Thursday, December 20, 2007
I realised I had yet to finish writing about my trip to malaysia. I stopped at the part where it was just after dinner on the first day. I did not feel like updating the past few days. Sometimes, laziness just sets in so rapidly that you just do not feel like writing, that you just want to play your games, listen to music and when you finally realise, it is time to sleep. Well, that happened to me for the past few days. I did nothing else apart from starting to play scrabulous on facebook and getting some new songs to listen. Enough of the crap, it's time to finish up my trip.
So it was after dinner. My relatives decided to head to the eye on malaysia at kuala lumpur to have a look. The eye on malaysia is actually a portable ferris wheel and reportedly the tallest one (60m) in southeast asia. It sits in the middle of a lake and is linked to the side by a bridge. Just beside the lake is the cultural centre and national library. Comparatively, the singapore ferris wheel is still much bigger than this but at least this one is moving already while the one here is still under construction. As usual, parking lots were difficult to find, so my uncles daringly found their own parking lots on the pavement besides the roads. By the time we reached there, the ferris wheel was already approaching closing hours and judging from the countless amount of people queuing up on the bridge for the ride, we decided that it was not worth the try to queue up for it. So in the end, we just took photographs. It was a bit of a waste and I heard that the wheel was only for a trial period of one year to see how attractive it was to the public. Judging from the queue that night, I believe it is attractive enough for it to remain in operation for more than a year, hopefully. Anyway we had fun trying to count how many gondolas (the cabins) there were actually on the wheel while the wheel was still spinning. The easiest way was to take a reference point and count anti-clockwise or clockwise whichever direction you like. In the end, we left the place and I felt like sitting on a ferris wheel when I get the chance next time. Then we headed back to the hotel and we were just in time for the match of manchester united vs derby county! Well at least for me, my brother and my cousins. The television was giving us problems earlier in the day but fortunately we managed to fix the problem, allowing us to watch the match at ease. I do not have cable at home so I hardly get the chance to watch a soccer match and whenever I do get the chance, it often ends up in a boring draw. But this match never failed me. A 4-1 win over derby county. Excellent result I would say. Manchester united combined really well on frequent occasions, especially the first goal. Whenever manchester united lost possession, they won it back almost immediately. For the first goal, every attempt towards the derby goal was thwarted by opposing players but they kept possesion and pressured on. Ronaldo's fierce shot was parried away and giggs was in just the right position to tuck it away. Just plain brilliance. Haha. Anyway, the match ended late past midnight. Then I discovered that apart from the twin beds given, there was a spare mattress below the bed, just like the one in downtown east chalets. So I dragged that one out. It was decent enough to be slept on. So instead of four of us squeezing onto the twin beds, I chose to sleep on the spare one, while my brother and my two cousins slept on the twin beds, combined together.
The next morning, I was awoken by my brother and he passed over to me the gaming console. Guess what, my cousins brought their ps2, connected it to the television and were playing proevolution soccer 2008 on it! So in my half-awake state, I played a match before going to the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth. Anyway we woke up like two hours earlier than the rest of my relatives to play the game. Shhhh. I was using atletico madrid in my game and against the likes of real madrid and some stronger team, I won! Haha. It was my first time winning them in the game. Obviously I did not get to play so often but some good defending and excellent goalkeeping certainly saved me. As my relatives woke up, we were told to pack up our stuff in order to check out of the room. So after checking out and tugging all the bags to the cars, we proceeded for breakfast. The hawker centre we went to had some special food not usually found in kuala lumpur. Instead these food were more commonly found in my grandfather's hometown, kampar. Having missed the food in kampar for many years, we ordered those few dishes, some sort of trying to remember how those food tasted like many years ago.
Well, my grandparents moved to kulai because my grandmother had difficulty moving and my relatives reckoned that it would be best to stay somewhere near where everyone could reach in a matter of minutes, not hours. In fact, one of my uncle live just five houses away from them. Pretty convenient. It was probably some three years since they moved to kulai from kampar. For your information, kampar is in perak, somewhere south of ipoh. Kampar is just a small town but there are fond memories of my stay over there during the holidays. I missed the food over there, the freshly made orange juice with lots of ice, the zhu chang fen with fried tau ki, the soup noodles with similar ingredients as the zhu chang fen and probably many others. The people over are just so friendly. Everytime we went back, my mother was certain to meet someone she knew. And we can just go to the main town on bicycles. So living in this peaceful town of kampar became part of my memories as I grew up. I wonder how the place has changed for the past few years.
Alright my duty has just ended, so my update shall stop here then. Wait till I get home.
hellmos signing off...Labels: kampar, malaysia trip
My mind's unweaving/ 6:28 pm
