All holidays have come to an end and here I am, back in the rotting office : ( It has been 3 days since I came back from Malaysia and it was hell lot of fun with the SPI guys!
Day 1 (1 January 2009)
After New Year countdown at Godpa's house in Ubi, we set off in an 8-seater Ssangyong Stavic and though it was kinda squeezy, we had great fun laughing and chatting and of course, a couple of hours later, we snoozed until we reached Muar. They had wanted to find the mysterious warehouse where a motorbike accident occurred (Sounds stupid right? But guess what? The 2 male casualties were born on the same year, month and date. Creepy eh?) Ultimately, they couldn't find the place as it was too dark and they had no idea where the location was, despite with the help of a GPS system : / We were also fined for 50RM for beating 3 red lights
: ( We continued sleeping until it was time for breakfast - bak kut teh...at 7am @ . @
After a super hearty breakfast, we proceeded to Genting where we took pictures and had Starbucks. Some of us had wanted to try their luck at gambling, but due to a lack of time, we stuck to our schedule by going recceing at the Highland Towers, which experienced landslide decades ago. According to statistics, many children and women fell victims to the natural disaster. The atmosphere was sad and stagnant and to be frank, I was quite anxious to get out of that place : / We continued with our gourmet trail by having Ampang's yong tau foo for lunch and too be frank, it has never been my love : /
We finally reached our service apartment in the afternoon and it was good to wash up and rest our tired legs : ) Dinner was at a popular hawker centre - We had juicy BBQ chicken wings, sambal kangkong, grilled Portuguese fish, sambal chut chut, fried vermicelli and rice : ) We burned the excess calories by walking around in Bukit Bintang and we headed straight back to our service apartments with plastic bags of Carlsberg, fresh orange juice, coffee mix and Chinese tea bags : P My head only touched the pillow at 4am as we spent the night tucking into nasi lemak and playing card games.
Day 2 (2 January 2009)
We woke up bright and cheery despite several hours of sleep : D We went to KLCC to take pictures and it was fun coming up with all kinds of funny poses. The best part of the day was we had A&W for lunch! Both Fat Fat and I had fried chicken wings, root beer, waffle with butter and maple syrup and Coney Dog! (Yummy!) As we were about to head to Mid Valley for shopping, one of the guys realized that he had lost his wallet and we had to go around Kuala Lumpur to look for the police station and Singapore embassy (Boo) By the time everything was settled, it was already coming to 5pm and we decided to head back to the service apartment to have a short rest before going for dinner and the ouija board experiment in front of the Highland Towers : ( (Hey, no shopping!)
Dinner was at a small eatery which was famous for its claypot mee tai mak : P~ We had that, their version of char kway tiao, batterfried shrimps and stirfried kale. It was extremely delicious and there is no way to get such divine cuisine in Singapore. As usual, we burned excess calories by strolling around the night market (There was nothing to buy, for heaven's sake!) We went back to the service apartment to gather the investigation equipment before heading to Highland Towers for the ouija board experiment (For your information, I was just an observer-cum-videographer) The whole session took about 2 hours and we doggybag nasi lemak on our way back. By the way, we slept at 4am once again after debrief (ZzzzzzzZZZzz)
Day 3 (3 January 2009)
We woke up at 7am to wash up before checking out from the service apartment. We headed to Malacca to meet up with another couple before checking into the 5-star Renaissance Hotel : D Lunch was ala-carte dim sum buffet (Guess the lack of sleep made everything taste bland) and imagine my happiness when they announced that we could rest for an hour before going shopping! : D Then again, there was nothing much to buy there - I bought a pair of shorts from Brand Outlet and Fat Boy bought 3 T-shirts (Do you consider that as shopping?) Dinner was nyonya and baba laksa, ngoh hiang, baba salad and chendol! Chendol! The lingering fragrance of thick golden gula melaka mixed with the fresh coconut milk (Awwww...I am dying now) After dinner, we went to stroll in the night market and we bought many packets of dried cuttlefish (For Daddy!) We went back to the hotel to wash up before we went to Bukit Cina for another round of ouija experiment (Yes, I am the observer-cum-videographer again) After that, we had a short debrief session at a nearby coffeeshop and we went back to the hotel to sleep.
Day 4 (4 January 2009)
Fat Boy woke me up at 10:20am (Could have been earlier for breakfast provided by the hotel) and we hurried to buy local products before checking out from the hotel. Lunch was nyonya cuisine which consisted of braised cabbage, curry chicken, "Golden Pillow" and sambal ladyfinger : D (Reminds me of "Little Nyonya") We drove back to Johor (The journey took about 3 hours) where we continued our shopping at a nearby shopping centre, however, there was nothing much to buy : ( Everybody gathered and we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant, where they served poon choi, ayam fish and pumpkin rice! It was definitely a good dinner to wrap up the whole trip before we drove back to Singapore : D *thumbs up*
