Hellooooooo~!
I'm finally updating my blog after thousands of years duhhh
The fact is, this post is probably going to last until the next December because it's my "exam year" next year and too sad I definitely won't allow myself to come back here and blabber about stuff before I'm officially a graduate.
Okie doke! It's time to share some experience with y'all. :) It is now the best time of the year (at least for me, it is) , DECEMBER!
Although I'm not a christian and I don't go to church to celebrate Christmas, well, since it's not illegal to celebrate it, why not? haha nonsense again.
I've always wanted to have an advent calendar for Christmas, so this year I bought myself one-which I share with my sister as well. It is actually getting myself to feel christmas-sy as Christmas gets nearer day by day.
So, here's a little video when I get to open it (well I always forget to film it)
Anyway, back to what I wanted to say, I went for a 2D1N trip at Malacca with my beloved friends at 29th Nov, which, was my first ever experience to go for a vacation with friends! Well, we couldn't really hang out with friends during our school days, let alone travelling and having sleepovers all by ourselves. It was actually a huge success for all of us. Yay!
We were staying at a hostel, called the Mini Sayang Residence, which is actually one of the "whole-house" hostel owned by Sayang Sayang. It is basically an old house at Malacca which had been transformed into a hostel for tourists -or a group of them haha :p
Well, I couldn't say that it is really good since the house is quite old I believe, but to be honest, it was better than what we had expected. It was obviously not a 5-star-hotel, what else do you expect? At least they served perfect wifi connection for 2 days. hehe
20, lorong Jambatan, Off Jalan Kampung Pantai, Melaka, 75200, Malaysia
Tel: 606-281 7076 / 6013-388 7076,
Day 1 | 29th Nov
When we first arrived at Malacca, the first thing to do was to fill our empty tummy after such a long journey. So, we managed to have our lunch at a random restaurant which serves chicken rice ( nope, not chicken rice balls ), which turned out to be really good, surprisingly. Then, we headed towards the Malacca Zoo, which CH had been requesting since our planning started. (although I still couldn't get the reason he kept clinging to visit the zoo)
The zoo, I'm SORRY but it was quite disappointing, as if you had been to Singapore Zoo, I don't think you would ever love the Malaysia's version. It seemed like the zookeeper hadn't been cleaning their cages or even replacing their food. The worst thing was that some of the cage had been emptied "temporarily". :( Anyway, I still enjoy how our time had been spent there. The good thing is that Ian is the talkative one (sorry man :p), which we wouldn't be bored as hell while exploring the zoo. Oh ya, and we decide to separate into 2 groups, apparently boys and girls, but strangely we still bumped into each other so frequent that we ended up strolling together at the end.
After struggling with the pouring rain and having done with all our exploring, we managed to get ourselves at our hostel at almost half past six in the evening, I guess? Then we decided to go straight to the Jonker Walk instead of queuing up to take a bath. We would leave that after we got back from Jonker st., wouldn't we? AND, the highlight for that day was ------------ Meeting up with XiangNing~! :D it had been so long since she moved to Malacca !
Skip that and now let's take a look at photossssss :D
(sorry if it's blurry, I wasn't using DSLR hahahahahahahha)
This is taken on a bridge near our hostel :D
Isn't it pretty?
We were being dragged to try out satay celup thanks to xiangning. :P Since it was already 11 at night, I was really tired and I just wanted to stick inside our hostel but xiangning managed to get all of us out for satay celup HAHA what a great success. xD WELL I WAS ALREADY ASLEEP IN MY MIND THO. so don't ask me if it was good, I was just sleeping :P
SO... it was already 12 AM as we went back to our hostel, only then we started to queue for a bath xD THEN...of course, we chit-chat-ted until 3 in the morning, it was kind of crazy though, it had been a while since I stayed awake till 3 a.m. It was awesome, haha, perfect memory, for me.
I was the first..... girl, that woke up on day 2 ! woah~ hahaa All thanks to my carelessness ughh, I had forgotten to turn off my every-day-alarm-clock, which is why my phone rang at 5:45 in the morning, which was 2 hours after we slept (what da heck?). So I hugged my phone and fell asleep again XD, but I was already awake so I started scrolling my phone and finally went down to brush my teeth and hoped that I could walk along the riverside for a while. But, I couldn't just get out to the bridge all alone, so I waited till some of them were awake, brushed our teeth and had a stroll along the riverside. The air was quite refreshing but the river, somehow had became low tide, thus, the scenery along the river wasn't that good that morning.
We went to visit the St Paul's Hill and the A Famosa Fort. before we had to check out. Good view up at the St.Paul's Hill, it was not crowded because it was Monday which a lot of tourists would be leaving Malacca instead of visiting places like that.
I thought the stairs suits the grass really well, so yeap. :)
Still impressed by the carvings. woah.
aha~ caught a couple taking their wedding pictures haha :P
My favourite capture out of all for this trip
And so, we went back to our hostel, packed our backpacks, and...off we go!
We left our backpacks at the youth hostel when we checked out and headed towards the Dataran Pahlawan with a smaller bag ( a small sling bag for me ) so that we wouldn't have to shop around with huge backpacks. We also went to try our the mille crepe at Nadeje , Mahkota Parade, which is quite famous for their mille crepe. We spent almost half an hour waiting for a table for 9 of us.(haha...I bet the other customers were quite pissed..nah just joking) It was really good , I think their butter cream for the mille crepe is quite unique and different from what I had tried before. A little thumbs up for that. It was about RM12.90 per pcs , if I wasn't wrong.
Then, we walked back to the youth hostel and got on 2 taxis and headed towards the Melaka Sentral to have our advanced dinner and waited for our long-journey bus to take off, off to Larkin, and back to our home sweet home~! p/s: Causeway Link's bus wasn't too bad :P
love, ylea.
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I'm really excited for Christmas and I wish y'all an advanced Merry Christmas~! :D
hello from the other side.
