Malacca Trip - Warning: Long Post Ahead

Hey guys!

It's been awhile (frankly, I shouldn't even be here) :P

The exams are soon to arrive, and I have yet to revise

(I'll revise soon, though) :D

And I have a ridiculous amount of pictures in my iPhone 4....

(256 items ==)

So here I am! :D

Without wasting much time,
here are the promised pictures.
(I'm going to use them to narrate the said events.)

*Note:
Thus post may look like a vacation;
but in fact, this wasn't true.
We were in Malacca because a distant relative passed away,
and we went there to pay our last respects to him.

And now... the real fun begins!

Saturday, 21st January 2012

On the road pics.
Headed to Malacca :D

Passing by this random apartment...

Another shot of this rofl

And one and a half hour more,
we have reached our destination!

"Selamat Datang Ke Melaka" :D

Here are some of the landmarks that we passed by:

Melacca Zoo!
I was here once :D
A long long long time ago.

No idea, sorry.
Random, antique-looking landmark that deserves a shot :D

Mainly this was caught while we were
waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
See? I think Malacca's more advanced than KL.
Their LED billboards still worked :/

Kings, as in, the Bakery, Kings?
Nope, just a hotel :D

Honestly, I've never seen a building that has

a cone emcompassed in a square/rectangular block :/

And this building was...

Melaka Mall!
We were driving through the road, so no.
We didn't stop by to enter the Mall ._.
Maybe we shouldn't have anyways.

Random shot of another landmark

This is one of the oldest cars I have ever seen
(Excluding other car brands that I may have seen but not known)
- no, I don't know what I'm talking about :'(

After some turns away,
here we are! :D

Single storey Portuguese house :o

We were in the Portuguse Settlement! :D

Ok, from here onwards,

we were with the surviving wife and family.

We prayed, sang hymns and basically conversed with our grand-uncle.

No, no photos.

What, the mood was sad and there's no way we could pull out our cameras

(iPhones for us Mum, Dad and myself; Mon brought her DSLR)

to snap pics.

That would be totally disrespectful! D:

So afterwards,  we found ourselves a hotel to spend the night in;

the next day, we went to attend Mass in a chapel

(CHAPEL. So sad. You'd think there'd be a proper CHURCH in the Settlement) ==;

Before going to have breakfast in a coffee shop :D
Get ready for some mouth watering pictures! :D

 

Yummeh!
(I don't know the name, sorry)

Milo Ice that tasted like...
well, Milo Ice rofl

This was SO AWESOME!
Crispy on the outside and soft in the middle;
with a faint sweetness on the side :9

In KL, this dish has bean sprouts.
In Malacca... well, minus that :/

Wantan Noodles :9
It was lovely.

My sis's Roti Telur

I don't know what it tasted like lol.

Generally, I avoided eggs, so... 

The lovely couple who brought us here :)

They so sweet :D

Roti Canai
This was awesome with the dahl 8D

In fact, it is the second best Roti Canai I've eaten; 

second only to my house's roti canai XD
It was so crispy and soft 8D

Another Roti Canai shot! :D

One would think that we are serious tourists, 

from some Western/East coutry that is not located in Southeast Asia -__-

It's not like Malacca food is different from KL,

But... we were just... so happy.
To eat Malaccan food.
If that makes sense :/

So, where can you find awesome food like this?

This place.
It's near the Portugese Settlement.

So if you are in the area, go Google Map it.

I'm sure it's there somewhere :D

After that, we went to take a nice drive around town;

and it was the first time I've actually seen a plantation...

so... why must it be a papaya plantation?! ==
The fruit that has to be cut twice every week ==

It was literally smack in the middle of the city,
in someone's backyard rofl

And then we went to see the fishing docks.

Which was near the mouth of the river.

The dock (which looked like a shack)

The boats lying by the side

The view from inside the boats dock-shack.

Real fishing village :o

The view from the other side of the dock-shack
Yeah, there were many docks built by the edge of the river.

The houses facing the sea

*drools*

I so like! <3

Another river shot!
Now you can see clearly what's it like :D

Random cat that was there lol

Oh so many boats! :D

Like this shot of muh sis.
Like an oil painting :o
Or some painting :D

The random cat again

Then we were on ze road again.

Heading towards... iForgot.

Somewhere.

And just to show you, all the old houses are...

Single storey.
Most of them, anyways.

The old apartments.

Later then, we headed to the Portuguese's Settlement's waterfront! :D

Don't be fooled into thinking that this is a beach rofl.

This is not a beach. 

This is a waterfront... you'll understand.

Okay, I think I'm mis-leading you a little...

See?
All rocks, no sand :(
This is a water front:
The rocks (I suppose) is for breaking the waves.

I was actually waking here rofl XD

So yeah :D

 

Yeah, that's a waterfront!

We parked quite far from this corridor, so I was actually walking and snapping :)
The place was SUPER windy :D
If you played with the water, it would be so coooooold *brr*

 

 I like the perspective of this :D

The mouth of the river.

No, don't ask why the colour is like that.

I have absoutely no answer at all for you.

I kinda like this pic,

There's blue, red, green and brown.
All in one pic :D

Another perspective photo! :D

While walking back, I thought of how old the place was.

Just imagine, 500 years ago, my ancestors actually docked their ships here and 

took over this land of Malacca.

The sea wasn't blue or clear:

but it did carry uncountable ships that sailed its water...

This place was just so full of history OMGosh.

I meant to focus on the cannon, but it was too far away XD

After we had spent enough time here, we left to spend the afternoon at the relative's house again,

then it was seriously time to leave.

So we drove around town,
with me pestering to see the famous A' Famosa.
Before that, my Dad brought us to see the church Mum and Dad got married in, I think.
(If it ain't my Mum and Dad, it my late Grandfather and Grandmother).

And the church was closed;
with a banner outside written:

PLEASE RESPECT OUR CHURCH.

Wahlao. What did who do until like that?!

This place is right next to the Church.

And the residential area for one of the Theseira family...
before it was sold off :'(
I feel sad that this land does not belong to us anymore.
It's just... too sad :(

Random Beca shot :D

Shops closed for CNY :o

Old, old, old, shops.

The truth was:
The place heading to the A' Famosa was jam-packed with cars.
(with it being a Sunday and all...)
So Dad refused to follow the crowd.
We left for home instead.

On the road pics:

I am hoping my Chinese friends can tell me what this is...

This I saw in the hotel brochure;

but we didn't go in there to eat.

rofl.

Man-made fountain.

This blue building told us that we are going to reach the border soon.

Frankly, Dad wasn't enthusiastic about visiting all the other places that
Malacca regarded as tourist spots.
He did a detour for the Malacca Batik or something,
but we never got down from the car.

We just detoured and then detoured back home ._.
*sigh*

And then my Mum suggested we go to Port Dickson to catch the sunset on the beach.
We cheered and then our cheer died.

At first, my Dad wasn't enthusiastic of the idea:
He was saying how the beach wasn't clean and bla bla bla.

But when he reached Seremban, he turned into Port Dickson! :D

Just 31km more....

We're SO CLOSEE!!!

Random road pic lol

Soon, we reached the town.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention:

GONG XI FA CAI!

I know it's late and all, but I believe...

Better late than never! :D

Chinese temple shot

Hindu temple shot

Before long, we were in...

PORT DICKSON!! :D

Oh wait. Not another waterfront! D:

It took us a while to realize that we actually wanted to go to
Pantai - Pantai Peranginan rofl

2 states in 2 days.

What a hectic life pfft.

Soon though, we were at the right place! :D

Sunset on the beach *in awe*

Yeah, it was that bright.

Cam-happy with family :D

 

Not sure what's going on, but yeah :D

Afterwards, sis and I asked our parents to model like romantic lovers on the beach XD

Here was the result:

psh, slippers spoilt the view ==

They may look romantic and all, but if you were witnessing this, you'd be laughing.


Mum was commenting on how stiff Dad was in front of the camera
(not that any of us have anything against it. That's just who Dad is)

and telling him what he should do.

It was hilarious rofl !!

Slippers in the sand!
This shot is <3

Another sunset shot!

See how clean the public beach was:

That's how clean it was.
And yeah, there were only a little bit of people there, on the eve of CNY lol

Later, we decided to eat Ikan Bakar in Port Dickson! :D

So we went here:

Still in the parking lot

The view from the parking lot :o

Yeah, uh... the sea WAS black ;x

Name of the place: Medan Ikan Bakar.

I just love it when it was getting darker and darker...

This is how people order:

Choose, weight, send to the kitchen to roast.

The result? YUMMY!! :D

Can't seem to get enough of this picture.

While the food there was just simply awesome, the waiting time was awesome too.
It took almost an hour and a half for our food to arrive.

And during that time, I didn't know what to do.
My parents were playing their iPhones.
My sister was doing her homework.
I... My iPhone died.

So I began eating the Pistachio nuts and watching TV that they had.

Source

The program was interesting, but somewhere in the middle, someone so smart
had requested for the channel to be changed. Into sports. SPORTS.

rawr.
I was pushed back to Square One.
Nothing to do.
So, here's what I did.

I began taking the shells of the Pistachio nuts from the pile and finding their pair shells.
Yeah, really crazy.

Thank goodness the food came a few minutes after that XD
Or I would've lost my marbles rofl.

The food was awesome (I said that already didn't I? lol)

Then we went home.

The End