Sunday, March 11, 2012
Last blogged @ 11:30 PM

Early morning 6.30am, we set off for Malacca. It was a really pretty morning, and we were crunched up in mama's suzuki, speeding on the highway.

Poor car, it sounded like it's gonna break apart.

And my poor butt, so many butt numbing moments. I'm serious when I say that my butt's numb ok!


Was frankly quite bored with the bro reading, the mum driving, the dad sleeping and I was sitting in the car, in a really unglam manner. But that was probably the most comfortable position I could find. I was surprised I didn't fall asleep. Well, I did, but only for a short while.


We stopped over at Machap for breakfast and had my fill of not-very-impressive Roti Canai.

Then we drove all the way up to Malacca and got lost.

Guess the hotel was too new we couldn't find it on GPS and we couldn't see it while driving.

So we stopped a couple of times to ask for directions, but still couldn't find it. 


Ended up parking our car at Jonker to have some Peranakan lunch first. Wasn't awesome, but the pork was awesome.


And we saw this really cute old yellow car, which was owned by this really old couple. They looked so cute when they were driving past us!!!


Saw some magic tricks by the roadside, felt kinda impressed, bought some magic cards. Weather was starting to turn really really warm and humid at mid-day, so we gave our chendol a miss cus the queue was mad long and the kids couldn't stand the heat anymore.




The hotel's new and really pretty and comfy and haaaaaaaaaa clean toilets ^^

Okay, the shower head is really really high tech. I have no idea how to describe it, but omg, I didn't even know how to use it. There's like lots of things to turn and adjust, and there's those massaging things that till now, I don't know how I'm supposed to use them. But one thing was that, I thought it would be a really cool bath cus the shower head looked really powerful and I thought I would just soak myself in pouring water over my head. YET, the water that night was unreasonably cold and I was spending probably half an hour just testing the water and trying to make it warm, to no avail. So I ended up bathing in semi-cold water (sucks ttm) and the water supply probably had some pressure fluctuations problem. I still know my stuff.


Anyway, after an afternoon's rest, it was raining and we couldn't go anywhere...

We decided to go to the mall to shop. Ended up at Mahkota Parade and we could see that the dads and the kids were really bored, but I still got my share of shopping, so I'm satisfied, obviously since I didn't have to fork out the money too.

Parked our cars back at the hotel before spending the rest of the evening at Jonker.




Had some awesome assam laksa. The shop was really crowded, and it was only 8+ and they sold out everything.


Dad bought the chendol even before we started on our noodles cus he was afraid that it would be gone too. And true enough, they closed the shop shortly after.

So we only had melted chendol to eat after that.


And it was barely 9pm and we were already the last customers left in the entire shop.

So we hit the streets! And had more muah chee, and potatoessssss.

Super love this photo. Look at Julian's expression and him and his soya bean milk. This small little uncle.


Back at the hotel, we went up to the balcony, had a drink and enjoyed some small talk cus there wasn't anyone else around. Until... other guests came up and the whole area was full of people, so we decided to retreat back into our rooms. 


Even the fruit punch is so good there are fruit pulps in it! I think the person really took very long to prepare this, cus when other people started coming up, their drink looked different from ours. Like... not that well prepared hahahaha too bad for them.



So next morning's breakfast was great. Half was buffet, and the other half was freshly served breakfast that we could choose from a list!


And I had to serve the 2 little kids, prepare bread for them, stir their milo, cut their food into pieces, machiam their maid. But what funny talks they make hahahaha.

The morning left was climbing up a hill to see St Paul's church, and a view of Malacca...


Then we had a river cruise, just like our Singapore River~



And our last meal in Malacca!

Restaurants everywhere was full so we just tried this one. Service was rather slow, and weird. But their chicken rice balls was mad awesome!!! Their portions are really small, I had 2 plates all to myself. But it's so good, I feel like having one plate right now.


And best of all!!! DURIAN CHENDOL!!!

HEAVEN. Tastes better than the normal chendol the others ordered I bet.


Oh, have I mentioned? I bought myself durian chocolates too!!! Gonna treat myself a piece a week to chase away my Monday blues once I start ITP. But it's only gonna last me 9 weeks cus there's only a miserable 9 pieces, and it's freaking expensive wth scam my money. But whatever, durian woohoo.

Yeap, and that's basically all for the Malacca trip. Really short, but ended my remaining holidays well, and I promised myself to start ITP without complaining.


And we're back to Singapore after visiting the "beach" of Malacca.

LOL we were driving on the waters, it was just so funny, the GPS couldn't navigate ourselves back onto land.


And that's all for this trip!

Labels: Family, Food, Holiday, Malaysia