Oh Vacation! Part 1

Dear Diary,

It has been a while since last I updated you. I've been on vacation to the North of Peninsular Malaysia with family for 5 days of fun. All tension were relieved while I was away. We've finished 4 states in 5 days, included Selangor, Perak, Kedah and Perlis. Not to forget, a country - Thailand! Just on its few steps of southern of Thailand but hey it's still on the other side of the boundary. I was thrilled!

The weather throughout the trip was soaring hot and most of the time, we were bathed in sweat. Gee~ Feels like being burnt like the beef steak! Anyways, it wasn't a barricade at all, to enjoy the scenery after scenery.

Well, it is kind of impossible to write all things that happened on the trip in just a post. I'll keep a long story short by deducting unnecessary things. :-p

Respectively in Selangor & Perak, it wasn't really a vacation. Just merely attending wedding invitations both by my mom's relatives. So, there's nothing much has happened in a wedding ceremony. Hehe, a wedding ceremony is just a plain wedding ceremony like usual. We just went to both ceremonies in one day, both differently situated in 2 different states. But I adored the one in Selangor better because it was so beautiful!

The bridal dais (Selangor).

The one in Perak has had no bridal dais simply because it was on the bridegroom side so probably they just did some simple ceremony. In the Malay culture, normally wedding ceremony will be held majestically on the bride side of family whilst the bridegroom's ceremony was simply a celebration to welcome the daughter-in-law into the family. The emblems of the marriage is done on what is called 'akad nikah' whereby it is when the guy is wedded to the girl by religious oaths on the bride ceremony. Just the same, I think, to Christian's oath in the altar of a church by saying "I do, you do" stuffs like that. Hehe.

This was when on the second wedding in Perak. Spent likely another 1 hour and a half on the highway to reach there. Oh yes you're right, my siblings and I just dozed off along the way. It seemed that's the only best thing to do, after all.

Upon the arrival at that particular relative's house, the ceremony had already been done. The cake has already been eaten. And the people were all gone. What's left - just members of the family who were busy cleaning and sleeping the evening off. Gladly enough, we made it there and our arrival was kindly treated with little evening meal with some wedding cake. Hehe! But we were pretty full actually. What is important (to my mother), that we've showed up!

After a while staying shortly for 1 hour there, we headed on our journey to Sungai Petani, Kedah - to my uncle's house. Oh yeah, we love staying there if going to the North because he is indeed a nice uncle - a brother to my dad, actually. On the way, I had snapshots of the scenery taken along the highway...







Reaching Sungai Petani in relatively 3 1/2 hours later, we had firstly stopped by Jam Besar in SP where there are mirage of food stalls there for a simple dinner before heading to our uncle's house. At night, we all were just the dead meat.

Actually Diary, along the way, I only daydreamed of dousing myself into a cold clear river water because of the heat. Even the vehicle's air-conditioner was no match of it! Oh coldness! Oh breeze! :-p

End of day one.