On the 6th of August 2010, after the class finished at 11.30 a.m., the whole class gradually met up at the shuttle bus area near the Student Life Centre. The plan was for all the groups to take the shuttle bus together and take the KTM at Setia Jaya to go to KL Sentral to catch the Genting bus although because we missed the Taylors bus, we decided to take the taxi to Setia Jaya Station instead. Unfortunately for our group, there were no taxis available at that time and time was running out very quickly, so we decided to take our group members car to reach the LRT Kelana Jaya Station which was faster than the KTM. We reached the station at around 12.35 p.m which gave us 25 minutes to reach the Genting bus at KL Sentral that departs at 1 p.m. We asked our other classmates that reached there first to hold the bus just a few minutes but unfortunately again, we missed the bus by just a few seconds.
So, we went to the Genting Bus ticket counter at KL Sentral to buy tickets to board the next bus but the next bus was too late in the afternoon which was at around 5 p.m. Fortunately, the woman at the counter said that there was an earlier bus departing at 3.30p.m. at the Gombak Station. We decided to take that bus instead because it was the earliest. To reach Gombak Station, we took the LRT again. This meant that we travelled from the last station at Kelana Jaya until the first station in Gombak, travelling the entire Kelana Jaya Line.
Upon reachning the Gombak Station, we had around 90 minutes before the bus departs, so we killed time by eating, reading the newspaper, chit-chatting and praying at the surau in the station. When we were ready to board, we had difficulty putting our bags in the compartments outside the bus. Unfortunately, the bus conductor did not want to help us and instead just gave some bad instructions. After many attemps, we did manage to open the compartment door and place our bags in there. During our journey to Genting, the bus suddenly broke down and we were forced to wait for another bus to take us. When we were reaching the peak, Afu was suddenly breathless and was like fainting because of the high altitude. She probably has not acclimatised yet and she was gasping for air. We reached Genting at around 4.30 p.m. and after reaching the bus stop, Shamma accompanied Afu to the rest room for a while and a few moments later they came out and Afu was feeling better and had acclimatised to the high altitude.
When we arrived at our apartments, we found that the other groups were geting ready to explore the shopping mall. Some of us were too tired and didn't join but Zaid wasn't bothered about the fatigue and joined the others.
At the shopping mall, some went to the karaoke while Nadh, Nabila, Zaid and Nadeeya just walked around and had dinner. By the way, the simple dinner we had cost us an average of RM17 per plate! After we all went back to the apartments, we had a shower and relaxed a bit. After that we just hung around in the apartments and watched movies and videos. While some of us also made a group study on accountings to make us of the time.
The next day we had a late breakfast and started to get ready to go back home at around 12 p.m. The original plan was to go to the theme park first but because many change their minds, we all just went back together. First we took the skyway cable car to the bus station below. The view was amazing and the mist was very thick sometimes. It was the most enjoyable public transport in our assignment which erased our bad memories the previous day.
From the bus station, we all took a bus to the Gombak LRT Station and arrived there at around 3 p.m. From there we went our seperate ways. Some took the LRT to KL Sentral to get on the KTM while others took the taxi. Overall, it was an interesting and unique learning experience that was enjoyable for us. And the experience and knowledge gained will surely be very useful to us for our studies in the future and while working later on.
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