So, to start with, it was all rushing here and there. I just move into the new house and having a sort of small family gathering the night before. Could not stop worrying about travelling sans hubby and limited budget. Even I am fully equipped with CC from hubby but its not very wise to blow it out what with our recent impending shopping fiesta in Jakarta and Bandung and moving to a new house which already cost all our arms and legs.

But true enuff, Day 1 started. (May 29th, 2007). Boarded flight at 745am from KLIA and reach Brunei at 945am. Supposed to take the 1115 connecting flight to Brisbane. Imagine our shocked when we reached the transit counter, the flight has been cancelled. Damn! All 140+ of us were now stranded in Brunei airport. They put us on the next flight only the next morning at 8am. Damn again. They shifted us to Orchid Garden Hotel via coaches. Our family got an impressive 5 rooms with lunch, dinner and breakfast voucher at the hotels. So, we are now stranded tourists en route brisbane in brunei. They even provide a 1/2 day city tour commencing at 230pm.

In a true tourist spirit, we indulge in it. Had our lunch and resfresher. Walloping at the buffet lines and Efi has been an angel so far. Come 230pm, we board the bus, and started Jalan-jalan Brunei. We visited the Brunei Museum, Water Village, Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque, Jame'Asr Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque and also the Sultan Palace. Wow, the Sultan Palace-Istana Nurul Iman is very huge and its equipped with more than 1500 rooms and all gold plated stuffs even the water tap. It has 3 floors of basement car park containing more than 300 cars mostly Rolls Royce. (uikhs, tak pasal2 mcm jurucakap istana). After all the photo snapping at all these places, we went to Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Complex, the largest shopping mall in Brunei. No, shopping has been done. I am good girl! End of the day, pusing satu city lagi, and then back to the hotel, had early dinner and settle for the bed very early. Even Efi settled for the night very early.

Day 2, 30th May the moment has arrived. We wake up super duper early. Breakfast is served at 5am. The whole clan was down at 530am, complete with all luggage and my lil son also managed to get some mee goreng to alas perut. We boarded the flight on time and Efi sleep within split second for a straight 3 hours leaving me a peace of mind to nap and enjoy the in flight movie-Music and Lyrics. Not so bad. After 6 gruelling hours, we reached Brisbane airport all tired, hungry but beaming with joy around maghrib time, close to 6pm. We got thru imigration and customs with an ease even with tad bit of drama cause my sister, Ita's visa is questionable. Chait, its all due to the wrong birth date. Damn, they fixed it on the spot and we r free to go. Abang Ju and Kak Aisyah waited for us at the arrival hall and we sorted our car rental terms. Got a brand new Toyota Taranggo cum Estima with car seat for efi for all of us. Reached home and all jakun-ed coz finally we are in Oz soil.