Splitting this in too a three part story. I’ll start off first with me getting to Singapore on Friday afternoon. I had bought a bus ticket from Aeroline online for RM164 for a return ticket from KL (Chorus Hotel) -> Singapore (Harbourfront Plaza). Mom and Nessa had sent me to Chorus Hotel which was the drop and pick up point for those heading down to Singapore. I have never been so happy to hear a traveling point that is close to home.
Getting there took about half an hour and thankfully no jam. I was hanging about at the Chorus hotel lounge to get my free coffee which came with the Aeroline ticket and grabbed meself a hotdog bun too, since I had zilch to eat that day. And was more worried about getting my documents right, my piano score right and getting my voice/head used to the lyrics for the audition the next day.
Before I go on, i have to say the Cab Comfort line is so cool! All i need to do if i need transport is just call the cab line 65521111. They actually remember where was the last stop off and the usual place you always get picked up from. Omg! So cool! It was so ‘comforting’ to hear “Press 1 for Mount Emily” or “Press 2 to be picked up in front of 84, Coronation Road”. I wish for the day that Malaysia has a cab system like that.
Now on to the story. Warning image heavy here, so please patience.
Splitting this in too a three part story. I’ll start off first with me getting to Singapore on Friday afternoon. I had bought a bus ticket from Aeroline online for RM164 for a return ticket from KL (Chorus Hotel) -> Singapore (Harbourfront Plaza). Mom and Nessa had sent me to Chorus Hotel which was the drop and pick up point for those heading down to Singapore. I have never been so happy to hear a traveling point that is close to home.
Getting there took about half an hour and thankfully no jam. I was hanging about at the Chorus hotel lounge to get my free coffee which came with the Aeroline ticket and grabbed meself a hotdog bun too, since I had zilch to eat that day. And was more worried about getting my documents right, my piano score right and getting my voice/head used to the lyrics for the audition the next day.
A few days ago I was out for pretty much the whole afternoon onwards. Me, Mister G and his lil bro had gone to visit their Bro up in Universitr Utara Malaysia (UUM) located in some jungle in Kedah. The drive was about 2 hours from Penang and it was a rather slow drive. It didn’t help that it was starting to rain too.
We decided to make the trip cause well, Mister G and I haven’t really seen the Uni before. Furthermore, we went all the way up there to go go-karting.. hehe yeah. We took a 2 hour drive just to go for a short 45 minute go-kart.
Getting into that area meant we had to pass Alor Star, which was just filled with either some mad drivers on the road thrown in with some cows or goats wondering around the place. I was quite surprise to find that my gps on my phone actually did work! Needless to say though, because UUM is some really ulu (rural) area it couldn’t even detect a landmark close enough to it. All it showed me was a patch of green lol.
When we finally got there, I didn’t expect UUM to be so..well.. nicely done up - In certain areas that is. The landscape is gorgeous over there and probably one of the biggest unis I’ve seen to date. The biggest I’ve seen was UM then that got beaten by UKM.
Yesterday was one of the craziest trips I’ve encountered. Me, Giden, Jeffrey, Lydia and David had taken a drive down for our friend’s wedding in Melacca.
Let’s start of the days with me and Giden waking up at 6.30am, rushed to get ready and then to meet up with the rest along with Deryk at University Tower (UT), located near University Malaya. David was on the way to UT and while waiting for him, Giden decided to go pump petrol for his car. Finally when everyone was ready we made the move in two cars towards Melacca. Needless to say Jeffey boy was asking for breakfast, Giden was starting to feel a bitttt queasy for his performance at the church wedding, and me and Lydia…. Well we had to endure boy talk for the rest of the way.
We were driving at least round 150km/h…I think…. I think!! Allowing us to grab some breakfast at the Ayer Keroh rest stop for a while, much to joy of Jeff who was begging for food. Just a shy 5 minutes away, the wedding was about to start… and we were still at the toll… aiya!
Well we managed to get there on time and… like Malaysian timing we started at 10.30am. The church was really nice and spacious and had the most interesting road entrance. In KL, we follow the UKs road rules, meaning driving towards somewhere is on the left lane and cars heading out is on the right lane. Here surprisingly… it followed American road rules. Terbalik!
Anyway the wedding reception was lovely, and it was such a joy to see Alan’s face grinning like a little boy. His bride Adel is very sweet girl and she looked absolutely stunning that day. We had never seen Adel… most of us anyway… till that day and wow is she one gorgeous girl from a distance and even more so up close.
After the wedding, we had about 6 hours to kill before the dinner. So we ended up driving around Melacca. To be exact we got LOST around Melacca!
We were first trying to find Mahkota Hotel, which is literally the south of Melacca away from Alan’s church.
The lobby of Mahkota Hotel.. if you walk up the staircase that was where the dinner was to be held.
That’s how sleepy they were.. standing and sleeping…. lol…
Then we went hunting for the famous chicken rice ball for lunch and ended up all over the place. Finally we were able to find Chongker Street. It’s just a name for the area but it’s really on Jalan Hang Jebat.
Oh oh oh.. and I have to tell. My GPS on my N95 FINALLY WORKED!! At long last, it finally worked. See there are three lights on the screen to tell me the satellites have been detected and my GPS position is located. Sadly in KL it never works! For the first time I saw all the lights green. And as we drove round in Melacca, the cross actually moved along with us, meaning the satellites were picking up my position. FINALLY!! So.. it seems in order for me to get phone to work properly I have to go all the way to Melacca….. joy…
Anyhoo… we still got lost. Hahaha but at least we managed to find our lunch. Which was at this place that served a delicious Asam Fish. The rice balls are just rice , but the Asam Fish…. Oooooo wow!!! Drooooollllll!!!
That’s Jeff’s head
Chicken….
Rice….. see the rice ball… yum chicken rice..local delights.
Ooooooo and best of alll Asam Fish (Sour Fish)… dellliiiiishhhhh
Eating done… now we were going to head on to an air conditioned place. We told Deryk to meet us at Pahlawan a new shopping mall.
Dataran Pahlawan - Melaka’s Version of MegMall.
So we got there and guess what made one big round the building because they refuse for us to park…. Well not exactly but their parking signs weren’t very friendly. Then poor Deryk couldn’t find his way and ended up buying a map. The poor dude was wondering around the city for bout half an hour.
Calling Deryk to see where he is while we just chilled.
See my worry/concern!!…. I don’t know what Giden was thinking…lol
…..then we just started snapping pics… he was trying to do squinted eyes but it didn’t work hahahha.
So we decided to just meet back at the hotel. Aiya ya ya…which was just in time for us to quickly bath and rush for the wedding dinner. But not before Jeff had to shock us by saying… we were in the wrong hotel!!! Just kidding! Don’t do that!!!We met Candice, Erica and Joanne at the dinner table.
We couldn’t do much chatting as the band playing was blasting really loud music…and of allll music’s after the bride and groom had walked in and sat down at the main table….they played “Because of You” by Kelly Clarkson….. =S ****sweeeeatttt****
Helllooooooooo… it’s a wedding man!
The dinner was a real blast. Despite Melacca being really kinda almost ulu (as in old town) like, with terrible winding narrow roads that had no indication of who is going were, and possible for the cars to be knocked by opening house doors (yes that narrow!!). I was very delighted by how sporting the people were at the wedding. Typical Chinese weddings, do not usually involved dancing and even if they did KL people usually pile to one another and not go up to the dance floor out of shyness. Lydia and I had a blast!!! Most of the people got up to dance so we quickly ran up. Although …. I don’t know what kinda dance we were doing… but it was soooo much funnn!!! And for once…. Giden got up to dance, without me dragging him.. ah well!
When the wedding had ended, we were taking group pictures after group pictures.
The whollllleee gang.
The boys…..
The girls…. my camera took a blur pic… so people gimme the picture!!
You know who this is … haha…
Then we had a reminiscence time out with the groom. Talking about…. just stuff…. Lol. Just look at the happy couple!
Alan Low and Adel Lim… now as Mr and Mrs Low.
Then the group made its separate ways, to check in, to check out (at 11.15pm, who checks out at that hour??). The boys were unfortunately about to doze off and we had to really push them to wake up (hint hint David!) to wake up.. Hahahaa.
The ride back, was hehe… amusing. We were all screaming and shouting just to keep awake. David feel asleep first, then Lydia… then I nodded off for a bit.. but woke up to Jeff’s yacking. Which then made me start playing 20 questions with him. Then he made me play some lateral thinking game…. That really drove me nuts..cause I had to think logically and was sleepy at the same time!
The night finally ended with me and Giden dropping off the gang and us heading back home. Phew!!! What a day…. Got home at 2.15 in the morning…whee…
It was a really fun trip and hope to arrange another one soon.. hehhee
Yeah it was my birthday yesterday, but I didn’t get the time to put up a post. So here it is on what happened on the blessed day i was born. It was thoroughly boring.. hahhaa… I spent most of the time travelling back from Penang and was stuck on the road for a good 4 hours plus. On top of that it was raining, so Giden and I managed to see glorious mist forming amongst the trees and hills. It was really nice.
You can see that it is getting darker on the road. Finally when we made it back to KL from Penang. It was round 7.45pm. Along the way Giden insisted on taking me for dinner. So…. okk… dinner it is and where abouts?
Jogoya at the Starhill Gallery, which was the same place as last year. The food and more so the ambiance is really impressive. The spread is so huge, you really don’t know what to choose. So we made a booking at 8.30pm and arrived just in time. And here is just roughly what it looked like.
As you enter Jogoya there is this beautifully done up pond with their logo in it.
The tables at Jogoya, this was the one opposite us.
Fork and spoons and the jogoya wipe ones.
You use these clips when you want to order certain dishes. Drop it in the bowls at the dish areas and the cooks will bring the dish which is a portion big enough to give you a taste, at your table.
Also if you like eating noodles or having a steamboat meal, you can use this little tiny gas device to keep your food hot warm… or cooked. I didn’t try it though.
Ahhh the plate we always look forward to. The tempura.
Serving drinks? Nah get your own. This coconut was placed in a cute lil ice tree stump. But because it won’t balance properly, you place it in your glass cups. Haha.. why didn’t i think we could use those cups for our juice drinks.
Giden’s dish of the night. Usually oysters come raw and tastes a bit nasty if you don’t know how to acquire the taste for it. Here we have an oyster that that is already cooked and with a fantastic sauce which tastes like carbonara. We had i think three helpings of these. Two at a time of course.
Then i went to get California Rolls… yummm..but honestly it wasn’t that great. Wakka the Japanese Restaurant in Penang has a much better Roll, because the guy who makes them is seriously pro, and he makes them customized too. Less rice and a lot more ingredient.
This was a ridiculous sushi. It’s called crystal sushi. You see that clear thing at the side, they actually use the clinging wrap, because they made the sushi with muachi dough. Not a nice tasting thing. So don’t try it.
I finally tucked into desert. This was Blueberry Layered Cheesecake. Nice!
OK, now please take a close look at these. The brown one on the side is peanut and coffee muachi and the right is Strawberry muachi. The Strawberry muachi was not great, was too sweet and took a while for me to cut as you shall see with the peanut one. The top is a mango cake, which was REALLY NICE!!!!Do take that.
Stage 2 of eating the muachi.
It is completely killed! But at least it tasted good.
Giden took an interest in the lights, when he tried to change a subject and commented that it looked like our juice cups.
umm….. right….
Where we sat, at least from my view.
Me and Honey, we were trying to get the pond at the entrance at the back.
Chocolate Banana cake from Secret Recipe, I’ve had this cake easily 5 times now. Due to birthdays at the office. Hahaha
Me and my siblings with the cake, which my sister was waiting to eat the whole day…piggyy!!
We smiled to the point our eyes are nothing but slits.
If you’d notice my mouth is all crooked. I was trying to blow one candle at a time.
