workers' day

today i dragged my ass to malacca. intended to pay up a parking compound ammounted to 50 bucks which i got during a family trip to malacca back in january. as malaccan motorists need to pay for parking even on weekends and public holidays, i assumed i could pay the compound too even if it's a holiday. to my dismay, the clerk at the booth informed i must go to the office itself to settle the summon and it's not open on that day!! arghhh... !! seems like i still need the service of the good old post office to send my payment. ok, forget about the summon.

walked to the ancient town of malacca. the buildings were red but of course, it's not the original colour. i read somewhere the colour in the olden days is white. don't know why they paint it red now though. upon arrival, went straight to Christ Church. in my past visits to Malacca, the church was always closed and guess it's my lucky day, it was opened!! the church still retained some its charm. imagine how people in the olden days in their long coats and victorian gowns had their sunday service. there were several tombs in the church and few were from the 18th century.


after that, walked to the famed A Farmosa. one couldn't give a miss to a visit to this gateway. later on, me and a buddy went to have lunch. i wanted to find a shop which was featured in an eating program in the tv. we accidentally walked to jonker street. there were souvenier, antiques and food shops. one eating shop which had hainanese chicken rice as its specialty had a long queue of people lining up outside. hmmm... must try the chicken rice next time. we walked into tan cheng lock road to continue our search but unfortunately the shop was closed. wanted to try their famous nyonya laksa. so we had our lunch in another nyonya shop, nancy's kitchen. had nyonya laksa and otak-otak. but the laksa tasted ordinary. nothing special. even sarawak laksa has better taste.

we then walked to tan kim hock shop to buy some tidbits. bought mushroom crackers because i never tasted it before.

after that we drove to bukit cina to visit the hang li po well. legend says that bukit cina was given to the chinese by the sultan of malacca. the well is situated beside an old temple, a very old that is. cheng hoon temple or something?

we then drove to klebang beach to feel the breeze of the straits of malacca. the water was a bit muddy and no one was swimming.

there were several fishermen on 'foot'. what i meant was that they walked in the water instead of paddling in a boat.

on our way back to malacca, saw an accident in the seremban - kl highway.

a car was in flame!! hope no one was hurt in the accident.

finally reach kl at around 7pm. received a sms saying that i am in the guest list of the program 'so you think you can dance'! yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh....... i'm gonna be on tv!