Anyway, the plan didn't go pretty smooth cause on the night where Kak Nor was supposed to cook the gulai, the whole area including my mom's house and Kak nor's were in total blackout. There was no electricity since 7pm until passed mid nite. All of us stayed up in black darkness and unbearable heat the whole nite. My kids and I spent most of the nite outside the house cause it was too hot stay inside and moreover there was a lamp light from a neaby TNB pole. Hafiz claimed this was their first experience staying in the longest blackout ever. It was their first experience ever that they took bath outside in the open air at night using the tap water for the garden. It was a kind of fun and funny though, that Hafiz and Hakim bathed in naked while Dania and Madia wore underware; and they took shower in the shade behind my mom's house trees. Unlike the other days, i took them out for dinner at nearby warung. Dania and Madiha were in desperately sleepy during the meal. Poor them..
Kak Nor woke up at 5am on the day that we suppose to have the trip and started cooking the food for everybody. I really appreciate her effort. That day, i woke up my children very early cause i promise Kak Nor that we should start moving at half past seven. Anyway, after having so much difficulties in waking up the kids especially Hakim, the heavy sleeper, and make them took bathe and packed up things for the trip i could only manage to arrive at Kak Nor's at 8:30am. She was already ready to go.
The journey to Jeram Linang took close to an hour; thank god there was no traffic jam at all on the road heading to Pasir Puteh. I guessed people were still lazing off on bed despite it was already half past 9 in the morning. On the way, we stopped by at the last Petronas gas station and bought last minutes necessities such as whole lot of bread and tonnes of mineral waters. We only able to arrive at Jeram Linang around 10 am. Honestly speaking on my personal view of Hutan Lipur Jeram Linang, it was not that amusing. The place was slightly in bad condition with sakit-mata-memandang sight of rubbish everywhere. Well in short it was a bit dirty for such an attracting waterfall spot for domestic tourist. I guess this would my first visit after 20 years ago and my last visit. It was quite obvious that the local authority didn't take good care of the place. In terms of the public utilities, they were quite okay; there are range of stalls welcoming the guests at the entrance, public paid toilets, untidy play ground for kids and some building structure and campsite area for those who wish to camp here. In addition, there was some locals selling air toy-like buoy for kids roughly at below RM15 and renting tyre tubes at a cost of RM3.
Anyway, besides the place that could not meet my expectation especially the hygiene aspect all the kids were having fun playing with water. the actual waterfall is a bit far uphill, one needs to climb the cement-stairs heading to the top and most of the visitors never did. The rest of the visitors spent time at the bottom of the waterfall where the local authority built some obstacle-step-like structure to slow down the water flow so that small kids can play water safely.
Well, I'm glad that i managed to bring Hafiz, Hakim, Dania and Madiha for a trip to Jeram Linang. I hope this could be one of the most memorable experience spending time with their abah. Love you all.
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