i think the only good thing about being sick is that time seems to pass faster because all i do is sleep.
oh wait, that might not be a good thing considering that i actually have work to do but just can’t sit myself down to do it. as usual.
anyway, malaysia was pretty fun, if tiring. i suppose part of the fun came from being out of the country without my parents for the first time in my sad life. while i did have to keep smsing my mum to let her know where i was and that i was still alive and not robbed or abducted, at least this probably means i’ll be able to get out of singapore on my own again. i was talking with maryam on msn about the historian and we both agree that it makes turkey (the country) sound enormously alluring. mainly the food, and of course the sights. i want to see the hagia sophia! so maybe next stop, turkey? haha.
also, the fun came from being in the company of the musketeers (vanessa maryam yy, who else?) and doing what we love best – eating! haha. maryam and yy were like our guides in malacca since they knew where all the good stuff were. like the good chendol, for example. which is pretty important because practically everywhere in malacca has chendol. and pineapple tarts. i swear i’ve never seen so many pineapple tarts in one place when it isn’t chinese new year.
fun also (sort of) came from wandering the unknown. after helping the archaeologists wash some porcelain, me and vanessa went exploring around malacca. except that there wasn’t that much to explore, plus we didn’t quite know where to walk. so we just walked wherever we fancied, stopping once in a while to look for the nonya kueh vanessa was craving, or the tiger brand heong peah she insisted on buying… haha.
i think the funniest part was when we walked to the end of jonker street, turned into another street (which had nothing but old-school houses) and walked almost the entire street before we realised that it was the street our hotel was on! i saw the yellow heeren inn hotel sign, turned to vanessa to tell her, and i think realisation dawned on both of us at the same time because we were just next to the site maryam and yy were working at. let’s just chalk it down to us being in a foreign, unknown place, shall we?
and tiring was well, all the walking. damn my lousy feet and legs. by the end of our third and last day in malaysia, my feet constantly hurt and i had to kind of drag myself everywhere and sit down at every opportunity i got. which is damn sad. maybe i really need to go take those walks on the beach like the chinese physician recommended… but what a drag.
so the first day in malacca was not bad, really. we rested at the hotel after our long self-given tour of malacca, had dinner at the bamboo hut that was pretty good, and went to “the mall” to get some stuff at giant and to eat baskin-robbins. i got hokey pokey (white chocolate ice cream with honeycomb bits) which was really good. too bad there wasn’t any baskin-robbins at the train station any more, and as we all know, singapore also sadly lacks baskin-robbins. sure, we have our island creameries, ice cream chefs and what not but well, the more the merrier?
okay, i’m getting a bit tired and bored of blogging, so let’s leave the KL bit for next time.
