Din loaned his MPV for the trip Thursday - Saturday for Haffizi's wedding at Kulim. Dek Mah and Ati came with us, in fact it was Ati and Alip who brought the MPV from Bahau. Alip said the van had been recently serviced and when I checked the oil at Kulim, sure enough, it's new and clear.
This was my first Kulim trip. I've driven to Kedah scores of times but haven't been to Kulim. It took us 5 hours from Seremban, taking the highway exit Kulim-Lunas straight into the town. It's like any Malaysian town - there're the new and the old, except driving through Kedah we passed the wide padi lands, something missing before.
With the akad and the reception, we spent three days and two nights there. Nosa gave us a home-stay accomodation, a fairly large three-room brick house about 600 meters from the surau, the nikah venue. We had plenty of time to practise our Kedah dialect - "awat kalut !"
There're plenty of eating places and the fares are cheap, but my God, the flies are really bad. I think it's the wet surroundings or something. We moved a few times to find eating places with more manageable fly situation. Even the bride's house was terribly infested. It's a wonder nobody got sick.
I'm glad we made the trip. Nosa and Acik would have been disappointed, otherwise. In fact there were about 20 of us who made it from the Pilah group. Not too bad.
The return reception in Kuala Pilah is on Christmas Day. Wonder how many of them would make it.
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1 comment:
The school holidays the period equated to weddings is still with us. More often than not a few on just one weekend. That would mean going to a few on the same day just for presence. But to travel a long distance is an exception and quite a thrill. Nicely!
Hank
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