Melaka : I conquered you ~

22 & 23 September


This was my first time visiting Melaka. In reality, I haven't been visiting much places around Malaysia even my own state, Perak. I have only been to Taiping, Pangkor Island and Lumut once or twice. Other than Tronoh, Batu Gajah and my very own hometown Ipoh, I hadn't visited other places in Perak. Me, Yee Jie and Kai Xian took bus to Melaka from Negeri Sembilan which was around 1hour and 30 minutes trip. We first arrived at Melaka Sentral and was lost in direction, in terms of places to visit. We decided to call our friend, Lin Kiat whom resides in Melaka.

We first visited Mahkota Parade before Lin Kiat come fetching us to Globallion Hotel, Melaka to overnight. Lin Kiat's dad paid for the full hotel fees for us. ^^

We visited Mahkota Parade in the morning, but this was taken at night =)

With Lin Kiat around, he became our tour guide and bought us around Melaka. After checking into our hotel rooms, we took a short rest before heading out for a special dinner at:

T-Bowl Restaurant. It looks like a kopitiam but everything inside is toilet based! Cool!

 Things that I ordered for my dinner, yummy! Everything was toilet based! ^^

Right after our tremendous dinner, we headed to Dataran Pahlawan, another gigantic shopping complex in Melaka:

Dataran Pahlawan and the night view of Melaka. We even viewed the whole Melaka from a very great height. The scene was trilling!

This concludes our 22nd September night in Melaka.

Early on 23rd September in Melaka, we went swimming! The water was very cold, chilling and freezing. We were shivering and trembling inside the water. It was my first time swimming in the morning in those freezing water, insane!

 I will never try to swim again in the morning! I catch a cold after that :P

After swimming and cleaning up ourselves, we went out to have our breakfast, Dim Sum. It was very worth because I ate a lot and the food there is very nice. I couldn't remember the shop name. Before leaving Melaka,we headed to Jonker Street:

 Enjoying Dim Sum in Melaka

 Around Jonker Street. Kampung Ketek is inside Jonker Street!

After purchasing various souvenirs and handcrafts, we headed to the famous Red Stadhuys Building and Kota A Famosa:

 A beautiful windmill opposite the Red Stadhuys Building

 This plane was used for war and travelling long ago. Now it's for display beside the Red Stadhuys Building

 ♥

 emo~

 together-gether emo!

 taken by some tourists from China who asked us to pose like this.

 yay! Kota A Famosa!

 LOL!

 It was very hot that day, we decided to stop by at a Chicken Riceball Restaurant to have our lunch:

Chicken Riceball which can only be found in Melaka and not Ipoh!

That sums up my trip in Melaka with me, Kai Xian, Yee Jie and Lin Kiat heading different directions back home. I went to KL to visit Cheng Zheng before I go back home. :)

Around and After Seremban ~

22 September 2011

I have been experiencing a new leaf of life lately, 'working life' which seems to be a whole new different environment for me to encounter. I'll blog about my 'working life' soon, but now I wished to accomplished what I left out beforehand. It has been almost one month since my semester break trip around Seremban, Melaka and KL. I stopped posting at Seremban on my previous post because the pictures taken there were no uploaded by my friend, Yee Jie.

At Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. Photos credits to Yee Jie's camera.

On 21st September 2011, we resided at Ming Mutiara Hotel, Seremban for one night and departed to Melaka in the afternoon of 22nd September 2011. Below are some pictures of our astounding vacation in Seremban.

Taking ETS to Seremban

 Visited Taman Budaya Negeri Sembilan, but there was nothing there. It is more like a Multipurpose Hall, where only important functions are held there.

We visited the Muzium Negeri, Negeri Sembilan

 Meriam (Canon) that is used to defend the state during Yamtuan Antah's ruling. Still remember who is Yamtuan Antah? Read back your Form 2 Sejarah Textbook. 

 Gamelan at Muzium Negeri, Negeri Sembilan!

 Some of the artifacts in the muzium.. Cool!

 After visiting the museum, we took bus and departed to Melaka in the afternoon.

Seremban Trip

21st September 2011

Sorry for this late post. I was waiting for my friend to upload the photos but it turns out that he had "put on my aeroplane". Nevertheless, I'll just blog without those photos.

During this long semester break, me, Yee Jie and Kai Xian, together planned to have a trip after our exams to relax ourselves. Initially, we decided to explore Melaka, but we changed our plan to visit Negeri Sembilan for one day,as we had not been there before.

Early in the morning, Yee Jie and Kai Xian took bus from Penang and Teluk Intan respectively to meet me in Ipoh. We boarded the ETS (Electric Train Service) to Seremban which is it's last stop from Ipoh. This was my second time boarding ETS, the last time was going to KL to attend my dad's brother's wedding engagement ceremony.

We arrived Seremban in the evening. After checking into our hotels, we cruised around Seremban. However, Seremban was not up to my expectations as there were nothing much to wander around. That night, we only managed to visit Seremban Parade which is very much more dull compared to Ipoh Parade. I was thinking to buy some souvenirs there for my friends but it turns out that there is NOTHING to buy!

Soon, we left Seremban Parade to have our dinner. For the first time in my life, I had porridge with frog meat "tin kai juk". It was the most spicy porridge I ever had in my entire life! After dinner, there were nothing much for us to do. We headed back to rest and the next morning, we visited Muzium Negeri, our last stop before we headed to Melaka....


*Continue next post*

Truth is spoken

20 September 2011

Yesterday was my birthday - 190911. My facebook wall was spammed with wishes by my beloved and close friends. Besides that, I also received a few sms and calls from my friends greeting me. Thank you to all who had sincerely wished me on my birthday. I replied every post on my facebook wall without using the copy-and- paste keys.

Well, I started my day waking up super-early-than-usual to check my facebook.

While hanging around in facebook, Pui San asked me whether I wanted to celebrate my birthday somewhere else. Initially, me and Charles would like to hang out at night, but it finally turns out that we changed our plan.

I had to go to Charles's house to fetch him. We dropped by at the railway station to drop his sister who wanted to go to KL, then we headed for Jusco.

We decided to watch Johnny English Reborn. This movie is extraordinary hilarious and I laughed non-stop throughout the whole movie featuring Roman Atkinson

Thanks to Pui San for treating me this movie.

Before we headed for movie, Charles treated me lunch - MCD Fillet-o-Fish McValue Meal

Thanks to Charles for making me this birthday cake and for the lunch

I'm waiting or should I?

17 September 2011

Spend 2 days at home and finished watching this

Every Move You Make

They solve cases by looking at peoples body expressions and emotions which are quite true.

Are you the one?

15 September 2011

Today I went out to Ipoh Parade with Su Ann for movie. It had been long since I went to Ipoh Parade for Shopping. We watched Nasi Lemak 2.0. The movie was quite okay, hilarious but quite fake. Overall, good story line.

I bought myself a Body Glove sling bag.

Time to go to school~

If you are mine, you are mine

14th September 2011
Today's quote: Hurting once an idiot, hurting twice a total bastard!

Nothing much today. But tomorrow's shopping day ^^

A very old Pikachu lantern of mine which I found at my grandma's house

I just wanna know the truth

13 September 2011
Today i went back to UTP to get piles of Year 2 Semester 1 notes from my senior. Then I got sick for travelling too much under hot sun today.

Came home to watch another 2 movies I missed:

Legend of the Guardian : The Owls of Gahoole

Knight and Day

I watched half way and then stopped. This movie is too boring for me ==

Holiday ♥

12 September 2011
Today was my first day of holiday of my 4 months break. My 1st year in UTP had officially ended with Moral Studies paper. During my 1st year, I had been matured but i also realized I lost 'something' important that I shouldn't have lost it in the first place. Let's pray for it and not explain further about it.

Today I stayed whole day at home watching 3 movies I missed out last time and wanted to watch for a very long time. They were:

1. Avatar : The Last Airbender

2. Gulliver's Travel

3. Yogi Bear

My Doraemon Diary ♥

3rd September 2011
Today, 101 years later, is supposed to be Doraemon's birthday. However, Doraemon came to the 20th century to help Nobita Nobi who is a lazy and sluggish boy. Doraemon is born on 3rd September 2112 and has an equal weight of 129.3kg, equal height of 129.3cm and equal body circle of 129.3cm. Besides that, his jumping height is also 129.3cm and running speed of 129.3cm per minute.

Doraemon's bearing code is MS-903 and has a 4 dimensional pocket which consists of many useful tools to help Nobita. His favourite food is Dorayaki, a Japanese treat consisting of two pancake-like patties, wrapped around a filling of sweet red bean.

Well, I started to like Doraemon when I was very young, I just couldn't remember my age at that time, approximately 7 years old? It all started when I saw the first Doraemon Long Story comic, Nobita and the Dinosaur is a bookstore and my dad bought it for me. Since then, I fell in ♥ with Doraemon and pesters my dad to buy me more comics.

Doraemon is my childhood character and I'm sure everyone of you have one.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DORAEMON!

Well, these were my favourite shots on Doraemon that is in my phone's photo album~

On the left one: I saw this doll in a shop in Batu Gajah May this year (2011)

On the right one: I saw this lantern in a shop in Tronoh August last year (2010)

Well, I do have a Doraemon doll which is gifted by someone very special in my life ♥

This doll is gifted by someone very special in my life. It is now in UTP on my bed. I do not dare to open even the plastic because I'm afraid that it will get dirty. I love it so much that I know if it gets dirty, I might not get a replacement for it anymore in my life. This is why until now, I'm still reluctant to open the plastic or even peel off the price tag. I really miss those moments. >< Treasure what you have!