Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Malacca Trip: Day 1

Woke up at 8am and had "weetameal" with milk for breakfast. Then, I went to wash up and got ready for the trip. Left the house at 9am to go pick ZS. Picked him up and went to MY's house. Reached there at 9.35am but waited for the rest to arrive.

Waiting for ZS...

Finally at 9.50am, everyone arrived. We left for Malacca and took some breaks in between. At about 11.55am, we arrived at Malacca. Drove to town and looked for our hotel. By the time we got into our apartment room, it was already 12.30pm.

Mahkota Hotel lobby entrance

Level 12 (Lotus Block)

Room Number 3128

Kitchen: Nothing really useful here...

Dining Room: 4 chairs and a table

Living Room: super messy thanks to our bags!

Balcony: Looking out to sea

Balcony: Looking down at pool

Balcony: CW session!

1, 2, POSE!

Bedroom 1: The bed

A super-excited DY

Lazy pig!

Bathroom: Run down bathtub and toilet bowl

Bathroom: Mirror and sink


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Hotel Facts:
  1. Water was yellow!
  2. First bathroom had no hot water.
  3. Bathtub is in bad condition.
  4. Lift STOPS at the 7th floor WITHOUT anyone pressing it!
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Lazed around for another 20 minutes before going out for lunch. Everyone went into the Avanza and we had "Chicken Rice Ball" for lunch at "Chop Chung Wah". The chicken wasn't nice but the rice was good.

Mr.Driver, ACJY

Human GPS Holder, LZS

Random street picture

Another random one

Small little door by the side

Chop Chung Wah: Hainanese Chicken Rice Ball

Chicken: Not really nice

Rice Balls: Something different

Herbal Tea: Nah, a regret!

After paying up, we walked over to the "red house" area. Explored the area and took some pictures. We walked around St Paul Hill area without reading much. Just focused on taking pictures here and there!

Christ Church Melaka

Fountain Posing Crew 1

Fountain Posing Crew 2

Random Street Picture...

Walking the streets...

Stairs to Stradhuys

Should we go to the museum?

Decided to walk on...

Up here...

...and through there

Looking out at the EOM.

More walking

The statue of St. Francis Xavier greeting us

Front view of St. Paul Church

How much is that doggy at the window? Woof Woof!

Inside the church

Love?

Weirdo!

Walking downhill

Looking down at A'Famosa

Group Picture!

A' Famosa

Nice Groupie!

Posing with the cannon

ZS trying to steal the limelight!

Look there!!

Since everyone got tired, we went inside Pahlawan Megamall. We went to have some ice cream and walked around the mall. About an hour later, we went back outside and walked back to the "big clock tower".

inside Pahlawan Megamall

Ice Cream!!

Happily eating...

Shopping!!

HX and AC CW-ing!

AL trying his new pants

Smile!

Passed by this poor car

Walking...

Unfortunately, the D70s ran out of battery. All of us went to the "Big Clock" Cendol stall and ordered "Cendol Biasa". After eating, we walked back to our car and went over to the famous nyonya dumpling stall.

Cendol stall by the river

Cendol Biasa - RM 1.40

We ordered some dumplings and I was happy the rest of them liked it. We even ordered some dumplings to bring home tomorrow. All of us were tired so we went back to the hotel. We rested for awhile before going to the pool at the ground floor.

Nyonya Dumpling - RM 3.80

Sadly, we weren't allowed to get into the pool because we didn't wear "proper swimming attire". Those idiots obviously haven't heard of surf pants or board shorts! Damn! Went back upstairs and rested for a while.

Left the hotel at 6.20pm but we only found a "Satay Celup" restaurant at 7.35pm! This was due to us being clueless with 2 GPS that suddenly couldn't function! So after this experience, we can proudly say that we are "quite" familiar with the Malaccan roads.

CW while the rest went to ask for directions

The moment we saw "Ban Lee Siang" at Jalan Ong Kim Wee, everyone cheered! We went down the car and quickly got a place in the restaurant. After an "okay" dinner, I paid RM7.60 and we went off. We drove back to Mahkota Parade and bought some stuff.

Ban Lee Siang

Took these sticks of food from the fridge (self service)

The "celup" pot

Stuffed all the sticks inside!

Iced Barley - RM 1.00

Normal ends (RM 0.50 per stick)
Red ends (RM 0.60 per stick)
My total - RM 6.60

Our groceries

Trolley Man :-)

After that, we drove back to "Eye On Malaysia" but it was closed. Since the lights were still on, we stood outside and took a few pictures. After that, we drove around looking for a petrol station.

Eye On Malaysia

Looks really nice at night!

Pose here...

Pose there...

On the way, we saw so many "Satay Celup" shops! Anyway, we quickly refueled the car and drove to "Taming Sari". We arrived just as it closed. So, we have to come back again tomorrow. Since we were near there, we went to the food court named "Newton" for some supper.

Taming Sari (sorry for bad pic quality)

AC, ZS and I shared some "Tong Sui", "Durian Cendol", "Fried Salted Chicken" and "Rojak". The tong sui was nice but the rest were just okay. After that, we went back to our hotel to hang out. P

Very delicious Tong Sui - RM 1.00 per bowl

Fried Salted Chicken - RM 5.00

Durian Cendol - RM 3.30

Rojak - RM 3.00

Played some cards before taking a shower. When I came out, AL and MY were already sleeping. Since everyone was doing their own things, I started blogging. AC was doing the same too (but he stole most of the pictures!).

In between, AC made me a cup of coffee. To thank him, I took a picture of it. Turns out, I liked the picture a lot! Finally finished this post at 1.10am. Going to turn off the laptop and go to bed. I'm the only one left. Bye...

Nescafe made by AC

Sleepyheads

Instant Noodles for supper

After I turned off the laptop, everyone were still in bed. I went to brush my teeth and prepared for bed. When I came out, ZS and AC was outside! Since they didn't want to sleep also, we played Monopoly Deal.

MY came out to join us too. We ate our instant noodles while I taught them how to play. MY was the fastest learner and she won the first 2 rounds! Later, AC won the final round. We decided to call it a day because we had to drive tomorrow.

I went to sleep in Bedroom1 while AC went to Bedroom2. ZS was supposed to sleep on the floor at B2 but decided to sleep in the living room instead...

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