2天1夜马六甲之旅

Weekends are indeed precious nowadays. Especially when you have to face your boss' angry tone everyday at work! Shall not complain about it, cause this is supposed to be a happy post! ^_^!!!

Early March, the Dearies' planned a 2D1N Meleka trip just for a short getaway (from W.O.R.K!).

Plan for the trip: EAT. SLEEP. PLAY. RELAX. NO-WORK!!!

Since there are 9 of us, we decided to coach down instead of driving there. We booked our coach tickets from 5 Stars, $50/pax return tickets. Our 1-night stay is at Hatten Hotel, which is besides the Mahkota Parade Square. Very easily accessible to different parts of Melaka. :) 

We booked a 2-bedroom suite for RM$715.40 (all inclusive for 4 breakfasts, service and hotel tax). Quite worth it as each of us only pay about RM$80 for it. The room is quite big and can fit us all in and sleep comfortably!

The Living Room - Spacious 

The Master bedroom & twin bedroom

The splendid view of Melaka with the sea in front of us :)

By the time we are settled in, our stomachs are growling like mad. It's like 3 pm in the afternoon so it's too early for Jonker Walk to open, thus we decided to settle our lunch nearby. Directly across our hotel is a Korean Restaurant: Daorae Korean BBQ Restaurant.

The place looks quite like a authentic Korean shop, with people sitting on the floor like the tatami style. They have this huge exhaust thing about the table to suck all the smoke from the BBQ-ing.

BBQ-ing all the meat! *SINFUL!* The usual side dishes from any Korean restaurant.

Dearies looking happy after going hungry for so long! ^_^!

We ordered the typical Korean food like BBQ pork slices, marinated beef, tteokbokki, kimchi stew, stir-fried glass noodles (on the house from the manager ^^). Initially thought we ordered just nice for everyone, but turn out that the food portion is super big that we couldn't finished all the food.

After lunch, we went back to Mahkota Parade to shop around and digest our food. We found the famous Nadeje Crepe! HAHAHA! I missed it on my last trip so was really glad to finally giving it a try! :)There's so many flavors to choose and we just couldn't decide on it. ^_^! In the end, we bought 7 slices and the rest were giving me a O.O!! look! HAHAHA! Anyway, those for meant for our desserts cause we were too full! :):):)

Before our trip, we  saw on TV about this rotating  observation tower that offers the bird eye view of Melaka. It's just across the road from Mahkota and because the weather is super hot, we bought our tickets to relax up there. It costs RM$20/pax.

Bird eye view of Melaka, from different views.

It only took about 5 minutes and we're up at the top. :) 

Christchurch is next on the list! :) That's also another iconic feature in Melaka and it's just about 10 minutes walk from the Observation Tower. Notice that we walked around rather than cabbing. :):):)

It was still quite early for Jonker Walk. Only some stalls are setting up, so we went to the 三叔公 to hide away from the HEAT! A cold drink for everyone and also candy-crushing! ^^ It's really funny cause everyone is holding their own phone and starts asking for requests.

Lots of interesting stuff along the street, food, bags, some local products, etc. Just spent a while to take a look at some of the stalls and you'll see some of the really old school things.

Ate some street food and we went on for our dinner: Satay Celup! It was a mad queue so we decided to forgo it and went ahead for desserts! We're still full from the afternoon lunch too! -_-" 

Our 1st dessert cum dinner for the night! :) 

This dessert shop is just a few shops away from the satay celup and since we're still feeling hot from the weather, a big bowl of ice sounds good to us! We ordered a 6-pax mixed fruits ice and managed to finish everything! ^_^!!!

More food from the second day, woke up early to queue for the chicken rice balls! :) And of course before leaving Melaka, a bowl of Chendol is a MUST! :)

Dearies' 1st overseas trip after graduation! (Or maybe after everyone starts to work?) :)

Looking forward to our next trip: Phuket? My all-time favorite beach getaway! :)

What an adventure! ^_^!!!

Just came back from Malacca! Indeed, this is the first trip that I encountered so many adventures! Some good, some bad, some scary! *LOL!*

:) A walk into the Christ Church, Melaka

1st adventure: Drove straight into the Police Station

We rented a car (Proton Persona) so that we can navigate easier around and also to find some good places for food besides of the City. Unfortunately, it was a last minute decision, thus only left with Protons. Once we gotten our car, we decided to go back to the Hotel first to sleep a bit more before making our way down to A'Famosa (Water World) since it's quite a long journey. I set my Goggle Map on iPhone and set off but it seems like the road from Google Map is short-cut and in actual fact we aren't allow to pass through. Thus, we ended driving into the Police station! >.<""

2nd adventure: Reversed cars are DANGEROUS!

I had my first car accident! O.O!!! Yeah, my clean record is now NOT CLEAN! :'( I almost scared the car park attendant to death. But then her expression made me laugh till the stomach dropped! O.O!!! Anyway, lucky Mr Lin is alright, and no one is injured, but the poor car has some scratches on top of it.

>.<"" Quite a bad scratch and till now still feeling guilty for causing it!

3rd adventure: Washing the car under the scorching hot sun!

We found quite a big patches of yellow paint on the injured car, thus we decided to do our own cleaning. Using the Dettol wipes (that's the only wet tissues on hand), we slowly removed all the paint from the car. By the time we're done, we're almost half dead. Poor Mr Lin, he had to accompany me all the way due to my careless mistakes!

4th adventure: Illegally driving into private estate

I kept asking Mr Lin to drive me to find the Beef Bah Ku Teh that was highly recommended online by many. So during the 2nd night, he drove me right to the exact point shown on the GPS. However, surrounding us was just rows and rows of private houses. From the blogs, we knew that the shop is surrounded with bamboos. So when we saw that the house is also surrounded with bamboos, we thought that the shop is inside. So we drove in through the gate slowly and while Mr Lin is parking the car, I got a surprise! 

There were a few Muslims guys praying in the house. That's when I knew that this is not the correct place. Lucky, Mr Lin already switch off the headlights before driving in. If not, I think we'll be arrested! 

After making rounds and rounds and on the verge of going back to City, we finally found the Bah ku teh!

The soup is thick and very 够味! Something different from the usual Bah ku teh! Both of us finished the whole pot! *YUMS!*

Weather at Malacca is dreadful! Super duper hot and humid! Once I gotten my room I don't even feel like leaving the hotel to walk under the big hot sun! Anyway, it's purely a eat-walk-sleep-eat trip. HAHAHA! We just kept on eating and non-stop eating. O.O!!!!

And the thing about this Persona is that the signal is on the left, which is opposite of what I'm used to (right signal). So every time we wanted to signal, the wiper turns on and it irritates us so much!

No more holidays till November! O.M.G!!! How to tahan till then? >.<"

It's just get more exciting! :)

:) My Malacca trip is confirmed! *YAY!* So excited that I told Senior first and asked him to introduce all the good places to visit! ^_^!! LOL!

I'm so going to do a itinerary for the trip and hopefully everything will be good for Mr Lin! *wheeee!*

Tioman.....Malacaa.....Here we come! ^_^!!!

我只希望明天是绿的

March started badly. Tools down one by one, until I'm a bit 不自所错. Till now, though manage to get at least half the tool back, I'm still struggling between the red and green line. -___-"" Worse thing is there's another tool still dead. *sigh*

At least there's something good this week: SSMC Basketball Tournament 2012. Lucky everything went well, matches went accordingly and we ended everything on time. ^_^!!! Many thanks to all who turned up and help in one way or another. 

Would like to thank Mr Goh (Especially) for helping me to carry all the mineral water & capturing lots of shots during the matches! :) 

Here's some sneak preview from him: 

SRC girls :) Super X-Men team! :) Well done guys! See you at the Quarter Finals! ^_^!!!

:) Self shot of Jian Yong & myself! :) And a shot with Furnace guys! :) 

LOL! Mr Lin came back to say hello and was supposed to be helping me, but turned out that he was helping himself to the courts. -__-" HAHAHA! 

And while he was playing, Mr Au saw him and asked who is that guy. O.O!!! HAHAHAHA! The next thing he told me totally caught me off guard and I was laughing like mad. As quoted by him "So macho! Like me when I'm in my younger days". 

Mr Lin indeed has a sexy back. LOL!

It's a boring Sunday! Spent the morning in Jurong Point queuing for Five Stars. Booked a trip to Malacca to celebrate Mr Lin's birthday! ^_^!!! *YAY!* Ain't I a sweet girl huh? *自夸*