so...how to describe the trip leh..haha...i shall say...like wat chinese say..喜怒哀乐(mandarin: xi nu ai le..cantonese: hei nou oi lok)..all in..and plus one more..怕(scared)...hehe...ok..here the mystical egypt goes...keke...this will be a pretty long one lo...
.: yee & shan posing to the camera on board of Qatar Airways..heee [>.<] :. we took Qatar airways to Egypt..flight transit via Doha...in KLIA...haha..malu malu thing happened...we have to go thru scanning before going on board...and they scanned a pair of scissors in my hand luggage..one weird thing is..even after emptied my luggage the scissors is still there..and guess where's the scissors..it's hidden beneath the bottom layer of my luggage..how it ended there...haha..my dad left it there when he repair the luggage..i was like..wat de!!!! how unlucky...imagine after searching for like 20 mins only can find the scissors...phew...!!!
on board..guessed wat i saw in the plane...rich rich rich ppl...there was this boy..young boy sitting beside me across the aisle..fully dressed in Burberry from head to toes..as from hat to shoes...wow...then another kid..dragging his LV sling bag on the floor..LV as in Louis Vuitton...while we here treat our LV bag as precious here..he..jus dragging it on the floor while walking..wow...and his sis..much younger..guess only around 5-6 years old..with Dior and Chanel earings n accessories..i was like..wat????? these are wat u call superb rich ppl...hehehe...
then upon arriving at Doha airport...haha..was separated from my parents..and...worst thing happened...we did not have Doha dollar...and we did get the US dollars from daddy...all we have are M'sian Ringgit and England Pounds..but they dun accept these 2 currencies..and our transit is 4 hours..cham...poor poor poor 4 of us..wanna eat and it's not we dun have money but it's no currency..and they dun accept credit card..wat???...haha...so ended up...borrowing money from our tour leader..malu case ler...hahahaha...so malu ah...then when meet with parents ma return money to the tour leader lo..
more things happened...1/2 hour before the boarding time for our plane...the staff at the airport started shouting n chasing us to baord the plane..but my dad is still in the lounge..and my mom's boarding pass is with my dad...how???..the ppl there was like scolding me n my mom...she was like "mdm..u must board the plane now..if i close the gate i sure wont open for u...faster go into the plane"..she din even wat to hear any explanation n keep shouting to my mom..till me also cannot tahan...we pay the tix n u shout at my mom...so i also shout back at her..i was like "my dad is till in the GOLDEN CLUB Lounge and he is having my mom's boarding pass..if u wan us to go in...call ur ppl in the lounge to inform my dad..dun jus shout there!!"...haha..unbelievable...i actually shouted at her..wat to do cos she shout at my mom ma..hahahaha....
then hor..haha..this is the best part of the egypt airport...believe it..my parents in business class ad had their passports stamped by the immigration on board...so when they reached the airport..they dun have to go thru the immigration and jus walk thru straight...keng leh...how efficient ah...hehehe...
upon arrival there at Cairo..wow...messy messy messy airport...with lots lots lots ppl...and all men..wow...scary ler..
before arriving at egypt..i thought it's a beautiful country or at least developed in certain ways..but...in reality...no...it's not...it's very undeveloped...Cairo is messy...dirty...dusty...and scary...cos u'll see police n military carrying machine guns walking on streets...and right outside our hotel..there are a few police with machine guns..then in the hotel..we have to go thru scanning also...then there are no security in the hotel..only police with machine guns..wow...like been to a terrorist country like tat...scary loo...very scary ah..
the next day...went to the Pyramids..wow...we always thought pyramids is in the desert...but then hor..no lo..these pyramid is in the city of Giza..it's only 10 mins away from my hotel...and we pass by the pyramids so many times...all these while pyramids are like so magnificient to me..and now..i'm jus staying around the pyramids..and for 3 nites...wow...the pyramids are jus so gigantic..so huge man...cannot believe it lo..then we went into one of the pyramids..haha..the journey is so tiring lo..and the chamber we went in is not even the real one..it's a false one which the king built to mislead the thieves..and until now..the archeologist still have finish exploring the pyramid...
so..why is the journey tiring...cos...we have to walk down the stairs for 30m then a pathway of 10m and climb up 20m stairs to reach the tomb..sound easy huh...but..wat if the space of the walkway of the stairs is only 1m x 1m..meaning 1m height and 1m width??...meaning..squating while walking on the stairs...tiring leh...and for my family..all tall ppl..lagi susah..phew...~~~~
.: shan & chia witht the 3 great pyramids of Giza as our background..we took this pic by ourselves..thanks to chia :. after that..went to the sphinx..hehe..my mom thought the sphinx n the pyramid are together in 1 piece like sunway pyramid..keke..until here only she know it's not..haha...cute ler my mummy...kekeke....here at the sphinx..there's this temple where they do the mummification process...eeww...it's a very cruel n disgusting process...why??..cos after the king is dead..he'll go thru mummification process..wat they do??...1st they remove the brain using 2 gigantic hooks thru the nostril...eewww...then they cut the side of the body to remove all the internal organs...more like everything inside except for the heart...ahhhh....then they rub salt all over the body n leave it to dry to absorb all the water from the body..until then only wrap into mummy...scary lo....make me no appetite to eat now ad...
then we also went to the museum...where we see the real coffins n tombs n treasure of the ancient egyptian king..like the treasures of King TutanKhamun..even his mummification beds...then the whole group of my tour went into this chamber of real n original mummies..except for me..i dun dare to go in..scared ah...later cannot sleep at nite how??...hehehehe....
besides Cairo..also went to Alexanderia...a city which Alexander The Great from the Greece built when he ruled Egypt..keng leh...hehe...
.:the Bazaar at Cairo...so many people:.
and then hor..in Egypt..there's no shopping complex there..so where we go shopping..at the bazaar...and wat we see most there..all the salesppl there are men..no ladies at all..the scariest thing..they drag u when persuading u to buy their stuffs...no matter u wan it or not..and the scariest things that happened to me is..they proposed to me..they asked me to married them..i was so shocked n hide behind my mom..then they ask my mom to marry me to them..i was like wat????...and not only one lo..is many of them...so how..ended up..i have to walk tih my bro holding his hands..and telling them he is my husband..haha..my bro there..so proud walking with me...why??..cos many ppl say he's a lucky man..we were like..hahahaha...ya ya ya...kekeke...
and while bargaining...lagi weird..they was like u wan more discount..ok..show me a beautiful smile..then after smile they was like..ok..mdm..i give u more discount cos u got 3 beautiful daughter with great smile..ok..and one guy was crazy...he was like u wan discount??..give me a Chinese kiss then i give..i was like..no no no..u so rude..how can u ???...but in the end he still give me discount la..hehe..so wat i bought most there..hehe..shawls and belly dance belts lo...hehe...why..cos really cheap ma..kekeke...
ya ya..we went to this perfume factory..and guess wat...they produce perfumes from flower n fruit into oil essence perfumes..and the smell..haha..same with the brands...like Davidoff CoolWater..CK Eternity...Dior Jadore..Issey Miyake..etc etc etc..wow..exactly same smell lo..keng la they all..very keng lo...
.:the porter at the train station..so strong..carry so many luggages at once..but this is not the old man ler:.
then ah...we board the train in Cairo...to go to Aswan...the train station ah..wow..the porter there are so strong lo..very strong..and they are pretty old ad one lo..and then hor..aiyoyo..the train station very messy one lo..and the announcement are all in Arabian language lo..i think ah..without our tour guide there..also dunno to board which train ah...then hor very messy n scary one lo..
we had one nite stay in the train la..outside..the train look very dirty..but inside..it's ok..one carriage have 10 rooms..and our group take up one whole carriage...hehe...so we had dinner n breakfst in the train...jus tat..not bathroom to take bath lo..so dirty lo..yerr....the train journet is around 13 hours..long leh..haha...in the morning after wake up..nothing to do there...so we got ppl playing cards lo..aunties chit chatting n doing yoga..kekeke..keng leh..hahahaha...
hehe..long leh..and this is only the 1st part...when free again only continue lo..enjoy reading ah...keke...
ok...End of Part I...
Quote: Miracles do happen..it just depends on how much you believe in it..so..to be optimistic or pessimistic towards miracles..it's ur choice...
