Friday, February 24, 2006
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahruhaha, it's a friday. as usual, it's a boring day at work, just walking around in the office, waiting for volcanic eruption and with thousands of arrow piercing through me while looking forward to the JB seafood outing that i was going to have. haha it was then raining in the early afternoon, and with the news that only 3pple were gonna turn up for the outing ltr, i was soooooo sianz. the thought of pang seh-ing was soo freaking strong haha. but in the end i decided to press up, met up with Gerald and cross the causeway with this noob. Yes, he was seriously a noob cos he had never crossed JB by bus before but i doubt he is a noob now which i will elaborate ltr. haha so we cross the customs, met up with Elaine at city square haha and headed to RESTORAN AH KAW for seafood. hehe she drove us around, funny to see someone sitting so close to steering and upright when driving lol. anw outta rush, i forgot to change ringgit so all we had was abt RM 100. not wanting to stay back and wash the dishes, we were quite conservative while ordering haha. we order bee hoon, chilly sliced fish, chilly kangkong and cereal prawn. all of them were nice, just enough for us to feel full and most importantly, for just freaking 51RM!! haha so it's only 17RM per person. we were so shocked with we got the bill. Elaine went, "Ah? you sure? got count wrongly or not?" anw haha glad that we dun have to wash the dishes, took some pictures at the restaurant as well haha. heh oh yah, we were discussing on a road trip to cameroon highlands, and maybe KL as well in early May. Weeeeee!! can drive le!! haha.After that Elaine drove us to her club, where me and Gerald showed off our Singaporean driving skill lol. and that is, vertical parking!!! haha, we were playing with her family car(i hope her dad doesn't see this :p) haha driving round and round the club, Gerald tried parallel and vertical parking, while i trying only the latter cos i wasn't too confident with parallel parking due to the size, hehe, MVP. Went to Elaine's hse to sit around a while, we were waiting like 15mins outside the house waiting for the gate to open thou. haha the freaking gate doesn't open no matter how hard we tried, and i was controlling my bladder like mad! anw just when we are hopeless and just chatting outside the house, the door suddenly opened! haha phew, can release my storage tank. Okay anw highlight of the day would be how screwed up Msia customs is, and on the other hand how dumb and noob Gerald and I had been(but trust me, we are pros now). we went to the singapore customs without getting the msia departure chop!! we are like 2 helpless little boy seeking for help at singapore customs. luckily the ICA officers allowed us through to the other side to take a bus back to msia to get the chop. So why does this happen? yes, we got to agree we are noobies. but msia custom is soooo screwed up. look at singapore customs, the moment u alight 170, u go up to singapore customs, go down to board 170 again, reach the msia custom, get their chop and poof! u are in JB. everything is a one way guided traffic on singapore's side. places u are not meant to go, they will fence it up. there's no way you can walk to the wrong place. but on the way back, *shake head* the correct way should be taking an escalator up to msia customs, get their chop, take the escalator down to the bus berth, and take a bus back to singapore. BUT the bus stopping at the bus berth can park all the way back to the escalator u take before going up to the msia custom. that's not all, it's NOT FENCED UP!! WTF. seeing pple boarding the bus, Gerald and I happily boarded the bus and went all the way to singapore customs. without getting the chop from the msia side. SUPER DUPER SIANZ!! luckily it was like off-peak hr then. we took about 45mins to go back to JB and come back to singapore so it wasn't THAT bad. maybe i should write in suggestion on how to improve the msia customs man. argh. here's some picture we took along the way :)
At the restaurant :)
here's our dishes, sorry about the sour plum juice that was blocking the view, it's mine :p
Damn Full, way to go man!
Cheap and nice seafood restaurant, or RESTORAN(whatever u call it) for ur reference
happy that we finally got our chop, on our way back to singapore for the second time
- {hongda} - blogged at
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happy that we finally got our chop, on our way back to singapore for the second time