November 24, 2005Suffice to say that Mel rocks... Mel rocks... Spent the whole day with her in Bugis, havin dinner and shopping and it was pure therapeutic for two people about to be freed from the burden of A-levels. She's going home on 29th...
November 25, 2005Sat for physics s in the morning. Was comparatively easier than prelims. Still managed to lose quite a lot of marks, though; but some 07/04 guy who sat next to me was like tying his script 30mins before the exam ended. After that he re-calculated the calculation parts of the exam.. 15 mins before the exam ended, he raised his hand asking permission to go toilet. Terribly distracting to me, who was still frantically scribbling my answer.
Went for a nice lunch at the seafood restaurant next to Comics Connection in Plaza Sing (didn't remember its name). They serve food as good as Fish&Co.'s, but in less portion and in cheaper price. Yum. No complains except for the
Season's Ice Lemon Tea served instead of kitchen-brewed lemon tea.. Walked around Plaza Sing, got some very nice
Bleach posters. My Ichigo, I so missed him.. Haven't seen him for weeks!
Went home, met Angeline on the way, and had our longest conversation ever.. Haha.. glad that I got the chance to get to know her a lil better better before I had to depart. She's one funny girl who is easily tickled by not-so-funny stuff.. Hmm..
Packed. Departed to (supposedly)
Golden Mile, but I ended up at
Queen Street. Tried to find my way to GM, but could not. Called CJC-Hostelians, but they couldn't locate me as well... Last resort taken 10 minutes before my bus departed: got a cab! Asked him to drive me to GM, and get this: the driver didn't charge me a single cent! Don't ask me why.
Right on the bus... with old friends whose lives for the past two years I had yet to discover. Excitement filled me in.. Ten hours' ride. Destination: Penang.
November 26, 2005Penang is so much fun! Yessica woke me up when we crossed
The Penang Bridge which connects the mainland and Penang, when she said she got a deja-vu seeing the bridge as we crossed it. Later on, it occured to us, that the design of the bridge is exactly the same as that found in one question on Dynamics that we did in Physics TYS.. Hehe.
Had dim-sum opposite MGS as my breakfast! Yum yum. Yi Juin's parents gave us a treat.. It was the first dim-sum of my life and it tasted soooo goood! Never tasted such a nice fishball before.. Instead of the standard whitish-yellowish that we usually find in Singapore, the fishball here is grey-coloured.. I was told by Mom before (dunno true or not) that it meant they used much more meat (in this case, fish meat) when making the balls instead of flour. Yums! Then there were the eggtarts which everybody else in the table liked a lot but I didn't, because I thought Dunman Hostel's eggtart was nicer.. heehee.
Took train up the
Penang Hill. The view from the top was, needless to be said, breathtakingly beautiful. And of course there was the fun SQUEEEZEEE!!! inside the train.. more so for the couple, YJ-TZ, I suppose =)
Went to
Lek Kok Si Temple, which, erm, I didn't particularly enjoy except for the magnificent Kwan Im statue and the tripartite pagoda.. (ehh.. apparently I do like good architecture yea?).
Checked into
Sunway Hotel. Had some rest, then explored the city with Yessica while the rest still lazed around in the room.. mostly sleeping and playing bridge. Actually I dragged Yessica out 'coz I needed to find moneychanger heehee..
At night, the feast begun, and that was when I realized that Penang food is really really gooooddd! Asam laksa, fried hor fun, stingray, satay, nasi kandar, you name it. Been there, eaten that! Oh but didn't eat the famous CKT, coz.. it was fried with pork oil.. Hahaz.. Went to
Berangin after dinner. Didn't find anything special except for a scarf that I have longed to have for quite sometime.. at much better price, of course!
November 27, 2005Ipoh. Nothing to do except shopping in Jusco where I still couldn't find a single thing. Bo-ring.
Luckily taoge chicken that we had for dinner saved my day! It was soooo yummmyyyyyyy we couldn't resist eating another plate of taoge. Best. Taoge. In. The. World.
November 28-29, 2005Kuala Lumpur!
Been looking forward to this one city coz there's this longing for shopping that has been building up for quite sometime! Checked into
Grand Plaza ParkRoyal, (*****!) which yay-ly is located at the heart of the city. Once in the room, put our stuff, then off we went shoppin! Sungei Wang, KLCC, Lot 10, and Times Square. Been there, shopped that. Hahazzz... Yay. But I didn't finish exploring
Debenham, the higher-class department store which is London's signature. Ohwell. There's always next time, aye? The group felt like having a nice dinner, so we went to
Chili's at KLCC, only to most of our disappointment. The food served is so-so tasting and it came in very big portion. I would have preferred hawker food at Jalan Alor.. Oh but the service was superb. No wonder Singapore felt the need to buck up its service sector.
Saw ET's bikini! It's so nice!
Had the nicest bath I ever had for years. It was like 1230AM already and everybody next door was sleeping. Yessica, WX, YR, ET and TL were playing cards in the room when I decided to shower. Entered the bathroom. Normal-looking.. like that you expect to find in a five-star hotel. Washed, and thennn.. turned on the tap to fill the bath, put in the bath gel, and while waited for the bath to be filled up, I explored the bathroom. And guess what??? I found A SPEAKER! A speaker that is connected to the television in my room! So I turned on that speaker, and it so happened that they were playing songs, good old songs... hahahha.. So I soaked myself in the bath, just lie still and the music was filling in the room! One word: SHIOKKK! Very relaxing.. Finished bathing at almost 2AM and ended up sleeping till 10AM. Haha. Look at what relaxation can do.
Asked TL which state was he from and he said he was from Kuching. Then I asked which school was he from, he said it was St. Joseph's... he was Jon Lee's primary school friend! Hoahahahhaa. No wonder both of them act things the same way and are both very very tall.
The group separated then. Yessica, WX, YR and I went back to Singapore while ET, YJ, TZ, NZ and TL went Malacca, to NZ's house and (I heard) to climb some hill. Hahaz...
Needless to be said, I was knocked out the moment I reached Singapore.
