It costs 8RM to watch a movie in Melaka. And this is making me feel better.
Miao and Wen, its 8RM!! Look at the ticket stub. haha.. it must be. 'cos school is having a promo for $4 per tic, cap at 2 tics. 8RM translate to $3++. otherwise, I'll feel =_=
okok. basically three of us (buddies dating back to 7 yrs ago) finally took a trip to Melaka during the last week of (their) undergrad holidays=)It was hot and hazy not forgetting humid. (if u think that Singapore is bad enough, think again)
Melaka is a place with loads of historical backing, having came under the rule of Dutch, Portugese and British before finally becoming independent as part of Malaysia. Therefore, there are many sites left behind that showcases the architectural difference of the various ruling states. Churches, Temples, Fort, Nyonya Baba houses and third generation shophouses.
This is silly, but as the coach drove passed this power station with this huge reactor tank, I couldn’t help but kept looking at it ;) And then, there was this one third generation shop house that did gold electroplating. I saw this ancient electrolysis machine for gold and I was like ‘wow’. The uncles and aunties in the shop houses were so actively trying to promote their art work. Not sure if that is for sales or if they really do want the art to be passed down. But in any case, I appreciate that.
This might come as a surprise, but I have never given tip in person before despite spending 3 months in America. The tip that I have paid are all through credit card and somehow I find it weird to be passing cash to another person. It makes me feel like I’m degrading that person. But yup! I passed the tip to the travel tour guide and she was pretty happy about it=)
Took the river cruise in Melaka and saw many kampongs and more laid back lifestyles from afar. Made us wonder why is it that we never ever took the tour at the Singapore River. Okok. It might be the price. For that 45min river cruise, we paid only RM10.
The funniest thing was the fact that we did plenty of things that we could actually do in Singapore. Such as, watching a movie? Haha.. The Proposal. Extremely Funny Chick flick. It’s so good that its one of the (very) few movies that I have enjoyed in years. I must say that it is kind of hard to find a teddy bear-faced looking ang mo, and well, that movie has it. Its 8RM!
Erm… we went to the arcade? Bball game. So tiring but that’s the only game that I really enjoy in the arcades anyways. Reminded me of my Taiwan trip where I got into level 4 there okie. Haha.. but im apparently not that ‘good’ (well, that’s not THAT good either) anymore. A game for 1RM!!
Eh.. we continued into Dreamdb? It’s the Malaysian version of kBox. I seldom became so high singing. I was really happy then to be singing there, despite the remote control being really insensitive. We were wondering if people will start rolling their eyes if we sang some national day songs over there. Haha.. oh. This is a stupid secret: “I finally realized that Michael Learns to Rock has nth to do with Michael Jackson”. Okie. Do proceed to laugh if u must! =D one of my secretly embarrassing moments. That was till 2am. You will (almost) never catch me outside at that time.
Second day was Nyonya Baba House day in the morning. The guide at that place spoke with this pace and tone that made me feel ridiculously happy.
Miao went for a whole body massage *woo~~*. HAHA. While Wen and I snuggled in this sofa snoozing. Shopping after that was a rush as we had to get back on time for the coach back. So yup. Didn’t buy much!
I guess it had been really fortunate to be able to make a trip down before school reopens. Otherwise, this holidays will be another one of those boring ones. Eh. Wait. I went Taiwan for my first holidays, going America for my second holidays. Oh. Wells. =D
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