Day 2 of malacca began with a visit of the museum. Initially, we were wondering why there was an exhibition called "enduring beauty" when the stuff inside were all about malacca. We finally understood when we reached the top level where there were showcases of people all over the world and their perception of beauty, much of which has to do with causing physical harm to their bodies. Some examples include corsets, inserting needles under their skin, inserting extremely large lip plates into their lips so they look like ducks from the sides, earrings, tattoos and many others. Pretty heavy for such an early morning.
After the museum, we started our day of shopping. The stuff here were generally cheaper than singapore, especially the clothes. They have a lot of factory outlets stores and you can get a decent looking tee shirt for less than 20 ringgit. We shopped till about 1pm where we had lunch at pizza hut at makohta parade. The reason we chose it was because the price of the pizzas there had the same numerical value as singapore, but of a different currency. They even had free pepsi refill! And since this meal was a treat from jenn haur, I shan't complain on the food because the food was more or less the same standard everywhere I guess.
Continued shopping till 3pm where we decided to make a trip to the baba nyonya heritage mesuem to learn more about the peranakan culture, one of my motive for visiting malacca. The tour was an enriching one, and I really liked the way the peranakans used to build their houses. Everything had a purpose and yet it looked really beautiful. I think the visit was appropriate since am watching the little nyonya on channel 8 every night now. Had dinner at a nearby peranakan restaurant. One thing I noticed was they tend to prefer their food spicy and salty, and seldom can you find something bland in their menu. Spent the evening at gepgrapher's bar playing daidee before jenn haur made his way back to hotel to rest while some of us made some last minute shopping.
Reached back at hotel at around 10 pm to pack because there wasn;t much time to do so the next day. Slept pretty late as we played daidee all the way till 1am and many funny names were given to the different rankings we had for the game. This has to remain a secret lest I get into trouble and extend my ord.
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1:37 AM - Monday, December 22, 2008
1:43 AM - Friday, December 19, 2008
Anyone who has been surfing facebook will know that I was in malacca with the guys for the past 3 days, due to the spamming of the photos and the comments. In my opinion, it was a well worth trip, both economically and educationally.
Chin yong, primero and I stayed over at chee hoe's house the night before to make the trip to golden mile the next day together. It was a crazy night as we spent 9-10 hours in front of the tv playing ps2 games, notably wwe raw vs smackdown and winning eleven. Called in macdonald's delivery at 3am too. We took a cab down to golden mile to take the bus to malacca and the only action from then till the hotel was jenn haur almost late for the bus. From then on, it was sleep, wake up, singapore custom, malaysian custom and sleep again to the hotel.
We stayed at equatorial hotel for the 3 days, which was apparently a 5 star hotel. To me, a hotel usually doesn't matter so much but the standard of the hotel kind of exceeded my expectations. After unloading our bags, we decided to have the famous chicken rice balls for lunch and set off searching for it. We found it at jonkers walk unexpectedly. To me, it wasn't really special and to some of the guys, the balls were a bit more salty than the rice not moulded into the balls. Anyway, it was a cheap meal (56 ringgit for 6 people, which is equivalent to about $4 per person), and it was on yeh hao so I shan't complain at all.
Walked down jonkers walk after that and I really liked the place. It was full of toys that we may have played with when we were younger, shops selling malacca or peranakan snacks, many different shops selling the same kind of souvenirs and a lot of small pushcarts selling cendol. The most important buy, other than the durian cakes and snacks, was the small cane with a rubber hand at the tip bought by me, which will be used for night entertainment.
After we were done at jonkers walk for 2 hours, we decided to scout for the famous cendol which was supposed to be by the river. After we managed to locate it, I was pretty taken aback because it looked unhygienic but well since we were there, we had to try it and it was pretty good la, not the worse of the cendol we had for each of the 3 days there. We then made our way to this sky tower thay had which was similar to the one in sentosa. The price here was about half that of sentosa though, but the crowd was huge and we had to wait a while before we got the chance to see malacca from a bird's eye view. Then we had dinner at the cheap newton food centre, which was somewhat similar to the one in singapore, at headed back to hotel.
The night entertainment was this game where used to be on tv. Don't wanna explain but the punishment was a smack of the butt using the cane with the rubber hand tip. I can't exactly remember who got smacked the most but primero certainly got the hardest smack by me, which apparently left a mark on his butt.
Slept at around 11pm because the next day was crazy shopping day.
Chin yong, primero and I stayed over at chee hoe's house the night before to make the trip to golden mile the next day together. It was a crazy night as we spent 9-10 hours in front of the tv playing ps2 games, notably wwe raw vs smackdown and winning eleven. Called in macdonald's delivery at 3am too. We took a cab down to golden mile to take the bus to malacca and the only action from then till the hotel was jenn haur almost late for the bus. From then on, it was sleep, wake up, singapore custom, malaysian custom and sleep again to the hotel.
We stayed at equatorial hotel for the 3 days, which was apparently a 5 star hotel. To me, a hotel usually doesn't matter so much but the standard of the hotel kind of exceeded my expectations. After unloading our bags, we decided to have the famous chicken rice balls for lunch and set off searching for it. We found it at jonkers walk unexpectedly. To me, it wasn't really special and to some of the guys, the balls were a bit more salty than the rice not moulded into the balls. Anyway, it was a cheap meal (56 ringgit for 6 people, which is equivalent to about $4 per person), and it was on yeh hao so I shan't complain at all.
Walked down jonkers walk after that and I really liked the place. It was full of toys that we may have played with when we were younger, shops selling malacca or peranakan snacks, many different shops selling the same kind of souvenirs and a lot of small pushcarts selling cendol. The most important buy, other than the durian cakes and snacks, was the small cane with a rubber hand at the tip bought by me, which will be used for night entertainment.
After we were done at jonkers walk for 2 hours, we decided to scout for the famous cendol which was supposed to be by the river. After we managed to locate it, I was pretty taken aback because it looked unhygienic but well since we were there, we had to try it and it was pretty good la, not the worse of the cendol we had for each of the 3 days there. We then made our way to this sky tower thay had which was similar to the one in sentosa. The price here was about half that of sentosa though, but the crowd was huge and we had to wait a while before we got the chance to see malacca from a bird's eye view. Then we had dinner at the cheap newton food centre, which was somewhat similar to the one in singapore, at headed back to hotel.
The night entertainment was this game where used to be on tv. Don't wanna explain but the punishment was a smack of the butt using the cane with the rubber hand tip. I can't exactly remember who got smacked the most but primero certainly got the hardest smack by me, which apparently left a mark on his butt.
Slept at around 11pm because the next day was crazy shopping day.
11:49 PM - Saturday, December 13, 2008
Went back to school today for a supposedly 5 generations of house comm gathering. The turnout was average, but within my expectations. The first generation had only 2, zeya and greg while the third generation had none for half the day till ruth came in the evening. My generation, the 2nd, was represented by jenn haur, roxanne, me, min loong, clarissa, ashvin, andy and joyce black. The 4th and 5th generation had a rather good turnout I guess and I was pretty impressed with them, especially althea, who apparently was the one who organised the barbeque but unfortunately failed to get back fully what she paid for the barbeque. Got to know the 07 batch better but didn't really get a chance to interact with the 08 batch. Hopefully next time we'll get to know everyone better. I'm pretty hopeful for the 08 batch judging from their enthusiam and friendliness, but I think every batch will start off like this. What it becomes at the end is up to each and everyone from the batch.
What I really want to mention is this bastard we encountered on the way home. Ashvin decided to give ruth, tristan and I a lift back home because we were all staying in the east. Along ecp, there was this toyota vios which was travelling really slow along the 3rd lane, approximately 50km/h on the highway. So ashvin decided to go to lane 4 but the vios also decided to change to lane 4 so we followed behind it. We were moving really slow because the vios is following a suzuki swift which was travelling really really slow, also about 50km/h. When ashvin decided to change back to lane 3, the vios decided to follow AGAIN and block our way. Then suddenly, it braked and we also had to brake, before it moved off again at normal speed. Not wanting to involve ourselves in this nonsense, we cut into lane 2 and overtook the vios for a distance, when it suddenly accelerated and overtook us, before cutting into our lane again and braked. This time we had to brake really hard. We decided not to play any more games with the vios and cut back into lane 4, still behing the swift, still moving very un-swiftly. The vios then slowed down to be on par with the swift, and that's when we started to suspect that the 2 drivers knew each other and were playing a fool on the highway. We decided to follow behind the swift all the way till they exited at tampines whereas ashvin decided to carry on to the airport area before making a u-turn, lest we meet them again. So, driver of toyota vios car number SJK 79 Y, hopefully I'll see you tomorrow in the papers, with your lifeless body under a pile of wrecked metal, covered in blood and your family weeping for you. No, I will not be feeling sad for you, but maybe for the car which has probably just been bought not long ago (SJK leh). Oh anyway the driver still had a p-plate, which means he hasn't even drove for a year. Oh ya, if you die, please bring the un-swift driver with you too. I'll burn the "death race" dvd for you 2.
What I really want to mention is this bastard we encountered on the way home. Ashvin decided to give ruth, tristan and I a lift back home because we were all staying in the east. Along ecp, there was this toyota vios which was travelling really slow along the 3rd lane, approximately 50km/h on the highway. So ashvin decided to go to lane 4 but the vios also decided to change to lane 4 so we followed behind it. We were moving really slow because the vios is following a suzuki swift which was travelling really really slow, also about 50km/h. When ashvin decided to change back to lane 3, the vios decided to follow AGAIN and block our way. Then suddenly, it braked and we also had to brake, before it moved off again at normal speed. Not wanting to involve ourselves in this nonsense, we cut into lane 2 and overtook the vios for a distance, when it suddenly accelerated and overtook us, before cutting into our lane again and braked. This time we had to brake really hard. We decided not to play any more games with the vios and cut back into lane 4, still behing the swift, still moving very un-swiftly. The vios then slowed down to be on par with the swift, and that's when we started to suspect that the 2 drivers knew each other and were playing a fool on the highway. We decided to follow behind the swift all the way till they exited at tampines whereas ashvin decided to carry on to the airport area before making a u-turn, lest we meet them again. So, driver of toyota vios car number SJK 79 Y, hopefully I'll see you tomorrow in the papers, with your lifeless body under a pile of wrecked metal, covered in blood and your family weeping for you. No, I will not be feeling sad for you, but maybe for the car which has probably just been bought not long ago (SJK leh). Oh anyway the driver still had a p-plate, which means he hasn't even drove for a year. Oh ya, if you die, please bring the un-swift driver with you too. I'll burn the "death race" dvd for you 2.
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