I woke up early. It's sunday market in Gaya Street. A famous street in KK where the whole street is closed starting at 6:00 am until 1:00 pm for the locals to sell their products. Anything around the sun, from fruits to jewelries to even pets.
Gaya street is a stone throw away from Borneo Backpackers.
I took a bath and went to Gaya street to check things there. Just like here in the Philippines, example in my hometown, sunday market is a popular thing. I saw different things sold such as Jewelries, T-shirts, juices, dogs, cats, fruits, gongs and anything (this is exaggeration! LOL). After taking some snapshots, I went back to the hostel because it's quite hot.
(I also bought a local simcard (DIGI) which cost me RM15 which is preloaded with RM5, I subscribed to this text promo which is 100 texts for RM1. So maybe, that's quite enough! I need to text Carmela, my schoolmate and an orgmate from UPV Mountaineers, which I didn't mention, was already in Malaysia having her backpacking adventures already that time =D).
So when I arrived back at the hostel, I texted carmela informing her that I already arrived in KK and I asked her how can we meet etc. So she replied that she's going to the island Labuan, Malaysia, where we could possibly meet. So I checked the internet, and it's a 3 hour ferry ride from KK. I checked the time schedule for the ferry and a site posted that it's 3 pm. So by that time, Carmela will be in Labuan because she's in Brunei while texting me. I packed my things and I planned to stay in Labuan for two nights. After packing, Sergio woke up and I asked what is his plan for that day. He told me, he'll meet a friend which he contacted through couch surfing. Since my ferry schedule is 3pm, i asked him if I could go with him because they plan to tour the city. Sergio said that It 's okay to go with them..
At 10 am, his friends arrived in the hostel and there were four of them - 2 Malaysian girls (Jackie and Angel), malaysian guy (Aaron) and the Australian guy (Chris). After some brief get-to-know moments, the group decided to eat breakfast at a nearby eatery.
So Jackie asked me,
Jackie: Rj, in the Philippines, what do you usually eat for breakfast?
Me: uhmm.. We have rice, egg, etc..
Jackie: Ooh! I love Philippine breakfast! You have this.. mmm... Tapsilog with rice!!! I love it!
Me: haha
After breakfast, we checked things in the sunday market and have some juice coz it's very hot.
After quite some time, the group decided to go to the floating Mosque, as Sergio was saying.
We went to this "hotel" and proceeded to the car park where Jackie's car was of course parked!
I forgot to mention that in KK, most people have cars, and funny thing is I barely see pedestrian lanes and everytime I crossed the street, it's a a life and death experience. LOL.
So, in Jackie's car, we fitted ourselves, 4 of us at the back! and while on our way, Chris asked if "how would you know that a boy turns into a man?"
Conversations went like this:
Chris: how would you know that a boy turns into a man?
? : Is there such thing as that?
?: Well, maybe, if a boy had sex with a woman!
Us: hahahaha
Chris: In the Philippines, how would you know that a boy turns into a man?
Me: In the Philippines we have this circumcision so maybe that's it!
Jackie or Angel: So all Filipino boys are circumcised?
Me: Yes! (smiles!)
?: You like circumcised men right?
Everyone laughed!!!
So after a few minutes, we arrived at the floating mosque!
The group decided to go inside but we have hesitations because our outfits are not that suitable for the situation!
Aaron, Jackie and me decided to stay outside while Chris, Sergio and angel went inside.
While waiting for them, Aaron and Jackie shared some stories of their experiences in the Philippines.
Jackie: In Boracay, I've experienced the best massage of my life. I took off my shirt and while the masseur is doing it's the thing, the breeze of boracay feels so good!
Aaron: When we went in Baguio, I wondered why there's no aircon in our room and there's just an opening at the top part of the room and later that night I realized that it's very cold!
Jackie: You know, I ate pork in the Philippines and I love it! you know the lechon! (She told me this whispering because we're talking in the vicinity of the mosque) =))
After some time, Angel and the guys came back and we decided to go, they know that i'm leaving for Labuan at 3PM.
So while inside the car, Sergio shared what he experienced in the Philippines.
Sergio: You know, in the Philippines. They have this Balut. It's made of duck's embryo and they said if you eat it, You'll have the best erection of your life! And you need to eat three pieces of that.
Everyone laughed.
Me: So did you eat 3 pieces.
Sergio: No! I just ate a little! It's so gross!!!
Everyone laughed again!
Jackie asked me if it's not that too early for them to dropped me in Jesselton ( The name of the port), I said it's okay with me if we need to go somewhere else. It's 1 PM.
The group decided to have some snacks. Bought a pizza which we instructed the waitress to cut into slices enough for the six of us.
After some few minutes, they decided to take me to Jesselton to catch my ferry. It's 2:45 PM.
After arriving at Jesselton, I asked for the ferry ride to Labuan on the information counter and learned that the last trip was at 1pm that day.
Okay, so I decided to go back to the hostel to spend the night and catch the ferry ride by 830 AM the next day.
Day 3 ends.
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