Melacca Trip

19.08.2012 (Sunday), I took the earliest bus (Five Star), 0800 hours and left Singapore for Melacca. It was another so very last-minute-decision-trip. Everything was decided and arranged 16 hours ago before the departure.

I was fortunate enough that I still managed to get the bus tickets last minute despite the Hari Raya festive season.



I arrived 1200 hours at Melaka Sentral. I was told to be in Melacca around 1230 hours ~ 1300 hours. Apparently, I was there way super too early.



And the waiting game started.

Zhong Has was summoned to leave Muar for Melacca to meet up with me first while waiting for their arrival from Kuala Lumpur because he was the nearest person to me.

I waited for Zhong Han's arrival at Tesco which is opposite to the Melaka Sentral. No worry as there's an overhead bridge for pedestrian to cross that very busy road in order to reach Tesco.

I strongly do not recommend you all to stay/wait inside Melaka Sentral for long. It was.. "ugly". I had this insecurity feel. It felt as if my wallet would be gone any second from my pocket.

And I waited and waited and waited at Kluang Station inside the Tesco having my Root Beet Float for another 1.5 hours plus.



There was a handicap person approached me and I bought that little phone-decor-teddy bear for Whitney for RM 6.00.

Finally... I met Zhong Han. And the time was 1430 hours.

The first item in our itinerary was "千成糕" (Thousand Layers Cake).

I shall skip the hunting-"千成糕"-game that I had with Zhong Han for another 1 hour.



We found the "千成糕" shop, the infamous Nadeje! And the time was 1530 hours. The group from Kuala Lumpur were still stuck in the massive traffic jam.



I say the infamous Nadeje, I really mean it. Look at the crowd. Look at the queue. The only method to kill your time while you're waiting patiently is...





to play with your smart phones.

It was an extremely hot afternoon. Plus the heat generated from the crowd. You definitely need very much of endurance to handle that.

There were people gave up waiting. Kids got impatiently and started to make noise at their parents.

We endured much waiting for the cake and waiting for the arrival of the group. And every second passed... finally, we were so close to the cake.



Finally... We got our 11 seats at 1630 hours. And the group from Kuala Lumpur arrived and joined us at 1700 hours. What a reunion!

That sure was the toughest reunion ever.

We crossed borders from different country and states and finally we had a family reunion in Melacca.





We ordered as much cakes as possible. I never know that the cakes can be that delicious until I tasted it. It was such an heavenly taste.

I think my favourites are Tiramisu and Original flavour.







We spent our time fellowship among each other while enjoying our cakes.

I felt my life is complete with their presence that afternoon.





Next item on our itinerary is A Farmosa.

And so we walked to the infamous A Farmosa for sight seeing and more fellowship and little bit of outdoor photography.





As usual the place is filled with tricycle for tourists. I bet most of us had ride on that before so we didn't bother to have a ride on that for that day.











Next we headed down to Jonker Street which is all nearby around the place.



That's another place packed with crowd. le sigh.



We could not do anything much due to the massive crowd. We were walking slowly in the crowd. Lost our interest to stop by the stall for a view. Odour in the crowd almost killed me.



We walked half way and made an u-turn and walked back to our car for dinner which is the last item on our itinerary list.

ngom.. ngom.. ngom..



That sure was another super dinner!

We ended our Melacca trip at 2330 hours. I followed the group back to Kuala Lumpur and returned to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur the next day.



Thanks nakama for the company. You guys are definitely the best creatures I've ever met so far!