HOLA from the land of pomelos, waat leet leet tau fu far (smooth bean curd), leng luis (pretty girls) and super crunchy bean sprouts!! 😀
We almost missed our ETS (Electric Train Service) ride from KL Sentral to Ipoh yesterday! Â The ETS ticket was at 1pm and we hopped into the coach at 12:59PM! Â Phew, what a real close shave!!
With only 15 minutes to 1pm from our condo to the train station, I knew that we may not make it coz Hello Shireen, you are in KL, the bustling city of horrendous traffic jam, not Ipoh ok. Even if it was Ipoh, we may not make it in just 15 minutes!
Hubs had planned to park his car and accompany the four loves of his live onto the coach to send us off. But we were super late.  Hubs only managed to park his car at the drop-off area in front of the KL Sentral station and directed me where to go.  But this lady with a faulty compass in her head went to the wrong station, DUH!!  As I ran down the escalator to the wrong station with 3 little girls in tow, ran up the escalator again, asked for direction to the correct station, then ran as fast as we could lugging 2 trolley bags, 1 lap top bag, an oversized handbag and the girls carrying their own bags, I felt like I was in a real life Amazing Race, trying to beat the time to win the race — which is to reach the train.  That was by far one of the most suspense, adrenaline rush of 15 minutes for me EVER and I thought that our RM80 worth of tix would go down the train tracks.  I really thought that we would not make it . I prayed fervently to God to help us and He never let me down, again 🙂
I saw the train master with a walkie talkie outside coach  C and I hollered to him “train ini pergi Ipoh?”, to which he said “YA” and I hollered back “tolong intercomm untuk tunggu YA!”  and the train master chuckled “relak… perlahan-lahan”  and I felt a tad relieved.  But our coach is no. F, FARK!! And we ran as fast as we could to Coach F and felt a GREAT sense of achievement the moment we hopped onto the coach. The time on the TV showed 12:59PM and the train moved off the tracks at 1PM on the dot.  What a close one, phew!!!
Memories to last a lifetime for the girls — our Amazing Race to catch a train back to Ipoh 🙂
See the camera shy  big girl? Aiyo *shake head*
Cass doing her school holiday homework on board the train to kill boredom.
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