LIMA 2011 Travel Log - Day 1

Salam all,

today i want to share what i have done in langkawi especially on my travel for today.

Today, me, and my friends, theree of us, have traveled from USM to Kuala Perlis by chartered taxi from parit buntar. It costed us RM190 for almost 2.5 hours trip. The driver is a malay man called pak osman. He arrived at USM aerospace on 8 am. and we started our journey at 8.15 am and arrived at Kuala Perlis Jetty at 10.45 am.

After we have arrived to Kuala Perlis Jetty port, we went to Ferry Ventures, a company that sell ferry ticket. We have boarded the earliest ticket time that is on 10.45 am. The ferry travel from Kuala Perlis Jetty to Langkawi takes about 1 hour.

So we have arrived at Langkawi Jetty at 11.45 am. After that, we continue our task to reobtain our van at Tanjung Lembung, the place where cargo ferry dock. So, as planned, we have taked a taxi, that cost us about RM16 for one way, of course this is for LIMA rate. The location is not faraway, around 10 minutes from Kuala Perlis Jetty.

So along the way, we chit chat with the taxi driver about Langkawi. One of the points that we have discussed is about buying an import car in Langkawi. Everyone knows it right, a duty free tax for those who bought car from langkawi. But the car have to be stay at Langkawi for several years, then the tax is reduced along the time if the owner wants to bring it to the peninsular Malaysia. So the point is, how about a used car, how will it be? the taxi driver explained to us that for used car, a 2-3 years car is usually in good condition and for buyers, they should look for this car. And they can bring the car to peninsular, with a low tax applied to the car, as the tax is refered to the date of the car when its first time bought by the first owner. Wow, that so great, in my mind, a toyota wish, with a 6-7 years of age is still in good condition with a high deduction of tax for those years, will have a big less for such car.

So we arrived at Tanjung Lembong, Langkawi Marin Department. After we check with Wantas Shipping the availability of our car, we take our van keys and signed some Custom form, the we take pass from the post guard. And then, we meet with a women officer that control the gate to have a permission to take our van. Acces granted, so we take our van, and then, went to a weighing station to weight our van. After that, we drove out of the department after we take our passes from the post guard.

Then, we drove to MRSM Langkawi, the place where we will stay for the whole week. After check in to our apartment, and have some rest and solat, we went to have a lunch. After that we went to Mahsuri International Exhibtion Centre (MIEC) that is beside the airport.

We have registered our exhibition to registration counter. We obtain our individual passes and van passes. AlhamduLILLAH no problem with this procedure. After we unloaded our exhibtion things, me and saiful prepare the exhibition while hasfizan went to jetty port to fetch our VIP delegates. AlhamduLILLAH the places is not so far away.

After we have finished our exhibition preparations on 630 pm, 7 of us now, went back to MRSM Langkawi and will stay here for our first night in Langkawi.

 p/s: miss you both Zakiah and Naqib. take care...

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