Day 6
After a much needed restful morning, we had breakfast with mangoes from the agrotech park that V had gotten up early to visit, completed packing and went to the Durian Perangin waterfall and pool. This was a beautiful area admist lots of greenery, some mosquitoes and a swaying bridge. The kids and K had a lovely swim and I had half a dip as well. C and V opted out of a dip.
We then proceeded back to Kuah town and visited langkawi parade for a egg fried rice lunch and some quick duty free shopping. We then realised that we should have done more shopping as everything was really cheap in Langkawi as it was duty free throughout the island and also due it being a port town, Kuah town was especially cheap for lots of branded items.
Back to the homestay, and after the usual confusion due to the home stay being helpfully named after the airport, we boarded our flight back to kulalmpur. This flight was cheerfully decorated with posters from Kabali but we were all too tired to care. We had a quick Veg dinner on the Air Asia flight and unusually but understandingly, there was not a peep from the tired kids.
We landed at KL and took the one hour fifteen minute journey to the PNB Perdana hotel.
We checked into the spacious rooms and despite the concern about the not perfectly clean sheets or the drops of water in the tub, we drifted off to sleep.
Day 7
This hotel turned out to be wonderful looking but badly maintained with extremely poor service. The location was brilliant as it was right in the centre of the city. Must have once been a fantastic venture which has now fallen into bad hands.
The one advantage was that we had breakfast in the hotel, so got up, had breakfast and marched out in the morning for Petronas ticket booking. Turned out that no tickets were available but made a jugad for 31st night with an associate there. Kids played by the fountain below while the dads made the arrangement for the newyear's eve visit to the towers.
We then went to Batu Caves to the wonderful murugan temple. Though the monkeys were scary the tall statue, the caves up the 272 stairs and the Ramayana caves down below made the visit worthwhile.
We then proceeded to the pavilion mall, apang mall and surya klcc all of which had phenomenal Xmas displays competing with one another. The kids had a lovely time dancing to the music and singing along to the Xmas carols.
The plan was to visit Jalon Alor for some street food but once again the smell of sea food put us off. So we quickly changed plans and moved to the mall area.
We had a lovely late lunch of Malaysian veg dishes at Simple life in one of the malls and packed some for dinner. Kids watched Indiana Jones together and were off to sleep as we carried them to their respective rooms.
Day 8
The next day saw the CM do some swimming in the hotel pool and playing in the play area both on the 9th floor. We then went shopping in the Berjaya mall which was disappointing to say the least..Dinner ordered to the room from Saravana bhavan was a further disaster. But the kids were happy monkeying around as unusual.
For the first time in her 8 years the CM had tears in her eyes at the thought of the holidays coming to an end and of her having to leave her friends R and K behind. ‘ I like getting up in the morning and getting to see them!’ She sobbed. I never thought the CM could be so emotional! A revelation for me.
I reassured her that we could keep in touch through skype but was quite surprised that the kids still bickered with each other before going to sleep. C said it was their way of coping with the impending separation.
It was all very touching and very sweet.
Day 9
On the last day we went to the Theon Hou temple, prayed in gratitude for 2017 and wished for a healthy and wise 2018. Tried shopping in the pavilion mall, had another diastorous Sara and bhavan lunch at a different place , rested a bit at the hotel and then went for the PETRONAS visit. The visit was really good and by the time we made our way back to the hotel the streets were quite raucous withe celebrations in full swing to welcome the new year.
Rushed back, the kids cut the cake as per yearly tradition to welcome the new year and the younger ones went off to sleep. The cm and both sets of parents then watched the spectacular fire works display from the French windows of the hotel floor and thus dawned the new year.
We said our good byes and good nights and left for our respective rooms.
Day 10
Due to the issues with my back and the fact that K had to go to work the next day we had booked BC tickets for the return leg. We enjoyed some quite time in the lounge and some snacks before boarding.
Though the first leg to Dubai was a tired looking 777 we still enjoyed the BC experience, stretched on our flat beds and had a lovely time. The food though was disappointing as always.
We were hoping to spend some time in the Dubai lounge as well but that was not to be. We rushed to the next flight and the A380 BC was fantastic. Everything was brand new and very comfortable. Alas, the food was no better. K said it was the vegetarian option that was the issue. The normal meals were all quite ok.
We were planning to be awake but it turned out that all three of us slept through the journey. I only managed to catch three movies ' the battle of the *exes', which was about the iconic match between Bobbie Riggs and Billie Jean King, 'Mark Felt' which was about Deep Throat and the watergate scandal and 'Goodbye Christopher Robin' which was about A.A. Milne, the author and the real Christopher Robin - Billy Moon. I loved the first and third movies but the second put me to sleep!
We were back home before we knew it and the complimentary chauffeur took us home in the cold that is so integral to this part of the world!
So dawned our 2018!
This year is critical to us in so many ways, K's business and R's 'big leap' . For me this year is about these two mentioned before , as with respect to me, if the year was the same as 2017, I should be OK.There is just one last millstone that I want to get rid off and K who has helped me get rid of the rest has promised he would help with this one as well.
2017 brought home to me very clearly, how very much K is handling and how well. He took care of my millstones, resolved 2 of them, handled R's eyesight difficulties, spent an enormous amount of time with R on Piano and Ganidh, arranged the entire trip and lots more ..all of this., on top of his daily job and the early morning extra work on the new venture that he is so very passionate about.
I have never seen you so passionate and committed about anything else in your life (except of course things that are important for R and I)
Hope 2018 makes it all worth it for you K. In my brutally honest, and despite my usual cynical, assessment I cannot but see that you really deserve it!
After a much needed restful morning, we had breakfast with mangoes from the agrotech park that V had gotten up early to visit, completed packing and went to the Durian Perangin waterfall and pool. This was a beautiful area admist lots of greenery, some mosquitoes and a swaying bridge. The kids and K had a lovely swim and I had half a dip as well. C and V opted out of a dip.
We then proceeded back to Kuah town and visited langkawi parade for a egg fried rice lunch and some quick duty free shopping. We then realised that we should have done more shopping as everything was really cheap in Langkawi as it was duty free throughout the island and also due it being a port town, Kuah town was especially cheap for lots of branded items.
Back to the homestay, and after the usual confusion due to the home stay being helpfully named after the airport, we boarded our flight back to kulalmpur. This flight was cheerfully decorated with posters from Kabali but we were all too tired to care. We had a quick Veg dinner on the Air Asia flight and unusually but understandingly, there was not a peep from the tired kids.
We landed at KL and took the one hour fifteen minute journey to the PNB Perdana hotel.
We checked into the spacious rooms and despite the concern about the not perfectly clean sheets or the drops of water in the tub, we drifted off to sleep.
Day 7
This hotel turned out to be wonderful looking but badly maintained with extremely poor service. The location was brilliant as it was right in the centre of the city. Must have once been a fantastic venture which has now fallen into bad hands.
The one advantage was that we had breakfast in the hotel, so got up, had breakfast and marched out in the morning for Petronas ticket booking. Turned out that no tickets were available but made a jugad for 31st night with an associate there. Kids played by the fountain below while the dads made the arrangement for the newyear's eve visit to the towers.
We then went to Batu Caves to the wonderful murugan temple. Though the monkeys were scary the tall statue, the caves up the 272 stairs and the Ramayana caves down below made the visit worthwhile.
We then proceeded to the pavilion mall, apang mall and surya klcc all of which had phenomenal Xmas displays competing with one another. The kids had a lovely time dancing to the music and singing along to the Xmas carols.
The plan was to visit Jalon Alor for some street food but once again the smell of sea food put us off. So we quickly changed plans and moved to the mall area.
We had a lovely late lunch of Malaysian veg dishes at Simple life in one of the malls and packed some for dinner. Kids watched Indiana Jones together and were off to sleep as we carried them to their respective rooms.
Day 8
The next day saw the CM do some swimming in the hotel pool and playing in the play area both on the 9th floor. We then went shopping in the Berjaya mall which was disappointing to say the least..Dinner ordered to the room from Saravana bhavan was a further disaster. But the kids were happy monkeying around as unusual.
For the first time in her 8 years the CM had tears in her eyes at the thought of the holidays coming to an end and of her having to leave her friends R and K behind. ‘ I like getting up in the morning and getting to see them!’ She sobbed. I never thought the CM could be so emotional! A revelation for me.
I reassured her that we could keep in touch through skype but was quite surprised that the kids still bickered with each other before going to sleep. C said it was their way of coping with the impending separation.
It was all very touching and very sweet.
Day 9
On the last day we went to the Theon Hou temple, prayed in gratitude for 2017 and wished for a healthy and wise 2018. Tried shopping in the pavilion mall, had another diastorous Sara and bhavan lunch at a different place , rested a bit at the hotel and then went for the PETRONAS visit. The visit was really good and by the time we made our way back to the hotel the streets were quite raucous withe celebrations in full swing to welcome the new year.
Rushed back, the kids cut the cake as per yearly tradition to welcome the new year and the younger ones went off to sleep. The cm and both sets of parents then watched the spectacular fire works display from the French windows of the hotel floor and thus dawned the new year.
We said our good byes and good nights and left for our respective rooms.
Day 10
Due to the issues with my back and the fact that K had to go to work the next day we had booked BC tickets for the return leg. We enjoyed some quite time in the lounge and some snacks before boarding.
Though the first leg to Dubai was a tired looking 777 we still enjoyed the BC experience, stretched on our flat beds and had a lovely time. The food though was disappointing as always.
We were hoping to spend some time in the Dubai lounge as well but that was not to be. We rushed to the next flight and the A380 BC was fantastic. Everything was brand new and very comfortable. Alas, the food was no better. K said it was the vegetarian option that was the issue. The normal meals were all quite ok.
We were planning to be awake but it turned out that all three of us slept through the journey. I only managed to catch three movies ' the battle of the *exes', which was about the iconic match between Bobbie Riggs and Billie Jean King, 'Mark Felt' which was about Deep Throat and the watergate scandal and 'Goodbye Christopher Robin' which was about A.A. Milne, the author and the real Christopher Robin - Billy Moon. I loved the first and third movies but the second put me to sleep!
We were back home before we knew it and the complimentary chauffeur took us home in the cold that is so integral to this part of the world!
So dawned our 2018!
This year is critical to us in so many ways, K's business and R's 'big leap' . For me this year is about these two mentioned before , as with respect to me, if the year was the same as 2017, I should be OK.There is just one last millstone that I want to get rid off and K who has helped me get rid of the rest has promised he would help with this one as well.
2017 brought home to me very clearly, how very much K is handling and how well. He took care of my millstones, resolved 2 of them, handled R's eyesight difficulties, spent an enormous amount of time with R on Piano and Ganidh, arranged the entire trip and lots more ..all of this., on top of his daily job and the early morning extra work on the new venture that he is so very passionate about.
I have never seen you so passionate and committed about anything else in your life (except of course things that are important for R and I)
Hope 2018 makes it all worth it for you K. In my brutally honest, and despite my usual cynical, assessment I cannot but see that you really deserve it!
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