Together We Share Our View: Fireworks at Putrajaya!

24 August 2008

It was raining in the afternoon..I couldn't bear the thought that i might not be able to go to the fireworks after all. Sometimes things do not go according to plan..that's life. If only we were able to predict the future and change the past..then maybe things wouldn't be as hard. Then i would've selected another beautiful day to witness the fireworks- This is what i would've said if i had missed the fireworks..which i did not! =p
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Things started really great actually.I reached KL sentral at 6.00pm about 30 minutes ahead of the time i was suppose to meet up with fong and bin..Fong and Bin reached at 6.50 in the end..=.=..but then we were early so it was okay and we managed to catch the KLIA transit at 7. The KLIA transit travels from KL sentral to KLIA and there was a stop at Putrajaya. The funny thing is when we were travelling from KL sentral to KLIA. The train actually has a stop at Bandar Tasik Selatan..which was where Bin parked his car and took the KTM at Bandar Tasik Selatan to move to KL sentral..HA HA..>.<

Then things started getting worse. The shuttle bus stopped in the middle of nowhere and we have to walk like 1km or more to reach the PICC. Apparently, that area was a no entry for buses. Okay, good reason..so i guess we could walk so we happily skipped/hopped/laughed our way to the PICC. About a quarter way through, 2 policemen stopped us from going further cuz they said it was too dangerous as we have to go through the danger area(where the fireworks were released) and that we can only go through if there's a car. That's when I became irritated and pissed off. They suggested that we take a taxi to go inside. Obviously, i refused.

Then i just had to say it..'The government told us to take the public transport to avoid jam while coming to putrajaya, now we take the public transport you don't let us in..what the hell?' The policemen just looked and said 'i don't know'. I swear i wouldn't take a taxi and i want them to fetch us in with their patrol car man. They even suggested that we watch the fireworks from outside..which i just have to say..'if we want to watch the fireworks, we can watch it from there..there..there..pointing at several parts of putrajaya..i don't need to walk so freaking long'. and i just had to say that we don't come as far as sungai buloh just to watch fireworks without music. After thinking for sometime, we complained to another police officer and said the same thing. She said we could enter but the other said cannot.. so they had to call their pegawai. I gotta tell you that in a period of 15 minutes, 3 policeman on 3 different cool designs of police motorcycles came and discussed. After sometime i was already impatient and kept on asking 'macam mana' and she told me to be patient and be a Malaysian.>.<. She's lucky I was a Malaysian and not a tourist..what a bad image it may bring to Malaysia on top of all the bad images it already had. After 20 minutes..finally the pegawai ordered the police to allow us to go in.

It was a freaking far distance still..but at least we can walk in. We finally reached PICC around 8.30 i think..Then we ate chicken rice! (thanks to fong for buying for us) inside PICC. we bumped around until 9.30 then we went to a small hill to watch the fireworks.

The fireworks started at 10 btw..but time passed really fast when the fireworks started.
BOOM! It was SPECTACULAR! I was WOWing and AHHing and WOOing and WAHing for the entire 20 minutes of the time. It was by team Canada this time around and i think they did a splendid job. I believed it was worth the wait..c'mon man..million dollars worth of fireworks for free? Of course it's worth the wait and trouble...=D

After that..we had to wait for about 30 minutes so that the crew can clean up the road before we had to walk ALL THE WAY back to the bus stop..(where we were dropped). I had blisters on both my feet after walking for sooo freaking long =( It's my fault for wearing slippers anyways..i didn't know i was gonna walk such a long distance..=.= After we entered the bus..we got on the KLIA transit to go back to KL sentral. The End. It was a fun and memorable trip. and i think i'll definitely be going there again next year if i have the time..=) We managed to fit in some pics on the way back to the bus.