuuuuuuuuuuuuu lah kan hadek². Janji KIE sangat kan? OPPS! Tapi most of them berkerej and that was their main reason why lambat mai. Yang ado waktu tu Miss Brunei, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Portugal, mek - Peru, erm, sapa lagi tatau? Ade lah couple more yang mek tak prasan sangat. Tunggu punye tunggu, sorang demi sorang mai and finally, semua muncul - although ade la sorang dua yang dinch showed up katanya. So Eva pon potpetpotpet as usual (which, she is good at la kan...), practiced tu ini, catwalk tu ini, semua, bla bla bla - habis rehearsals somewhere around 8.30pm kot? By the time nak habis rehearsals tu, the hall was filled with gibek² yang belom ditransformasikan lagi. Yang paling ketara, mek rase, MEK LAH KOT! Dengan berbauk janggut bagai - ngeh ngeh ngeh! Tapi ade yang natural woman dah biarpon tanpa make up. Risaunye nengok. Hehehe. Reigning IQP winner 2005 pong ado katanya... hiks! Lovely as ever.

So lepas pada tu, dalam kul 9pm kitaorang pi minum² kat Pandan Indah, before BS dan mek bals ke umah Volks. Tapi kami singgah umah Mark dulu, buat diamonte tu. Gilos tu, 4 org buat letak 400 batu² diamonte tu kat dress putih berbunga biru berdaun kelabu katanya buy 3 meter free 3 meter. Hehehehe... Sambil tgk AIM2006, sambil buat keje katanya.


And lepas tu baru mek ngan BS yang dosi ngantuks tu, balik ke KJ. Sampai je kat umah abang Volks, Abang AJ and kawannye datang menghantar another dress utk mek, yang dinch pernah direleasekan katanya. Ala² back-up la, kalau mek dinch confidensi dengan the white blue dress tu. Mixed reactions from BS (yang pada waktu tu was the only one yang dah tgk BOTH dresses) Owh well, mek just have to see la kan apo jadik keesokkan harinye. Hehehehe...


Owh well - the day dosi tiba katanya - MAKIN MEK CUAK! Yer lah, gile ke hapo! Masuk last minute, short notice, dah la tu, giler tu - 2 tahun lebih mek dinch bertanding memana ratu²an - HAIYOH! APO KENA NGAN MEK NIH!!?!?!?!?! Tak per tak per - masuk for fun, masuk for fun... masuk for fun! Itu jer mek kept on telling myself. SO mek terus kuar dari umah Volks at 11.00am, pi amek Amanda Velasco kat apartment dia at 11.20am, and then terus ke hotel in Ampang, jumpe Mark, Dylan and Rizz yang dosi sampai katanya tapi dinch bols check in lagi sebab bilik tak siap lagi. SO duduk la kami menempek kat lobby tu sampai dah dapat bilik. Masuk bilik by 1pm kot, pastu letak² barang, terus test both dresses - and the majority telah membuat keputusan katanya - the blue/ white dress salin if dapat top ten - CONFIDENT niii - MATI LA BENTAT BALIK! And the red and black nih pakai waktu evening dress round. Mana gambo? NANTI - saborrr!!! HISH! Nak nengok preview gak? NAHHH... hiks!


So ok lah - lepas tu, kiteorang kuar gi Ampang Point sat to do some last minute shopping before returning back to the hotel room and Amanda by 2 pm dah kena start make up sebab Dylan make up kan both, Amanda and Rizz. SO mek pon lepak la sekali, tunggu make up artist mek, si Kiah, yang katanya nak datang make up kan mek by 3pm. Tunggu punye tunggu, tak pulak timbul² si Kiah nih, call tak jawab, sms tak reply - busy kot. Tak per. Tunggu lagik. 3.30pm called, nan ado also. Then Eva datang ke bilik nak lepak² - WAKTU TU LAH Kiah informed us dia terlibat dalam accident kat Karak Highway - NAHHH THAT'S IT! Mek dosi cuak! SAPA NAK SIAPKAN MEK NIH!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Eva pong dah pening kepala dan cuak, Mark lagi la - Dylan yang cool cakap dia leh siapkan mek also. Tannak lah - kesian dia. Dah la jaga 2 contestant, nak make up kan mek lagi? Mark yang just advisor pon makin cuak. Terus kiteorang call nearly 10 make up artists. Sama ade diaorang dah ade 1 or more contestants yang nak dimake up kan utk IQP, OR, diaorang busy with other stuffs outside, OR, diaorang tak dapat dihubungi. LAST LAST - nah, EVA jugak yang siapkan...


Ok - so lepas Eva siap²kan mek, kitaorang semua pong turun lah ke changing room sebab all contestants kena ado di changing room by 6pm. PON begitu, ade gak mek nengok sampei lambat (YANG MAHA LAMBAT sampai 5 minit sebelum pageant bermula pon, ADO gak - biasa lah bebende cam ginik, never the change. Hiks!). Turun² sajork, erm, ramai yang tak expect mek yang siang ptg semalam yang serabut serabai bagai tu leh turned out to be, like, tadaaaaaaaaaa! Hehehe - tapi yer lah, ade gak yang tak prasan mek lagi. Hiks! Tapi mek TETAP prasan RAMAI ok contestants² lain yang vavavooom melertsnye!!! Hiks!

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ok ok ok - mek tannak go into details sangat pasal IQP 2006 nih sebab mek nak buat entry KHAS utk IQP 2006 itiew. Dalam entry nih, mek just nak preview preview gittiew sajork. So anyways, Volks arrived lepas tu to help me backstage, as usual. And as usual, the backstage memang packed - dengan make up artists la, dengan yang tak der kaitan dengan contestants pong ade gakkk menyeboks - hehe, again, BIASA la tu. Mana Miss Ginger Puerto Rico kite itiew? Itiewwwwwwwwww dia!... hehehe (mrasa! PREVIEW!)


So anyways, more about the contest later in the next entry. Tapi, mrasalah, preview pics siket, utk Lea Laurielle de la Guadupella Remirrez, 26 years old Miss Peru yang masuk bertanding secara mengejut itiew... (yeeeeeeeee lah! Sah sah mek confirm participation mek seminggu sebelom pageant, gara² si Mark tu la, suruh beriya² sangat mek masuk bertanding. Owh well, yang penting, mek dinch DQ for not winning or being in the top 5, and mek definitely had fun semalam! OPPS! Did I just mentioned mek tak dapat top 5? Haiyak - pecah lobang lagik! HIKS!)







Hehehehehe - ok dak preview mek? Hiks! Nak tahu citer selanjutnye, MRASALAH tunggu entry lepas nih, NAH!? (Tak der lah immediately kot - maybe esok la kot. Hish! Mek baru sampei Alor Star la u ols. Penat sundal!)

Tapi ok lah - meh la mek preview siket lagik... hiks!


Nanti lar dalam full entry IQP 2006 entry nanti, mek akan citerkan dari A to Z, backstage and onstage, comparison (betui ke mek eja tu?) between seminfinalists and finalists last year and this year, and also, citer pasal - "THE 2 MINUTES WHEN LEA LAURIELLE SUDDENLY BECAME NERVOUS DURING THE TOP 10 Q/A SESSION AND CROWNED AS A BRAINLESS BEAUTY QUEEN" Hiks! Mati la mek gementar katanya lepas 2 tahun setengah tak bertanding tetiber BLUR dan BLANK! Hahahahaha... haiiii la Leaaaa oooo Lea - apa laa nak jadi! Hiks! Tapa tapa, janji, again, MEK DINCH DQ dan DINCH NANGIS ok!!! HAHAHA (Dan yang penting, mek dapat ape yang mek bargained for - the top 10. Tu jer mek harapkan dan also, yang mek harapkan ialah, MEK NAK HAVE FUN and apparently, I did... Hehehe - nantikan more exclusive stories dalam IQP 2006 full entry!)

Havesh all the event, hamek gambo and chitchat chitchat what not, lepas tu pi makan bagai semua, BARU LAH lepas tu packed my stuffs dalam the room, and terus bal bal umah Volksie. By the time sampei umah Volksie pong dah kui brapa dah - 4 pagi kot. Potpet potpet ngan si X10, BS ngan Volks lagi, tgk² gambor, sembang², carut² dan gossip² lagi, cuci make up tebal tu lagi - HA, mrasalah tidur kui 6 pagi katanya! HIKS!


Guess what!? It's my blog's 1 year and 1 month anniversary! HEHEH! And it's also, LABOUR DAY katanya. Mek bangun pong dah nearly noon, siap², pack barang semua, terus said goodbye to X10, Volksie and BS (BS dinch balik katanya ke AS sebab esok *Tuesday* dia nak pi Kelantar *KBR* for a meeting kot ape tah...) and langsung pi amek si 1st Runner-up IQP 2006 itiew, si Ginger itiew kat umah kawan dia. Sampai jer umah kawan dia, lepak² dulu semua, then lepas tu, kui 2pm, kitaorang teruskan our long journey back to Gurun / Alor Star. Stopped kat Sungai Buloh restoren jejantan tu for a quick lunch (MATI LA MAK MELANTAK SAKAN BAGAI BABIS TAUUU MENTANG MENTANG DAH HABIS PEGEANT! LOL!), and then, teruskan perjalanan. Ginger drove from Sungai Buloh to Sungai Perak when we stopped for some food (FOOD lagi katanya) and then mek pulak took over from Sungai Perak to Gurun and onwards to AS. By the time sampai AS, dah kul 9pm. TERUS on PC, terus edit few pixies, and TERUS buat entry nih taw! (See, GIGIH bebenor, kan!? LOL!)

So ok lah - dah sampai ke penghujung entry. Nantikan entry penuh IQP2006, di mana mek akan citerkan semuanye lah sekali, ek? Tapi sebelum mek akhiri this entry, mek nak ucapkan thank you to these people yang tanpa mereka, mek rase, mek terkontang kanting jugak lerrrr... These people bukan skadar sponsors, tapi diaorang jugak banyak kasik advise and support utk mek yang dah expired dan dah lama x compete nih - hehehhe... *wink wink!

• Bellarina Teoh de la Ting Tong a.k.a Mak Hayam Lolex - Hiks! U ols! Tanpa u ols, sponsoring mek RM600 for jewelleries, participation fees and dress, mek rase, susah jugak la mek nak siap within one week. Thanks u ols! U ols lah perempuan ori pertama yang sponsor mek masuk ratu. Sebelum² nih either gibeks, pepondans or jantan straight sajork. Hiks! Vangga dak, mak hayam!? LOL! Tapi, still, sorry sebab mek tak dapat bawak balik crown IQP itiew... I know u ols must be upset tapi mek tried my best... :)

• Mr. A (Dia nak mek kenalkan diri dia as Mr. A sajork) - THANK YOU sebab sponsorkan me cash RM400... U ols very der sweet sangat²... thank you!

• BS - who sponsored mek RM100, pakaian dalaman dan jugak heels utk casual wear round (which I ended up dinch pakai pong... hiks!). U ols, diam² u ols, u ols sponsored mek jugak, kan? THANKS u ols!

• Volksie - U... I don't know la whatelse to say. Heheh - you've been with me, dah banyakkkkkkkk pageants. The word THANK YOU tu can never gantikan all ur hard work and etc. Thank you so much for your designs utk my dresses, my jewelleries alterations, your help back stage and etc. Sorry I sort of like buatkan u penat the whole day today, but at least u dapat gi Kursani, kan? OPPS! Owh and em, thanks for letting me semakkan umah u tu yer yang dan jadik cam port I dah tu dari DULU lagi. HEHEHE...

• x10 - Thank you SO MUCH for ur support and trust and care for me. Moga² DIA yang maha esa membalas jasa baik u for taking good care of me... :)

• Organizers (Azmie and Fika) - Thanks for letting me compete dan memeriahkan stage for IQP2006 biarpun short notice. Thanks sebab melayan kerenah "LADY LOREAL" yang tingtong itiew. Like I said siang tadi, THINGS SAID MISTAKES DONE, sorry. And especially to Fika, "Sorry, your fav. showgirl/ contestant let you down, AGAIN..."

• Fellow bloggers and supporters - THANKS for coming to support me, and fellow blogger Ginger; but most importantly, thank you for supporting the event. You guys were great! LeeZ, Yaz, Nory, Imah, Neo, Fifth E, Abang IM and the rest (the list goes on...) - THANKS YOU GUYS! A minute there I thought you guys came to support G only. And when I was up there on stage, and I saw you guys cheered for me too, I was touched. Thank you...

• Hazie - Gal, THANK YOU SO MUCH sebab datang walaupun x sempat nak talk to u (maybe some other times kot). Tapi yang mek terkejut, MOTIF BAWAK UR MOM!? Mek sker mek sker jumpe grandmotherchicken! HEHEH yer la, hang kan mak ayam MH aku dulu kan? Mrasalah mak hang jadik nenek ayam mek, KAN!? HEHEHE lariiiiiiiiii! (mana abang SCAR!? DIA TAK MAI!? Mek nangis tau! Dah dok berscar muka tu, ado hati nak pi cucuk langit katanya! LOL!)

• Joliekins (Dona) and husband, Abang F - Thanks you two for coming walaupun busy dengan family matters. Sweet of u Dona nak sharekan laki u ngan mek. HEHEHEHE. And THANKS ABANG F - FINALLY I get to see u smile and hear u say... "COME SIT HERE BITCH"... mek sker mek sker (PS - mek terasa something tawww when i sat on your lap. Apadia tatau? Keraih semacam je? TASTY KAT MEK, kan!? MUJUR MEK TAK MENANG! Kalau menang, nangis la Dona sebab mek bet, kalau mek menang, Abang F kena tidur ngan mek! HAHAHA mrasa! - lariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!) Owh and thanks for the gift gal!!! :)

• Od - U guys were great! THANK YOU Od, who came alll the way from Singapore for the pageant. Surprise² - didn't expect to see me up there right? Owh well - THANKS again. Owh and thanks also for the chocolates! LOVED THE BOX! Hiks!

• Joe Klubbkidd - Thanks gal for your support and help and advise backstage!

• Eva - Noq, THANK YOU for doing my make up last minute, gal!!! Thanks a lot. Make up ko memang meletop! MEK SUKER la walaupun ade gak seminit dua mek takut kokyah ko tak menjadik. HEHEEH but I was wrong - kokyah + make up kau buatkan mek berdentum atas stage (pada pendapat mek la ekkk - korang nak kata apa, kata la. Tapi mek suka gile make up mek semalam! HIKS!). Thanks u ols. Nanti mek calling² u ols...

• Angah - Thanks for doing my hair Ngah!!!

• Mark and Dylan (and to Rizz and Amanda also) - guys! I don't know what I will do without you guys!!! U ols la nadi penggerak Lea Laurielle kembali nak beraksi katanya. Thanks for the help, the stuffs you guys sponsored ie. casual skirt, and the make up touch ups, and the times you guys really spent with me for the past one week. Thank you so much for still having that faith in me to compete biarpun mek masih gemuk. Hehehehe. Mark, u know where you stand in my life. THANK YOU gal!

• And finally - Ginger - Gal, THANK YOU so much slut! Ko pong sama banyak kasik nasihat to me sepanjang this past one week. And I'm glad you won 1st runner-up, although mek tetap tak puas hati dan rasa u should have won the crown. Hurm, tak per la. Nak buat cam mano, kan? Hiks! Anyways, seronok to compete with you again gal and be back stage and up there on stage with you. It was a pleasure and this shows I can never beat you gal. You're the best. PS: Thanks for driving the car dari Sungai Buloh ke Sungai Perak tadi. Mek ngantuks sundal! HIKS! (wink wink!) PS: OITS! The earings, bracelets and the diamond string semua masih dengan kau kan!? PULANGKAN!!! Sebelum Volksie jerit "PULANGKAN" kat aku! HEHEHEHE... Mek lupa sundal nak mintak tadik when I dropped u off kat umah kau. Nanti kite discuss nahhh!

Ok - ade x yang mek lupa nak sebut dalam ucapan terima kasih bagaikan menang award nih? Kalau ade - SORRRY. Kalau mek teringat, mek edit balik entry nih. Tapi kalau mek tak edit / tak teringat, dan mek masih ado tak mention dalam entry nih, sorry nah. Mek only human yang cepat pelupa (bagaikan Ginger - OPPS!) dan now that mek tetiber jadik brainless beauty queen, mati la mek makin kuat pelupa dan blur. Sorrry! HEHEHE...

So ok lah - mek dah nak melalut banyak dah nih. So nantikan entry full coverage IQP2006 esok (or lusa, or tulat, or tungging tebalik... - mati lah entry entry Istanbul pong tak habih lagik! LALALALALA!)

Dahhhh - nak pi mana plak dah!? Heheeh... tak pi memana jauhhh aih! Mek hanya mau pi itiew tempat called KL! Hiks!

Nak buat apa tatau? Ala - ade la mek kena jumpa client mek on Saturday and on Sunday nak pi tu IQP tu? Hiks!

Nak pi ngan sapa? Mek CARPULLING katanya dengan Ginger dan BS (patutnye kawan BS ikut sekali, si Haiqal, tapi last minute, MISS ALASAN tak jadik pi katanya! Hanjs! Mati la mek balik ngan Ginger jer on Monday 1st May nanti sebab BS terus ke KBR *Kota Bharu on Monday tu! Hanjs!). So later, by 7.30am mek akan pick up BS kat umah dia, pastu drive ke Gurun, singgah amik Ratu Puerto Rico si Ginger tu pulak, sama² drive balik KL. Hehehe... mati la it'll be a long drive sebab Ginger feeling suruh buat 10 perhentian sepanjang perjalanan dari Gurun ke KL! Hahahahaa!

Owh yes - dengan ini, mek nak habaq; entries Istanbul Trip days 6, and 7, mek tunda sat nah (TUNDA LAGIK!). Tapi kalau mek sempat, kat KL nanti mek update sebab the pics mek bawak dalam pendrive mek. Dan speaking of tunda² nih, MEMBERS AREA launching pun mek tunda jugak nah!!! Tunggu habih IQP nih kita concentrate balik Members Area dan Bloggers Idol 2006 - OPPSS! (season kedua katanya!)

So ok lah ek - dah 2.53am dah nih. Mek nak ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Nite² you ols! Kalau tak sempat jumpe lagi, see u ols on MONDAY - So happy weekending!!! :)

Click HERE to read DAY 1 entry
Click HERE to read DAY 2 entry
Click HERE to read DAY 3 entry
Click HERE to read DAY 4 entry


"After breakfast, we visit ' Miniaturk ' which is an open air park which has the small replicas of ' Ancient Wonders of Turkey' and it is a botanical park and great pleasure for children and also grown ups. After that, we go to 'Pierre Loti' Hill for a coffee break. We visit the timeless Beyoglu with its mystic narrow streets. After  lunch in historical Flower Passage, we pass the oldest and the shortest metro of Europe. We disembark at by the Galata Tower, built in the 13th century, is one of the best views of the city. Return to the hotel at late afternoon."

Ok so, well, today, again, ade some stuffs yang dimentionkan dalam itinerary nih kiteorang ubah again. Hiks! But first, bangun² pagi, tgk luar tingkap, haiyoh! CANTIK sundallll! What a beautiful morning katanya di kota Istanbul, Turkey!!! :)

Lepas dah siap², turun lobby, pi coffee house, melantak breakfast dulu - itu penting yer! Hiks! (mati lah SARAPAN BERKHASIAT KATANYA!)

And then as usual, Ibrahim and the driver, Hassan, picked me up utk ke Conrad and jemput Dato' and his family. Cuma today, kiteorang started lambat siket. They picked me up at 9.45am and by the time kasik sampei ke Conrad, just nice 10am. Hari nih relax siket sebab tu leh start lewat siket program (yooo lah! Tak der lah semput sangat mek kan? Hiks!)

Selepas picking up my clients, kiteorang proceed melalui highway, terus menuju ke kawasan perkampungan Turkey, melalui all this jalan² curam, up to this hill called Pierre Lotti. Menurut Ibrahim, this guy Pierre Lotti (asalnye nama lain rasenye...), was a French writer rasenye, who came to Istanbul, panjat hill tu, and fell in love with the hill and terus menetap kat sitiew and died sitiew bagai semua sebab tu hill tu dinamakan Pierre Lotti Hill. The view, was absolutely stunning! View apo? The GOLDEN HORN. The Golden Horn nih macam, erm, pengkalan laut la dulu dulu kala for perdagangan bagai semua. And selain dari pemandangan yang endah itiew, can see, the hill sebenarnye dipenuhi dengan kubur. YES u ols, ia telah ditukarkan jadik tanah perkuburan. Tapi tak der lah spooky bagai - cantiks u ols. The kubur² all were like nicely managed and maintained dicover dengan kehijauan alam. Cantik sangat.

After duduk rest and had our morning dose of Turkish Coffee (yer, this time Datin ikut mek, dia minum Turkish Apple Tea), kiteorang proceed ke Miniaturk (Miniature Turkey rasenye) where it's actually like, erm, the Mini Jakarta and the one in Holland tu. Miniaturk was like a place where they place all these mini replicas of ancient buildings and etc. And plus, they called it a Botanical Garden sebab ape? AIYOH! Bunga² Tulip nye, MENANGIS AKU NENGOK! And the place was like huge and packed with kids and adults yang melawatnye. Lama jugak kat sitiew, twas like, what, 1 1/2 hours? Ke lebih? Tah - mek tak tgk jam pun.

Lepas habis kat Miniaturk tu, kiteorg cancelled the trip to Beyoglu and Galata Tower visit (sah sah dinner malam kedua dah kat Galata Tower - nak pi haponye lagik kan). Kiteorang terus ke Taksim (dekat ngan hotel mek dah tu) utk half day there lepas lunch. Lunch was at Taksim main street tu itself. Taksim nih macam, erm, city centre la jugak. Ade modern partnye, ade the old and traditional partnye also. The road was basically like Regent's Street in London, except Regent's Stree lebih lebar and got jalanraya la kan. Taksim Old Road nih hanye ado tramp tracks and pedestrian walk. Tapi kereta ade gak la lalu lalang as area² tu actually banyak kediaman² kedutaaan negara tu ini. Hehehe...


Sebelum kiteorang nak jalan² tu, kiteorang singgah for lunch at this great Ottoman restaurant. Interiornye again, amazed me! MELERTS sangat! Very rich! Deconye banyak jejeruks. Meriah! Even TOILET dia, vavavoom tau!

The meal was supperb! SANGAT supperb sampai ke desert. Tak caye? TGK LA SENDIRI PICS² nih!!! :)

After lunchies, kiteorang jalan² kat area Taksim Old Road tu for like 1 hour. Sempat mek ngan Datin shopping siket. Tetiber dahhhh mek jadik fashion consultant untuk Datin belik this great baby pink corset top! CANTIK sangat! Mek nak gak la beli tapi memandangkan it was like USD48 (roughly RM192), mek letak balik la. Melampau sangat tu! Dah la baru lepas kena rompak, ade hati nak shop peghabih duit? Tak der keje la aku. Heheh. Tak pa... Datin, nanti u dah tannak pakai corset top tu, bok mai kat mek nah!? KEKEKEKE... (Mati la mek PA dia tgh dok baca entry nih! Mati la mek kena AWAS lagi!)

Selepas pada tu, mek berpecah dengan Ibrahim and Dato's family. Mek cakap mek nak balik hotel terus. Memang mek penat tetiber tak tau kenapa. Penat sentap tak dapat belik corset tu kot? LOL! Anyways, hotel mek, walking distance sajork. So mrasalah mek jalan sajork balik and told Dato', I'll see him and his family malam karang when Ibrahim amik mek to pick them up to go for dinner. So mek pong cut the tour, lari balik ke hotel (LARI NIH! Gigih!) and terus masuk bilik dan zzzzzzzzzzz...

Sedar², just in time for dinner. Dinner malam nih pulak, dekat this one place called apa tatau. Tapi, this place dekat dengan ala² market basah depa by the sea side and the whole area hosts more than 40 restaurants serving FISH. Bayangkan lah!

SO masuk lah dalam satu restaurant nih - mek tak tasty sangat concept deconye tapi on top of each table, ade fresh tulips and roses as hiasan. VERY DER cantiques. And what made me duduk diam diam kat situ, meja sebelah mek, ade 4 gibek tgh dining. Mek rase couple² tu. Tapi memandang mek tak hengat nih ataih bawah. Eh? Dah lari tema. Ok - back to dinner. Dinner was FISH, AGAIN - tapi kali nih, mek tak makan banyak sangat. Mek telan roti ngan baked beans (AGAIN) and dessert sajork. Main corse nye, FISH, tak habis pon mek makan. BANYAK SANGAT tulang. Tatau lah fish apa tatau. The appertizer (SALAD - again!) and the sotong goreng tepung was nice. Overall, mek give B sajork rating utk restaurant nih. Tapi mek rase clients mek had NO COMPLAINTS tauu... hiks! Depa maaaaaaaaaakan jer keje. Bagus sungguh.


After that, kiteorang proceed jalan² kat area tu before balik ke hotel, and wished goodbye to Ibrahim yang had to leave us malam tu jugak sebab esok tu dia ade another group to attend. SO since esok tu was like our last day and FREE AT OWN LEISURE until check out and pick up time, so Ibrahim said better dia pi jaga group satu lagi tu pulak. Ok jer. At least Hassan ado lagi. So lepas berpeluk salam bagai dengan Dato', Ibrahim bawak mek balik ke hotel mek. Pastu berpeluk salam bagai dengan dia pulak, before I wished him goodnight and goodbye...

 

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"Our morning starts with a visit to the aromatic Spice Bazaar, where the smells of cinnamon, cloves and thyme, rise from hundreds of colorful muslin bags at every store-front. We then board our ferry boat for a relaxing cruise along the shores of the legendary Bosphorus, the natural gateway that divides Asia and Europe. As you sit back and enjoy Turkish coffee or well-brewed tea from traditional small cups, numerous summer palaces and palatial homes will pass by on either side. Disembarking at the northern end of the Strait, we proceed to a restaurant for a tasty meal of local fish. Following lunch we will travel by coach to the Suleymaniye Mosque, built by master architect Sinan during the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, the Lawgiver. The last stop will be Grand Bazaar, with nearly 4000 shops of antiques, jewelry, gold, carpets and leatherwear"

And so bermulalah hari ke empat with RAIN! Yes, seperti alam ini mengetahui yang diri ini dilanda kemurungan katanya akibat dirompak malam semalam. Seperti alam menyedari yang diri ini sedeh, namun terpaksa diharungi jua. Seperti alam ini tahu, hujan itu menunjukkan tangisan air mata yang membasahi pipi... HEY! APE NIH!? Jiwang katanya!? Hehehe...

So ok - after breakfast, Ibrahim picked me up at my hotel at around 8.45am dan afterwards, terus kiteorang amik Dato' and his family and terus proceed ke The Old City area where we stopped at the Spice Bazaar first before meneruskan program cruise tu. Spice Bazaar is somewhat like Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, only smaller. Did you know, Spice Bazaar ade more than 200 shops in it? Dan Grand Bazaar ade like, what, erm, 400 shops in it? Or was it 4000? Yes - I think it's 4000 shops. Hehehe - nevermind, we'll get into that part later.

So anyways, this Spice Bazaar, from the name you can tell, banyak jugal spices and food dari bende² lain. That's why it is called the Spice Bazaar. Tapi yang u ols akan perasan sangat², TURKISH DELIGHTS! Belambak dok ada. Haiii - tempting! Hehehe.. But since kiteorang will proceed to Grand Bazaar later in the afternoon, so kami tak der lah shopping pa per pon kat Spice Bazaar ni. Just jalan² habiskan masa sebelum catching the 10.30am punye cruise along Bosphorus.




By 10.15am, kiteorang crossed the road, tadaaaaaaa! Dosi sampai ke pengkalan ferries katanya. Org, jgn ditanya ramai ke idak. Berpusu². Reason being, manusia² kat Istanbul tu prefer amik cruise/ ferry ride tu dari terkandas dalam traffic. The ferry will buat cruise ala ala zigzag gitu. From one side to another side dia akan buat couple of stops. But kami semua will be stepping down at the second last stop. And kiteorang had to stop like, what, 6 stops? Hehehe.

Whats interesting about this cruise is that, selain cruising along the legendary Bosphorus, heading towards the Black Sea, is that kite berpeluang tgk rumah² yang maha melerts di sepanjang perairan. Imagine, houses that costs like more that RM1million, haiyoh! Marbelees! And the ferry akan melalui perairan The Europe side and as well at the residential side of the Asia. Menarik sangat - although cuaca dah semakin pulih dari hujan (so was my mood - getting better katanya), tapi, haiyoh, tiopan hanginnye - mak aih! SEJUK GILOS! But it was a very relaxing cruise la jugak - sempat kami nampak dolphines katanya. Datin and me and the kids spotted couple of them jumping here and there... cantik sngt...




And also, kiteorang lalu bawah 2 jambatan yang menghubungkan Istanbul Europe side and Asia side. Funny, the two bridges, are like, erm, identical? Tapi satu made by the Japanese and the other one was built by... erm... was it the Americans? Tah - mek lupa. Dan sapa built dulu pun mek lupa (mati la Ibrahim dok potpetpotpet mek dok sebok dgr discman mek lagu BUTTONS tu. LOL!) The bridges also reminded me of Golden Gate. Only these two bridges weren't red/orange in color la kan like the Golden Gate in the US tu. Hehe...



And then by the time kiteorang reached the terminating point, it was just nice - nice for what tatau? A nice time for LUNCH! The cruise took 2 hours - tanpa disedari of course. Hehehe.. and sampai² jer kat North End tu, our driver, Hassan dosi menunggu katanya with our van, yang membawa kami ke our lunch spot.

It's this famous fish restaurant (why do I get the idea am gonna hate this lunch? Sebab its FISH!), and the setting was just, nice. Overlooking the Bosphorus yang menghala towards the Black Sea, it was just breath taking!



The meal was, surprisingly OK. Dalampada mek yang tak gherti sangat nak makan FISH, I actually enjoyed the food! (MATI LA DIET!)



After lunchies, mek kalu boleh nak suruh depa hantaq mek balik hotel jer. With a weather like that, mek rase, kalau tidor, haiyoh! CONFIRM MELERTS! Dah la semalam memang mek tak cukup tidurans. Hiks! Tapi, what to do. Program must go on and mek harus ikut sekaliks.

Sepatutnye after lunchies, kiteorang ke Suleyman's moques - tapi cancelled sebab Dato' nak terus ke Grand Bazaar. And so we ols semua terus lah, proceed ke Grand Bazaar. Sempat mek lelapkan mata dalam van tu, which took us like 1 hour to arrive.
Grand Bazaar is basically like Spice Bazaar, only BIGGER la kan with 4000 shops. It reminds me of New Delhi's spot, Jampaat tu. Tapi Jampaat tu underground, somemore STUFFY! Leh mati dok bawah tu tau. Berlainan dengan Grand Bazaar, it is so, erm, comfy. Although, u ols kena berhati² masuk dalam tu. Salah haribulan, kalau pi in group, and berpecah, takut sesat dan tak jumpe geng jer nanti. Hehehe. Thats why Ibrahim nak me and Dato's family jgn ever berpecah. So kiteorang sticked together jer la. Mek pon ikut lahhhh belakang depa. Hehehe. Sempat la jugak shopping a few stuffs. Tak der lah mende sangat mek beli - macam, MAHAL sial! Baik lah shopping kat Delhi tu jauh lagi murs murs. Seriously.



Tapi my clients tetap la kan, bershopping bagai. Banyak gak depa angkut. Half way through, kiteorang  stopped for a quick refreshment katanya. Cosy jer kedai 'kopi' nih, although the space was very small and limeted, and the chairs and tables were like big enuff for my sister to play 'masak²', but still - the drink was supperb. Again, me had Turkish Apple Tea... yummy! Panas² tu, dalam keadaan sejuk, MRASALAH SEDAP GILE!

After that kiteorang continued shopping kejap before kiteorang keluar at the other end of the Bazaar. Korang nak tau, the Bazaar ado more than 40 exits tau. Haiyoh. Mati la maze! And lepas kiteorang keluar, pusing² around, then Hassan jemput kiteorang and terus balik ke hotel. Lepas hantar Dato' and his family ke Conrad, mek still ado 3 jam before my pick up time utk pegi dinner. APO LAGIK - TIDUR LAH!!! Hikhik! Bangun² jer, muka sembab! LOL!




Again Hassan and Ibrahim picked me up at 7.45pm and later terus gi amik Dato' at 8pm lelebih siket. See, with no traffic, mrasalah kejap jer dari hotel mek nak ke Conrad itiew. From Conrad, kiteorang terus ke Ortakoy, where we had dinner at this beautiful 'natural-settings' restaurant. The meal was absolutely marbeleessss u ols!!!! (There goes my diet again! HAVES LAH!) The restaurant is owned by a gay couple katanya (terbeliak bijik mata Datin bile dengar Ibrahim cakap lagu tu. Mek on the other hand, LALALALALALA sebok tgk menu!) and it was beautifully designed macam dalam glasshouse. Pokok² menjalar bagai, CANTIK SANGAT! The meals pon was sedap - like, haiyoh! Worth it la. Dato' complimented regarding this matter, mek suke!



Lepas tu, kiteorang terus balik ke Conrad and mek also terus balik ke hotel mek. Keluar beli lighter lagi? ADDINCH! Mek terus tucked myself masuk ke katil, bukak tv, isap rokok, pastu main main hp baru, pastu - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... Hehehe...


 

Tangkap haponye? Ala - remember kisah CPU office hilang? Ahhh yes! Ini latest update! Binatang yang bertanggungjawab membawa keluaq cpu dan lappy toppy mek itiew dari office (biarpun Kak Jah ado tgh sebok di office sebelah katanya...) telah berjaya diberkas semalam. Apa kes?

8.25pm Last night, mummy went out dari rumah, with our maid - to rumah Abang Long. Daddy went out terlebih awal since he wanted to go masjid dulu for Maghrib and then baru dia nak pi umah abang Long. As for me, well, since CPU in my room at home pun kena curi (hehehe, in a good manner la kot sebab pencuri tu curi sebab dia nak tambahkan rem dan install few stuffs plus dia nak reformat the pc - hiks!), so mek dinch have much alternatives but to spend my Saturday night depan Astro kat main hall. So in other words, am all alone at home...

Dari luar rumah mek, org would guessed that... "Mesti nan ado org kat umah sebab tinggal satu kete jer. The other 3 cars tak der pun? Setahu mek, 3 penghuni dalam umah nih sajork yang drive - the father, the mother, the son and the driver. Mesti semua keluar. And plus, gelap gulita sajork rumah? Tinggal lampu porch jer? Confirm nan ado org..."

Somewhere 10 or 15 minutes later, as I was watching James Bond 007 - Moonraker, right after Stephord's Wives (motif nak be in detail nih? LOL!) I thought I heard something. Kat sliding door main hall - ade grill. Grill tu dipadlockkan... THAT'S what I heard. I heard the padlock berbunyik kling kling as it kena the grill. And as I turned around to look, I saw the curtain was like, moving... "Owh well - daddy mesti lupa nak tutup sliding door tu lagi as usual. And as usual, Kak Tri or Mummy mesti lupa nak tutup also when either one of them pulled the curtain tadi. Owh nevermind, biarkan sajork. Windy siket..." Pap! Sambil tampar nyamuk. Chimpeng...

So mek continued watching James Bond 007 Moonraker kat Astro channel 40 HBO kot... (Motif nak be specific and detailed tapi masih ade 'KOT'??? LOL!). And then suddenly the phone berbunyi...

Dengan tema lagu iringan citer RAHSIA yang Noor Kumalasari tu berlakon kat PD tu dulu tu, mek mencapat telephone umah mek yang cordless tu... (motif nih dah macam citer thriller dah? LOL! Over lah drama!)

"Hello?"

"Is everything alright at home?" kedengaran suara mummy, persis cuak... MOTIF!?

"Errr... yeah? Why ek?"

"Our neighbour called. She said she saw someone climbing our gates and entering our compound... "

NAH! THAT'S IT! Mek pulak dosi cuak. Like, hello? AM ALL ALONE AT HOME!!! Hello!?!?!?!

"Errr... eemmm... Mama... did... erm... did you, or Kak Tri lupe nak erm, tutup the glass sliding door ptg tadi???"

"Nope - mama yang tutup sliding door tu lepas bapak masuk ptg tadi... awat?"

NAHH!!! Then how come it's open now???? As mek was talking to my mom, mek nak gi jenguk kat sliding door tu. Sebab kalau ikutkan material curtain tu, its one of those white and with flowerish motif thingie, membuatkan mek susah nak nampak what's behind it. Couple of feet away dari sliding door tu jer, mek dgr tapak kaki running. HA! HAMEK! Terjerit aku kat situ. Terus rasa nak pengsan (OVER LAH time² cam tu rase nak pengsan! LOL!)

"Bukak lampu semua!!!! - go outside and check!!!" kerah mummy...

"Mama, Bapak and the rest semua on the way balik now..." sambung nya lagi.

Mek ape lagi, ON semua suis yang ado dalam umah. Segala lampu bilik, main halls, living rooms, dining room, kitchen, gate, SEMUA mek bukak lampu!!!! No more OFF OFF OFF here and there. It's time to ON ON ON ON ON!!!!!!!!!

And then, berbekalkan tah kayu ape tah yang dah memang ade kat kitchen behind the fridge tu (mati la propah baseball bat kat Ginger - LOL! Masalahnye, kalau yer pong baseball bat, SAPA yang main baseball dalam umah tu tatau!? LOL!) and mek kuar with a flashlight... keluar tak sampai 5 langkah jer, mummy called again...

"Kak Rodi cakap (Kak Rodi is my neighbour's inlaw. Dia dengan husband dia *anak kepada neighbour mek yang Tan Sri itiew ler* tgh drive melintasi our house nak balik ke rumah diaorang yang couple of blocks away dari rumah parents diaorang yang next to our house itiew, yang also telah dicerobohi malam Jumaat hari itiew, when she saw a guy climbing our gate...) org tu keluar dari kerera Kancil KBD***3. IT'S THE SAME CAR yang kita suspected pecah masuk your office, remember!?!? Where are u now?"

"Am outside lah! Tadi suruh keluar and tgk²..."

"FORGET WHAT I SAID - get back into the house and lock the doors!!! He could be armed!!! Wait for us!"

HAH!!! Tunggu lagik. Larik lintang pukang mek jadiknye. So while waiting for my parents, my abang long and semua to arrive, mek terduduk jap. Sambil sambung tgk Jame Bond tu, ala ala it got me thinking japs...

"IF this asshole yang tgh berlegar kat luar umah aku nih, the same f*ker yang masuk my office... HURM, APA MOTIF semuanya nih!?!?!?!? Kebetulan saja ka dia TERmasuk umah mek, yang dia sendiri tak tau yang umah dia tgh nak rompak tu adalah rumah pemilik kedai / office yang dia pecah masuk somewhere 3 weeks ago? Nak sabotaj apa lagi nih!?!??!"

Tapi lagi lama mek pikir... mek dapat buat speku...

"Maybe diaorang have been following me all these while. No wonder diaorang masih berlegar kat bawah office mek, konon² buat tak tahu dan purak² makan buah kat gerai buah depan office mek tu *according to the kedai restoren mamak and also kedai dobi tu la, yang detected these idiots*. So meaning to say, memang dia dah planned la nih. Tapi apa motif? Doubt its sabotaj dah nih. Mek rase, kes office hari tu, kalau betul these three idiots were working for 'someone' ie another competing agency here in Kedah to sabo mek, mek rase kali nih depa bertindak atas their own free will. Hari tu rompak utk org. Kali nih nak rompak for themselve. Hmmm..."

Make sense kan? Owh well - nevermind that. Yang penting - HELLO!? Where are these ppl lah!?!? PHONE berbunyik lagik katanya...

"Dah... semua dah ok dah. Come out now. Pi umah Dato Sobri... depa dah tangkap pencuri tu..." It's Mummy!

AIH!? Sejak bila nih!? Apa kes!?!?!?!?!?

"Sure ke? Org yang sama? Ke, dua penyamun tried menyamun at the same time? Satu umah kita, satu umah Dato' Sobri?" mek masih cam tak percaya...

"It's the same one lah. The same one yang tried to masuk umah kita tadi, dia lah jugak yang curi cpu u hari tu! Dia dah mengaku! Now get here..."

BINATANG! Tunggu kau! Dah kena tangkap kan? NANTIKAN!!! RASAIIINN!!!!

Mek terus keluar, tak jalan dah nih. LARI terus nih ke rumah Dato' Sobri yang selang dua rumah dari my house. Sampai² jer, Rezal, anak Dato' Sobri tu tgh mengikat tangan dan kaki malaun itiew. Abang Long sebok pegang kayu apa tah (aik, dia pon ado kayu gak?), mummy was on the phone, Daddy was dengan Rezal dan budak setan tu, anak anak Dato' Sobri semua dok from a distance dok tgk setan gondol tu tried to escape lagi. Datin Liza was all kecoh² - haiyoh, that mak cik ah. Funny lah. LOL!... neighbours mula keluar rumah dan bukak lampu semua terang benderang. The whole neighbourhood macam... aiyoh. Meriah. Like, sebelum² nih, like, "20 years in Alor Star, have you ever seen a neighbour" sort of thingie! HIKS! 

Dan as semua org sebok itu ini, and semua dok tunggu Polis yang VERY DER lembabs katanya nak sampai di tempat kejadian, HAIYOH!, mek pon ape lagi. Setan tu dah terikat rapi, semua dah macam biarkan dia tersandar kat dinding gate tu... the coast is clear... mek menghampiri dia... dan...

"KAU SIAL! BINATANG! Ko tahu tak ko curik komputer aku tu ko tahu tak menyusahkan hidup aku! HANJENG! BABI! Tak der keje lain ke ha, mencuri jer keje ko ek!" mek dalam ala ala whispering, tapi sempat mek tolak kepala dia, dan tarik rambut dia... BABI!!!!!"

"E***, get away from him!" sampuk mummy, walaupun she was on the phone - as if like she knew... hiks...

"Wokayyy.... wasn't going to do anything pun..." sambung mek dan terus beredar... LA LA LA LA LA. Hiks! Ginger, STOP LAUGHING!

Pastu... mek nengok si Rezal tgh luka siket tu; adik dia tgh sapu ubat kat lengan dan siku dia... *PS: Yes, its the same Rezal/Rizal *opps, matila pecah lobang tukar nama semata² nak cover - yes, he's the same guy yang dulu dok bawak mek ngan  granny pi terawih dulu tu, remember? Hiks! Nih kesah lama nih... hiks!

"Are u ok?"

"Ok... tadak pa pa aih. Luka sikit ja..." jawab dia - control la tu...

"What happened???"

"Tadi... I tgh isap rokok lepas dinner tadi kat luaq. Pastu I nampak ada org lari dari ur house, lari ikut umah Tan Sri, pastu terus mencelah masuk umah kitaorang. Dia masuk jer compoud umah I, terus jer I terkam dia. Bergelut guling kejap la kami sebelum my dad keluar and helped me and then kitaorang ikat dia... "

Owhhhhhh kirenye, like, "MY HERO" la ni - ceh...

"You ok?"

"Huh? Me? Yeah I'm fine..." mek terjaga dari lamunan mek... gittiiew...

"Alhamdulillah. I heard you're all alone at home tadi. Mujur depa tak apa²kan you..." sambung Rezal

HELLO!? I was inside and they were outside!? Of course am ok! HIKS! But I thought Kak Rodi yang called my parents? Owhhhhh - so they did. And Rezal and his parents/ family called the police pulak. Owh nowww I get it. Pa per jer. Janji haiwan sialan tu dosi ditangkap. *JELING KAT DIA NIH! MATI LA KAU KEJAP LAGI KENA KAT BALAI - tapi dok jeling², tgk² dia, macam, CAN DO LA PULAK? Mesti Ginger suke - ala ala taste dia tu, stock² abang². HIKS! Haiii kenapaaaa lah ko nih mangkuk hayun sangat? Muka cando, jadi pencurik! Baik lah ko jadik lelaki simpanan si Ginger, KAN!? LOL!

But tu baru sorang - meaning ade 2 ekoq lagi yang masih berkeliaran katanya dengan that Kancil KBD***3 tu. Hanjeng sangat! They managed to larikan diri in that Kancil. It was told that this idiot yang kena tangkap nih, DIA jer kononnye expert dalam hal menceroboh nih. Yang lagi 2 tu expert mengemudi kerete sajork. HAIYOH!

"Saya tanya la dia... awat yang cek buat keja lagu nih???" tetiber mek terdengar Datin Liza tu dok bersembang ngan mummy and all. Mek pasang telinga sajork dgr...

"Tau dia jawab apa? Dia nak beli susu utk anak dia... alahaiiii saya pun kata la kat dia. Cekkkk, kalau nak, habaq, makcik boleh bagi duit elok². Toksah mencuri semua nih..." sambung Datin tu lagi...

Tetiber jer mummy mencelahcaruttt katanya..."Ala... kalau dia mintak elok², u nak ke kasik kat dia Liza?" HAHAHAHAH! My mom has a point there! LOL!!!

Some times later, 2 kereta polis Waja arrived (FINALLY!), and bawak setan tu ke balai. Rezal was asked to come along nak buat report...diajaknya mek temankan dia. E eh? Kuasa lahhh aku nak ikut pi balai... hiks! (Yerrrrr Volks... I KNOW you mesti akan suruh I ikut kan??? Hehehe...)

We ols believe that this idiot and his 2 companions dah buat keje nih lama. Nak kata secara kebetulan dia nak mencuri rumah mek, tanpa ade pa per kaitan dengan kes kecurian kat office mek, I DONT THINK SO la kan. So anyways, depa nih la yang kitaorang suspect masuk umah Tan Sri sebelah umah mek tu mlm Jumaat baru lepas hari tu... and melarikan diri melalui garden umah mek. Sebab Tan Sri tu personally kejar malaun tu, tapi tak dapat. It was malam tu la yang Tan Sri tu terpekik² nama my dad and we got up semua (well, it was malam yang mek keluar dengar Chef Aduka, Zack Zali and Tok Wan Rock tu ke JC tu la... but it happened before I went out) and noticed my beemer yang tak berkunci tu, all doors tak ditutup rapat. Funny, tak penah pulak recall pintu kerete beemer tu tak ditutup rapat. Pastu as mummy dok buat gardening ptg semalam kot, she noticed putung rokok Dunhill and also plastic minuman air bali katanya. So meaning these idiots dok wandering around my house dah banyak kali kot? Tapi as G and mek dok gelak over the phone lepas kejadian semalam, mek called her, and we both thought of the same thing. These idiots memang IDIOTS! Buat keje, and then leaving traces behind, kan? And sambil nak menyamun dan menyangak, ade ke boleh buat feeling² leisure bawak bekal air bali katanya!?! Hanjeng sangat!

Whatever it is - CPU memang la gone for good. Memang ler, kalau dosi jumpa the pencurik pon, I think the cpu dah jadik 16 bahagians dah kot by now, KAN? Tak kisah lah - janji kami dosi dapat dah penyangak yang buat keje tu. SO INI akan memudahkan investigations katanya ketua polis Kedah itiew yang kawan Daddy and Abang Long. Tapi masalahnye, 2 ekoq lagi tu dok merayau terlepas katanya. Tapi, yer lah, sekoq dah kena tahan, lagu 2 tu, erm, tak lama la tu. KAN? Hiks!

I apparently met the famous photographer, Roland Hashim (Abang IM) kat Musictecque, couple of days before I left for Istanbul. And sembang punya sembang dengan dia, dia agreed nak buat photoshoot session utk mek. Dari tahun lepas mek kenal dia, dah lama mek berangan dengan dia time tu, nakkan dia buatkan photoshoot utk mek. Yer lah, siapa tak kenal Roland Hashim the famous fotographer, KAN? So mrasalah mek memang dosi lama dah feeeling nak jadik model photoshoot dia. Tapi yer la, hari tu (tahun lepas) maha azably bentat. Now since dah KURENG siket, and approved by the cameraman himself, apa lagik - terusja (terus + teruja) la mek dan beriya² nak jadik model dia!

Tapi dalam entry nih - mek tak publish lagi all 10 ++ pics yang dia hamek malam itiew sebab mek nak habiskan entries Istanbul tu dulu. For now, cukup la mek previewkan satu jer dulu. For me, I like this pic the most dalam banyak² pics Abang Im snapped itiew. Yang lenglain pon mek suka, cuma this one, ntah la - maybe the bantal bebulus tu kot buatkan ia lebih vavavoom? *Mana Nory Ady tatau! Beli la mek satu set - mana achi Volks jer dapat satu set! Birthday mek pung dah dekat nih ha! Hehehe...




Hiks...nantikan pics² selebehnyeeeeee setelah selesanitto (selesai + finitto?) entry Day 7 Istanbul (mati la now baru Day 3... muahauahuahauahau!)

PS: To Abang IM, Thank you for sudi buatkan photoshoot itiew, with that 'little surprise'... nah!? THANKS!

Click HERE to read DAY 1 entry
Click HERE to read DAY 2 entry


"Following breakfast, we drive to the 'Old City' where we will visit the Hippodrome, The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, the Blue Mosque, famous for its delicate blue ceramic tiles and Saint Sophia. This church - turned mosque - turned museum takes the breath away with the sheer architectural size of its interior and magnificent dome and next we will visit the spectacular Topkapi  Palace. Built on one of the seven hills of Istanbul, this huge complex commands views of the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn. It was the seat of government for the Ottoman Empire for many centuries (1453-1852) and we will see the extravagant Treasury, the priceless Chinese porcelain. Following our return to the hotel for a quick rest and a change, we will proceed to welcome the evening with dinner at an Istanbul night spot with live music and Belly Dancing."

Well - itu yang tertera dalam program / itinerary yang mek buat utk clients mek la kan. So dalam entry nih, biar lah lebih mesra jika saya membahaskan (membahaskan ker masalahnye? Hehehe) hujah² day 3 nih dalam bahasa saya sendiri, NAH!? Hiks! (MATI LA NIH ENTRY KEDUA KALI KATANYA - 1st entry tadik HILANG, GONE, KAPUT bile PC jammed katanya - hanjeng!)

The day was glorious sangat - sunny, breezy (eh, macam nama agency mek pulak. hiks!) dan walaupun sedikit sejuk, tapi memang it was a very nice day to start the tour. And since the tour pada hari ini memang banyak require me and my clients to JALAN gunakan kaki, elok dan molek sangat lah kan cuaca cam nih... Bak kata Dato' tu, "It's a very fine day. Elok lah, senang berjalan. A good form of exercise in a way, with a very fine weather..." Yang part exercise tu, Dato' perli I EK!? Hehehehe...

So ok - mek punye pick up from my hotel was at 8.45am. So sempat la mek pi breakfast dulu kat coffee house hotel tu. Not bad la - normal lah, standard lah... ABF (American Breakfast katanye biarpun di Istanbul... hiks!). And then si Ibrahim ngan si driver Hassan tu picked me up - terus ke Conrad. Haiyoh! Jam dijalanraya, USAH DIKAU TANYA! Elok dan sesuai sangat lah dia picked me up at 8.45am sebab janji dengan Dato' nak pick them up at Conrad at 9.30am. Sampainya at Conrad, just nice at 9.20am... Jam giler jalan. Nak lepas area Taksim (area) hotel mek tu pong, masyaAllah!!! Dasyat! Always tau Istanbul, NEVER DER CHANGE nahh!

So after picking up my clients itiew, kiteorang proceed to the Old City area bak kata itinerary itiew. 1st stop, The Islamic and Turkish Museum. Or is it The Turkish and Islamic Art Museum tatau? Sat nak scroll up. Owh yes - the later one. Hiks! This museum used to be tempat tinggalnya pasha pasha Turkey. Pasha nih macam, NO Bukan Pasha Drag Queen tu lah! Ish. Pasha nih bahasa lain bagi, pemimpin? Ha, ala ala PM la kot. So this museum used to be kediaman rasmi Pasha terakhir Turkey, sapa tah nama dia, mek tak concentrate pun penerangan si Ibrahim tu sebab sebok nak amik gambar... ALASAN sangat kan? LOL!

Apo ado dalam tu? Ala - artifak² sejarah purba kala bagai la, carpet² mega lah, pinggan mangkuk periuk belangan marble lah itu ini - ala, normal lah museum² itiew. Clients mek macam very facinated - but mek lebih sebok nak snappy² dan asik keluar masuk keluar masuk keluar masuk museum tu. Apa kes? SMOKING lor! LOL!

Dan kat dalam museum itiew pulak, cameras are allowed, cuma no flash pls. Sebab itiew la ala ala bergegar shaky maky dan dinch jelas dan sharp katanya resultsnya. Sorry nah!






Lepas itiew pulak, kiteorang melangkah setapak dua (actually setapak dua lebih lah jugak... hiks!) ke Blue Mosque. Kaedahnye why is it called Blue Mosque? Sebab interior dia u ols. Exterior dia, nan ado pong kaitan dengan namanye. And exterior dia, ala ala sama macam Suleyman's Mosque yang tak jauh dari sitiew (jauh la jugak... kalau jalan, NANGIS!). Cuma the perbezaan paling nyata antara these two mosques would be Blue Mosque ade 6 pillar/ tower yang dok azan tu, apa tah org panggei? Pastu Suleyman's mosque hanya ade 4. So ppl yang confused yang mana satu Blue Mosque, mana satu Suleyman's Mosque, tgk menara tu sajork. And also, Blue Mosque lebih dekat dengan Topkapi Palace and St. Sophia Church turned Mosque turned Museum itiew (which mek will eleborate later nah!)

The mosque still berfungsi as a mosque - cuma diaorang open it up for visitors to view the entire place. Melihat architecturenye dan designnye, mek sujud ok architect dedulu kala bagai! Memang grand, classic sangat! DALAM nye, jgn ditanya. No wonder it is called the Blue Mosque - sungguh BLUE dalamnye itiew. Every wall, every marble, every little detail semuanya ade unsur² blue, and of course, white. Even to the glass windows semua - ade ukiran and lukisan and what not in blue. The mosque as I said still berfungsi as a masjid - serves daily prayers and also Friday prayers. Katanya si Ibrahim, sampai ke luar sana ha penuh dengan umat manusia di hari Jumaat. Dan when it is not praying time, some sections di tutup utk lawatan. Kire macam ade sections yang boleh pi tgk, ade some, hanye utk performing solat sajork...




Lepas tu - kiteorang jalan around 300 meters from The Blue Mosque, melalui kawasan taman yang meriah dengan wild and colorful tulips, melintas jalan batu bata, menuju ke St. Sophia. This originally church turned mosque then turned museum nih, memang interesting. Asyik mendengar kisah history by si Ibrahim tu, mek leh simpulkan dalam one perenggan sajork...

First built as a church, St. Sophia punye interior jauh lebih besar dari Blue Mosque, and ketinggiannye, mak aih! VERY DER! It served as a church before they decided to turn it into a mosque. So bile they turned it into a mosque, dapat masalah siket. The wall, ceilings, and interior deco banyak gambar Jesus and salibs and segala bagai. So for Muslims time tu, susah la nak perform diaorangnye prayers, kan? So what they did, they covered the whole paintings, ukirans, and what not semua tu la, dengan GOLD! Sebab dulu kan depa kaya dengan saudagar² GOLD, kan!? So okla  - they managed to cover the place. Tapi lepas tu, St. Sophia diserang penyamun pulak dah (DAMN U PENYAMUK PEROMPAK PENCURIK CPU OFFICE AKU! - e eh? Ade kaitan ke ni? LOL!) dan as a result from the serangan, St. Sophia rosak / damanged teruk. How? Dinding² dan ceiling yang meng-kover all the ukirans and paintings and what not, dikopek katanya. Yer lah - dah sah sah, GOLD! Depa kopek dan rosakkan the whole place. Lepas tu depa baik pulihkan, tapi part² missing golds tu semua, depa biarkan. Takkan nak tempek golds lagi kot, KAN!? So bile the mosque dijadikan museum, kerje² baik pulih di lakukan, even up till now. So u can imagine how teruk the damage was and how huge St. Sophia is. They gantikan the kesan bekas kopekkan gold tu semua dengan plaster gold - ala ala tak ori la kirenye. Tu pun, mek tetap terpegun tgk interior dia... sangat vast!

And then lepas dah habis ternganga terpelohong tgk kecantikkan St. Sophia - time for LUNCH! Makan lagik! Hehehe...


Lunch was like 5 minutes walk away dari St. Sophia itiew (JALAN LAGGGII! Mana pi private Merce Van tu tatau!? Hassan?!?! Ooooo Hassan yang candiew!? Dimanakah!?!?! Hehehe...). The place was nice, small - yet stylo. Mek sker concept open kitchen diaorang buat - tunjuk to guests diaorang how they prepare the meals. Bagus sangat concept terbuka cam tu. And as usual, tempat kecik - PACKED giler. Kena pulak time lunch hour. Haiyoh! Tapi my guests macam tak kisah jer... "So long the food is good..." katanya Datin kat Dato' nye. Mek jeling jer kat Ibrahim, like "THIS BETTER BE GOOD!". And nak tahu apa jadi? Bukan GOOD pun - it's BETTER THAN GOOD! Hehehe... Nampak cam simple jer serving dia - salad fresh, with baked beans in tomato sauce, some bread, and main dish - BEEF KOFTE katanya. Betul ke idak mek eja tu, tapi yang penting - BEEF lagik! Mati la mati diet mek!





Ok - lepas lunch, kiteorang proceed ke Topkapi Palace, which is like another 5 minutes walk from the restaurant. It's just sebelah, or was it behind St. Sophia. Tarkik la, janji dekat. Dan yer, JALAN lagi... "Ok lah tu - good way to burn those fat..." Haiii Dato', perli lagi ke itiew!? *sambil tgk lemak². MATI la berat badan dosi turun tapi lemak TETAP ADO!

Topkapi Palace nih, memang GRAND u ols! SANGAT grand. 3 courtyards, 5 kitchens, 2 guest palaces, 1 main palace with few seperate grand rooms, 3 huge gardens, HAIYOH! Memang sangat grand. It took us nearly 2 hours plus to complete the tour melalui semua tempat dalam palace tu. And ditambah pulak dengan padat dengan manusia - haiyoh! Ha, cakap, apa nak? Korean? Chinese? Japanese? LOCALS? Penuhhhhh mampats palace tu tau. Tu pun si Ibrahim cakap... "This is ok. You should see during the weekend..." Haiyoh!? Mrasak terus ke apo!?!?!

Pemandangan - jgn ditanya. Overlooking the Marmara sea and The Bosphorus sea... pemandangan dari Topkapi palace memang breath-taking! SANGAT cantik! And with a clear sky and great weather macam hari tu, the tour couldn't have been better! Worth it sangat berposing snap² kat sitiew... (hahahah mati la mek dok berlawan sapa snap lagi banyak, dengan si Datin. Over tawww Datin tu, very funny person. Mek sker dia! Baik lak tu... - e eh? Motif ala ala ayat TRIBUTE to my Datin? Mati la Tribute to KB mek katanya di blog sebelah *jeling Ginger*)



So lepas itiew pulak, kitaorang kalau ikut plan, balik terus ke hotel, rehat² before ke dinner. Tapi kaedahnye, si Ibrahim bawak pi satu kedai yang GRAND katanya for its carpets and pinggan mangkuk periuk belanga and jewelleries. Mesti dapat commission tu, mek tawww sangat! Heheh...Tapi, sebenarnye, walaupun barang² dalam tu harganya mampu buatkan mata terbeliak, tapi for those yang mampu like my clients, yang snggup spend nearly RM15K utk 3 bowls and 2 carpets, it was worth it la kot. Macam, tah lah - elok² sangat semuanya dalam tu. Tapi yang lebih istimewa, adelah, the kedai. You know why? Bawah kedai tu, ade this special and exclusive painting gallery. And the gallery, used to be tempat simpanan air dizaman dahulu kala. Ape tah, sistem ape tah... where diaorang (Turkish peeps) simpankan bekalan air dalam tu. Apa kesahnye pun mek tak brapa paham sangat si salesman tu cakap... dan mek tak bothered nak tanya si Ibrahim tu pun for further explaination. Sebab again, mek lebih tertumpu nak snappy²... hiks!



Balik dari berbelanja GRAND, seGRAND RM15K di kedai serba GRAND dengan ade GRAND gallery yang used to simpan seGRAND amount of air, hehehe (whats with the GRAND nih ek? Hiks!) kiteorang pun pulang ke Conrad (aiyoh! SKEMA NYE BAHASA!) Lepas hantar Dato' and his family, mek dihantar balik ke hotel mek kat Taksim utk menyegarbugarkan diri. Hehehe. By 6.45pm, Hassan and Ibrahim datang amik mek and pi terus amik Dato' and family, and kiteorang proceed ke Galata Tower, near Old City also, for dinner, with live entertainment / show and belly dancing katanya...

Galata tower nih, stands at 25m above the ground, somewhere 35m above sea level, used to be a prison. Ala ala Ruppunzel la kot? Hehehe. Tapi sebelum jadi prison, ade satu kes. Sorang mamat nih, dia discovered a way to FLY from that tower, to Topkapi Palace tower. And kejayaannye 'TERBANG' itu dianggap GILA oleh Pasha time tu, dan terus dia di hantar balik ke Galata Tower nih, tapi as a prisoner, sebab diaorang kata dia GILA. Ngong kan? Kalau ikutkan fakta sejarah, according to Ibrahim, kalau diaorang acknowledge his achievment terbang tu, DIA LEBIH AWAL dari the Wright Brothers, TAU! Sia sia jer - kalau tidak, Turkish man - 1st to build an airplane, KAN?

So anyways, sampai je ke Galata Towers, proceed naik ke tinggat 7. Pastu naik tangga lagik 2 level, baru sampai restaurant area (level 9). Cosy, quiet, very romantic atmosphere kaedahnye... Galata tower serves local and international cuisine. Tapi memandangkan mek tak sedap perut (rasanya perut masuk angin kot) mek asik keluar masuk keluar masuk toilet jer. Dan tak lalu nak makan. (Tu yang sempat snappy² gambar toilet tu. Hiks! Mek suke la toilet dia, batu bata itiew - GRAND!!! *grand lagikkkkk)

During the meal - ade show katanya. Mrasalah BELLY DANCING - tapi yang menari Belly Dancing tu NAN ADO BELLY katanya. APA KES!? Baik mek jer naik pi menari. Hiks! Aside from belly dancing, traditiional Turkish dance pun ade diaorang perform. Kire, tak der la boring sangat dinner malam tu... :)





After habis dinner and show, it was somewhere aroun 11.30pm dah and by the time mek sampai hotel, dah dekat nak 1am... Masuk jer bilik, mek noticed, mek hilang lighter. Ceh, mesti tertinggal dalam van ke ape ke. Cam ne nak smoke nih!? Owh well - guess I just had to turun and beli lighter dari kedai depan hotel tu (accross the road actually... tapi kire depan jer la kan...)

Nih ape kes beli lighter pun nak citer nih? Well - kena la citer, sebab kerana nak turun beli lighter tu la, MEK DIROMPAK! Kalau tgk muka perompak tu, haram! Tak der langsung muka penyangak! CANDO OK! Body mampanz (mesti taste Leez)... haiyoh! SENTAP! Memula dia tarik mek sewaktu mek keluar dari kedai tu. Dia tarik masuk satu lorong gelap nih. Mek dah feeling nak kena rogol dah nih. Hiks! Pastu dia cakap "MONEY MONEY"... dan mek pun cakap lah, mek have no money... NAH! Di talanya PISAU sundal! Terpadam niat nak jerit feeling² "HEEEELLLPPP!!!" kannn... cuak sial! Mujur tak terkencing aku dalam seluar! Dah la sejuk. Cipap tul! Pastu mek cakap... "OK OK SIR... I can do anything u wanttt... anything..." Dengan harapan dia cair dan boleh la bukak api, KAN? Tapi alih² dia kasik me this face with the expression.. "WHAT, YOU THINK I'M GAY!?" haaa cam tu... He didn't say it tapi from the expression mek tau. Terus mek cakap "OK OK I GOT MONEY... 50USD...that's all.." Pastu time mek nak keluarkan dari wallet mek tu (Hanjeng la wallet besau sangat - so pecah lobang!) dia nampak mek had MORE than USD50. NAH dia terus grabbed my wallet and checked it. Mek dah MAKIN cuak. WHY!? KALAU DIA AMIK WALLET TU, mrasalah aku tak balik langsung dari ISTANBUL sebab my PASSPORT ade dalam tu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Uwaargghhh!!!!!!! Tapi dia in the end dalam kelam kabut, just amik USD200, and TYL (Turkish Lira) 120... and campakkan the wallet back at me and lari 100m pecut... and terus lesap. Mek masih menggigil kat situ, amik wallet, terus lari persis Erra Fazira sentap dengan Norman Hakim main dengan Wilma dalam PASRAH tu... (NO LAH - not slow motion lah - ko gila!?) dan terus balik hotel - and yes, bak kata Ginger ... "KNOWING YOU LA GAL..." kan... and knowing me, terus balik bilik, NANGIS. Lepas tu baru msg Volks and also Ibrahim. Ibrahim, who was concerned, and duduk tak jauh dari Taksim, terus bergegas datang ke bilik mek and berbincang nak buat cam mana. Mujur for Credit cards and Diners Club and also some extra cash yang ade celah² wallet tu yang masih ado. Tapi Ibrahim cam sentap la this thing can happened to his guests kan. Dia siap nak suruh buat police report. Ceh - buat hapo. Buat payah lagi ado lah... so malam tu dia spend the night kat bilik mek. AND NO, nothing happened nah! La la la la la la...

Owh well - a great day in Day 3 to have it ended in a tragis way. Tragis kah masalahnye!? Lain la mek kena bunuh ke ape ke, KAN!? Heheh tapi tak semena²... hari ke 4 tu, it started raining just after the incident, sampai la ke lewat tgh hari esok tu... for more stories about Day 4, tunggu next update, NAH!? Dah! MEK PENAT! Mek nak tidur... hehehe...

Bersambung...

Click HERE to read DAY 1 entry


Lepas dah snappy², mek minum coffee la (to keep me awake – mek couldn't afford to tidur, kang dengan aku sekali kang DELAYED keluar dari bilik, NAYA JA!), tgk tv la, itu ini – pup pap pup pap dosi 4.30am. Terus mek double check with Mathilda, one of the KLAS peep yang sunggoh baik hati bersms dengan mek, for any updates on the departure. Org Jakarta katanya, contract keje 2 tahun dengan KLAS. Hehe. So dia ala² terus kasik 1st class service kat mek dah clients mek, sebab mek spedo dia katanye clients mek bukan taraf VIP, tapi VVIP! Hiks! Terus nih, attentive gile! Then showered bagai semua, at 5.10am mek kejutkan clients mek itiew and terus met them at the lobby sebab Mathilda cakap confirmed 6.50am departure. While waiting for my clients to turun ke lobby, mek lepak² dengan Mathilda and si Sam, Emirates ground manager for that day. He also very der attentive nih, helpful gilos – like, nak ensure everything went smooth for my guests, and me of course. Hehehe...

My clients turun ke lobby sajork, katanya nak terus proceed ke terminal. So all of us skipped breakfast yang diprovidekan kat Pan Pac tu (menyesal pulak aku pi skipped breakfast itiew. Yer lah, 4 org clients mek, boleh pi dok kat lounge Business class itiew. HABIS, mek!? Melepasss lah breakfast kaedahnye!)

So from Pan Pac lobby, katanya naik buggy itiew, transported five of us from the lobby ke level 3 lift ke tingkat 5 for departure. Kesian lah pulak si Mathilda tu keja berkejaran dari Pan Pac ke terminal. Hiks!

And then lepas dah cleared immigration, and security check bagai, naik the aero train to satellite terminal, terus Mathilda ngan mek escorted my clients ke Business Class lounge for foreign airlines itiew... tertelan japs air liur thinking about the meals, snacks, drinks yang ado dalam lounge itiew, and also pasai pi getek skipped breakfast kat Pan Pac itiew. Terus sentap, pi Delifrance! Hahahahaha! Makan laaaaaaaaagi katanya!

Pastu as mek dengar the final call for EK352 itiew, mek nampak ade another buggy dok tunggu kat bawah lounge tu. Amboi si Mathilda nih, layan sakan nampak clients 'VVIP' mek itiew. Hehehehe... siap dengan si Sam dan sorang lagi staff Emirates, Danny, dok tunggu kat buggy tu. Kalau camni la service utk VIP / VVIP pax naik Emirates with the help of KLAS staffs, mek rate 1st class sundal!!! Very good! So lepas tu, clients mek turun jer dari lounge, mek nampak muka clients mek macam... "Owh wow, this is beyond expectations" katanya – hahahah mati la slogan MH tu! And away they were taken to gate C22 for immediate boarding. Mek ngan Mathilda pon berjalan sajork ke C22 which was like, not ler jauh sangat dari lounge tu.

Sampai je ke gate, SENTAP! EY (economy) pon belom boarding. Ape nih!?!?! Nih mesti crew Emirates lambat kasik clearance for boarding. Benci betul tau. Tapi mujur clients mek macam, "Ok jer" kaedahnye. Kalau depa naik upset, mek lagi la nak naik hangen. Client mek punye wife tu sempat bisik kat mek "Ala, biasa la... EMIRATES... nama jer 1st in the world – tapi kau tgk la sendiri..." Nahhh! Mrasalah itiew Datin sudah sound laser lite² katanya, sambil Dato' itiew senyum² sinis sajork kat staff Emirates yang dua ekor tu. Hehehehe. Anak² diaorang masih MAMAI katanya – macam... "Errr... kite kat mana ni???" haaa cam tu la ghuponye. Hehehe...

And so, lepas tu, boarding (it was a 2 classes Airbus A330-300s sajork), mek joined my clients naik kot Business Class, tolong depa stowed their cabin bags, pastu mek proceed ke seat mek. Seat mek 1st row EY, so tak der lah jauh sangat dari diaorang yang mek dah booked last 2 rows of Business Class. Senang, kang kalau depa nak ape², mek ado. KAN?

Dah duduk dalam plane tu, tgk jam, 6.50am, NAN ADO pintu ditutupnya lagi. DELAYED lagi katanya 3 pax still missing. Hish! Tunggu punya tunggu, nah, 7.20am BARU "Cabin crew; please prepare your doors for take off". Hanjeng sangat! Mek dah mula hangin balik sebab mek tak mo delay lama², kang connecting flight aku dari DXB (Dubai) ke IST (Istanbul) kang terlepas kang, HOW!? Tapi mek dosi double and triple checked katanya – mrasalah our connecting flight to IST tak der affected. Cuma our transit time in DXB jer jadik pendek from 11 hours ++ (siap check-in kat Le Meridien Dubai tau!!! And siap boleh keluar jalan² in Dubai city centre lepas breakfast tau!!! MELEPASS!!!) to 4 hours and 35 minutes only katanya. And since it's a 'less than 8 hours transit, dinch perlu dan dinch bols keluar dari Airport katanya! Upset lagi!

And so, lepas tu, we ols semua departed from KUL onwards to DXB – 6 hours and 45 minutes flight katanya. The flight was ok, pretty bumpy throughout the whole journey. Lepas 1st service, which was a refreshment service (sandwich kosong sajork), mek nengok brapa banyak movies ntah, siap main game lagi, sebelum mek pi check dengan Dato' tu, just to ensure semuanya ok, and lepas tu mek zzzzz tak hengat donia. Seat sebelah mek kosong, so, mrasalah stretching metching! Hehehehe...




And then woke up, just in time for light meal service. Food was ok la kot – had this ape tah noodles with chicken tah. Ok jer. Nuthing fancy. Tapi dalampada mek dok memakan tu, mek nengok la jugak service Emirates ni. Relatively if you wanna compare with MH, I'd say Emirates punye service, tak sehebat MH punye service. Serious. Not because mek ex crew MH. Tapi kalau dibanding-bezakan oleh org lain yang pernah mrasa both airlines, mek rase ramai akan agree dengan mek. Service cart MH siket punye elok jer set-upnya. Emirates punye, HAIYOH! Oven insert tu boleh dia letak atas cart? Mano elok! Hodoh and very der lah! Mek tak suke! Meaning, diaorang tak buat meal loading dalam cart/ trays dalam galley. Depa buat depan² penumpang. So very der, macam, tak elok lah. Mek tak suke!


Lepas tu, at around 10am ++, kiteorang arrived in DXB. Dah sampai DXB tu, mek pon gi la menghanto again Dato' and Datin and their kids tu ke Emirates Business Class lounge. Lepas dah depa masuk pi lounge tu, mek pon, pi la membakar jantung mek. Lepas hisap dua tiga batang, mek jengjalan kat airport tu punye Duty Free shopping area. Jalan² saje ke? NAN ADO! Mek shopping katanya – mek beli Nokia 6111 katanya! Mrasa lah hp mek tu unique sebab keypad dia ade tulisan Arab sundalll! Kau ada? HAHAHAHA!

Lepas dosi shopping mopping, pi la ke cybercafé, berchatting kejaps katanya dalam sejam. Sempat mek chatting kat TB mek itiew, walaupun tak ramai yang ado. YM pong sempat online nih, siap show status "Live from Dubai" katanya... hahaha!

Dan tanpa disadari katanya, time to fly, again! So mek rushed pi dapatkan clients mek kat lounge tu, dan terus proceed ke gate E36 for immediate boarding. Dinch perlu checkin' in bagai as kami already checked-in terus ke IST. So boarding pass semua mrasalah dosi ado. Dan kaedahnye, sampai jer ke gate, ade scene ok! Ade this one local passenger katanya tak dapatkan visa utk keluar dari DXB dan masuk ke IST. So dia tak leh nak board the plane. Pastu yang jadi scenenye, sebab dia cakap, Emirates tak inform pa per pasal Visa masuk ke Istanbul tu. So jadik la scene. But for me la kan, bab bab Visa nih semua ni, hang sendiri la kena bukak mulut tanya agency hang or tanya airline ke ape ke just to clarify. Ini nak expect Emirates habaq – awat dia ingat dia sorang jer la pax yang nak ke Istanbul tu? Kezi lah...

And then, lepas dah nengok scene kezi tu, kiteorang terus boarding. This time, t'was a 3 classes Boeing B777-300s. Yang Malaysia Airlines punyo, 2 and 3 classes Boeing B777-200s sajork. Yang ini lebih panjang siket katanya dari the 200 series. So again, mek boarded the plane naik ikut Business Class, sebab nak menolong stow the bags semua. And again, depa duduk last two rows in Business Class, dan mek pulak in 1st row Economy. Selak curtain divider tu jer, nampak la mek. Hehehehe...



The flight from DXB to IST memakan masa like 4 hours and 20 minutes and they were serving another light meal. This time mek hamek chicken breast with Arabic rice katanya? Mek nengok dan raso cam Briyani sajork? Pa per jer – janji, boleh telan. Tak der la sedap mana pong. And along the way, mek buat kawan dengan sorang pompuan duduk sebelah mek nih. Sembang² dengan dia, itu ini, tup tup dosi dengar announcement before landing dah. Aiyoh. Cepat la pulak 4 hours flight tu berlalu. Tarkik lah. Mek lagi suka. Dok dalam plane tu pun bukannye menarik pa per pon! Hiks! Crew semuanya cikki; ciktan ade la 2 3 ekoq tapi tak melerts pon. So boring la the flight. Hehehe...



Landed in IST at around 6.45pm... outside temperature was around 14 degrees although sunny kaedahnye – and windy too! Keluar dari aircraft jer, dosi boleh rase sejuk kat aero bridge tu. Maybe it was the airport, mek speku. So lepas dah cleared the immigration (sedeh lah, dari dulu time² mek fly sampai now, IST Attartuk Airport tu, nama jer besau, tapi, system nan ado. Immigration clearance pong slow – tak macam KLIA kita), and amik baggage bagai semua, kiteorang proceed to arrival hall, and terus keluar² je, mek dah nampak muka si Ibrahim, agent mek kat IST tu. Sebelum nih agency mek deal dengan partner dia, si Cenk tu. Tapi kali ni, Ibrahim tu yang will be taking care of my clients. Tgk rupo, can do! Mrasa!!! Hiks!

And so lepas dari airport, 1 hour kiteorang drive ke Conrad Bosphorus Hotel (curlassttt transport, van Mercedes itiew! Mek sker mek sker! And obviously clients mek pong turut suker katanye!). Kenapasal jauh sangat? Well actually, kalau nan ado heavy traffice, 40 minutes leh sampai ke Conrad tu. Tapi, since jammanation yang maha teruks (as usual la Istanbul tu!), jadik lah sejam lebeh kurang. Hehehe. Along the way tu, mrasalah kami dapat melihat itiew tulips pelbagai warna. Cantiks sangat! Cuaca pun just nice, dah nak gelap malam katanya. Sker la sker!!!!

Sampai jer ke Conrad tu – mak aih! BUSY GILE hotel tu. Agent mek dah warned me earlier through the phone waktu mek buat booking dulu – Conrad tu time mek pi tu, memang tgh sebok dengan conference Islamic ape tah. And Conrad tu, memang a well-known 5 star hotel yang selalu busy dengan conference tu conference nih, event tu event nih. Tapi since mek nak jugak bookkan hotel room kat Conrad tu utk VIP clients mek, so, MRASALAH! Kat lobby, siap ade security check ala² macam kat boarding gate kat airport itiew tau! Tu belom mek cakap, dari gate hotel, nak menuju ke hotel's lobby/ porch area tu, kena go through 2 security check also. Penat sundalll!!!

Lepas tu, mek check-in kan clients mek, siap sempat mek pi lari naik ke bilik diaorang nak ensure everything was like ok and as per booking (2 deluxe connecting rooms with Bosphorus view), check itu check ini, baru mek lepaskan clients mek naik ke bilik. Dahhh mek feeling cam bodyguard/ PA pulak instead of a travel agent, HOW? Heheheh... tak per la, janji they're happy.
 
So lepas tu, mek tak balik ke hotel mek lagi (Yer, mek dinch dapat bilik kat Conrad sebab full house – so mrasalah mek check in ke hotel Green Park at Taksim tu, like 10 minutes away dari Conrad) Sebabkan jalan tgh jam, mek dinch berani lah nak pi check in hotel mek dulu, and then pi balik Conrad sebab nak amik clients mek pi dinner. Kang dengan jam tu, dari 10 ke 20 minute, jadik sejam dua delayed kang. Malas aku! So mek tunggu jer kat lobby hotel Conrad tu dengan si Ibrahim tu, sambil isap² rokok. And then MUJUR mek tak pi balik hotel mek – sebab clients mek naik ke bilik dan turun balik ke lobby within 15 minutes jer. Express! MEK LIKE! Hehehe...

Ok before mek go on and citer, meh mek citer kat u ols sikit pasal Istanbul, serba sediks la yang mek tau. Istanbul nih ade 2 areas. Asia side and Europe side. Asia side nih ala² macam more to residential area. Manakala Europe side nih, dia macam, city centre, banyak historical sites, business centre, and etc., like Europe nih lebih busy la if u wanna compare to Istanbul Asia. And Istanbul Europe nih pulak, dibahagikan kepada dua bahagian pulak; The Old City and The New City. Mrasalah tempat clients mek stay and also hotel yang mek duduk tu, di New City. Old city nih actually merupakan tempat yang banyak historical sites and scenes. Get it tak? Hiks! Ok – itu jer FOR NOW info tentang Istanbul. As mek citerkan lagi nanti, kalau ade pa per info yang perlu mek citerkan, mek akan habaq, NAH?

So, where was I tadik? Owh yes – dinner. And then, lepas my clients dan anak² diaorang dah ready, kitaorang semua went to Kucupazar for dinner (Kucupazar nih in Istanbul Europe, The Old City). Going to The Old City area, jam tak seteruk macam nak ke The New City and also Istanbul Asia. So the ride was like, 15 minutes jer. And dekat² nak sampai ke restaurant tu (tah ape nama tah mek dosi lupe), mek nengok, drizzling katanya. Tapi kejap jer – Thank God. Kalau idak, berhujan² nih, upset jer tour nih jadiknye, kan? So ok – dinner. Dinner was at this local Turkish restaurant. Kecik jer restaurantnye (for me, the smaller the restaurant is in Istanbul, lebih GRAND sebenarnye and lebih personalized and lebih fancy), tapi the meal was superb!!! And restaurant tu, VERY DER full house! Penuh dengan manusia² local yang baru balik kerej la apa la semua tu. Dan mek prasan, majority guests kat restaurant tu majority semuanya ciktan. Mana pi cikpuks semua tatau!? Makan kat umah sajork kah? Hiks!





Lepas dinner, terus balik ke Conrad hantar clients mek yang mek dapat lihat dosi keletihan. It was somewhere 11pm something (mrasalah waktu Malaysia 5 hours ahead of Istanbul – so 11pm Istanbul means 4am in Malaysia) and it was kindda late. The children were exhausted I can tell. And so was I. So lepas hantar my clients, BARU LAHHHH mek ke hotel mek kat Taksim tu. It was ok – the hotel and the room. 4* hotel, ok la. Melampau laaa nak pi duduk 5* jugak. Mau semput bigbossdaddy katanya! LOL!

Checked in, pastu unpacked, kemas² baju² dalam closet, had a nice, long, hot shower, and then minum hot tea, pastu – zzzzz!!!

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As u ols semua tahu, mek kan baru balik Istanbul trip two days ago. Mek pi atas urusan kerej la u ols; escorting my VIP clients. At the same time, mek memang nak kena jumpa counter-part agent mek in Istanbul. Memula tak budget nak pi pon, tapi last² minute, bigbossdaddy suruh mek pi jugak. So mek pong, hapo lagi – pi sajork! Katanya sponsored trip. Hahahaha! So ikutilah catatan harian mek dari Day 1 sampai lah ke Day 7 sekembalinya mek ke Alor Star. Mrasa!!!


Belle picked me up from Volk’s place at around 8pm cam tu la lebey kureng. Potpet sana potpet sinik, 8.30pm baru gerak pi KLIA. Volks dinch ikut, so kaedahnye mek bye bye dengan dia kat umah dia sajork. So off me and Belle went dalam jeepnya itiew ke KLIA. Dalam kerets, aiyoh! Sambung potpet potpet lagi katanya. Had some few good laughs though dengan makcik itiew. Opps! Biase la, org pepempoannn... gossip sajork kejenye. Hiks!

And after like, 45mins, sampai lah ke KLIA itiew. Belle parked the car, and then ikut teman mek pi check in katanya. Sampai jer level departure tu, nengok la board besau tu, nak nengok counter mano Emirates bukak for checkin’ in. Alih² ade pulak tulisnya ginik...


Hanjeng sangat! Delay katanya. Owh well, delayed pong, delayed lah kaedahnye. Must be delayed sejam dua. So me and Belle pon berlenggang mak limah la dengan beg² mek itiew ke counter/ lane M; the last counter/ lane yang ado itiew, paling hujung katanya. Sesampai jer mek ke lane itiew, ade la sekerat dua peeps yang already queuing for check-in. Tapi mrasalah mek check-in kat lane Business Class katanya, so mek the first pax yang ado. Why Business Class? Biase jer – sebab my clients 4 org tu semuanya naik Business Class, so mek pong tompang lah sekaki. Tapi depa tak mai lagi. Mek sms them suruh tunggu sat, biaq mek check dulu delayed sampai kul brapa. Tgk lah kat screen tu, just nak double check. Tetap, sama also. Katanya DELAYED, DITUNDA to be precise. So since mek nampak ade staff KLAS (KL Airport Services) kat sitiew yang mek assumed will be doin’ the work for Emirates itiew, mek pon pi la tanya, nak dapatkan kepastian.

"Delayed sampai kul brapa ek?"

"Kapal ade technical problems in Dubai – so now estimate time of arrival in KUL would be at 5.20am, and ETD (estimated time of departure) now will be at 6.50am..."



NAH!!! Hamek kau! Sejam dua la delayed? Kaedahnye – 6 jam delayed sundal! "There goes my long transit in Dubai; there goes my outing ke Dubai city area esok pagi! There goes the plan nak shopping kat Dubai! Hanjeng!!!" tu jer mek kept on saying dalam hati. Sentap sangat! MRASA LAH terus DQ dan sentap! Haiyohhh!!! What a wayyy to start off my trip! Mek hangen sangat! Namun hangen² mek pon, terpaksa mek cakap kat clients mek, the so called ‘bad news’ itiew. Pon begitiew, mek tetap suruh depa mai KLIA jugak – sebab Emirates nak the pax all to check-in as per normal. So sementara nak tunggu clients mek sampai, mek dan Belle pi lah bersantapan dulu katanya. Elok laaa sangat... sentap jer, MAKAN. Sentap jer, MAKAN – mrasalah naik bentat balik aku cam nih! Hehehehe...

And so Belle ngan mek pi la makan kat this one restaurant/ café kat level departure tu (malas aku nak turun ke Garden Café level 3 itiew!). Makanannye, SEDEH! Sangat sedey dan sangatlah cikhals! Tapi tetap nih melantak jugak – nak buat cam mano, lapaq, dan sentap! Hehehe... Dan also nak buang masa siket. Giler tu, 6 hours ++ tu!

Lepas dosi habis makan semua, mek suruh si Belle itiew balik dulu la. Kesian pulak nak suruh dia tunggu sampai ke pagi kang. Hehehe... kang keje dia ke mana, anak dia si Adam itiew pong ke mana... KAN? So mrasalah mek bye bye dengan dia. Tapi mek tak pulak hantaq dia sampai ke level 3 tu. Mek bye bye dengan dia kat lift level 5 tu sajork. Hehehe...

And then, erm, ape mek buat ek? Japs – owh yes, mek pi skomming cirigette katanya while waiting for my VIP clients to arrive. And lepas tu, bile diaorang dosi arrived, THEN baru mek pi check-in kesemua 4 pax’s bags and also mine. Emirates requires the pax to check-in as per normal kaedahnye, so terpaksa lah. Kesian clients mek itiew. Kalau semua adults mek rase tak po. Ini ado 2 adults jer, the parents. And then depa bawak 2 kids, a 10 and a 6 years old. Kesian la kalau delay² cam gini, kalo ade bebudak. But, what to do, terpaksa maaa... So lepas dah habis check-in bagai semua, all five of us proceed ke Pan Pacific; Emirates provided the accommodation al kesah. Mek amik 2 rooms for my guests, side by side, and then one room for mek, tapi not on the same level. Tarkik la. Janji mek ado kat situ, just in case kalau depa nak pa per. Tapi lepas checked in, masuk bilik semua, all yang my VIP client tu nak was... "Karang you just make a wake up call for me and my family yer..." Mek ok sajork. Mek double checked, Pan Pac tu pun ado buat wake up call dah, set by Emirates. Maybe this client of mine, just nak second wake up call kot. Mrasalah mek kejutkan depa 10 minutes lepas the hotel’s wake up call itiew...




Masuk² bilik jer, terus snappy² katanya. Not bad aiihhh the room. 1st time tu mek masuk menginap di Pan Pacific KLIA. Sebelum² nih, nengok dari luar sajork. Masuk lobby pon haram tak pernah. Hehehe...



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Hehehe... DQ dak title entry? Owh well - lets just say, memang pon me will be away from home, from my PC, from my blog, my website, my everything lah - from MALAYSIA also katanya. Kali ini, berjalan² lagi sambil bekerja. Eh? Silap - away bekerja, sambil jalan²... bole? Hiks!

Bagai nak lari rumahhh sajork! LOL!
Yayyy!!! *Tepuk² tangan!* Me will be going to Istanbul, Turkey for 6 days! Mrasalah nak menjerit, "Meheba - I represent, Istanbul, TURKEY!" Hehehe... *Eh, is it MEHEBA or SHALOM? Hurmmm... mati la tak tahu hujung pangkal tau tau nak buat introduction line persis wakil Miss Turkey! LOL!


Me pergi atas urusan kerej u ols; bawak family VIP gi tour ke sano. Memula tak plan, tak der cadangan nak pi pon. Tapi last², teringin pulok nak pi. Dosi lama mek dinch jejakkan kaki ke Istanbul. Last sekali, 2004, time mek masih bergelar crew. Hiks!

Today, dah 8th April, kan? No, mek tak pi lagi. Today mek ke KL dulu, nah??? Hehehe... Bellerina Teoh itiew will be picking me up kat KLIA kejap lagi (now, mrasalah dah kul 3.23am, and mek haram tak tidoq² lagik!). By noon mek sampai lah KL itiew. Nih pun baru habis packing barang² katanya. Pi 6 hari sajork, tapi packingnye, bagai nak pi 2 minggu! LOL!

Ade gathering lagi ke kat KL sebelum keberangkatans mek ke IST? ENTAH - tak der plans lagik so far. Tgk² la cam mano. Hehe *mati la baru 2 minggu lepas jer buat gathering*... hehehe. Why mek ke KL awal? Saaaaaaaaaaajjeeerrrrr... *semunyik wig dan bag make up kat tepi! Hehehe...

So tgk lah, maybe there will be another entry kot sebelum mek depart ke IST. Another entry nak citer apo mek buat these coming few days in KL la kot. See la how. Kalau rajin, kalau ado mood, KALAU RAJIN BALIK RUMAH kat Subang tu, ha - mrasalah mek buat. Kalau malas, erm, tak pa - TUNGGU SAJOK mek balik dari Istanbul, NAH? Hehehehe...

Blue Mosque, Istanbul - what's so BLUE about it pun mek dinch hui. Nampak COKELAT sajork dari BIRU? Hurmmm - lighting kot? LOL!
So ok lah ek - kepala mek dah mula berdenyut²! Mata pong dah lalok-lali ngantuqes sudah... Dua short entry within 1/2 hour... ok la tu, KAN? Hiks!

So ok! See ya when I see ya! And who knows, an entry from Istanbul, Turkey? Hehehe... (MATI LA LAPTOP BODOW TU DAH KENA CURIK!)... hiks!

Muahssssssssssssss!