Week 1 - A Week In Melaka (Part 2)

ZOMG Finally the post some of you've been waiting for! LOL I know I'm a bad bad bad bad bad blogger who has procrastinated for more than a month. Sowwy T_T


Wednesday - 24 September 2008

3rd day of closing. That means I have my CLD Reports to do and the cycle count for that old lady at work to cover. I kinda predicted I was going to be back a little late, and coupled with the fact that I've not had dinner at home for the past 3 days, I told my mum I'd have dinner at home today. Kinda don't want her to be suspicious. So I told Ben to find his own dinner. I know, I know, I feel bad doing it but I did promise to meet up after dinner.

So some time during work I had a missed call and an SMS from Pao Ying. I kinda smuggled my phone in for this week cos I didn't have access to bring in my handphone. Pao Ying came back to Melaka for her brother's wedding last week, and I've tried contacting her then but she didn't reply my SMS. Turns out she wasn't using that number anymore after she went to UK to study. Came back and bought a new SIM card just to use it while she's back (and probably going to let it die off when she heads back to UK and buy a new one the next time she comes back lol) so she was just contacting me to ask me if I'm free to meet up.

I asked her if she wanted to meet Ben and she was excited about it. So I asked Ben if he wanted to meet up with Pao Ying. I knew Ben wanted to meet as many of my friends as he could while he was here, so he agreed for sure. We decided to head to the Air Keroh McDonalds Drive-Thru so I can pick Pao Ying up along the way. After all this time I still remember where her house was... after taking a few wrong turns XD What's kinda non-economical though was driving to Equitorial to pick Ben up, then driving all the way back to Air Keroh to pick Pao Ying up and then head to McD. For those who dunno the area, imagine this....

Ben -------- My house ------ Pao Ying ------- McD

So travelling from my house to Ben to Pao Ying (which passes through the road towards my house) and then to McD is non-economical on my mileage XD But it's not like I get to meet either of them often so it was worth the drive.

Me right before we left the hotel to meet Pao Ying


So we arrived at McD and had ice-cream. None of us felt like eating anything solid so Pao Ying had a sundae while Ben and I had Oreo Mudpie McFlurry... damn was that chocolatey! And Ben paid for them too wewt! Either dinner or the McFlurry or the combination wasn't agreeing to my tummy though.... so I was kinda in pain bearing the pokes in my tummy while trying to keep my composure and smile and talk. It was a good night out... for me anyways. We talked a lot and did some catching up of what's been going on with our lives, Ben seems comfortable talking to Pao Ying too so there wasn't much awkward moments, although I did get a few stares from people there, and there was the upset tummy. But other than that, I enjoyed the night a lot. We left about 11pm and due to my non-economical-but-worth-the-drive route, I reached home almost at 12am.

Pao Ying and I at McD



Thursday - 25 September 2008

Thursday was a simple day for us. There was my Balance Sheet Reporting to be done for the closing but I got it done rather fast and was out of the office by 6.30pm. Today's plan was simple for dinner. I'll call Ben when I leave the office and he'll go to Pizza Hut and grab some pizzas for dinner. He had beef pepperoni, I had hawaiian tuna. *throws an evil smile at Evilyn*

I also requested for some chicken wings cos Pizza Hut has really good chicken wings. I thought there was only one flavor which was the normal one but turns out there was a spicy one too, and cos I didn't tell Ben I wanted the normal, he bought the spicy thinking I'd like it. It's good that he did cos I've never tried it, and it was just as delicious. Trying to be healthy FTW~! The hotel supplies 2 bottled water daily so we just drank that and not some sugar-filled carbonated drinks.

After dinner we watched a movie. Ben brought a portable DVD player and 5 DVDs so we could watch them if there was nothing to do during our trip. Being the forgetful person he is *giggles* he forgot to bring the cable to attach the DVD player to the TV so we ended up having to watch the DVDs on that mini screen on the DVD player. We watched Corpse Bride cos it was one of Ben's favourite movies, and I've never watched it. It was quite nice, except some parts which scared me. And the dead dog is SO CUTE!!!!! Well it was a skellie-dog and it was SO CUTE cos its head was so round! And you guys know me and cute round things XD


Friday - 26 September 2008

So I took today off, mainly so I could pick Ben up during lunch to meet up with Doris and Mei Yin. Cos if I didn't there was no way I could drive to Equitorial, pick him up and head back to meet up for lunch and then drive all the way back to send him back to the hotel. So I left my house at 12pm cos I didn't wanna be late, and cos I told Dorin I'd try to be at the carpark a little before 1pm so she could meet Ben before she left to pick her daughter up from school.

Sadly there was a MASSIVE traffic jam on the road in front of Dataran Pahlawan Mall. It took me SO LONG to get to the hotel, I made sure Ben was waiting outside of the hotel. Nearing the hotel, it was still a bumper-to-bumper crawl with the traffic so I told Ben I wasn't going to turn into the hotel lobby and that he should just jump into my car while I'm slowly moving through the jam. The jam was due to construction work in the area, and cos it was a Friday and that was just after school hours so there were parents and school buses picking these school children up.

After we finally got out of the traffic jam it was about 12.45pm so I rushed as fast as I could to pick Doris and Mei Yin up. Ended up not being able to meet Dorin cos it was past 1pm when I arrived to pick Doris. We headed to Thong Sui House for lunch and Ben was SO WEIRD. He ate his rice with a fork and left his spoon on the table. He ordered some sliced up fried chicken meat with egg and vege and rice and he ate them all with just the fork. Sheesh! He'd take the rice with his fork, and dip it in the sauce provided. I saw quite a few grains in the saucer holding the sauce when he was done with his meal. Tsk tsk tsk!

Was going to take him for the river cruise or to the zoo but we were both kinda tired and the weather was so hot we decided to just enjoy the cool air conditioning of the hotel. LOL. So we just ended up talking while waiting for dinner time. Went to McDonalds for dinner and that's when I found out that it's FREAKING EXPENSIVE since the last time I've been to McD. A meal per person costs more than RM10! What happened to RM7 gets you a burger, fries and a drink? So we got dinner, went to shop a little at Dataran and got some facial masks cos Ben wanted to try it since I occassionally do it. So we went back to the hotel and became ugly mummies! LOL I'm not gonna post the picture although it's hilarious (yes, Ben went and took a picture of himself with the mask on).

We watched another movie, The Princess Bride, before calling it a night. Tomorrow's the day we start our road trip so we need our proper rest. To be honest I was quite tired and I didn't really pay that much attention to the movie to remember much about it now, but I did kinda enjoy it when I was watching it. I enjoyed Corpse Bride more though.

Coming up:
Week 2 - Road Trip (Port Dickson)