balik kampung

why do we do it? balik kampung, i mean. it happened on second hari raya. te short answer is, to visit the other half's relatives.
the real answer is, what is hari raya if you don't balik kampung.

so here we were on the long road back to penang. but we were lucky, it was "kenderaan bergerak lancar" all the way.
funny hapenngs, - no speeding, police everywhere -in the blue and white striped tents and on the watch towers by the roadside. except that all these were dummies, huge cardboard cutouts of policemen with cameras aimed at you so you have to slow down. but hoohaha...... you got fooled.
then there were these real dummies in yellow shirts waving at you (dok gawang kat hang) and you wonder why, no signages nothing, till you found out that there's a sharp corner ahead and you had to brake fast.

butterworth was great.this house we stayed at "pantai bersih" beach. except that the beach is gone - there's a highway right on what used to be the beach!!. the house had 7 rooms. and it's up for sale for 280K only. i am thinking...

the new market was just a wal away.nasi lemak daun pisang was only 50 sen. t-shirt with weired messages only RM5. pelita nasi kandak near cathay cinema down the road was supper and breakfast. it was the old butterworth that i knew. cool,laidback and nice people. ah ,penang and now butterworth, still my favourite place. i am thinking...

going back to KL was torture. the minute we got on the highway, we were already crawling for 3 km's before juru toll. then it was before taiping and the hill up to ipoh. and on and on .6 hour-journey instead of 3- and- a- half.

was it worth it? but of course....what is raya without the balik kampung torture.