wah its been quite some time since i last blogged eh? i wonder why. haha. i alwiz felt like blogging something… or just typing out whatever thats happened to me or to the world lately. but than again, i guess i was quite busy with assignments lately. finished most of the major assignments. Now just left lab test for acc 204. >_<. Gotta practice for that… while i still have time. hoho
Anyway wat’s been happening??? How long should i go back too? See thats the problem… when u stop blogging after a while, u just kinda forget which date to go to or which topic to choose from haha. >_<
I guess its a bit late to post this, but better than not posting at all. hehe here it goes… a few weeks ago, I went to Malacca for a day trip with chan,sd, rich, wan hung, wan tze and daniel lee. Was suppose to show and direct sd, wan teze and daniel the famous places in Malacca… coz they’re doing their tourism assignment. hoho. Although im not very familiar with malacca, but i’ll try my best. ^_^ anyway it just happens to be i used to live in the city itself haha. strategic leh… So from there can bring them to loads of places liao.
Anyway we started out quite late. Coz i got mixed up with wan tzes address HAHAHA!!! I tot she lived at USJ 8. c c there was no USJ 8. Thats why i hate places like subang or peejay… where there a MILLION SECTIONS OR SUBSECTIONS. GAYISM TO THE MAX!!! somemore not to say the signboards will help u find a specific area… which might be in a remote area or something. haha >_< a great way in starting our journey of the day…. and thats being lost. Well after a million rounds of turning, and sign - board looking, house scanning, we finally managed to get to wan tzes place after sd confirmed with us with the proper address… USJ 2 >_<. we went in two cars… me, chan and wan hung in chan’s gay but slick proton car, while rich,sd,wan tze and daniel in rich’s wrecked up red hyundai HAHA.
we went to another place in USJ, if im not mistaken.. i think its nearby summit… shell area… from what i can recall ler. We went to fetch daniel and have breakfast near at a normal coffee shop. Did some planning of the places we wanted to visit…. had warm balee (BUT IT WASN’T WARM… WTF???) and pan-meen i tink. I think i was sick that time, or about to get sick… thx to good chua i was slowly developing a nasty cough (love the virus spreading around )^_^.
After we were done, we went opposite the road to a shell station. Daniel helped richard to checked some things in his car. Imagine… if u were to go for a few hundred KM’s trip, without even bothering to check if your car oil or batts are in good condition or even if the tyres has enuf air, than im sure theres gotta be something wrong with u man, probably some screws loose or something haha!!! Chans car, we didn’t check coz his car just went for servicing last week. but due to some precautionary sense haha or pussyiness, i insisted we did some checkings as well ( but this happened much earlier, when we were pumping petrol in another gas station, about to fetch wan hung before going over to subang to meet up with richard n gang. Did u know we got stucked in a BLOODY PSCYCHOTIC JAM… at one toll. i tink it was at a puchong toll. SOrry Im not that familiar with that area, my first time being there, so i can’t be specific). we just pumped air in his tyres… but did u know he exceeded the normal target for a car of his type. a proton saga, should pump around 30 at the most. but he went to 34-36 >_<. pengsan man.
Anyway my job was to direct them… so we immediately left for the highway to malacca. we reached there about 2 hours kua. Coz chan was bored and decided to drive slowly HAHAHA >_< . so i can imagine the other car behind us. following us slowly… like wana die haha. >_< in highway travelling at a not very constant speed of 70-100. When i helped to pay for the toll, damn i was shcoked to know that the toll was around rm18. expensive lor… knn. last time used to be cheaper. but than again, how many years was that haha. I guess with all the damn inflation, budgetting crab and current affairs nonsense… some people just had to increase the price to make some profits hoho. bastarages!!!
Anyway, as we were travelling, suddenly received an upmost urgent call… a monkey behind us… was a bit cocky and decided not to pump petrol before starting the journey… wah… interesting shitzzz haha >_<. so we went to find the nearest shell station near by. went to the restroom, had ice -cream… and when rich was done, we left for taman mini malaysia aka mini asean, if im not mistaken. A place with an exhibition or 10 countries culture near the highway…in some forsaken land… haha. while the sd, wan tze and daniel went and do their stuff… the rest of us walked around the stall to have a look and finally went to the food area to seat down. haha me n rich were eating choc ice-creams. and i was like making him drool over malacca food - the baba ice cendol and chicken rice BALLS!!! wahaha. They came out about 20 mins later if im not mistaken, with their faces having weird looks haha.
Me : Yo how was it? Interesting a not?
Daniel : NOOO???!!!!!??!!!!!!!
Wan Tze : DAMN BORING!!!
I guess those statements alone concluded their if they had fun over there haha. We than proceeded to the city. ahhh nice to see old malacca once again… i duno why i feel like so happy to come back to malacca… i guess its been quite a while since i last came back here…. so much memories…. i feel like a lost child trying to remember his past or his loved ones… . eh how come sounds like final fantasy story!!! >_< If i were ever to grow old… and had a choice to choose where i would wana live or die… i guess i’ll choose malacca first, i just feel like im at home over there. Perhaps the feeling over being born there has something to do with it. I wasn’t brought up over there… I wonder how I would be today if i was brought up there… speaking in mandarin or hokkein …. english almost K.O … and perhaps very dark looking. Other places i would like to rest or live in would be at the country side or near the sea…where i can live peacefully with my loved one…or by myself…. awwww. *sniff sniff* T_T me, my crops, my pets, my house, the farm, the land…. and most importantly the view, trees and sky. good package i would say. I bet some of u would say i would die of boredom… perhaps yes and perhaps not. it all depends on how u wana live your life… living in peace and in serenity. Bringing up your kiddos with traditions and not contaminating them with the city pollution and living that one woman… sounds too good to be put aside.
Anyway back on the malacca trip… we parked near malacca house… which is at pantai dalam… super near the famous porridge shop. It seems their parking system change alredi lor. no more coins lor… use coupons now wor… seems to be getting more n more outdated. sad indeed. anyway we made our way to the nearest place firsts…. i ushered them and showed them to the indian temple and malay mosque ( sorry im not gona mention their actual names.. coz im in no mood to search for their names coz i dun know… haha). after some snap shots… next destination… cheng hoon teng temple. yeah baby… finally had chance to pray… after duno how many years din go there to pray…. sad…. sigh… anyway than we went to the opposite temple, which is the Malaysia Buddhist Association centre… which had a lot of statues ,idioms etc. We then proceeded to go to jonker street. Stopped at Makam Hang Kasturi for little while… than finally had something to eat… Baba Ice Kacang and Cendol for ME!!! W00TT!!! the gula malacca was incredibly sweet leh. totally owning all the way haha. YAY to original home made gula malacca!!! ^_^
We than continued walk along jonker st… stopping at some some shops from time to time… there were some stuff up for display at some of the shops. Anyway sd did an interview with 3 foreigners who were from germany ( i tink ). oo i forgot to say daniel brought his video camera… so he took some videos almost everywhere we went. ^_^ We than finally landed ourselves at the famous chicken rice balls corner shop. FOOD AT LAST!!!! but at a price though… as it was quite costly i tink… 5 rice balls - rm1.30. 1 whole chicken round rm27. T_T.
After satisfying our little tummies, i brought to perhaps most famous place in malacca… the bell, stadthuys and christ church. A place with red buildings… thx to the portugese n dutch. We went to the tourist information centre first though to ask on where the malacca tree could be found, than proceeded going to the red area haha. *click* *snap*, photos shot, photos taken, videos recorded, we moved up the stairs towards the museum area. sd and daniel went in to the first museum, while the rest waited outside and chilled. Unknown to me…a huge tree which i was standing near too, was the great malacca tree. But no thx to no sign boards or wrong info… till much later… when we met some interesting people; a tourist guide and a tricycle rider. when sd and daniel came out we went to up to st pauls church. interesting stuff. wan tze and daniel went to the ex governors house to have a look. the tourist guide seem to be hitting on sd or honestly complimenting her about her eyes. hoho the 2nd compliment for the day… the 1st was from a helpful receptionist at the tourist information centre… who also wore an interesting coloured contact lense. grrr. speaking about contacts… when im gona get myself one… T_T. i guess that will be some day lor… but when… perhaps i myself will never know.
As we went down st pauls church, we stopped by the dutch mausoleum for a while. they took some pics and were particularly interested with a tomb which was opened… man… i dun reli like the idea of video-camering or photo capturing tombs of the dead… it just doesn’t sound right.. I guess we should just leave them alone and at peace. They may be here… or might not be here… but at least have some decency to respect them?
Anyway… at the foot of the hill, we were at kota a’famosa… aka… duno the name haha… once an archway or gateway of 6 of a mighty portugese fort.. which in some way… helped maintain their rule in malacca for 130 years. Its quite sad to only see the living proof of architecture left back from just a few centuries… typical of men to destroy anything or everything in their path. Thx to stamford raffles, this place is still preserved… a small part of it.. or A SUPER DAMN KAU SMALL PART of a once SUPER HUGE FORT. >_<. but it seems there is new findings of some blocks of stone, which are said to belong to a’famosa fort. I can see the stones foundations and craft… so i dont have any doubt they were related. After all i was standing on top of it…and had to pose haha. >_<
An interesting fact which i did know was…. kota a’famosa had an underground tunnels or connections known to connect right to st john’s fortk, which is 2km’s distance…. wow interesting. i wonder wat else we don’t know that has been covered up or demolished. The tunnel that i mentioned just now was told by a local tourist tricycle rider who was quite knowledgeable and friendly. He showed us the exact spot and told us how to see if it was true. he said when a place use to have a hole, which has been covered up with cement or something… will slowly sink in as time passes by. ooo O_O!!
I wonder wats down there. some1 hand me some dynamites… i wana go down and look haha!! Anyway he also showed us to another malacca tree.. which was quite near to us…several metres away. some leaf samples and photos were taken. Than we went to the park, to find the restroom. I tink every1 seemed quite exchausted after doing quite a lot of walking. Our next destination was to find makam hang jebat, makam tuah and the baba and nyonya shop. But it seemed the brochure didn’t have any information telling us on how to go there. >_< crab… anyway… i leaded us back to our cars… haha i guess every1 was please to get some rest. We managed to find makam hang jebat… which was at a remote side… unnoticed and perhaps unknown to most people.
After a round, and we still couldn’t find makam hang tuah, we decided to go to bukit china, and puteri hang li pohs well. It was getting pretty late… about 6.30 pm that time… so i was kinda worried hanging out around there… especially at a huge cemetry. I didn’t really know how to go to bukit china, but wanted to try my luck, by using some of the maps and brochures. We made a wrong turn… and got lost, and made a bloody huge ROUND again…. deja vu… we’re back from where we previously came… haha. i guess those behind us were getting tired and impatient of going rounds and rounds… so i told them, just one more round, if can’t find than we proceed to mahkota parade.
We did manage to find bukit china… but u gotta remember… that place is HUGE… so specifically which part or area are we talking about. We wanted to go to puteri hang li pohs well and to sam poh tong temple. Thx to a kind lady wo drove a bMW with her mum, she directed and brought us to this two places since she passing by that area too. Man… our destination was like still quite far away. i though we were gona get lost… since we seem to be heading further and further in. When the aunty stopped her car, i was worried she was gona blast us for stalking her or something haha. c c we arrived at our destination. thx u aunty for taking the trouble to show some strangers the way!! ^_^ its good to know there are still nice people around… sigh…
puteri hang li poh’s well and sam poh tongs temple were just beside each other. we had to make a round… and parked somewhere at the side, since there was no parking to be found. Me, sd, wan tze, and daniel went out, while the rest stayed in the cars. tired? exchausted? Im putting my money on that, since those 3 didn’t get much sleep…. one was watching anime, another watching drama series… the last one… watching football i tink >_<.
Sam poh thong temple was close… since we finally reached our destination at around 7.15 pm… weird… how come close temple so early… anyway, since there was like nothing much to see, i immediately went to puteri hang li pohs well. There were two sections… one section is where the well is displayed, the other are boards put up exhibiting details and drawings of how well existed and was used during ancient time. It seems, the well in some way… has some magical powers… since it was built under orders of king at that time.. Sultan Mansur Syah i tink… for his wife Puteri Hang Li Poh, who will use the well water to take her royal bath. It seems that the water in the well will NEVER DRY. Truly speaking… when i looked down the well… there was still a lot of water inside! awesome yeah! There was some steel fence placed on top of the well and locked up. I guess this is for protection… to avoide silly people from drowning… . It was said, that if anyone drank from the water of this well, that person will always come back to malacca. O_O ohh??!!!
I discovered a shocking fact about this well… besides being used by malacca soldiers and the dutch people during war as a source to drink and take baths… but the well was also used to kill their enemies. they placed poison into the well… and unknown to enemy troops, they decided to yam cha at the well and WOOOSH… Knock Out for good. Hundreds of enemy troops died to an evil but tactical strategy. During the dutchs time, they took the well very seriously and protected it like mad. They didn’t want the same faith to happen to them. O_o smart buggers.
Anyway at around 7.30-7.45 we left the place and went to Bunga Raya to eat O-cien. Had to wait a while though, coz we were the first customers and they were just setting up the store. I didnt touch o-cien at all… no idea why… didn’t have the appetite for it i guess. but i did drink warm suit cha and ate kwan loh min (not sure if thats the name haha). Felt super tired and exchausted. I guess i was having beginning to have fever, cold, and sore throat all at the same time. Awesome ^_^
We left for Mahkota Parade… our last destination. hehe i sat in an ogawa chair and got free massage. ohhh it was interesting. but i didnt particularly like the leg massage though. Coz they were like squeezing my legs… .My legs are like damn worn out, so show some love to them man, not squeez the hell out of them. I like the upper back massage. but it seems like less priority is given to the lower back… i wonder why. did the sales person set the controls in a weird way??? the massage session was for 15 mins. oooo!! one day… perhaps…one day.. im gona get good massages anytime i want. either go to a private spa cum massage parlour or let my future wife or gf massage me. MUAHAHA!!!! that would be good. If its my wife doing that, i would definately return her back the favour. Coz i believe, its unfair, if u ask her to care for u, but u don’t do so in return. She is after all a human too. She does have body aches… get tired, get sore muscles and need plenty of loving… ^_^. sigh…
We departed from malacca and went back around 10 pm i tink… i was so damn tired that time…. due to insufficient sleep, lots of planning and brain storming. Getting sick doesn’t help either, just makes things even more complicated and interesting haha. When we reached KL around 11 something, i went to wan hungs house for little while hehe for one sole purpose… and i’ll leave u guys to guess. A hint would be.. i was so DAMN RELIEFED. hahaha. I alwiz forget tat thursday is pasar malam day. but since i was like damn tired, i tink just go back lor..
Thx to Chan who did hell lot of driving and for putting up with my blurness in directions and etc. haha hoped every1 enjoyed themselves overall, since we did things in quite a rush, as tere wasn;t much time to really seat down to enjoy. Everyone, im sure was in some way or another awfully tired or exchausted. When i tried sleeping… there was something that kept on waking me up. i just couldn’t sleep for full 8 hours, I kept on waking up… . When i finally manage to get good and proper sleep, i guess i woke up like 12 hours later WAHAHHAA. basically one freaking day wasted lor. took me a while to recover from some stuff. but im still having this cough thingy. But it ain;t that serious though. so no worries mate.