Wednesday, December 15, 2004
AHAKS!!
it's nice to know there r ppl looking forward to reading ur written material, especially when it comes from someone ordinary! :) so here it is..
i've just got back from a 3-day holiday to Melaka. it was my first trip there, n it was soo last minute by my parents coz i woke up on sunday morning to my mother's voice asking if i would like to go Melaka dat day.. i was like WAT??? i tot we planned to go on MONDAY? n she had to ask me when i just woken up.. n im not in the mood for decision making whenever i just got up, so i hope my deary other half would know when not to ask me abt crucial decision making! *wink* Caaayyaang Da!
oh ok.. back to my story, so it was decided, we left singapore at abt 4pm after my parents went to 2 wedding invitations. we dropped by at my aunts place to pick my cousin up. his dad passed away while he's still a baby, his mom not too healthy to go n has to take care of the house, his siblings all much older than him, 3 out of 4 oredi married n he's just 15 yrs old. so we tagged him along.
the best part was dat we hadn't booked any hotel rooms.. like wat malays would say, "main terjun botol". i soon found out dat my mom wanted to go on Sunday coz my "bruneian" uncle had oredi reached there, n i know he's not good at driving around. his sense of direction had somehow deteriorated, n his eldest son, oso 15 yrs old, can't be depended on directions. only his wife's quite ok wif directions. so here i was heading to Melaka, meeting them up at Air Keroh toll. by the time we reached there, it was oredi maghrib, n fortunately my uncle got 3 rooms at Air Keroh Country Resort at mini malaysia, just less than 5 mins from the toll booth.
the hotel was.. wat can i say, not dat comfortable to stay ah. the spring mattress felt as if it could give way any time from then, n the aircon was making a lot of noise. i took out the filter to find a thick layer of dust on it, so i washed them in the toilet. as i was putting the filters back, i saw the aircon cooling coil covered in fungus n dirt.. eeewwww!! no wonder it smelt bad! well, being an ex-soldier, i didnt mind the conditions ah, pity my mom coz she really felt sooo uncomfortable..
we decided to find another place to stay the next morning.. n i managed to get a 2-room apartment n a 1-room apartment at Century Mahkota Hotel, well-known by Singaporeans holidaying to Melaka. it turned out when i asked my uncle to call this hotel while we were on the highway, he only asked for 3-room apartment since i didnt ask him to ask for 2 or 1 room ones.. so since 3-rm apartments were fully booked, we all assumed there wasnt any more rooms available ah!!! silly me, juz coz i didnt have the mood to make the enquiry call...
wanna know more abt the trip? will continue soon.. stay tuned! *wink*
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