Friday, March 2, 2012

Third Stop - Hungary, Pest (Day 1)


So... we spend the night in the bus...
Save 1 night hostel money leh.. Clever? XD
Yea. to mention the bus, it was Orangeway...
It was very not comfortable..seats small and very cold. =.=
But whatever, I just want to reach the next destination..
Yea, our dear Kean Li ko didn't follow us with the same bus this time. Due to some technical problem in his permission before we come to this trip..
That time he bail from this trip.. and we canceled his portion.
But now he's back.. and we will have to buy another bus for him..

And yupe.. we reached.. Hungary, Budapest.
Basically this place is divided into 2 place.. Buda and Pest.
It's the place I am responsible for... I am so worried that what I had prepare doesn't suits them. >.<

Well, It was still early morning..
1st thing have to find our hostel...  searched for subway to reach our hostel area..
The subway station was at underground... during early morning it was freaking cold..
COLD until i can shiver.. ~.~

Bought our ticket and take a train to a place called Astoria City..
The hostel was very hard to find...
It is in a flat.. called Astoria Hostel. haha..
The hostel was small.. the hostel manager was very nice person..
He provided me a lot of information about this country..
And even gave us the whole room for 6 person...well, we are 6 person.. and its better to fit everyone in the same room..

So, we rest and waited for Kean Li ko to reach as his bus was a few hours later than us.
I didn't rest... trying to prepare for the place to visit this afternoon and evening..
The breakfast prepare by the hostel was free... I eat like I was hungry for many days. Its been awhile I didn't eat such nice breakfast already.. some more it's free. LOL.
I even called my Malaysia friends back.
One of them were at class when I called. hahaha.

Early in the morning I prepare the places to go for my group. Map of Hungary. Buda and Pest.

After a few hours... its already afternoon..
The girls decide to go have a walk in the walking streets..
Wille ko and me went to the train station to pick Kean Li ko up...
Yea, after that we went to the old walking streets and the market too..
It was kinda boring.. I don't know why. haha..
We reach the new walking streets after a while which is more modern that the old 1.
With a lot of brand shops and once again we saw HardRock...
There Wille ko goes.. A pin head. hahahah.
When we decided to go back... something happened..... 

The New Walking Streets.
Bijou. Reason I took this picture because one of my form 6 friend is called Bijou. And we have 1 Bijou shop in Russia too. I tagged her in this picture when I upload in Facebook.
Vaci Kapu
We were approach by two girls... calling themselves as tourist...asking for direction to a certain bar..
They asked us if we had any map... I had one. I mean I was all the way holding it...
And yea, we found the bar..
Then they asked us if we want to join them..
1st thing that across my mind... Drink? No thanks.. I said no thanks of cause..
I had quit drinking for some year already.. And I promise myself not to drink anymore..
So I didn't...
Wille ko.. he said no at first, but he couldn't really make up his mind..
But for Kean Li ko.. He said yes like immediately... I was like... what? =.=
Oh.. so I couldn't abandon him and Wille ko and go back. But I was WRONG. REALLY WRONG. I should instead stop Kean Li ko from proceeding.
The great mistake I made.. It's dangerous. We would had just been drug by them.. This is what most of people think.. but it is not what really happens...
So, we went to the bar, it was kinda near..
Took a life up and there the bar is... Something came across my mind...
I was like its so near... how come they couldn't find it??
Then I started to think.. something's really fishy around here.. I increase my alert for every seconds in case anything happen to us.. I can do something.

Well, Kean Li ko and two of the girls they order a vodka and wine..
Me and Wille ko only ordered Coke..
We decided not to drink any alcohol..
After some chat, we decided to pay..
That's the time I feel the problem really had come out...
Both of the girls don't even have the intention to pay the bill.. they expected us to pay..
We were quite half stunned that time don't know what to do... Then the waiter keep on rushing us to pay and so we DID...
The bill was expensive.. like a lot. a coke can cost me RM50.. that's bullshit..
But still I paid... I don't want any trouble.. Then I knew we were scammed..
I try to stay as calm as I can.. This time I couldn't do any more mistake..
Since Kean Li ko he was the one who said YES.. he paid for both of the girls.. and the girls said that they will return when we walk them to their hostel... I was like.. LOL? Of cause it was a lie..

After we come out from the bar and keep asking them about paying us back the money..
They started to show their "fox tail" ... and said it is very normal in Europe countries that guys buy drinks for girls.. and they asked us to stop following them..
Kean Li ko cashed them like 9 streets.. even when the girls took a taxi.. he run to chase it...
I keep on yelling at Kean Li ko asking him to stop.. worrying about his safety...
And yea finally he did stop..

So, we had our final conclusion.. WE WERE SCAMMED..
I feel very responsible that as a senior to Kean Li ko, I didn't stop him from the start.. Wille ko feel very disappointed to himself too.. he was the eldest amoung us..
Damn, those girls that used our kind heart and trick us.. Until Hungary.. all the Europeans and the tourist we meet are all very kind and nice.. we were off alert...
Why we still go after we feel there is problem? Well, we don't really have the time to think like really clear what we should do that time.. we weren't countered by this situation before.. It was 1st time..
Urgh.. it's hard to explain...

Wille ko and me took out some money and gave to Kean Li ko.. he paid a lot back there.. and he have not much money left for 2 days more in Hungary...
That day was very sad... not much picture taken as well..
We promise each other that this incident shall not reach another person's ear..
When we went back to the hostel.. we pretended that nothing happen.. just a normal day..
That night, I searched for the internet...and I found out some articles about scam in Hungary..
Yea, the same girl, same bar, same technique..
I was trolled..
But I thank god that, what we lose is only money but not our lives...

That day, without out-mood I slept early.
It was the greatest and shameful mistake I ever done. Fully disappoint with myself, no matter how much I was alert I still couldn't prevent bad things from happening.. But then it is a great lesson for me. A valuable lesson indeed.

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