Monday, August 22, 2005
heyhey. yea i went malaysia for two days. saturday and sunday. quite a sudden trip wellx.
so it was 6am where i woke up on saturday morning and get change blah blah.. wanted to wear a skirt cause i don see familiar faces in malaysia especially no one would go for a holiday in the middle of nowhere yea but in the end decided that shorts were more convenient.
yea so we went on a car to malacca or rather melaka. the journey was long i guess. for someone like me who has only beeon to malaysia four times by car/bus. went twice last year cause i was kinda fussing my mum to bring me there. went malacca last year in june and 2 weeks later go KL and genting. the genting was 1 of my first and worse experience yea.. me and my bro went there to play pool. WOW. okay fine. so sit car slowly slowly reach our destination.
which was at No. 125-127, Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, 75200 Melaka, Malaysia.
followed by
ha. at first me and my mother were quite shockk la. dont really stay budge hotels lastime except the time at albany where we stayed in a motel. can u imagine the rate? 69RM per night. $1 = 2.25RM its like less den 35 a night? friggin cheap aint it. the facilities not that good i guess. it has a 12 inch tv with a lousy toilet. the bed was alright although abit without spring baa. and the tv had nothing to watch. for me i guess. onyl had 3 clear channels. okay so crap that. we checked in and went to eat some nyonya food. i think it was at Restoran Peranakan at 107, Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock. i think it was around 66RM for that dinner which was once again CHEAP.
okay den later in the afternoon went shopping the things were cheap BLEAGH. dowana talk about it cause i didnt buy anything. COMMENTLESS. i was at Mahkota Parade and there was GREAT MALAYSIAN SALE. why why why din i buy at least something. i know it suck but at least i tried the brazilian coffee ice blended at the coffee bean there. think singapore don have yet. costs 12RM. so later went back to rest.
in the night we went to this kinda night market in th town. jonka street i think. but the street's kinda very unique. it has alot of stalls which each stall having 1m+ space for their tent. so its like all very packed up but guess what. the rent was only 2RM per night and its only open on friday saturday and sunday. its so frigging worth it la. i wanna start a business there someday. then dere's thing karaoke stage somewhere and many people were singing mostly were those senoir citizens. and down the road there were more. it was kinda like 'community center' for those people. its like teochew ppl have a 'club' or something. one was learning line dance. there's even this plcae where a funeral procession was taking place admist all the joyous atmosphere around so it was kinda messy. however messy also has its advantages too. it was called jonker street. hmm. nice place to be i guess. the things are somewhat cheap but nothing seem to interest me except for this dartset. wanted to buy but guess it was pretty small and not worth the money. its not very nice too. we ate somekinda like a satay thing for dinner. its like satay sauce and u dip in stuffs like fishball. comeone. imagine having EVERYTHING but satay. cries- it was still nice after all. the whole meal cause 41RM and the person counted wrongly. and there's this joke about this super HUGE pao. mmmm. guess i shouldnt say it here. ask me if u wanna noe. but be prepared to freakk. ha.
so after dinner my mother and my uncle watch this old man singing to this song by this guy called dao lang. and he was kinda over doing it. the song seems to be taking over him the kind of thing yea. so its later we went to a pub. okay it wasnt. it was some what. Geographer Cafe. it has high chairs and high tables and this guy there singing. my uncle requested a song called yesterday once more. the atmosphere was nice and the moon was hugge. it was the 16th. of the SEVENTh month. wellx. and had those vapour smoke thing which makes it absolute cooling. the banana split there costs 7RM and i shared it with my cousin. after somewhat supper we went back to the hotel. then soon it was the next day.
had two pieced of toasted bread a cup of coffee orange juice scrambled eggs and 2 hotdogs with butter and jam. that's all for breakfast. at least there's breakfast alright. after that soon we were off to those read houses AGAIN. it was the tourist attraction after all well. so climbed all the way up. ohya. guess waht we saw the practice of helipcopter paratuers wadeva its spelled. its lyke they dropped one by one and its so cute. so its like.. TIONG! TIONG! TIONG! TIONG! TIONG! den one by one they all fall down. ahahha. the wind was nice up there. kinda re-read the history of st francis xavier. den later went down. guess what.
christchurch is an ANGLICAN church. ahhha! okay oaky. so my cousin went to a church there. it was orange and it was a catholic church. they had tamil service. *wow* so later me my uncle and mom went to this mueseum. they kinda had the gallery on zhonghe.
so look look look blah blah blah. he's stuff is on exhibition in singapore i tihnk.. he looks kinda abit fat. hmm. so times move on then we went by the river walking. the place is still not much developed yet. maybe 5 years later it'll look like singapore river. so later we ended up in a place which sells chicken rice. wait a moment. its not really normal chicken rice. it was chicken THE SAME and rice balls. nothing much special about it just that it's rolled up in ball shapes.
FOOD!! okay im lazy to resize it. so it kinda look like fishballs but it's actually rice. okay that was morning breakk. mmm. not really la. we ate it to try the rice balls. so later went to hotel and pack up and check out and uuuum!! we went to the best and most unique food ever. ahha!
await..
it's called COCONUT HOUSE.Address: 128 Jln Tun Tan Cheng Lock. u know why? there was this huge coconut tree in the middle. those old shophouses yea. directly oppostie babahouse.
The ambience is really old and ancient. Wooden tables and stools. Reminds you of an old shophouse. But the pizzas are great. Thin to perfection and crisp to the core thanks to the woodfire oven. The restaurant gets its name from the coconut tree growing at the airwell at the centre of the house where the water well is.
ya and this was how they cook the pizza. using real firewood. we waited real long for the food. went upstair. there were holes in the roof. okay laugh. and had magazines and books dated back to 1988. wow. older than me. lols. the stairs kinda small steps yea made walking difficult. we waited ONE hour for the pizza to arrive. it was fantastic. mine was called leonardo da vinci something liddat. its really very nice. okay there;s something funny in the menu. there's this dish got coconut run. guess what;s the translation to chinese. yeye pao de kuai the yeye was coconut that ye. so corny right. so that was lunch.
i shall skip that part on my basketball fantasy. haa. my mum wanted to buy this bagg and the sales person was like reducing the price as my mum looked at the price. it was like.. 17.. nono 16.. nono 14.. no no 12. aHahaha. times are bad i guess.
so there marks the end of my malacca trip..
everything in malaysia in nice except the toilet. mmm. except for some exceptionally clean ones at restaurants. wellx..
i've blogged for an hour. ha.
another day i guess~
still looking for someone who shares the passion of taking photos. eeeey!
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Monday, August 22, 2005
