Catching movies on a Wednesday is not an easy task for most working people. Due to the bad city traffic and the rush to eat dinner as well as queuing for the movie tickets, it was a real challenge for us, especially since our offices are so far away from home (more than 1 hour’s drive). Moreover, Sze had to come pick me up from my house and then… more traffic jam on the way to the cineplex…
Nonetheless, we made it to Berjaya Times Square (BTS) for our Wednesday movie recently... So why Wednesday? Well, it’s because the cinemas have a special rate on every Wednesday. Since we have never really taken advantage of this movie day offer, we decided to have a go for it. We wanted to watch the movie 300 but the online reservation never works when you need it. Anyway, we arrived at the BTS cineplex an hour before showtime. Unfortunately, only some front row seats were available. So we decided to come back in 15 minutes time when the uncollected ticket reservations would be released.
In the meantime, we went to Kenny Roger’s Roasters (next to the cineplex) to order our dinner. While waiting for the food, Sze went to the movie counter again to buy the released tickets. He came back empty handed and said, “All the released tickets are gone. There are only 3 seats left on the 1st row.” Huh? How did the uncollected tickets get sold so quickly? Ok, never mind, since we have already ordered our dinner, we’ll just have to “experience the extra legroom” sitting on the very 1st row. So Sze went to the movie counter once more but he came back empty handed again…??? “There’s only 1 seat left,” he said. Is 300 so popular that even at the tailend of its showing, the 1st row seating is sold out on a weekday? Humph… we have no choice now but to see an alternative movie. So Sze went again to the movie counter… this time, he came back with tickets for Mr. Bean’s Holiday. He he, maybe the evening won’t turn out to be so bad after all.
We ate our dinner quickly and finished just in time for the movie. As we made our way to the cineplex entrance, a voice called out, “Mr. Sze, Mr. Sze!” It was Pui Yi, Sze’s student. She told us that the cineplex for the Mr. Bean show had broken down. She had also bought tickets for the same movie but had to change hers to another show. So we went to the movie counter to check. The ticket sellers seemed confused at first but they later confirmed the break down. There was no offer of a ticket refund and we could only exchange our tickets for another show. Our first two choices were 300 and Mr. Bean’s Holiday, and we did not want to settle for a third choice movie or hang around the mall till a midnight show, so we exchanged our tickets for 300 on Friday and topped up more than 50% to the ticket price (from the special Wednesday rate to the normal rate). We had rushed here all for nothing and then, we would be made to rush here again another day and on top of that, pay extra for that inconvenience… what a rip-off!
Come Friday, we rushed through the whole process again and this time, we got to see the movie. I didn’t read the synopsis and got somewhat excited when it started as it looked like a medieval legend type of movie. I have always liked movies like King Arthur, Troy, Alexander the Great, etc, so this would be another one of those medieval legend movies that I enjoy so much.
(Warning: Show spoiler ahead for those who will be watching it for the 1st time on DVD later.) The story was great. I’ve never heard of the Greek and Persian wars before due to my lack of knowledge in European-Middle Eastern history. I enjoyed the show till the ending which I thought did not have a proper closure and raised an unanswered question - what happened in that next battle led by Dilios? Did they finally achieve a decisive victory, or did the Persians outnumber them again?
I did some research and this is what I found out… 300 is a story based on the Battle of Thermopylae in 5th century BC. The last scene in the movie showed an alliance of 10,000 Spartans and 30,000 Greeks from other city-states a year later, facing the Persian army. This was to be the beginning of the Battle of Plataea, which would end the series of Greco-Persian wars during that time. The result was a decisive Greek victory over the Persians. Many years later, the Persian Empire would eventually be invaded and conquered by Alexander the Great.
I also wondered what happened to the little boy who was King Leonidas’ son in the movie. His name was Pleistarchus and he succeeded his father as the King of Sparta. However, his cousin, Pleistoanax, would act as the Regent during the early part of his reign as he had not come of age yet.
It has been a few weeks since we saw 300. We’ll be going to watch Mr. Bean this Wednesday, but definitely not at BTS. Hope we’ll have better luck this time ;)
Chinese New Year 2007 (18 Feb – 4 Mar 2007)
Chinese New Year (CNY) is a major celebration among the Chinese community here in Malaysia. This year is the Year of the Boar (or Pig, as some people may call it). In China, CNY is known as the Spring Festival and lasts for 15 days.
We had the reunion dinner with Sze’s family on the eve of CNY - my family was abroad, thus leaving my brother, little sis and me on our own. I was lucky to have Sze. My little sis was working throughout the first few days of CNY while my poor brother was home alone with the dogs. As little sis was transferred to another location for a couple of days, Sze and I drove her to work in Subang Jaya as she was not sure of the way. After dropping her off, we stopped by Subang Parade as I had wanted to buy a shirt for my lonely brother. As we were walking around, we saw a lion dance troupe preparing to start their performance. Soon after, 2 lions started their lively dance, distributing mandarin oranges and “attacking” the children along the way… hehe. It was an entertaining show and we had fun watching it.
We had the reunion dinner with Sze’s family on the eve of CNY - my family was abroad, thus leaving my brother, little sis and me on our own. I was lucky to have Sze. My little sis was working throughout the first few days of CNY while my poor brother was home alone with the dogs. As little sis was transferred to another location for a couple of days, Sze and I drove her to work in Subang Jaya as she was not sure of the way. After dropping her off, we stopped by Subang Parade as I had wanted to buy a shirt for my lonely brother. As we were walking around, we saw a lion dance troupe preparing to start their performance. Soon after, 2 lions started their lively dance, distributing mandarin oranges and “attacking” the children along the way… hehe. It was an entertaining show and we had fun watching it.
"Don't eat me! Eat my daughter instead!!!"
"Yummy... the child was delicious..."It had been a quiet and peaceful celebration for us. We’ve had a lazy few days before Sze started working on the 4th day of CNY. He had complained that the holidays were way too short and that his college was probably the only institution to resume classes that week. You could tell from the half deserted city and the absolutely fantastic traffic that everyone else was still away on holiday. It was a reminder to the farcical work resumption order early this year which insisted that he return to work from the semester holidays on 2nd January, only to be told to go home after clocking in as it was actually a public holiday (to replace Hari Raya Haji on Sunday). Now why was it that everyone knew about the holiday but yet the powers-that-be chose to ignore it? What’s wrong with them anyway?
On that same evening, Sze came to my house after work with a few guests. We were hosting a small dinner celebration for a few friends. Our honorable guests were Alice, Venus, Debbie and Josephine. We had also invited several others but they couldn’t make it… what a shame. I had prepared a simple dinner where we had spaghetti as the main course, salad as a side dish and “dragon eye” (longan) fruit as dessert. We had wine too - check out our blushing faces here in the photo gallery.
Unlike Sze, I had the whole week off from work. My colleagues and I visited my boss in Klang on the 5th day of CNY. Some had arrived earlier and the first thing they did was to start gambling. I lost more than RM30 playing cards with them. Well, it was more like visiting a casino rather than visiting the boss.
My parents and elder sis came back from their trip abroad on the 7th day of CNY. This day is known as the common man's birthday - the day when everyone grows one year older. It is a day when tossed raw fish salad, better known as Yee Sang, is eaten. This custom is adopted primarily by the Chinese communities in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and Singapore. Family and friends get together to toss the colorful salad and make wishes for continued wealth and prosperity.
I followed my parents back to Sitiawan to celebrate the 9th day of CNY. This celebration is known as Bai Tien Gong. It is a big festival for the Hokkien Chinese where they will pray and make offerings to the Jade Emperor, the ruler of Heaven. At the stroke of midnight, my parents performed thanks giving prayers to the Emperor of Heaven. We made offerings of a whole roast pig, roast duck, chicken, pastries and fruits but the most important of all was the sugarcanes. This is because it was the humble sugarcane that had protected the Hokkiens when they were attacked by soldiers generations ago. They had hidden in a sugarcane plantation and thus escaped from being exterminated when the soldiers couldn’t find them.
As there was plenty of food, my Mom gave away most of it. By the way, did you know that I don’t eat pork? Not many of my friends realize this... hehe, so the first question they would always ask is, “Are you a Muslim?” No, I am not a Muslim but I just don’t eat pork for health reasons.
The 15th day of CNY is known as Chap Goh Meh. This day is often used to mark the end of the fortnight-long festivities. We forgot that there was a community organized celebration at a park near Sze’s house the night before and missed out on the event. Since Chap Goh Meh is also considered to be the Chinese Valentine’s Day, we wonder if single girls threw oranges into the lake there for the lucky single guys to catch?
We had a late dinner with Sze’s parents on this last day of the CNY. We had sweet and sour chicken, steamed fish, stewed mushroom, tofu and Chinese cabbage. Guess who did the cooking?... Sze’s Dad was the chief cook… hehe. Actually, both his parents prepared the food but it was Dad who did most of the cooking. We also had a bottle of red wine to go with the food. It was a fitting end to the long celebrations. Hope everyone had a good CNY too.
Valentine’s Day 2007
Valentine’s Day had just passed and I didn’t really have time to sit down and write a blog about it. A friend of mine asked why there wasn’t any update on our blog about Valentine’s Day. I promised her, “Yes, I will write about it during my CNY break”. So here I am sitting in front of the TV, watching a Cantonese movie on TV2 in Sze’s house. Alright, now to recall what happened on that day…Early on the morning of Feb 14th, Sze dropped by my place to pick up his lunch. He had left it in my car the night before. Unexpectedly, he gave me a present and a card. Then, almost immediately after he left, I opened the card and felt really happy to know how he felt for me. And while I was stuck in traffic on the way to work, I opened the present. It was a very soft, brown teddy bear. For a few minutes, I was thinking of a name for him. I already have Baron the white dog from last year and decided to call this bear Darren. I hugged him all the way to work.
At about 11 something, my colleague called me in an eager voice but I didn’t suspect anything. I walked from my desk towards the door and saw a delivery man with a big bouquet of flowers. I was excited and started to giggle nonstop. The delivery man got annoyed and rudely said, “Apa gelak-gelak? Cepatlah sign”. I felt irritated by that. Anyway, I quickly signed to get rid of him.Buying flowers on Valentine’s Day is a very expensive thing to do. If I knew Sze was going to send me flowers, I’d tell him not to. But then again, it is a very romantic thing to do, maybe not that practical but it will surely melt any girl’s heart. Many girls like to receive flowers but then again, I also know of many girls who are more practical. They would choose not to receive flowers but are ok with presents. So, guys out there, understand your girlfriends better!
I am very fortunate that Sze had everything planned for our Valentine’s Day dinner. He booked a table for us at Wings Music Café in Puchong. As we reached there before 8pm, it was still not that busy yet. But as the evening progressed, more people started to arrive. The café had a very nice environment for the event - it was adorned with simple paper decorations, and the table was covered with a tablecloth. The candles made the ambience more romantic and comfortable, while there was a duo singing love songs to celebrate the occasion.
The food in Wing’s Music Café wasn’t superb compared to other places but I was more than happy to spend the evening there without the crowd. The previous year, a colleague of ours had complained about the atrocious service at Victoria Station. Well, what can you expect on Valentine’s Day at a well-known restaurant like that? I know I’d rather go to a quieter place any time, any day.
I also thought of last year’s Valentine’s dinner with Sze at Nikko Hotel. It was a very nice buffet dinner but we had to rush there due to a bad traffic jam in the city. Therefore, I would advise anyone planning for the occasion to find a place away from the city to avoid the rush. After all, you want a relaxing evening with your loved one.
It was a memorable Valentine’s Day celebration for both of us. Hope you had a great one too.
The e-Globalfocus Annual Dinner (Friday, 9th Feb 2007)
Hip Hop Tonight 2007, e-Global’s theme for the Annual Dinner came as a surprise on the day before. I had no idea what I could wear for that. Besides, I was supposed to have an appointment with a client on that day, which means I have to bring a change of clothing for the dinner. I gave it some thought and finally came to a conclusion - I’ll bring a set of simple hip-hop wear and accessories to change before the event, which was to be held at the Courtyard Garden in Damansara Heights.
My client’s appointment was at 3.00pm, which was later postponed to 3.30pm. My bosses and I got there 30 minutes late and our meeting ended at around 6pm. Driving out of KL city after 6pm had always been the hardest thing to do on weekdays. The roads were very congested and traffic was bumper to bumper. Obviously, this also affected our journey to the Courtyard Garden as we now didn’t have enough time to go back to the office first. Thus, I didn’t get the chance to change into my hip hop attire. What a shame! I couldn’t dress up for this event.
My bosses and I arrived at the Courtyard Garden at around 7.15pm. We were among the earliest people to arrive. The place looked pretty nice and secluded from the outside. The interior had been carefully designed too. The ambience was excellent, just perfect for our private function. We had a cocktail “party” while waiting for the rest to arrive. After drinking 2 to 3 glasses of lime juice and fruit punch, we were finally seated. We started ordering food from the menu on the table. I got myself a salad as an appetizer, Auckland Teriyaki as main course and green tea ice-cream as dessert. The salad was decent but I really couldn’t finish the main course. It was not because the portion was too big but because the quality of food wasn’t that great. I also didn’t finish my ice-cream as it was too soft and melted fast.
In between our courses, we had a few lucky draw sessions. Being a “lucky girl”, I received an FTEC pouch. Why did I describe myself as a lucky girl? It is because I have always been very “lucky” in having bad things happen to me. Even my CTO is quite worried that the servers I am looking after will crash. I don’t think this is because of God’s will or just plain bad luck – it probably has something to do with my attitude of not being meticulous enough.We had a lot of fun that evening. They continued the party at the Rush bistro while I headed home - I had to observe my curfew.
Anniversary Celebration @ Shangri-La Hotel Kuala Lumpur
To read story with pictures, click here.
4th February 2007 was an eventful day for both of us. Firstly, it was our 1st anniversary. Secondly, it was the day that we officially launched our website. Then thirdly, Sze proposed to me on that day too…
And after all that has happened in the morning, we had to rush for a buffet lunch at the Shangri-La Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which we had booked earlier. We arrived at the Lemon Garden coffee house at around 1.30pm. It was already packed with people by then. The waitress led us to our table and almost immediately, we started checking out the food. As we were looking around, we bumped into Sze’s cousin… what a coincidence! She was there with her family who were attending a company lunch. Later on, we walked over to her table and met her husband, son and mother too.
We filled our plates and started to enjoy the feast. The variety of food was fairly wide - I don’t usually go for buffet meals but this is a place that I would definitely recommend to anyone. There were separate sections for Chinese, Malay/Indian, Western and Italian cuisine. But the most eye-catching spread that caught my attention was the DESSERT section - they had this huge chocolate fondue fountain! I didn’t want to wait and even considered starting the meal with dessert… hehe. But then again I thought, “I don’t want to end up eating just dessert for lunch”.
So for our first serving, I took some raw salmon fish, sliced lamb and salad with lots of capsicums. I love both lamb and capsicums. This was definitely my favorite plate of the meal. Sze got himself an oriental plate. He likes Chinese food. So what were his thoughts at that time? “I’m hungry. Let’s eat. There’s enough room in my tummy for everything. I’ll start from the left side of the buffet…” Humph…
My second serving was a mixed plate of curry lamb, fish and vegetables, mussels, capsicums (I really love capsicums), salmon and white rice. Sze called it my “Shangri-La mixed rice”… haha.
For his next serving, Sze took a plateful of raw salmon and tuna, decorated with slices of lime. As salmon is an expensive item, it is definitely something you’ll want to eat as much as you can in a buffet. I had another small helping of the salmon, polenta and salad while he had a taste of the roast lamb with mint sauce, fish, polenta and asparagus, plus an additional serving of the Chinese food… (he wasn’t kidding when he said that his tummy had room for everything!)
Finally, it was time for dessert… yay! We took a couple of attractively decorated cakes - Sze thought that the 3 strawberries on one of the cakes looked like… err... “very interesting???” Hmm…
But the highlight of choosing our dessert was, of course, dipping sticks of honeydew, marshmallow and pastry into the chocolate fountain. Again, Sze had a name for it – just like the title from Johnny Depp’s movie, he called it, “Eunice and the Chocolate Factory”…
And while we were “manufacturing” the chocolate sticks, we also saw an interesting-looking prawn and scallop cocktail. It was probably meant to be an appetizer but we didn’t notice it earlier. When we came back from choosing our dessert, the waiter had actually cleared our table, thinking that we had left. Sze thought, “Oh yeah, no need to pay – just walk out now!”
Lastly, we also had a taste of hazelnut and chocolate ice cream. We washed down our meal down with coffee – I prefer black coffee while Sze’s coffee is always “double double” (i.e. double servings of both cream and sugar).
It was already 4pm then, we were totally stuffed, and it was time to go. So we paid the bill (no, we didn’t just walk out after the waiter cleared our table) and left with pleasant memories and plenty of photographs!
4th February 2007 was an eventful day for both of us. Firstly, it was our 1st anniversary. Secondly, it was the day that we officially launched our website. Then thirdly, Sze proposed to me on that day too…
And after all that has happened in the morning, we had to rush for a buffet lunch at the Shangri-La Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which we had booked earlier. We arrived at the Lemon Garden coffee house at around 1.30pm. It was already packed with people by then. The waitress led us to our table and almost immediately, we started checking out the food. As we were looking around, we bumped into Sze’s cousin… what a coincidence! She was there with her family who were attending a company lunch. Later on, we walked over to her table and met her husband, son and mother too.
We filled our plates and started to enjoy the feast. The variety of food was fairly wide - I don’t usually go for buffet meals but this is a place that I would definitely recommend to anyone. There were separate sections for Chinese, Malay/Indian, Western and Italian cuisine. But the most eye-catching spread that caught my attention was the DESSERT section - they had this huge chocolate fondue fountain! I didn’t want to wait and even considered starting the meal with dessert… hehe. But then again I thought, “I don’t want to end up eating just dessert for lunch”.
So for our first serving, I took some raw salmon fish, sliced lamb and salad with lots of capsicums. I love both lamb and capsicums. This was definitely my favorite plate of the meal. Sze got himself an oriental plate. He likes Chinese food. So what were his thoughts at that time? “I’m hungry. Let’s eat. There’s enough room in my tummy for everything. I’ll start from the left side of the buffet…” Humph…
My second serving was a mixed plate of curry lamb, fish and vegetables, mussels, capsicums (I really love capsicums), salmon and white rice. Sze called it my “Shangri-La mixed rice”… haha.
For his next serving, Sze took a plateful of raw salmon and tuna, decorated with slices of lime. As salmon is an expensive item, it is definitely something you’ll want to eat as much as you can in a buffet. I had another small helping of the salmon, polenta and salad while he had a taste of the roast lamb with mint sauce, fish, polenta and asparagus, plus an additional serving of the Chinese food… (he wasn’t kidding when he said that his tummy had room for everything!)
Finally, it was time for dessert… yay! We took a couple of attractively decorated cakes - Sze thought that the 3 strawberries on one of the cakes looked like… err... “very interesting???” Hmm…
But the highlight of choosing our dessert was, of course, dipping sticks of honeydew, marshmallow and pastry into the chocolate fountain. Again, Sze had a name for it – just like the title from Johnny Depp’s movie, he called it, “Eunice and the Chocolate Factory”…
And while we were “manufacturing” the chocolate sticks, we also saw an interesting-looking prawn and scallop cocktail. It was probably meant to be an appetizer but we didn’t notice it earlier. When we came back from choosing our dessert, the waiter had actually cleared our table, thinking that we had left. Sze thought, “Oh yeah, no need to pay – just walk out now!”
Lastly, we also had a taste of hazelnut and chocolate ice cream. We washed down our meal down with coffee – I prefer black coffee while Sze’s coffee is always “double double” (i.e. double servings of both cream and sugar).
It was already 4pm then, we were totally stuffed, and it was time to go. So we paid the bill (no, we didn’t just walk out after the waiter cleared our table) and left with pleasant memories and plenty of photographs!
Preparing for the Launch
We have about one week remaining before the launch of our website on 4th February 2007. With our busy schedules, we can hardly find time to work on the layout and design of the website. We tried hard to prepare the contents… well, I mean to say, Sze tried hard as I have not contributed as much in terms of contents. But having said that, I did most of the design works. It’s a little funny to think how we both played our roles in this project - Sze writes and edits the contents while I am more inclined towards Photoshop editing and HTML programming. We work really well as a team.
During that week, I got a little tired of editing the layout. The tables were not right and the colors were not suitable. I felt a little fed up and exhausted, but it still has to be done. The relief I felt after we got what we wanted was really satisfying. I then prepared more pictures to be uploaded to our Photo Gallery while Sze worked on more contents. After he submitted the Logic Notes article to ICOM, we published our copy too. However, we found that the downloads did not work. We had to troubleshoot and tried putting up a few other files for downloading and they worked! Only .lso, .pro and .express were not known to the system. We got a little worried as the hosting plan we have didn’t support these file extensions. So I went to work the next day and asked my CTO - he said that there was no limitation to the types of files allowed in the server. He then proceeded to add them to the MIME header and it worked!!!! Bravo to him and e-Globalfocus! Another relief as we knew we didn’t have that much time left. So what’s next?
We both do not have much taste for design. So I asked for opinions from my colleague who is a graphic designer. He said that he could redesign our banner on Friday, which was the last working day before our website launch on Sunday. And guess what?... He was on medical leave that Friday! Okay, so now I have to depend on myself. That evening, although I was tired, I was determined to finish up the banner design and I did!
It’s Saturday and both of us are still writing and designing. We only have one day left. Sze is still working on the 4th Feb story and I am still on the banner design. I have to find a new banner message as Sze didn’t fancy the one I had originally. Since my vocabulary is somewhat shallow, it’s not easy to find a suitable word, but I tried to finish as much as I could. Then later on, I had to change the layout again! It was tiring especially when Mr. Perfectionist was not satisfied with the page formatting that I had changed earlier that morning.
After hours of working, we finally finished what we had wanted to do. Now, we can smile and sleep well. Remember to visit us again for more pictures, articles and blog updates. Bookmark Us! Sze says there will also be a juicy news update tomorrow (Mon, 5th Feb). Hmmm…
During that week, I got a little tired of editing the layout. The tables were not right and the colors were not suitable. I felt a little fed up and exhausted, but it still has to be done. The relief I felt after we got what we wanted was really satisfying. I then prepared more pictures to be uploaded to our Photo Gallery while Sze worked on more contents. After he submitted the Logic Notes article to ICOM, we published our copy too. However, we found that the downloads did not work. We had to troubleshoot and tried putting up a few other files for downloading and they worked! Only .lso, .pro and .express were not known to the system. We got a little worried as the hosting plan we have didn’t support these file extensions. So I went to work the next day and asked my CTO - he said that there was no limitation to the types of files allowed in the server. He then proceeded to add them to the MIME header and it worked!!!! Bravo to him and e-Globalfocus! Another relief as we knew we didn’t have that much time left. So what’s next?
We both do not have much taste for design. So I asked for opinions from my colleague who is a graphic designer. He said that he could redesign our banner on Friday, which was the last working day before our website launch on Sunday. And guess what?... He was on medical leave that Friday! Okay, so now I have to depend on myself. That evening, although I was tired, I was determined to finish up the banner design and I did!
It’s Saturday and both of us are still writing and designing. We only have one day left. Sze is still working on the 4th Feb story and I am still on the banner design. I have to find a new banner message as Sze didn’t fancy the one I had originally. Since my vocabulary is somewhat shallow, it’s not easy to find a suitable word, but I tried to finish as much as I could. Then later on, I had to change the layout again! It was tiring especially when Mr. Perfectionist was not satisfied with the page formatting that I had changed earlier that morning.
After hours of working, we finally finished what we had wanted to do. Now, we can smile and sleep well. Remember to visit us again for more pictures, articles and blog updates. Bookmark Us! Sze says there will also be a juicy news update tomorrow (Mon, 5th Feb). Hmmm…
A Trip to Chiseled Rock
Driving to Batu Pahat was a great experience. All along the North-South Expressway, it was just like any other highway but once we turned into the exit of Ayer Itam, the excitement began. We discussed how the name Batu Pahat was formed and could only guess that it had something to do with chisels and rocks. Indeed, its history is that the Siamese chiseled the rocks to get fresh water for their seafare.
I am not very sure what the name of the first town that we drove by is anymore, but along the way, we saw name of places like Parit Raja Darat, Parit Jawa, Parit Sulong and few other Parits. We found it a bit funny that all the names started with PARIT. Do they have so many drains there?
We continued our journey and it became even funnier. Saw a signboard turning left to Tongkang Pecah! What a name! Maybe there used to be a wrecked Chinese ship that sank into the sea. That’s not it. As we were getting nearer to Batu Pahat, we saw another signboard at a junction to Pantai Minyak Beku. I started to wonder how one can have a picnic and swim at a frozen oil beach. It was hilarious.
The trip started well and progressed wonderfully. Had a great time there with the people from J.R Courtenay (M) Sdn Bhd.
I am not very sure what the name of the first town that we drove by is anymore, but along the way, we saw name of places like Parit Raja Darat, Parit Jawa, Parit Sulong and few other Parits. We found it a bit funny that all the names started with PARIT. Do they have so many drains there?
We continued our journey and it became even funnier. Saw a signboard turning left to Tongkang Pecah! What a name! Maybe there used to be a wrecked Chinese ship that sank into the sea. That’s not it. As we were getting nearer to Batu Pahat, we saw another signboard at a junction to Pantai Minyak Beku. I started to wonder how one can have a picnic and swim at a frozen oil beach. It was hilarious.
The trip started well and progressed wonderfully. Had a great time there with the people from J.R Courtenay (M) Sdn Bhd.
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