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Saturday, June 02, 2007

..:: roadtrip ::..

so as mentioned yesterday, we drove up to Malacca today. woke up at about 6.30am to a grouchy mom. nyeh. all were rushed to get ready cos we were running late. left the house at about 7.15am.

my initial plan was to sleep once i entered the car...but then i got hungry and started munching. heh. slept a lil later, almost halfway through the journey. reached malacca at about 9.45am. met aunt. z & unc. a at the Esso qiosk. of course, they were accompanied by the 2 lil rascals. and nani and datuk too as they were staying with aunt z in kl at the moment.

danial was so excited he was bouncing all over the place!! haha. i really mean BOUNCING! like tigger from winnie the pooh. he was so cute. the arty-farty managed to get hold of him and he sat with us till we reached our lunch destination...

had the yet another unsatisfying lunch. nasi lemak. i was so upset that even nasi lemak in malacca wasn't good! the dishes i chose looked really appetising..but tasted horrible. such a let down.

after lunch we headed to the new mall. had quite a few nice things there. bought a top and shades [which i intend to make into glasses]. saw a bunch of weird emo/punk kids. such weird dressing they had! and i thought we were bad!! we were actually there just to waste time while waiting for the barrels to come back [they wanted to see the ships at the historical place].

once they got back, we started on the real journey. the main purpose we drove up to malacca was to see datuk's kampong and his mother's mosque. went round in circles and finally reached after what seemed like hours!! the result..

this is the house which belongs to his mom and was supposed to be his but as he was too young at that time to take care of it, his uncle took it and promised to return it once my datuk was old enough... that however didn't happen... and now, apparently no one lives in this house cos it's too 'hot'... hmm....yet they still don't get it...

this is the mosque which datuk's mom, my great-grandmama, wakaf-ed. you see, this whole plot of land belongs to his mom, and was supposed to be handed down to datuk.. but as mentioned, they didn't follow through... but at least the mosque was built according to her wishes...though it only opens at certain hours...

there we met datuk's aunt...she lives next to the mosque. they chit-chatted while we ate ice-cream. it was so cute. this old man rode in playing the ad of one of the ice cream on his speaker...the boys got excited and all of us got ice cream. haha. once they were done with the catching up, we headed to datuk's brother's house. when we reached [another 1/2hr drive!!]his brother's was in pahang! haha. but there was this other old lady, nobody seemed to know who she was...and nobody dared ask datuk.... anyway, they were talking for about 15 min then we left. we actually took some pics with the kids in the house but it's with aunt z. hope she forwards it to us...

so after all that visiting, we got hungry. papa suggested we go for dinner at the portugese settlement area. upon reaching the place, i remembered going there a couple of times with my two different families! haha. we ate the new-er place though. the food was alright i guess. i wasn't too satisfied either. heh.

i liked the view though. very relaxing. eventhough it was scorching, it was nice...

got tired of waiting for the food so i took some pics...

me with aunt z.

me with the grumpy danial. he just woke up and was super grouchy! nyeh. but i still managed to irritate him more and make him happy with picture taking sessions! haha.