Melaka 1 Day Trip
I came back from malaysia last sunday. But somehow i felt i left some things undone when i reached singapore. So i discussed with yanli, and decided I'll go to melaka to meet the volleyball people. Especially those that i did not see on my last trip. It turned out to be loads of fun.. even though it was only for one day.
It began on the early morning on the 29th. Ask my mum to drop me at lavender bus terminal on her way to work. and there i got a $16 ticket to malacca.. so this marks the beginning of my journey. My first ever solo voyage across the border. felt a little nervy at first.. but than i told myself.. "ahh hell, it's only malaysia.. and half of the time, i know what they are saying. i just act blur" hahaa..it was supposed to be a 3hr plus ride. the last time i came with yanli, the journy took 4 hrs cos the driver was freaking slow. this time around, it wasnt any better, the driver was just as slow.. and worst, he even made a pitstop.. in fact 2 stops.. one for food.. one for toilet.. hahaa. crap.. this driver has a leaking bladder and a bottomless stomach.. hahaa..
ok so by the time i reached melaka sentral, it's already after 12pm.. so i took almost 5 hrs to reach.. wat the hell.. anyway.. going to try another bus company new time around.. the bus is really quite sucky.. but i can accept lar.. hahaa.. first thing i did when i reached was to find food.. and i decided on A&W.. hehee.. root beer float.. shiok.. but kindda boring to be eating alone.. :p
spend about 45mins ina internet cafe at the sentral.. dirt cheap.. only 2rm per hr.. haha.. but the place is also quite rundown.. so yah.. the place justifies the price. next.. i began my shopping trail.. cos gotta buy something for yanli's sis.. so took the panaroma bus down to mahkota.. and i was told the vball people saw me on the bus.. which was like.. DUHzZ!! mainly cos i tot you all haven reach melaka.. i told fung to msg me when u all reach.. duhzZ again..
anyway, so many paragraphs down.. and i still haven talked abt meeting the vball ppl.. this shows how much time i spent wasting walking around in melaka.. even more duhzZ.. when fung said they will only walk around in the early evening.. haha.. melaka does really have much of a night life.. esp weekdays.. oh well..
after getting wat i was suppose to get at mahkota.. i decided to look for a peranakan restaurant which me and yanli somehow just couldnt find on our trip here.. and this time.. we had a discovery online that the road which we were looking for the restaurant is longer than we thought.. and truely.. it was damn long.. it took me almost 30mins to walk from one end to the other before finding this shop.. and i just took a photo of it.. after this photo, i begun a super long and actually rather fast journey.. i took a brisk walk down several roads and unknown alleys.. all based on my acute sense of direction and random luck. i managed to find the hotel they are staying in less than 45mins worth of walking and sweating under the horrible sun.. but i made it.. this hotel looks rather presentable from the outside.. but once i stepped it.. Voom!!
time travelled backwards.. 2 decades...
the super outdated layout and the ancient wooden reception desks and counters.. omg.. but i still feel the lift is the most classic of all.. 24 storeys of hotel rooms.. and the lifts crawl at 5sec/storey speed.. you calculate how long it takes to get to 17th floor.. oh yah.. the buttons in the lift.. super retro.. acrylic buttons... haven seen them since i was in kindergarten.. hahaa..
I was dragged to play bridge a while after reaching.. bridge is fun.. haven played in ages.. loved those days in tj when bridge is a legal card game everywhere in school.. the canteen is filled with bridge players.. felt so intellectual back then.. haha.. who did i played with?? eeeehhh.. i think it was michelle, chermaine & krystal.. and i think i din win at all.. suxX.. hahaa..
soon it was finally time to set off.. shopping time.. the tj bus brings the gang to mahkota.. oh yes.. back there again.. :P it's alrite for me.. i dun mind shopping at all.. just that i couldnt really find clothes that fit and look good.. anyway.. the guys aint really interested in shopping.. so we ended up in the bowling alley.. here's where the fun begins.. 
that's wengseng there desperately trying to do a hook, which din really materialise through all his frames. it was kenneth who stole the show.. 170+ score.. owned all of us.. all i could do was occasional cheers are a nice spare or strike.. which wasnt too bad actually..
we were way past our meeting time by the time we finished bowling.. anyway.. i dun think anyone was really complaining about it.. or maybe there was.. but i din hear them.. ok.. it wasnt really our fault.. the lanes were just damn faulty lar.. and i think wengseng could have caused that.. for dropping his bowling balls so hard.. spoil the place..
met up with the reat of the gang and i brought them to Formosa Chicken Rice Balls.. Table separation seems quite clear everytime.. it's the TAs, Fung's Table and Mine.. hahaa.. Again.. i have to say this is not the best in melaka..
the best one i personally like, doesnt open at night. so too bad.. go for 2nd best.. but i think most ppl like their food pretty much.. they looked enjoyed.. hahaa.. JP dropped his rice ball while trying to pose for this picture.. hahaa.. poor kid.. lost his balls and din even get a good shot.. hahaa.. 
so he stuck his head into the next picture as well. hahaa.. the most hilarious thing happened on the way to the chicken rice.. JP was freaked out by this buddha statue which was placed on the floor behind the grilles of a shop.. the way he freaked was super super funny.. BUT.. when i looked into the shop myself when we were walking back.. I got a little freaked too.. haha.. it was in a rather eerie and shocking position. hehee
walked the long walk back to Dataran Pahlawan after dinner. we were suppose to meet the bus there. wengseng wanted to look for auntie anne's, so we went. and I was rite!! there wasnt any. hahaa.. i bought Dairy King Ice Cream for some of them, with everyone contributing watever small change they have. I ended up paying the cashier with a whole stack of 1RM.. whahaaa.. the ice cream was nice.. creamy and totally no sign of any icey bits..
this dunman high TA gang did not join us for dinner, they went shopping instead. they seem to have endless stuff to buy. amazing.. they bought this mini bolster.. which many others went to buy the next day. or maybe they already bought it. 
I'm not sure.. i just know MANY bought that mini bolster. took some photos on the bus, thanks to xiujie. i passed him the cam while i go get a drink in mac.. and he goes whoring with the cam.. hahaa.. after that it was back to the scruffy looking hotel.. amazing the place did not shake while we were in it.. guess i was getting used to the shaky hotels in taiwan. earthquakes are common there.. k i sidetrack.. :P
k back at the hotel, after some washing up, the non-TA-gals gang all gathered in kenneth/shengyu/jp's room... heard the TA gals were playing in-between.. but i'm not sure.. din go join them.. hehee.. but i'm sure they had fun.. they are a crazy bunch.. anyway, the room is adjoined to zoe/serena/shiyun's rm.. so yah.. it becomes a BIG room.. mahjong was the first activity on the list.. like JP said in his post, he and zoe are simply damn good lar.. or damn lucky.. the tiles are falling for them.. aarrgghhh.. they managed several big wins.. and all i could conjure are some puny little wins to minimise losses.while all this mahjong was happening, 2 major scandals were brewing.. hahaa.. kenneth was trying to sleep on the bed just beside the mahjong table.. and serena lying pretty close by.. haha.. scandal 2 was more lewd.. hahaa.. wengseng and shiyun in the adjoining room.. doing god knows wat.. haha.. and that shiyun keeps screaming as if u know what is happening.. hahaa.. oh well.. we could only imagine.. initialy mahjong was rather boring.. cos the JP and Zoe tagteam are winning almost all the time.. suxX... we got sick of it..
we gathered everyone in shiyun's room and started to play some dumb game.. so i suggested playing closed-eye version murderer.. but somehow i couldnt get the game mechanics going rite.. aarrgghh.. my fault.. so it was rather boring.. murderer and the multi-level heart attack are the most fun games i've played.. all thanks to hay introducing them in taiwan... but sadly.. i forgot how the games went.. aarrgghhh.. oh well.. let's skip the boring murderer part.. i think most of them are falling asleep during the game. and i was the most entertained.. hehe..
Next up is basically the highlight of the night.. truth or dare.. with no option other than truth.. hahaa.. and we played it indian poker style.. with plenty of cheating involved.. haha.. the juiciest truths as usual came from the most scandalous issues.. scandalous people, scandalous issues... it's all a setup i say.. hahaa.. but the truth was good.. as for actual confessions are only available to the privilage few of us who are present.. hahaa.. for the rest who aint around.. keep guessing.. hehee... but i must say.. wengseng is somehow the target of everything.. every question either has him involved or he will be one asking question.. hahaa.. super involved in the game... the game ended with the last question at me.. think they got bored with my answer.. hahaa..
back to mahjong again.. just JP, Shengyu, Keith and me.. played for money.. and JP still continued his winning streaks.. suxX... but i dun think anyone paid him... hahaa.. so yah.. JP.. good game lar.. hahaa.. u good.. while we were playing.. the rest konked out one by one.. kenneth just sat on the floor by the table.. xiujie & wengseng slept in the gal's room.. the gals slept on the guy's double bed.. looking just like a bunch of sardines.. cos they were in the exact same position.. very sardine-looking.. hahaa.. oh yah.. where's xinzhi?? hmmm.. was he playing mahjong with us?? cant rem.. hahaa
when we got tired of the game around 6am.. the 4 mahjongers.. disperse.. i went back to fung's room to take a nap... and i fell dead asleep.. when fung woke me up, i thought he was going for breakfast.. but he was actually back from breakfast.. duhzZ.. so it was about time to checkout of the hotel.. hahaa.. washed up a little and packed up my stuff.. me and fung walked down 17 storeys.. the lift was just too slow.. i was still half asleep so i had to take each step carefully.. almost missed a step quite a few times.. zZzZZzzZz...
back on the bus.. and off we go.. where else but back to Pahlawan/Mahkota again.. hahaa.. the girls went shopping again.. while the guys went roaming around in pahlawan.. and shengyu went to get ice-cream.. he could no longer resist the temptation of the creamy Dairy King.. hahaa.. i bought cup corn.. but i got sick of it after a while.. and i saw fish in the fountain.. and i started feeding the fish with the oily corn nibblets.. the fish swarmed at me.. hahaa.. see that splash just behind serena, that's wengseng feeding the fish with my corn.. those fish are starving.. oh. did i mention no feeding was allowed?? hehee... we went across to the arcade in mahkota parade.. the arcade is not really dirt cheap.. but not bad lar.. kenneth and xiujie are good at arcade games... esp xiujie.. he just trashed xinzhi and JP with his initial D style driving..
he and kenneth also completed the whole time crisis 2.. with some extra $$ of cos.. hahaa.. but i still think the highlight is when many of us played daytona together... i tell you.. i really wanted to win.. but somehow the steering wheel is just not working for me.. so i had to improvise to have some fun.. 
i struggled to make a 180degree turn and wait for victims.. hehee.. i waited and waited for the cars to come around the bend.. and i started my engines and VRROoooMMM.. BaAAAANNGGG!!! EuphoRIA!! hahaa... cars flew in the air.. hahaa.. shiok.. this tells us, you dun have to be first to control the game or have fun in daytona.. hahaa.. :Poh yah.. that's kenneth there.. trying to "avoid" bullets flying at him.. hahaa..
time for the last meal in Melaka.. i brought them to the famous cendol in the area.. generous servings of gula melaka... finely shaved ice.. large red beans and the green cendol.. oh yah.. for you ignorant ppl out there.. the green jelly is call cendol.. hahaa.. the little eatery itself is actually quite nostalgic.. so we couldnt resist taking some dumb photos.. hahaa...
after this was making our back onto the team bus.. and back to singapore... but a few things happened on the bus.. like kenneth going around taking pictures of ppl sleeping.. and the MSN chat room which consist of xiujie, wengseng and me.. zoe got approved of her application much later.. hahaa... yah.. than we had this stop at a shop that sells local products at so call wholesale prices.. my foot.. been there many times b4.. and it's not at all cheap.. and most of the products are available in singapore.. hahahaa.. but we still spend $$.. just to expend our ringgit...
I guess that's about the end of the whole 1 day trip to Melaka... i wanted to visit vanessa as well.. but i had to go back to tj with fung.. to get key from him.. anyway... amazing how much you can write about just 1 day rite?? hehee...
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