The Holiday

I'm having one of the best holiday of my life... right here in KL. I have been to my mom's place two weeks ago when I went for an outstation trip in JB and mom was here just about a week ago, so I decided to spend my CNY holiday here alone... or so I thought. But it has been a really nice holiday so far. I haven't got the chance to visit friends during Raya holiday last time because I was away for almost two weeks so I took this chance to visit some of them. We had a good laugh when I said I couldn't come during Raya so here I am during Raya Cina. I have been on leave since Friday actually so holiday starts early for me :) Apart from visiting friends, there's the rejuvenating spa breakaway yesterday.


Thousands of people at KLCC
For today, it's very fitting for us to watch 'The Holiday' at KLCC during our holiday :) It was very, very entertaining and you should go see it with your girlfriends. I saw many girlfriends group in the cineplex and I went with one of my girlfriend too. Apart from the annoying jaga-tiket girl, everything was perfect. We wanted to go in a bit early to go the ladies but she said we couldn’t, not until 11.35 when the movie starts at 11.40. At 11.30, a different girl stood there and she allowed us to go in. And then again, after the movie we walked half way to the ladies when the same girl saw us with few other people and tried to stop us again. For God's sake, we're going to the toilet lah. We just ignored her and after we came out from the ladies, we wanted to go to the exit like we're supposed to do and saw a guy and asked where can we get out and he said it is OK for us to go out at the nearest exit which is the entrance actually. So 'over' lah that girl.


Away from crowdsAnyway, back to the movie...

And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded.

If you're broken hearted, or have been before, or have experienced unrequited love, you'd feel like it was you. Take your pick. Cameron Diaz (Amanda) or Kate Winslet (Iris). And now that you're rational and sensible, you'd say, "No, no, no... don't do that. Don't let him do that to you." You'd cheer when Ethan got punched and Jasper got thrown out of the door. You'd celebrate sensibility and common sense. I like it when Iris said, "You're supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for God's sake!" Are you the leading lady? Or the best friend? Or the bit*ch?




When we get out from the cinema, we saw thousands of people from many nationality, all under one roof... with interesting characters, almost all carrying a digicam or videocam, 'posing maut' at the escalator, in front of the still-closed shop, with the mannequin, and all over the place. We didn't go out to the park. I don't think we can see anything but people everywhere. We had a nice and quiet lunch at Kelantan Delights, far from the noisy food court. We really cleaned our plates and the bowl of tomyam too. Please forgive me for being such an ignorant Malaysian for this is the first time I tried Lompat Tikam. It was delightfully tantalizing but I think more coconut syrup would make it even more sinful. It was my friend who reminded me to take the photos of the food or else you can only see the photos of empty plates here :)

Oh I'd like to mention this too. Do you know it took me only 20 minutes to get to KLCC from my place. Can you believe that? On a normal day and a good traffic, it would probably take me 45 minutes. 20 minutes must be the time shown on housing developers' sales brochure for this area and this must be a very good time for them to test their claims no matter if the project is at ulu Shah Alam or ulu Kajang somewhere hahaha.... I really wish we can have this kind of holiday often. Sometimes, when we go for holidays elsewhere, we're quite rushed to go and see everything and all the places we want to visit. This time, I can come back to my comfortable apartment after a tiring but interesting and memorable day.