Tuesday, January 16, 2007
, 11:41 AM
First off I have a confession to make. Today, on 16th January at 10.30am I woke up and realised I've sinned! I woke up late (thanks to this stupid mistake on my part) and missed school as a result. One of my NY resolutions was to NOT pon or at least pon LESSER this semester, okay thank God I added the "pon lesser" clause in my resolution, otherwise I'd be damned! *phew* I feel so much lighter after making my confession clear =D
So...as promised I'm gonna blog about my adventures in Malacca, though we went there for only 2 days, nonetheless, it was a really unique and fun-filled experience =D So, *takes a deep breath* here we go~
A Day Before the trip:
I went to play badminton with Bobo as promised! But both of us concurred that we had a horrible game, with less than 5 rallies in a span of 1hr plus? Haha there was this bunch of old folks playing some serious badminton, and they were speaking Cantonese all the time, some bits of their conversation was really funny XD After that took a cab straight to my Aunt's house (it was raining cows and chickens), throughout the cab ride I was so nervy cus' I've only got a $10 bill in my pocket and I didn't know how much it'd cost to get from Bishan to Springside -_-" So throughout the cab ride I had to pretend to look at something and sneak a peek at the meter at every traffic junction. Helluva stressful ride -_-" Finally reached, and the meter read "$10.50"!!! I dug into my wallet calmly and found a 50 cent coin! OMG! I felt so grateful for that 50 cent coin! It saved my sorry ass! Haa. Watched Curse of the Golden Flower then it was lights out. Oh boy oh boy Malacca is a calling any time soon!
Day 1:
We woke up at 5am in the morning -_-" Not good. Haa but I got up anyway, washed up and stuff. 10 minutes later after much frentic rushing and stuff, the mini-bus (11-seater just nice for 11 of us, there's my Mum, Aunt, Rosemary Auntie, Auntie Chan, Kelvin Kor, his girlfriend Weiyun, Weiyun's younger brother and Mum, my sis, my cousin Snowman and I. It was so comfy in the mini-bus, we napped a lil. My Aunt brought along this Cantonese oldies CD, and all the younger people on board went like this ---> -_-". Haha hours later, we arrived at the customs, and the police officer scrutinised my face for the looongest time before he let me pass, I don't know why but whenever I go to the Customs or see a police officer face-to-face I'll feel a lil panicky, and no it's not because I've committed a crime, I don't even have bubble gum in my bag lor!
Haha hopped back on the mini-bus (MB) and shew~ off to grab some breakfast on Malaysian soil. Along the way, we saw the sunrise at the causeway! So beautiful we went woah and ahhh~ LOL. Reached the breakfast place, it was drizzling slightly and the place was a lil wet and grubby, haha I got myself 2 egg tarts helped out with one of Rosemary's prata and milo! Dunno why, feel a lil bloated already, my record-breaking appetite seems to be on a decline! Haha back on the MB and we were headed to our next destination! The Black Guan Yin Temple (built by Singaporeans ONLY for Singaporeans) so selfish hor Singaporeans we dun even wanna share our temple! No wonder M'sians hate us! =p The Guan Yin was really black! So we prayed for good weather cus' if it's raining we can't go to Jonker Walk (famous street market in Malacca), and I prayed tons of other stuff too! =p We took solo shots outside the toilet here, haha don't ask me why =D
Us outside the toilet =xD
Shew~ on the MB again off to lunch! Along the way, we saw how devastating the floods were, we could only see the crown of the trees and the kampong houses were like partially submerged, luckily we were on the highway.
The not so badly hit area
Chit chat, listen to MP3 (we were desperately trying to drown out the Canto oldies in the background!!!), and after countless times of us asking the adults "Are we reaching there already?" we finally reached our lunch place! We're gonna have some traditional Peranakan cuisine famous in Malacca! Haha the restaurant's called Bibik Neo (sounds funny yea? =p) The Asam fish, kang kong veggies, and othere dunno-what-u-call-it are seriously good lar! I'm missing the food there already T_T
Cutesy Bibik Neo =D
Yeah the eat-in-a-flash gene runs in the family =D
Don't belittle this tiny bowl of cendol! It's HEAVENLY I TELL YOU! Ahhh~
After lunch went back up the MB (very unhealthy right? Eat already sit =D) then shew~ Off to this apparently quite well-known honey shop. The guy who was bringing us around the shop telling us about how they extract the honey and all that blah, and he also told us about the wonders of Royal Jelly, honey and how to choose good honey and stuff. He actually studied about honeybees in Uni leh! And like any true-blue Singaporean, we were really waiting for the sampling part =D The honey is sweeeeeeeeeeeet and not that kinda yucky sweet taste, it's like you-wanna-scoop-more-MORE type of sweet! So Mee bought a huge bottle of honey mixed with Royal Jelly (Rm99 for that quite reasonable considered it's a HUGE bot) which according to him can help improve hormonal imbalance =p, some Propolis cream thingy for skin problems (really effective lor! Kelvin kor banged his forehead again a street sign and he blobbed some on it and it actually healed!) oh yeah this stuff is good and it's only RM18! =D
Back on the MB and shew~ off to see the touristy destinations in Malacca, like the Zheng He temple (San Bao dunno what dunno what), the Christ Church of Malacca (where all the buildings are all painted red, architecture influenced by Dutch, Portugese colonial era), the King's Well thingy. Along the way, tons of lame jokes, cold jokes, IQ jokes and tons of other jokes went around! Lol I'm gonna try some on friends some day! =p Haha the King's well's history was kinda stupid lor, the King actually built a well for his wife, I mean get her a diamond ring la for Malacca's sake, so giam! If somebody made a well for me, I don't think it's a very good gift lor. Hahas anyways, pics!
Everyone treating Kelvin Kor's wound!
CHARGE!
Me lookin silly in front of a church =D
Christ Church of Melaka! Tastefully old =D
A very flowery trishaw ride anyone?
See! They literally mean by pain the town red? =D
Checking out Cheap N Good buys! =D
Sis and I monkeying ard with the cam
Overshadowed by the background v_v
Ron and I cornered by paparazzi! But we still want ice-cream thank you! =D
Shew~ off to see the Zheng He San Bao dunno what temple, Zheng He's chinese junk museum (the museum is in this chinese junk! So cool! But we gotta pay RM3 for going in -_-)and King's well!
Sadako was sentenced to life in a well in Malacca! Very sad T_T
Look! They turned Zheng He's junk into a museum!
Hmmm wonder what lies within?
You really wanna know? Let's check it out...
What a nice piece of Junk =D
If you look closely you can actually spot Zheng He! =D
TREASURE IN ZHENG HE'S JUNK! @_@
Zheng He's boyfriends XD
3 of us a lil sea-sick XD
The woman at the bottom right made this look like a supernatural shot -_-"
After all the historical and cultural exposure to Malacca, we were all set to go SHOPPING at the Mahkota Shopping Malls! SO shew~ went to check in and check out our rooms in the hotel! Haha we got the apartment rooms cus' there were quite a lot of us. And we even got one helluva view from the balcony!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~*
Island settlement =D
Diving platform XD
Hello neighbors! =D
Me on the balcony! =)
Our room! =D
Check out the very pixellated videos for a tour around the rooms! =D We watched Spongebob cartoon there! XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-W_hHnwgo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A1NruO3e-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvY4p-hcpow
Next up! We shew~ to the Mahkota shopping malls! Hahas I got some good buys there: a cap, a shirt, a jacket blouse, earrings, mini bolster, patrick key-chain! Haha Rosemary got everyone to buy one of those mini bolsters, so almost everyone had one =D Then we shew~ off to Jonker Walk cus' Black Guan Yin really didn't give us rain! =D
See that mickey mouse print bag? I got it for RM17 at Jonker Walk!!! =D
We had dinner at Jonker Walk, we sat by a road-side stall and it feels a lot like Hong Kong! Haha we had fried carrot cake, mixed dim sum oh-so-yummylicous! Then we shew~ back to the hotel room to rest, and we played Uno and ordered room service for supper =D
I love my supper!
UNO pack bought at Jonker Walk! Cheap but smells funny XD
Say hi to my mini bolster Poot!
Day 2:
Woke up pretty early and got breakfast buffet! Haha I love breakfast buffets! Tried the bread and butter pudding and yes I'm in heaven! =D
We crossed opposite (2 megalmalls just opposite our hotel!) to Mahkota again and walked around, the previous day Vivian Hsu was there to promote her album but we were at Jonker Walk then so we didn't get to see her =( Haha but the food was well worth it =D After that we shew~ to this famous Chicken Rice Balls shop! I especially loved the rice balls and each person was given only 5 rice balls (they look and bounce like fishballs!), in the end I had a total of 10 rice balls cus' some couldn't finish them, tsk tsk! =D
After lunch, we shew off to Jonker Walk again, they allow traffic in during the day, at night it's closed for the street market. I love the oldness of the place, really different! Ron got this tiny mahjong set! So cute! Only RM9!!! @_@
We shew~ off to another cendol place, haha Malacca's not famous for cendol for nothing! See that cutesy little holder, pretty smart! I prefer the previous cendol though, this was waaay too sweet for me, but...I finished it just as well =D We gotta buy cendol coupons and Q up for this cendol! *_* Haha then we bought some snacks and local produce back!
After dunno how long on MB, we finally arrived at Johor Jusco! That MEGA shopping mall, it's like VivoCity there man, maybe a little bigger, but we were only given like 1 hour there? So we only covered like a teeny lil portion of floor 1! Haha got some Dunkin' Donuts and basically went there to look see look see. The shops there are really spacious lor! And they have maaaaany sales assistants in one shop, service here is waaaay better than Singapore's here you feel pampered man! Haha sis got some MaCoCoa chco bananas, but I only tasted bananas leh! =p
After Jusco, it began to rain again, by then it was already 6~7pm so we shew to a seafood restaurant for dinner! But we forgot to take pics of the restaurant! =( Hahas I love the soup there, it's called Yat Ban Wor in Cantonese, very good for the body and oh so yummy! *slurps* I'm salivating just at the thought of it =p Hahas then we wanted to see if the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" is showing on Ch 5 so we asked the lady to change the channel, then realised it started already!!!
After dinner we shew~ all the way to Causeway, this is the first time we cleared the customs in record-breaking time man! There's no traffic jam along the way despite the rain. Haha and I saw Ramly Burger and the SBS bus service that goes to Malaysia! So the Driver Ah Keong drove us back home (right at our doorstep!!!) , and "The Day After Tomorrow" was still on lor! That's how fast we were lar! Haha ahhh I miss Malacca already! T_T
