Where is Yik Ming during his holidays? (Part 2)

19/1-20/1/2007 Visit to Melaka
I visited to Melaka again, after some times not back there, this time I am back with Yenson, Chooi Ling, Lay Khoon and Kang Yi to hang around this place where I had lived for 1 year. Every time I visit Melaka sure have some surprises from the latest development there, like this time I saw the bridge in front Tesco and Melaka Sentral has been completed and Pahlawan Mall was finally opened after so many years of construction.

This trip wasn't meant to have complete tour of Melaka because yenson and kang yi just finished their exam and I bet they wanted to relax more, that's why I rented an apartment nearby Klebang beach- Riviera Bay Resort. The resort is awesome and the apartment is huge, 2 rooms apartment with living room and kitchen...and the most important thing is at the seaside...YEAH!!long time didn't go to beach already...

First we went to Melaka famous food - Satay Celup. It is just like Malaysia pasar malam(night market) "luk luk" but the sauce is peanut sauce with some other ingredients.

Kang Yi eating satay celup
yenson and me

After Satay Celup, I brought them to Jonker street. This street only comes alive at night on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Unlike pasar malam in KL or other places in Malaysia, it doesn't sell pirated CD and DVD. What it sells there only foods which only can be found in melaka, souvenirs, antique and etc... It even has cultural performance from Chinese Associations on the stage near the end of the street.And one unique identity from this street is the live karaoke performance where I can't find elsewhere in other pasar malam...Jonker Walk at night, you can see the building besides the street still full of feeling of nostalgia...

On the way back to resort, we thought of buying some stuffs for tomorrow breakfast. So we headed to Tesco, but looking on my watch it was already 23:55 when we arrived at Tesco and it closed at 24:00, so we had a mission quite impossible, which was to shop only at 5 minutes. Given the 5 minutes time, we really ran around to buy our stuffs....Luckily we still managed to buy our breakfast at the end...

Mission completed...tiredly walking out of Tesco

At midnight, although we were quite tired already, but still couldn't resist the attractiveness of the mahjong which I brought. Surprisingly, all 5 of us know how to play mahjong, so we took turns and played until 5am.....The lesson that I learned from this time mahjong game is that don't underestimate women, they are great mahjong players than men sometimes...haha

Next day in the morning, when we woke up was already 11am, but we still managed to have some rounds of mahjong until 12.30pm...it's time to go, we have a stroll on the beach before heading our next destination...All in all, it was an unforgettable trip. Thanks to yenson, kang yi, lay khoon and chooi ling who filled my memory with another fascinating time...