Filem Harry Potter Dijangka Meletup

NEW YORK - Filem keenam siri ahli sihir remaja,Harry Potter yang mula ditayangkan esok dijangka 'meletup' di pawagam dan akan mendapat sambutan hangat daripada peminat seluruh dunia.

Namun, pengarah siri ketujuh dan terakhir filem Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince itu, David Yates menjanjikan penutup Harry Potterakan jauh lebih hebat.

"Filem penutup itu tak ubah seperti sebuah epik. Ia menampilkan lebih banyak adegan menarik. Ia penuh dengan adegan pertempuran, naga dan peperangan," katanya.

Antara pelakon filem itu ialah Daniel Radcliffe, Ema Watson, Rupert Grint, James Phelps dan Oliver Phelps.

Di Amerika Syarikat (AS), filem Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince menerima kritikan positif manakala beratus-ratus panggung wayang di AS mencatat tempahan penuh bagi tayangan pembukaan filem tersebut.

Filem yang mengadunkan babak percintaan, magis dan komedi di sekolah ahli sihir Hogwarts itu diadaptasi daripada tujuh buah novel oleh penulis Britain, J.K. Rowling.

Sehingga kini, ketujuh-tujuh novel Harry Potter sudah dijual melebihi 400 juta salinan manakala francais filem itu meraih pendapatan AS$4.5 bilion (RM16.2 bilion) di seluruh dunia untuk studio perfileman Warner Bros yang dimiliki kumpulan Time Warner. - Reuters

Filem Harry Potter akan mula ditayangkan di seluruh dunia mulai tarikh berikut:

Selamat pulang dan selamat belajar kembali

Hari ini 14 Julai 2009, 2 lagi warga Malaysia yang duduk di Kampung Wedding ni secara rasminya pulang ke tanahair tercinta. Kami dijemput ke upacara bacaan doa selamat dan perpisahan pada hari Ahad lalu. Banyak makanan yang dihidangkan dimasak oleh Chef Naseer antaranya nasi 4 jenis, ayam bakar, singgang ikan, telur rebus masak cili, telur dadar, ulam-ulaman (dah 10 bulan nilah baru merasa pegaga), buah-buahan, roti dan kek.... Pendek kata Chef masak macam lepas ni dia malas dah nak memasak untuk kami....Almaklum kedua-dua teman serumahnya sudah pulang dan dia terpaksa berpindah rumah...

Inilah dia 2 orang pelajar (Suhaimi dan Reduan) dari UTP yang sudah menamatkan praktikal di Berlin. Jauhnya UTP hantar praktikum sampai ke Berlin selama 8 bulan. Jadi tentulah anak-anak muda ini bukan calang-calang orang. Dengarnya si Suhaimi ni dapat 4 flat semasa Matrik dan Reduan 9A semasa SPM. Jadi kita boleh bayangkanlah keputusan peperiksaan mereka hingga UTP sanggup hantar mereka ke Berlin untuk praktikum sahaja.

Bagaimana kami semua boleh terjumpa budak-budak 2 orang ini? Kelakar kerana kisahnya tragis juga. Hendak jadi rezeki, pada pagi hari pertama mereka tiba di bumi Berlin, mereka telah terjumpa dengan Emy dan Naz yang bersarapan pagi. Terdengar perbualan suami isteri itu di dalam bahasa Malaysia maka mereka berdua membuat tindakan drastik dengan mengekori pasangan berdua itu dari belakang. Bila dah sah rang Malaysia, barulah mereka berani menegur. Ya, di Berlin ini memang susah hendak mencari warga Malaysia dan kalau terjumpa nasib anda memang bertuah. Bila dah kenal rupanya budak-budak ni kenalah diragging juga....kerana kebetulan sesi pindah rumah kami telahpun bermula. Jetlag tak habis, kenalah mengangkat sofa pulak...

Kini setelah 8 bulan, mereka harus pulang untuk menyambung setahun lagi pengajian di UTP. Semoga pengalaman yang ditimba di sini dapat digunakan dalam pengajian mereka. Selain praktikum, budak-budak ni sudah berjalan sakan ni....keliling Europe. Jadi pulangnya ke Malaysia akan mengubat rindu ibubapa nampaknya.... Selamat kembali ke Malaysia dan selamat belajar....

sempat lagi berposing bersama Kak Aminah...

Learn more words with Harrypedia

Animagus: A witch or wizard that can change into animal form. All Animagus legally need to register with the Ministry of Magic, though it appears they often don’t.

Azkaban: A fearsome wizarding prison, run by Dementors.

Basilisk: A gigantic snake that lives in the Chamber of Secrets, it kills instantly if eye contact is made with any other living creature.

Sirius Black (also Padfoot): The most infamous prisoner ever to be held at Azkaban, the wizards' prison. He was accused of murdering 13 people with a single curse, and his exact location is not currently known. Handsome and reckless, he was best friend to James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Petigrew. He is an Animagus who takes the form of a large black dog. Sirius Black is Harry’s godfather and cousin of Nymphadora Tonks, Bellatix Lastrange and Narcissa Malfoy.

Chamber of Secrets: A hidden chamber within Hogwarts, built over a thousand years ago by Salazar Slytherin, one of the school's four founders. According to legend, only Slytherin's true heir can ever open the Chamber, unleashing a horrible monster that supposedly lives inside it.

The Daily Prophet: The wizards' newspaper. Hermione is an avid subscriber.

Death Eaters: What Voldemort’s closest followers call themselves.

Dementor: Dark, cloaked, faceless creatures who are the guards of Azkaban. Dementors suck all of the joy and light out of a person, and a kiss from one of them will relieve someone of his or her soul.

Dobby: A house-elf whose former owners are the Malfoys and an adoring fan of Harry’s. Dobby was freed unintentionally by Lucius Malfoy due to some quick thinking on Harry’s part. Though Dobby’s help is oftentimes ineffective or downright dangerous, he has proven a reliable source of information for Harry and his friends.

Professor Albus Dumbledore: The headmaster of Hogwarts through Harry’s sixth year. Elderly, wise, kind and one of the greatest wizards of all time, Dumbledore is one of the few men who Voldemort ever feared. He has a keen sense of humor and a love of lemon drops.

Gillyweed: A magical plant that, when eaten, gives a person gills like a fish, allowing her or him to breathe underwater.

Goblet of Fire: A large wooden cup that is filled to the brim with dancing blue flames. It magically selects the contestants for the Triwizard Tournament, and also serves a darker purpose.

Hermione Granger: The brilliant, over-opinionated, bushy-haired, fiercely loyal, kind-hearted, liberal-minded best friend of Harry and secret heart’s desire of…

Gryffindor: One of four student houses at Hogwarts, it is named for Godric Gryffindor, one of Hogwarts's four founders, who was known for his bravery.

Half-Blood: Describes a person with mixed wizarding and Muggle ancestry.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: The place where Harry and his friends learn it all – both in the classroom and out!

The Knight Bus: A magical bus that serves as emergency transport for stranded witches and wizards. It is not the most reliable or safest mode of transportation.

Draco Malfoy: A Slytherin student who has been Harry’s enemy since the day they both started at Hogwarts. Draco Malfoy is handsome, pompous, mean-spirited and comes from a pure-blood family. His father Lucius is a Death Eater and his mother, Narcissa, is Sirius Black’s cousin.

Ministry of Magic: The council that governs the wizarding world and whose primary concern is to keep wizards and witches a secret from Muggles.

Muggle: A non-magic person.

Peter Petigrew (Wormtail): A shy, timid member of the Marauders who hero-worshipped James Potter and Sirius Black. He is an Animagus who takes the shape of a rat and is, in fact, one of Voldemort’s most loyal subjects.

Platform 9 3/4: The magical platform at King's Cross Station in London where Hogwarts students board the Hogwarts Express.

Quidditch: A wizard sport played up in the air on broomsticks, in teams of seven.

Professor Severus Snape: A frustratingly inconsistent Hogwarts Professor, first of Potions, then of his coveted Defense Against the Dark Arts. A former Death Eater who, according to Albus Dumbledore, is reformed, Professor Severus Snape saves Harry and his friends’ necks more than once, but is often cruel, taunting and downright mean to just about anyone associated with Harry. He holds a long-standing grudge against The Mauraders.
Sorcerer's Stone: A small, ruby-red stone that can change metal into gold and produces the Elixir of Life, which makes the drinker immortal.

Squib: Someone who has no magical powers even though he or she was born into a wizarding family.

Triwizard Tournament: A dangerous, year-long magical tournament between three European wizarding schools: Hogwarts, Beaux-Batons and Durmstrang. One student from each school is chosen to compete, their names selected by the ancient Goblet of Fire. The Tournament is held for the first time in 700 years during Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts.

Voldemort (see also, Tom Marvolo Riddle): The most powerful dark wizard of modern times who is also referred to as “You-Know-Who” and “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” because, as Hermione points out, “fear of a name incites fear of the thing itself.”

Ron Weasley: Harry’s tall, red-haired best mate who is loyal, brave, good-hearted and often thoughtless. He carries a bit of a torch for he and Harry’s shared bushy-haired best friend…

Source: kidsreads.com

10 Facts about The New Harry Potter Movie

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince release date was moved from November 21, 2008 to July of 2009.

2. Dame Maggie Smith (Professor Minerva McGonagall) completed filming this film while she was undergoing radio-therapy as treatment for breast cancer.

3. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin who plays Tom Riddle, 11, is the real life nephew of Ralph Fiennes who plays Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle.  Yates insisted Fiennes-Tiffin did not get the role simply because of his uncle, but did admit the resemblance was "a clincher".

4. Sir Michael Gambon, ( Dumbledore) became a father last month at 68 years of age.

5. Quidditch at Hogwarts is back in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince after being absent from the last two films.

6. Robert Knox, (Marcus Belby), was tragically stabbed to death soon after filming was finished. Some of the cast sported a white ribbon at the premier in his memory.

7. Jessie Cave, (Lavender Brown) beat more than 7,000 girls to win her first major film role.

8. After reading the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince script,Rowlings noticed a line where Dumbledore mentioned a girl that he had a crush on when younger. She then released the fact (to the filmmakers and the public) that Dumbledore was gay.

9. Naomi Watts was first cast to play Narcissa Malfoy but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.

10. Fifteen cast members have appeared in all of the Harry Potter films:
            1. Daniel Radcliffe(Harry Potter)
            2. Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)
            3. Emma Watson (Hermione Granger)
            4. Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid)
            5. Maggie Smitth, (McGonagall)
            6. Devon Murray (Seamus)
            7. Matthew Lewis (Neville)
            8. Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy)
            9. Oliver Phelps (George Weasley)
            10. Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley)
            11. James Phelps (Fred Weasley)
            12. Alfred Enoch (Dean Thomas)
            13. Jamie Waylett (Crabbe)
            14. Joshua Herdman (Goyle)
            15. Alan Rickman (Snape)

Source: examiner.com

Want more Harry Potter Facts? Check the link below:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2005/11/14/50-hottest-harry-facts-115875-16367955/

Marwa Sherbini : Terrorism has no religion

Berita tentang pembunuhan kejam Marwa Sherbini tersebar di internet dan di CNN. Tunjuk perasaan mengutuk pembunuhan kejam Marwa diadakan di Jerman mahupun di Mesir.

Cuba anda bayangkan bagaimana di suatu petang anda sedang bermain dengan anak anda di taman permainan dan tiba-tiba anda dimaki hamun hanya kerana anda seorang wanita Muslim yang bertudung. Anda Muslim dan kerana Muslim anda adalah pengganas! Bodoh! Sungguh memalukan bagi sebuah negara maju di Eropah kerana mempunyai seorang warganegara yang berotak sempit.

Marwa menyaman lelaki Jerman ini Alex, dan lelaki itu didenda tetapi semasa di dalam mahkamah, dia telahpun mengeluarkan pisau dan menikam Marwa sebanyak 18 kali! Bayangkan bagaimana di dalam mahkamah, lelaki itu boleh membawa pisau. Yang hairannya jika sekali dua tikaman itu, ada juga logik tetapi 18 kali tikaman! Apa polis tak memeriksa Alex semasa memabawanya masuk ke mahkamah? Di mana orang yang menyaksikan perbicaraan itu? Kenapa Marwa boleh ditikam sebanyak 18 kali di hadapan sekalian orang?Suaminya yang menyaksikan kejadian cuba menghalang tetapi dalam usahanya membantu isteri tercinta dia ditembak atau tertembak oleh polis yang cuba meleraikan.... sudahnya suaminya turut koma. Yang paling dikutuk si Alex langsung tidak cedera. Memang bodoh polis-polis itu. Tanpa usul periksa terus menembak si Arab berwajah Muslim dari menembak si kulit putih yang nyata sedang menikam bertubi-tubi!

Untuk bacaan lanjut sila ke http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/egypt.woman.killed/index.html

Saya sedih kerana isu rasis ini ada di mana-mana tanpa mengira maju atau tidak negara itu. Islam selalu menjadi mangsa. Atas nama Islam, mereka melabel kita pengganas tetapi apa yang dilakukan oleh mereka lebih ganas lagi. Media tidak mengwar-warkan isu ini tetapi jika kita yang mengusik mereka, isu yang sebesar zarah menjadi sebesar benua. Di Peranchis, ada ura-ura untuk mengharamkan pemakaian jilbab. Apa hak mereka hendak menghalang kita dari bertudung sedangkan sister mereka memakai tudung tidak pula dilabel sebagai pengganas.... Inilah dunia.... keadilan menjadi harga yang terlalu mahal bagi seorang Muslim.

Saya berdoa semoga Muslimah yang bertudung di mana-mana di negara asing ini sentiasa berada di dalam peliharaan Allah. Al Fatihah untuk Marwa....

Novelist: J.K. Rowling (The woman who give us Harry Potter)

Joanne "Jo" Murray, born 31 July 1965), who writes under the pen name, J. K. Rowling,is a British author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.

Aside from writing the Potter novels, Rowling is perhaps equally famous for her "rags the riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on welfare to multi-millionaire status within five years. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in Britain. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007.

In 1995, Rowling finished her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on an old manual typewriter. Upon the enthusiastic response of Bryony Evans, a reader who had been asked to review the book’s first three chapters, the Fulham-based Christopher Little Literary Agents agreed to represent Rowling in her quest for a publisher. The book was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of which rejected the manuscript. A year later she was finally given the green light (and a £1500 advance) by editor Barry Cunningham from Bloomsbury, a small British publishing house in London, England. The decision to publish Rowling's book apparently owes much to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury’s chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father and immediately demanded the next. Although Bloomsbury agreed to publish the book, Cunningham says that he advised Rowling to get a day job, since she had little chance of making money in children’s books. Soon after, in 1997, Rowling received an £8000 grant from the Scottish Arts Councilto enable her to continue writing. The following spring, an auction was held in the United States for the rights to publish the novel, and was won by Scholastic Inc., for $105,000. Rowling has said she “nearly died” when she heard the news.

In June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosopher’s Stone with an initial print-run of 1000 copies, five hundred of which were distributed to libraries. Today, such copies are valued between £16,000 and £25,000. Five months later, the book won its first award, a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. In February, the novel won the prestigious British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year, and later, the Children’s Book Award. Its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July, 1998.In October 1998, Scholastic published Philosopher’s Stone in the US under the title of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: a change Rowling claims she now regrets and would have fought if she had been in a better position at the time.

In December 1999, the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won the Smarties Prize, making Rowling the first person to win the award three times running. She later withdrew the fourth Harry Potter novel from contention to allow other books a fair chance. In January 2000, Prisoner of Azkaban won the inaugural Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year award, though it lost the Book of the Year prize to Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf.

The fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was released simultaneously in the UK and the US on 8 July 2000, and broke sales records in both countries. Some 372,775 copies of the book were sold in its first day in the UK, almost equalling the number Prisoner of Azkaban sold during its first year. In the US, the book sold three million copies in its first 48 hours, smashing all literary sales records.Rowling admitted that she had had a moment of crisis while writing the novel; "Halfway through writing Four, I realised there was a serious fault with the plot ... I've had some of my blackest moments with this book ... One chapter I rewrote 13 times, though no-one who has read it can spot which one or know the pain it caused me. Rowling was named author of the year in the 2000 British Book Awards.

A wait of three years occurred between the release of Goblet of Fire and the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This gap led to press speculation that Rowling had developed writer's block, speculations she fervently denied.Rowling later admitted that writing the book was a chore. "I think Phoenix could have been shorter", she toldLev Grossman, "I knew that, and I ran out of time and energy toward the end."

The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on 16 July 2005. It too broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours of release. While writing, she told a fan online, "Book six has been planned for years, but before I started writing seriously I spend two months re-visiting the plan and making absolutely sure I knew what I was doing. She noted on her website that the opening chapter of book six, which features a conversation between the Minister of Magic and the British Prime Minister, had been intended as the first chapter first for Philosopher's Stone, then Chamber of Secrets then Prisoner of Azkaban. In 2006, Half-Blood Prince received the Book of the Year prize at theBritish Book Awards.

The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book was revealed 21 December 2006 to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In February 2007 it was reported that Rowling wrote on a bust in her hotel room at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh that she had finished the seventh book in that room on 11 January 2007. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released on 21 July 2007 and broke its predecessor's record as the fastest-selling book of all time.

Source: Wikipedia.

Harry is Back!

What is more excited than watching our beloved Harry Potter in the silver screen this July 15th? To celebrate this, for 1 week I will post some of the Harry moments since his appearances in 2001. Watch out for more Harry Potter experience in my blog this week!

Muggles... Get Ready! Harry is BACK!!!

Gara-gara Asam Pedas Keladi

Seharian saya demam semalam. Semuanya gara-gara makanan yang ada di dalam gambar inilah (gambar dimuat turun dari http://shw.mamazieza.fotopages.com/15500233/sayur-keladi-asam-pedas.html). Alkisahnya saya sudah pernah masak asam pedas keladi ini dua bulan lepas dan masa itu saya sihat saja bila memakannya. Jadi bila ke pasar Asia beberapa hari sebelumnya, saya telah membeli batang keladi dan memasaknya bersama ikan segar.

Namun rupanya nasib tidak menyebelahi saya. Selepas makan, badan saya mula terasa lain macam. Angin satu badan dan bisanya menyucuk-nyucuk ke tulang. Sebelumnya saya makan ada pengalaman dengan bubur kacang. Begitu juga rasanya tetapi saya cepat-cepat minum teh herba. Tapi akibat berlengah minum teh herba, terus saya diserang lemah-lemah badan. Seharian saya terlantar di tilam. Apapun makanan yang saya makan semuanya tidak kena dengan selera.

Bila sudah ada tenaga, saya gagahkan diri menyapu minyak di seluruh badan dan minum teh herba 2 uncang. Alhamdulillah tidak lama selepas itu, barulah pecah peluh dan saya kembali bertenaga.

Sekarang ini saya memang berhati-hati memilih makanan. Bukan boleh main redah ikut selera. Sudahlah makanan di sini jumlahnya terbatas, terpaksa dibataskan lagi kepada makanan yang tidak berangin pula. Moralnya selagi boleh makan, makanlah kerana bila nikmat makan itu sudah 'ditarik' olehNya, bentanglah dengan seribu makanan enak-enak....anda pasti tidak mampu untuk menelannya. Satu lagi, ia peringatan untuk diri saya....dah tua dah, buatlah ibadat banyak-banyak....

Selamat Bergraduat Hafis

Sebenarnya entri ni sudah lama hendak ditulis tetapi menunggu tuan empunya badan untuk menghantar gambar, sudahnya berzaman barulah dapat. Apapun kesempatan ini saya dan keluarga di Berlin ingin mengucapkan selamat bergraduat kepada adik lelaki saya Mohd. Hafiz Kamaluddin yang mengikuti Diploma Kejuruteraan Awam, UiTM pada 3 Jun lalu. Alhamdulillah pada zaman gawat-gawat ni, beliau sudahpun bekerja sejak beberapa bulan sebelum bergraduat lagi. Harapan saya, biarlah adik saya ini menempuh pengalaman berharga semasa bekerja dan jika ada kesempatan, sambunglah belajar kerana menuntut ilmu biar sampai ke liang lahad.

Tengok gambar mak dan abah...hilang rasa rindu saya pada mereka. Tak banyak berubah fizikal mereka. Alhamdulillah. Semoga masa cepat berlalu dan kita semua akan dapat bertemu. Selamat hari lahir untuk kesemua lelaki-lelaki di dalam keluarga saya yang jatuh pada Jun. Azham 6/6, Hafis 17/6 dan abah saya 22/6. Semoga panjang umur dan murah rezeki. Hadiah? Hehehe rasanya dah dapat in advance....Jumpa lagi!

KEMBARA EROPAH: London to Berlin by Road

Seperti yang diberitahu kepada teman-teman sebelum perjalanan ke London, kali ini kami memilih untuk berkereta untuk merasa suasana berbeza. Kami bertolak ke London menaiki kapal terbang dan pulangnya berkereta. Dari London kami melalui Dover, sebuah pelabuhan jika boleh diimaginasikan bolehlah seperti Pelabuhan Pulau Pinang tetapi lebih besar dengan pemandangan batu kapur di sekitarnya. Kami tidak menaiki terusan kerana disebabkan sudah suntuk, harga tiketnya mahal. Jadi kami memilih menaiki feri saja. Jika tidak, tentu pengalaman kami menjadi lebih menarik kerana pengalaman memandu di terusan di dalam lautentulah satu pengalaman yang begitu menarik.

Jam 2.00 petang kami sudah tiba walaupun tiket feri jam 3.15 petang. Kami melepasi imegresen dan kastam. Pemeriksaan keselamatan yang nampaknya tidaklah terlalu ketat sebagaimana melalui kastam di Bukit Kayu Hitam. Hanya pemandu yang diperiksa, boot kereta dibuka ,cuma yang ditambah ialah alat pengesan bom dilalukan di bawah tayar kereta.

Selesai urusan dengan kastam, kami beratur menunggu feri. Sementara feri tiba, sempatlah kami berehat-rehat di kawasan rehat yang disediakan. Dari Dover kami dijangka tiba di Callais (Peranchis) dalam lebih kurang 2 jam lebih. Tetapi kami tidak merasa perjalanan itu sangat kerana kami mengisi masa dengan makan dan berjalan-jalan di atas feri. Selain bergambar, aktiviti menjamu mata di kedai bebas cukai di atas feri ini boleh melupakan seketika yang kita berada di dalam feri.

Pengumuman dibuat sebaik tiba di Callais. Dari Callais kami menuju ke Gent (Belgium) selepas 4 jam perjalanan. Mula-mula memandu kereta UK di jalan raya Europe memang mengelirukan. Saya yang disebelah terpaksa berjaga-jaga juga bimbang abang tersalah makan jalan. Almaklum, pemandu kereta UK memandu di sebelah kanan sedangkan pemandu di negara Europe yang lain, memandu di sebelah kiri. Bagi mengelakkan kemalangan, beberapa syarat seperti menampal lampu hadapan kereta dengan pelekat khas dan meletakkan pelekat tanda UK pada belakang kereta adalah wajib bagi memberitahu kepada pengguna lain tentang kejanggalan pemanduan kami.

Semasa di lebuhraya tidaklah terasa sangat, tetapi semasa kami tersesat dan masuk ke badan Gent, mulalah kami terasa sedikit panik. Kami terpaksa memandu di belakang tram dengan jalan yang bersimpang-siur, begitu mengelirukan. Mujurlah GPS membantu kami keluar segera dari sana. Kami meneruskan perjalanan ke Eindhoven (Belanda) untuk bermalam. Ketika itu jam sudah menunjukkan angka 10 malam tetapi hari masih terang-benderang.

Tetapi sebaik sampai di Eindhoven, kami membatalkan hasrat untuk bermalam di sana disebabkan harga hotel yang mahal (euro 100) untuk beberapa jam berehat dirasakan tidak berbaloi. Waktu akan cerah jam 4.00 pagi dan kami berhasrat meneruskan perjalanan dan singgah di mana-mana hentian yang menawarkan penginapan.

Namun setelah berjalan beberapa jauh dan singgah di 4 hentian lain yang menawarkan penginapan, kami masih tidak singgah kerana faktor hotel yang mahal. Rupanya harga penginapan di RnR di Europe ini tidaklah semurah di England dan di Malaysia. Euro 100 adalah harga paling minimum. Kami mengambil keputusan untuk meneruskan perjalanan dan berhenti berehat di RnR jika mengantuk dan lapar.

Sudahnya kami hanya tiba di Berlin jam 4.00 petang keesokan harinya. Perjalanan berkereta sejauh 1000km, merentasi 5 negara, memang pengalaman paling memenatkan. Tetapi seperti biasa, ia memberi kami satu lagi pengalaman berharga yang tidak boleh dibeli dengan wang ringgit.