Monday, August 25, 2008

Malaysia Trip

I finally found time to blog, with all the hectic schedules and lunwen that i just completed. Basically heres a summary of what happened in Malaysia.

DAY1
~ Reached school at 6:45 exactly, dropeed my laptop twice...
~ Coach, erm no... uber nice coach, erm no... 5 star coach brought us to Tuas checkpoint
~ Passed Singapore checkpoint and onto Malaysia
~ Malaysian local tourguide got on at Malaysia checkpoint
~ Drove like hell and eventually had lunch at a nice local restaurant
~ Had a peranakan lunch, sharing table with the teachers (3 from HCI and 4 from AOS)
~ Chendol was served with brown sugar instead, slightly less sweet but still as nice

~ Went to Mid Valley Mega-Mall
~ Truly mega mall with 5 stories and 5 courts (aka mini malls). N, S, E, W and center
~ Bought cooked wedges and popcorn chicken from carrefour at uber cheap price
~ Shared with Jun Yi who unfortunately wandered off alone and missed good bargains

~ Went to hotel to check-in
~ Uber nice 5 star hotel, sharing room with Zhen Wei
~ Set up my laptop but unfortunately found out that broadband costs money
~ Played a game of dota for 10 minutes then went to lobby to gather
~ Went to another restaurant for dinner, had black peppr chilli crabs (1 of 3) -.- and thai style fried fish (also 1 of 3)
~ After that went to see fireflies, short 30 minutes boat ride along the river banks
~ Wowed by the beauty of the fireflies
~ The local guide caught one for us too take a closer look
~ 500RM fine for illegal capture lol
~ Coach ride back to hotel
~ Had bonding session (no names here)
~ Zhen Wei ordered room service, a large pizza for RM22
~ Delievery charge of RM3... 6 foors by elevator costs so much -.-
~ Zhen Wei kept on niaoing me, so I decided to make him my "wife" for the rest of the trip

DAY 2
~ Woke up by morning call from lobby counter
~ Called me TWICE -.-
~ "wife" refuses to wake up
~ Got down for buffet breakfast (1 of 2) with 15 minutes left
~ Ate rice + sambal (i will regret later) + sausages + fruit juice
~ Loooooooong 3 hour drive to Gua Tempurung
~ Went on a tour named"Top Of The World"
~ Had bad stomach ach from the very start, held for 30 minutes then cannot
~ Went to river and did stuff
~ Looked back and saw that i had descended a 5m sheer cliff O.O (how did i do that?)
~ Got more than i had brgained for from the cave visit -.- (rest walked the concrete pavement)
~ The guide was super friendly and polite (Sir here sir there, the teachers should have taken the cue and give tips...)
~ My shoe got wet and stank for the rest of the trip

~ Original plan to go to the Geological Museum but its closed for renovations
~ Went to the East Coast Batik shop instead
~ Hand made Batik is so nice
~ Machine printed batik is clearly different and lower quality
~ HCI people surely will not buy anything right... and my "wife" (zw) didnt want any...

~ Dinner was chilli crabs again (2 of 3)
~ All meals at local restaurants were the best
~ Short (1 hour) coach ride back to hotel
~ Heard that the AOS people were playing strip poker with the sec 4 HCI people
~ Kiat Long even claims to see a girl in bra
~ Shall not thnk too much... "wife" (zw) even suggested we play...
~ Slept at around 3, since next day sure uber long coach ride anyway
~ Slept in Kiat Long's room, "wife" (zw) and Kiat Long share bed, I took Zhong Yang's
~ Zhong Yang slept on the chair for unobvious reasons
~ He didnt mind just to clarify...

DAY 3
~ "wife" (zw) woke up even later than before
~ this time 10 minutes left for buffet breakfast (2 of 2)
~ care not to take sambal (luckily there wasnt any)
~ took alot of easy to eat stuff like roti prata and curry
~ their scrambled eggs were GODLY, best EVER (soft, mushy, chewy, goodness of egg yolk)!!!
~ Went to "North West Selangor Agrotourism Project"
~ Basically modernised rice fields and a "tourist spot" sign
~ Saw this zai transplanter machine, 插秧usually took 7 men 5 days, with the machine, only 3 hours
~ Went to see the irrigation networks, saw a dead mice along the way
~ Went to see a rice mill, rice dust was everywhere and I had a beyond godlike sneezing spree
~ Got chong jiat into a pile of rice husks for fun
~ The plant was self sufficient as the energy needed comes from burning rice husks
~ Dunno about environmental damage though...
~ We were told how brown rice was just unpolished white rice, with the layer of bran still on it
~ Yet brown rice is more expensive... crazy manufacturers...
~ Told of the polishing method... pretty complicated stuff
~ Lunch at another local restaurant
~ Had... chilli... crabs.... (3 of 3)
~ I finally decided to try some lol... XD I would have been sian if i ate all 3 sets
~ After lunch went to tour an oil palm mill
~ Serious safety equipments were given to us...
~ The smell there was horrible, but so was my shoe... soaked for 5 hours already
~ Cave water yes, Guano water NO. not the bat season ya know...
~ Basically heard nothing as the machinery was dam loud
~ Coach ride back to Singapore
~ Delayed by 4 hours
~ Reached back in school at 11PM
~ my "wife" (zw) wanted us to wait for his bus come, "dun pangseh him"
~ pity him as 852 was kinda rare, esp at night
~ finally came after about 20 mins... i almost dozed off standing there...
~ chong jiat was kind enough to let me hitchhike his taxi
~ i got off at eunos and took 28 home
~ 28 minutes wait before 28 came lol
~ HOME SWEET HOME

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